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--(snip)-- Sometimes referred to as "assault weapons" or "military-style rifles," this class of firearm can encompass many different kinds of guns -- not just the more well-known rifles, such as the AK and AR-15 series weapons. The term "assault weapon" generally encompasses a wide range of models, including the UZI rifle and pistol, the Beretta AR-70, the SKS rifle and more, according to the California Attorney General's Assault Weapons Identification Guide. AR-15 style rifles are rifles "modeled on the AR-15 platform and that fire the same caliber cartridges," Klarevas said, such as the Smith & Wesson M&P15 and the Ruger...

This week, Democrats settled on an area of apparent commonality: the desire to eat the rich. According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, "Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee ... would impose a tax on unrealized gains on liquid assets held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires." While Yellen refused to call this a "wealth tax," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had no such qualms: "We probably will have a wealth tax," she said. This has long been a talking point for the most Marxist-leaning Democrats, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who famously proposed a 2% wealth tax on all assets of a...

Capitol Police are closing off roads around the complex due to a bomb threat at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on Wednesday morning. Around 10 a.m., the below stated roads have been closed to traffic: Independence Avenue Southwest between Washington Avenue and Third Street Southwest. Washington Avenue Southwest between Independence Avenue and C Street Southwest C Street between Second Street and Third Street Southwest D Street Southwest between Second Street and Fourth Street Southwest Second Street Southwest between Independence Avenue and Street Southwest

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed -- the woman at the center of the "Rust" death investigation -- was also recently tied to the death of a close friend, and her insurance company shelled out big bucks to his family. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Reed's friend, Tyler Dyer, was killed in an accident back in August 2020 -- a wreck that also involved her boyfriend, Aaron Butcher. Both men were on motorcycles at the time -- Aaron had borrowed Hannah's. Tyler's dad tells us all 3 of them had been hanging out at a party prior to the accident -- and...

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 13:22-30 Friends, our Gospel for today features a question that people have been asking from time immemorial and that they still ask today: "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" Heaven, hell, salvation, damnation, who will be in and who will be out? We have remained fascinated with these questions for a long time. Here’s how I would recommend we approach this issue. The doctrine concerning hell is a corollary of two more fundamental truths, namely, that God is love and that we are free. Love (willing the good of the other) is...

Amid the chaos of the final US withdrawal from Afghanistan, commentators from across the political spectrum have lamented the abandonment of our Afghan allies, many of whom served critical roles in our military’s mission. Many have also reiterated the commitment to honor our veterans from the twenty-year Global War on Terror. resident Biden explicitly said as much in his address to the nation on August 31: “The cost of war they will carry with them their whole lives [sic].” Unfortunately, America has already abandoned its veterans—though not in the way most people may think. By any measure, we give more...

The small-town family doctor angling to become Minnesota’s next governor smiled, leaned into the camera and told his Facebook viewers that Sweden had just paused the Moderna vaccine for people under age 30 over “significant concern” about heart inflammation. Dr. Scott Jensen, clad in a white lab coat, quickly pivoted: “So what happens to military people who are threatened with a dishonorable discharge if they are unwilling to potentially put their heart health at risk?” The post swiftly racked up thousands of views and favorable comments — evidence of Jensen’s early success in tapping conservative anger at the Democratic strategy...

The Biden State Department announced new changes to U.S. passports Wednesday morning and will allow passport holders to list their gender as "X" on the international travel document. "The Department of State continues the process of updating its policies regarding gender markers on U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBAs) to better serve all U.S. citizens, regardless of their gender identity. As the Secretary announced in June, the Department is moving towards adding an X gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons applying for a U.S. passport or CRBA," State Department spokesperson Ned Price released in...

Report: Jill Has Been Asking If There’s A Process To Remove A Sitting VP The infighting between Kamala Harris and Jill Biden continues. According to Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, Jill Biden has been asking if there’s a process to remove a sitting Vice President. This isn’t the first time that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris have reportedly had issues. According to Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, the comments Kamala Harris made about going to Europe were directed at Jill Biden.

American media doesn’t care much about Oct. 28 and Oxi Day, literally “The Day of the No.” But I care about it, because a man I loved was there. Oxi Day, (pronounced O-hee), is the day that Greece said “No” to the Axis powers and changed the course of World War II at terrible cost. On Oxi Day, I think of that man. My father. He wasn’t political. Politicians were talkers and he was not much of a talker. He was a boy in the Greek Army then, from the village of Rizes on Oct. 28, 1940, when Mussolini, backed...

A grand jury on Tuesday returned an eight-count indictment against two law enforcement officers in connection with the 2016 killing of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest in the Atlanta area. Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector with the U.S. Marshal's Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and Kristopher Hutchens, a Clayton County police officer working with the task force, were formally charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, making false statements and violation of oath by a public officer, news outlets reported. A medical examiner's report said Jamarion Robinson, 26, was shot 76 times by police...

A TikTok star with nearly a million online followers pleaded not guilty on Monday to shooting and killing his newly estranged wife and a man she was with last week at a San Diego high-rise.

Democrats attempt to make transformational changes in the American way of life, but the party’s progressive agenda is not playing well in the upcoming election for governor of Virginia. This state that Biden won by ten points last year has become a tossup. The implosion of Democrats in Virginia is due to the havoc they caused by indoctrinating public school students with Leftist critical race and gender theories. The rape of a ninth-grade girl in the girls bathroom, apparently committed by a boy wearing a skirt and then covered up by school authorities, has enraged parents statewide. The Democrat-controlled school...

Three children who had been living with the skeletal remains of their 9-year-old brother relied on neighbors for food, while their mother and her boyfriend lived just 15 minutes away. The eldest, a 15-year-old boy, called police on Sunday after texting his mother that he could not take it any more, KTRK-TV reported Tuesday. He’d been alone for months with two brothers, aged 7 and 10, and a dead 9-year-old brother whose skeletal remains were in a bedroom. Neighbors told KTRK that he relied on them for food, accepting only packaged snacks, fruit and pizza. The house had no power,...

Just got put in Facistbook jail. The crime?, I told a liberal "genius"that refused to converse on topic or even within the scope of a basic conversation that he was a "mental child".I wish they gave out badges.

Former President Barack 0bama slammed the notion of ideological divisions last week while stumping for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy ahead of next month's gubernatorial elections. "These are serious times, and we need serious people. We have too much to get done to be going backwards," 0bama said. "Here we are trying to recover from a global pandemic that has killed more than 700,000 Americans, put millions in harm's way. We don't have time to waste on phony culture wars or fake outrage that the right-wing media are peddling just to juice up your ratings." In case anyone has failed...

Highly respected medical doctor and inventor, Richard Fleming, has released a 32-minute detailed presentation documenting his shocking findings. In late 2020, before the Pfizer shot had even been rolled out, top scientists and experts around the world warned the Pfizer and Moderna shots posed an extreme risk of causing blood clots, myocarditis and other cardiovascular problems. One year later, Pfizer and Moderna have been forced to issue warnings confirming their controversial MRNA vaccines can indeed cause a long list of problems not just limited to the cardiovascular system. Now, research scientist, Dr. Richard Fleming, has tested the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine...

More than 470,000 people are without power in Massachusetts Wednesday morning as a nor’easter pounded the region with fierce winds and heavy flooding. The state’s outage map shows a whopping 473,200 people without power as of 8:20 a.m. Wind gusts reached 97 mph at the height of the storm — and although the wind is expected to die down as the morning progresses, gusts still reached around 70 mph on the outer Cape early Wednesday, NBC 10 Boston reported. About half of the town of Chatham was left without power Wednesday morning as the storm tore down trees and branches,...

School boards the country over are becoming increasingly terrified of parents demanding accountability from their local education system and its elected officials – and one Minnesota school board is tripping over its own feet trying to fight back. Video posted to social media shows Jodi Sapp, a school board member at Mankato Area Public Schools, instructing all members of the public wishing to speak at a recent school board business meeting that they must state their name and their entire home address before being allowed to comment. Before we go on, an important reminder: this is a school board meeting,...

In the case of the House Committee on Jan. 6., Pelosi blocked minority party participation for the first time in House history to pursue a preferred political narrative. _______________________________________________________________________ The leading Republican tasked with his party’s investigation into the preparedness and response of the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies to the Capitol riot on January 6 is being blocked by President Joseph Biden’s FBI from gathering information, a new document reveals. The FBI told Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks it would not provide Republicans the same information provided to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked committee consisting only...