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Trump-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt is reportedly on track for his best fundraising period of the election cycle, doubling the campaign contributions of his competitor Sam Brown two months into the second quarter, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show. Laxalt, who is also the former attorney general of the Silver State, brought in more than $1.5 million in contributions between April 1 and May 25, ahead of the June 14 Republican primaries. Comparatively, his closest competitor Sam Brown brought in a little more than $732,000 in that same time frame. Overall, Laxalt has brought in more than $5.8 million...

As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won't stay that way for long. Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left behind a widow, Elena, and their daughters Olena and Myroslava-Oleksandra. In the first 100 days of war, his grave was the 40th dug in the military cemetery in Zhytomyr, 90 miles (140 kilometers) west of the capital, Kyiv. He was killed May 30 in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine where the fighting...

Marius Annandale kneels while praying during a Second Amendment gun rights rally at the Utah State Capitol Saturday, March 27, 2021, in Salt Lake City. After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022, several pastors and rabbis around the country have challenged their conservative counterparts with this question: Are you pro-life if you are pro-guns? After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, several pastors around the country challenged their conservative counterparts with this question: Are you...

Here are a couple of names that we haven’t seen in the headlines for a while. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis are the two (former) New York City lawyers who constructed Molotov cocktails and firebombed a police vehicle during the summer of love back in 2020. They were identified almost immediately and arrested, leading to a series of plea deals that were announced and then rejected or withdrawn. The two could have been facing 30 years in prison or even life sentences under domestic terrorism charges. But this week they both entered a guilty plea (again) and will now very...

@RepThomasMassie Rep. Massie and @TuckerCarlson destroy Chairman Nadler's argument to ban sale of firearms to those under 21. Clip... [1 min 40 sec]

A lawyer for Donald Trump revealed why he could not find 12 former executive assistants. Most would not return phone calls, the lawyer swore in an affidavit to the NY AG on Friday. AG Letitia James wants to know how the former assistants organized and preserved Trump's documents.

The shadowy cabal running President Joe Biden’s brain put him in front of a microphone again on Thursday night and Joey Amtrak showcased the one skill he has left: lying to the American public. This time it was about guns, a subject upon which the Democrats have been prevaricating since at least the Civil War.Democrats repeatedly lament that Republicans won’t work with them on “common sense” gun legislation, which is mostly true, and for very good reasons.First, the Democrats’ arguments for stricter gun laws generally proceed from false premises. Like this one that my Townhall colleague Katie Pavlich wrote about...

Voters in key swing states overwhelmingly disapprove of President Joe Biden, a Civiqs survey released this week revealed. Biden is struggling to revive his ever-tanking approval rating, as 55 percent disapprove of his job performance nationwide. Throughout his presidency, Americans have watched as economic conditions worsen, inflation remains high, and gas prices grow higher and higher with each passing day, consistently breaking new records as industry experts predict worsening conditions.

Today is the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The Late Mark Heard wrote this song about it.

Broad public support on the issue may not be as broad as polling shows or as Democrats hope. It’s one of the most puzzling questions for Democrats in American politics: Why is the political system so unresponsive to gun violence? Expanded background checks routinely receive more than 80 percent or 90 percent support in polling. Yet gun control legislation usually gets stymied in Washington and Republicans never seem to pay a political price for their opposition. There have been countless explanations offered about why political reality seems so at odds with the polling, including the power of the gun lobby;...

Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson criticized the Biden administration’s ineffective response to soaring energy costs, including gasoline, which has recently hit a record-high price. Carlson took exception to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who, instead of addressing that problem, addressed the abortion issue recently.

Two more top Iranian officials have been killed this week in separate mysterious incidents, just days after a top Iranian commander was gunned down outside his home and an Iranian drone manufacturing site came under attack by suicide drones. Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force reportedly died during an incident at his residence in the city of Karaj. Iranian media said that he died after falling from his roof. Opponents of the Islamic Republic, however, claimed that Esmailzadeh was killed by the state because they suspected him of being a spy involved in the death of...

Firearm purchases by minority groups in America have soared over the past few years and the debate surrounding gun control following a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, late last month has seemingly renewed their support for the Second Amendment. Retailer surveys released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSFF) found that between 2019 and 2020 there was a 58% increase in African Americans buying firearms, a 49% increase in Hispanic Americans buying firearms, and a 43% increase in Asian Americans buying firearms. In January, NSFF stated the numbers among first-time firearm buyers in minority groups remained largely "unchanged" and...

South Carolina June 14, 2022 Republican Primary CandidatesSouth Carolina Election Commission https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=VoterInfoGet My Sample Ballot https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=VoterInfo Early Voting for 2022 Primaries has Started https://www.scvotes.gov/early-votingGovernor https://governor.sc.gov/ Henry McMaster (5 Year Incumbent) https://henrymcmaster.com/ Pamela Evette Lieutenant Governor (4 Year Incumbent) https://governor.sc.gov/lieutenant-governor * Harrison "Trucker Bob" Musselwhite https://www.votetruckerbob.com/ * Zoe Warren Lieutenant Governor https://www.facebook.com/zoe4sc/(In South Carolina the Lt Governor candidate IS NOT elected separately, but is on the same ticket as the candidate for Governor. Citizens DO NOT vote directly for Lieutenant Governor candidates.) Secretary of State https://sos.sc.gov/ Mark Hammond (20 Year Incumbent) (Could not locate a 2022 campaign website) https://sos.sc.gov/about-us/secretarys-biography * Keith...

I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada. “There was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,” he told me, shaking his head. We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings in just one month. Few New Yorkers legally own guns. The NYPD has issued around 40,000 handgun permits in a city of over 8 million. That’s around one handgun for every two-hundred New Yorkers. Don’t assume that the parts of the city with the most guns are the most dangerous....

The White House COVID-19 coordinator issued a dire warning Thursday about the nation’s ability to battle a potential pandemic surge this fall if Congress fails to provide billions more dollars to brace for the next wave. Speaking at the White House briefing, Dr. Ashish Jha said the government purchased a large amount of both vaccines and therapeutics that will get the country through the summer, even with rising case numbers. But he warned, those tools will begin to run out by the fall and winter, a time when some models show there could be “a sizeable wave of infections.” “That’s...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is pushing to allow military vets and ROTC instructors to carry guns on school campuses for classroom defense. Graham tweeted on June 3, “It is time to mobilize our retired and former service members who are willing to help secure our schools. Our schools are soft targets. They contain our most valuable possession — our children, the future of our country — and must be protected.”

Pope Francis’ new cardinal pick has a horrifying record on homosexuality and abortionAn in-depth look at the shocking background of ultra-liberal San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, Francis’ latest US cardinal pick – and his most egregious one yet. (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis shocked the Church on Sunday with his announcement of 21 new cardinals, including 16 cardinal electors, to be installed at a consistory on August 27.The appointments unsurprisingly include several overt liberals, like pro-LGBT Brazilian Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner and anti-Latin Mass Vatican liturgy chief Archbishop Arthur Roche.But the Pope’s most radical pick is Bishop Robert McElroy of San...

NBA commissioner Adam Silver told reporters this week that China’s response to former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressing his support for anti-government Hong Kong protesters in 2019 cost the league hundreds of millions of dollars. Morey, who is now general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, tweeted in October 2019 an image that read, “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Morey would later delete the tweet and explain that he did not intend to offend Rockets fans or his friends in China. Demonstrators were protesting against China’s control of Hong Kong at the time. China first pulled games...

Researchers have invented a new analytical method that sheds light on an enduring mystery regarding type 2 diabetes: Why some obese patients develop the disease and others don't. For some patients, their body does not properly respond to insulin—it resists the effects of insulin, the hormone produced by the pancreas that opens the door for sugar to enter cells. In the later disease stages, when the pancreas is exhausted, patients don't produce enough insulin to maintain normal glucose levels. In either case, sugar builds up in the bloodstream and impairs many major organs, sometimes to disabling or life-threatening degrees. A...