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A look at some core facts and truth regarding the nation’s most popular rifle.The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America today. Estimates put the total of privately owned modern sporting rifles upwards of 20 million, which would clearly meet the “common use” standard the Supreme Court says qualifies weapons for protection under the Second Amendment. Yet because mass murderers like the “transgender” biological woman in Nashville sometimes choose this weapon for the commission of heinous evil, leftists relish in attributing that evil to the tool rather than the perpetrator.So let’s focus for just a moment on the facts...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday called on lawmakers to oppose the Senate repeal of the presidential authorization for use of military force in Iraq, warning that the move would further embolden Iran. The Kentucky Republican said last week’s attacks on U.S. troops by Iranian-backed militias in Syria should serve as a harbinger of further challenges in the region. This comes as the Senate advances legislation to repeal the 2002 authorization Congress passed green-lighting the Iraq War as well as a 1991 authorization allowing U.S. military action in the Gulf War. “Iraq has come under extremely heavy influence and...

Who Is Funding the Transgender Movement? I found exceedingly rich, white men with enormous cultural influence are funding the transgender lobby and various transgender organizations. These include but are not limited to Jennifer Pritzker (a male who identifies as transgender); George Soros; Martine Rothblatt (a male who identifies as transgender and transhumanist); Tim Gill (a gay man); Drummond Pike; Warren and Peter Buffett; Jon Stryker (a gay man); Mark Bonham (a gay man); and Ric Weiland (a deceased gay man whose philanthropy is still LGBT-oriented). Most of these billionaires fund the transgender lobby and organizations through their own organizations, including...

MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counterintelligence and security agency, has raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe,” meaning an attack is highly likely. The decision, announced by UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris on Tuesday, comes days before a possible visit to the country by President Biden. Biden’s visit would coincide with the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, which brought an end to decades of sectarian violence between Irish republicans and unionists. Heaton-Harris told CNN that the move was made after an uptick in “activity...

Metal detectors, placed at all unlocked school entrances with surveillance cameras (which are quite affordable). And yes, with armed school personnel trained and ready to defend. Now why wasn't the $100 billion sent to Ukraine directed to school security instead? Explain. We know President Trump wanted to do precisely this. Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman said that “there had been no bigger defender of the Second Amendment than President Trump.” He said that Trump had offered other proposals after mass shootings, such as adding security guards to schools and allowing teachers who are licensed to carry a weapon to do...

Overall, JPMorgan Chase is telling us that the “most vulnerable” banks in this country have “lost a total of about $1 trillion in deposits since last year”…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TND) — Several media outlets are facing pushback for pointing out that Nashville police "misidentified" the gender of the shooter who killed six people Monday at a private Christian school in Nashville. The clarification earned outlets like USA TODAY and The New York Times criticism from conservative commentators and others. "We do not care about 'misgendering' a school shooter that murdered children," a reporter from conservative outlet Townhall wrote on Twitter. "Only the mainstream media would worry about preferred pronouns at a time like this." On Monday evening, The New York Times reported on Twitter that there was...

First responders used an aerial ladder to reach the trapped parachutist, who was conscious and talking, and lead her down to safety before 1 p.m. Incredibly, the woman escaped unscathed. She was evaluated at the scene by medics but refused any further medical treatment. Once back on firm ground, the skydiver, who declined to give her name, told NBC Los Angeles that she was trying to avoid flying into another set of power lines but ended up ensnared on Croydon Street. The ill-fated parachutist is a student at Skydive Elsinore and was making her inaugural jump Monday using her own...

Nashville police have revealed the names and photos of the officers who shot and killed the transgender 28-year-old who killed six people, including three nine-year-olds, at a private school Monday. Audrey Hale arrived at the Covenant School in her Honda Fit just before 10am and was killed by police less than 15 minutes after opening fire, killing six. A spokesperson for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department Monday night revealed that Officers Rex Engelbart and Michael Collazo were the members of the team who fired at Hale, ultimately killing her. Collazo is a nine-year veteran of the Nashville police force, while...

The late Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, was under a counterintelligence inquiry conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1990s, according to a new report. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI was looking into allegations related to her ties to Czechoslovakia, her home country. A 190-page, significantly redacted excerpt from her FBI file reveals the bureau recommended a “preliminary inquiry” into Ivana over information from a confidential source in 1989, but the contents of that inquiry were redacted. “It is unknown if the allegations stem from jealousies of her wealth and fame,” one...

A mom who survived the Highland Park massacre alongside her 6-year-old son angrily gate-crashed a press event over the Nashville school shooting to rip politicians for “failing” kids — imploring, “How are our children still dying?” “Aren’t you guys tired of covering this?” Ashbey Beasley, 47, asked reporters Monday, seconds after officials finished giving updates about Monday’s school-shooting murders of six, including three 9-year-old kids. “Aren’t you guys tired of being here and covering all these mass shootings?” she asked. “I’m from Highland Park, Illinois — my son and I survived a mass shooting over the summer,” she said of...

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley says that the feds should be investigating the Covenant school shooting as a 'hate crime' against Christians. The Republican reiterated Police Chief John Drake's statements that trans shooter Audrey Hale, 28, 'targeted' the Nashville school. In total, three students and three staffers were killed. 'Targeting victims on the basis of religious affiliation is a hate crime. It should be investigated as such,' Hawley tweeted. The conservative later added that he would be introducing legislation on the floor of the Senate condemning Monday's attack as a hate crime. 'We must speak out and condemn the hate that...

In a shocking twist, The New York Times published a guest essay slamming the left’s favorite scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci and others who actively suppressed the COVID-19 lab leak theory and branded it as disinformation. Times contributing opinion writer Megan Stack took a blowtorch to the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director and other disinformation virtue-signalers in a piece headlined: “Calling the Lab-Leak Theory ‘Disinformation’ Created Disinformation.” Stack didn’t mince words about the public officials, Big Tech giants and media talking heads who arbitrarily tried to make the Wuhan lab leak idea out to be some sort...

A Second Amendment Grade for President Trump So Far https://www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/second-amendment-grade-president-trump-so-far 1. As with Trump’s rhetoric, most of his administration’s policy efforts have been consistent with his promise to protect the right to keep and bear arms. 2. In his first term, President Trump largely lived up to his promise to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights. 3. There have been a few missteps along the way, but on the whole, the Trump Administration has kept its word when it comes to our right to keep and bear arms. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Donald Trump promised...

Jennifer Bilek is an investigative journalist, a feminist and a leading voice really looking behind the curtain at who is pushing this TRANS AGENDA! In this interview, we discuss one of the most controversial subjects of our time: the massive effort to promote transgenderism and to push "gender-affirming care" on children. Everyone has heard of the documentary "What is a Woman" but that film didn't dare ask: "Who is behind this?"

We've often lambasted Don Lemon for wild and often partisan overstatement. So let's give the CNN host credit when he deserves it. On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, Lemon raised the Nashville mass shooter at a Christian school was a "member of the LGBTQ community." He asked CNN national security analyst (and former Obama DHS assistant secretary) Juliette Kayyem: "Juliette, let's um, talk about the thing that everyone is talking about. Everyone is thinking, but they don't want to talk about. And that is the identity of the shooter, okay? And it's a member of the LGBTQ community. I think this...

The mom of the transgender school shooter who murdered six people including three nine-year-olds at a Nashville private school said 'I think I just lost my daughter' - as her own calls for increased gun control emerged. Norma Hale spoke to ABC News shortly after her daughter Audrey Hale, 28, was named as the shooter. She said: 'It's very, very difficult right now. I think I lost my daughter today.' Norma then requested privacy as her family struggles to cope with the magnitude of her late daughter's actions. Hale, who was born female, is believed to have been living as...

Anew documentary about demonstrations against the Vietnam war in late 1969 argues that the hundreds of thousands who filled the streets in Washington and almost every major US city convinced Richard Nixon to abandon a plan to sharply escalate the war, including the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons. The Movement and The “Madman” will air on PBS on Tuesday. Produced and directed by the veteran documentarian Stephen Talbot, it evokes a peak moment of 1960s activism – and the “absolute disconnection” between what Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, were “deciding to do and the human costs...

Apparently in the aftermath of the trans-gender terror attack in Nashville the people at the American Honda Motor Company have removed almost all mention of the 2023 Honda Fit from their website. Past versions of the website have also been removed from view on Google.

Moscow's high society has been rocked by a scandal after a pair of prominent Vladimir Putin cronies were allegedly heard insulting the Russian despot. Oligarch and former Russian senator Farkhad Akhmedov and high-profile Moscow music producer Iosif Prigozhin, both supposedly supporters of Putin, have been accused of calling him a 'Satan' and a 'dwarf'. An audio recording of what is reportedly a 35-minute phone call between the wealthy pair was shared by Ukraine's Channel Five and quickly jumped on by other outlets - as well as Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). In the audio clip, the pair are heard eviscerating...