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In 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/gun cracktivists were pushing their latest strategy: suing gun makers for the third-party acts of people about who they had no knowledge and over who they had no control for misuse of their lawful products. The strategy was to bankrupt American gun makers by an avalanche of nuisance lawsuits. American tort law doesn’t normally allow such suits, but their sheer volume might do the trick,...

The FBI has quietly changed 20 years of homicide data from 2004 to 2023. Professor John Lott has published an article showing the FBI’s revised homicide data for 2022 and 2023. The previous numbers fed Biden/Harris administration talking points. A close look at the data shows the FBI “adjusted” the homicide data from the last two decades, not just the last two years. The largest adjustment outside of 2021 and 2022 happened to the data from 2005. As of 2006, the total number of homicides reported by the FBI for 2005 was 16,740 for 2005 and 17,034 for 2006. In...

Without doubt, Vice President Kamala Harris has made it as difficult as possible to pin down exactly where she stands on major policy issues. Besides studiously avoiding challenging interviews, she has also made a series of notable reversals of previous policy stances, for example abandoning previous support for banning private health insurance, for banning “fracking” for oil and gas, and for banning internal combustion cars. These are all huge issues. If she has walked away from all of these positions, then how can you tell where she stands on anything? Actually, I would submit that it is easy to figure...

Ukrainian forces foiled a massive Russian armoured assault in the Donetsk region, inflicting heavy casualties and loss of equipment. The ferocious battle took place near Vyymka in the Bakhmut district on the Siversk sector of the front and involved Ukraine's 10th Mountain Assault Brigade. The Russian assault group comprised over 120 soldiers and 22 armoured vehicles, including tanks. They were spotted by aerial reconnaissance and came under sustained and heavy artillery fire and drone attacks. Video images of the battle show Russian armoured vehicles being targeted and destroyed by kamikaze drones. As Putin's troops abandon their vehicles, a second wave...

Scientists have recently unlocked the secrets of the world's oldest map, a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, which is believed to show the location of Noah’s Ark. The ancient Babylonian artifact, etched with cuneiform—a script using wedge-shaped symbols—has puzzled archaeologists for centuries. Discovered in what is now Iraq in 1882, the tablet is housed at the British Museum, where it has become one of its famous collections. The Imago Mundi depicts a circular world map, illustrating early Babylonian ideas about the world's creation. The map is thought to show the entire known world at the time, with...

4 November 2024 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Monday of week 31 in Ordinary TimeChurch of St. Charles Borromeo, Saint Anthony, MinnesotaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingPhilippians 2:1-4Be united in your loveIf our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would...

This November 5th is the most consequential day of a lifetime for every American. The choice before Americans on November 5th is the dispositive question for the future of America. It is no ordinary election day; it is an epoch. On that day, Americans will determine their fate and that of their children and grandchildren. Historically, it is the equal to July 4, 1776, September 17, 1787, April 12, 1861, or November 4, 1980. This election will determine whether America remains a constitutional republic in accord with its founding political principles or becomes a one-party state on the road to...

Miranda Devine is the bestselling-selling author of 'Laptop From Hell' and 'The Big Guy: How A President And His Son Sold Out America'. Notably she was the journalist at the New York Post who Rudy Guiliani trusted with the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. In this thorough we deep dive we look at the Biden Family dealings - from China to Ukraine, and every way they've taken advantage of Joe Biden's position as leader of the Free World. What laws did they break? How much money did they make? How did they get away with it? How was...

This is my prediction for what we see by November 30th. 276 Trump, 262 Harris.

“Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom” (James 3:13). Wisdom teaches us how to handle adversity. In his wonderful commentary on the book of James, Robert Johnstone wrote the following about meekness: That “the meek” should “inherit the earth”—that they bear wrongs, and exemplify the love which “seeketh not her own”—to a world that believes in high-handedness and self-assertion, and pushing the weakest to the wall, a statement like this of the Lord from Heaven cannot but appear an utter paradox. The man of the world...

Derogatory labels highlight the cultural and socioeconomic divide between elite politicians and many Americans, particularly Trump supporters, who feel disrespected by these terms and policies. Who actually are the “garbage” people? Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?” Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?” Do they include Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables?” Are they FBI grandee Peter Strzok’s Walmart shoppers who “smell?” Over the last decade-and-a-half, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Harris-Walz, and a host of other self-described elites have variously invented a wide range of smears and slurs—but about whom exactly? Who...

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LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in Raleigh, NC – 11/4/24President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 10:00AM EST.LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in Reading, PA – 11/4/24President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 2:00PM EST.LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in Pittsburgh, PA – 11/4/24President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will...

Germany’s top diplomat arrived Monday in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on an unannounced visit, in what appeared to be a show of European support for Ukraine on the eve of a U.S. presidential election that could bring far-reaching changes in Washington’s policy toward Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Germany is Ukraine’s second biggest weapons supplier after the U.S., and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock vowed that Berlin’s backing would remain steadfast. “Together with many partners around the world, Germany stands firmly by Ukraine’s side,” she said, German news agency dpa reported. “We will support the Ukrainians for as long as...

You know what doesn't make someone "a man?" Going on national TV and spouting multiple vulgarities. But that's just what Democrat Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania did on the Sunday episode of CNN's State of the Union. [snip] When Bash asked Fetterman to comment on the Trump campaign using as a top ad one that focuses on Kamala's policy on transgenders, Fetterman went on a riff: "If your political capital comes from picking on trans kids or gay kids or anything like that, you're just bankrupt throughout all of this. My version of being a man is like, hey, I...

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R&B singer and songwriter John Legend responded to a video that Christian YouTuber Ruslan made addressing the singer’s views on abortion. Ruslan was reacting to comments Legend made in a conversation with former pro football player and commentator Shannon Sharpe in which Legend shared about a miscarriage his wife, Chrissy Teigen, had. “I was always pro-choice,” Legend told Sharpe in the interview on Sharpe’s podcast, “Club Shay Shay,” on Oct. 23. “Actually, not always. I grew up in the church, and we were taught that, you know, we were supposed to be pro-life.” “As soon as I became an adult,...

Despite so many factors going against Republicans, all the indicators are pointing to a mammoth win for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Democrats control the media, big tech, the legal system, education/academia, government, and corporations. Republicans have churches — but 32 million evangelicals are unlikely to vote in this election, meaning that influence is negligible. This leaves Republicans without much to counterbalance the massive Democratic advantages except enhanced GOTV efforts by the party, Turning Point USA, one-man machine Scott Pressler and Elon Musk’s efforts, which include converting Twitter into the only mainstream social media platform that doesn’t censor the right. Due...

A female college student was arrested in Iran on Sunday for stripping down and strutting around campus in her underwear in apparent protest over allegedly being assaulted for not wearing a hijab. A now-viral video shows the young woman in a bra and panties in the courtyard of Tehran’s Azad University, while other footage shows her soon being shoved by men into a car and being driven away. The unidentified student was protesting security forces who had ripped her clothing earlier while confronting her for not wearing a headscarf, which Iranian law demands for all women in public, Iran International...

NBC aired a 90-second Trump ad during NASCAR on Sunday in response to complaints about Kamala Harris’ last-minute appearance on Saturday Night Live, which appeared to violate the FCC’s Equal Time Rule. Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, sparking claims it violated “Equal Time” rules that dictate a licensed broadcaster using public airwaves must give equal air time to a qualified candidate ahead of an election. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct...