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According to federal law, anyone “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” is prohibited from possessing a firearm The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case on drug users possessing firearms to determine whether the federal law criminalizing such possession is unconstitutional.The Trump administration urged the court to hear the case, making it the latest regarding the Second Amendment that the court agreed to hear this term, according to The Hill news outlet. The court is expected to rule on the case by the end of its term next summer.According to federal...

Across advertising and popular media, seemingly everyone is grabbing their fringe, denim and Stetson boots, in a wholehearted embrace of the American West. It’s cowboys – and they’re “everywhere,” said Emily Keegin, a photo director for both magazines and brands. “It’s more pervasive than I think I’ve ever seen a trope in recent history.” Long associated with a hardworking, old-school, rugged American masculinity, the cowboy’s current popularity could be a reflection of our national politics — conservatives, including members of the Trump administration, have embraced cowboy hats and similar imagery. But today’s prevailing cowboy image also highlights how cultural myths...

"An older male was seen picking up approximately $7,400 in cash that had fallen from the roof of the car of its rightful owner," police said.Police in Kennebunk, Maine are looking for a man who, they say, pocketed more than $7,000 in cash that was left in a roadway after falling off the roof of a car. A report of stolen property came in on Oct. 15, the Kennebunk Police Department said on Facebook. “An older male was seen picking up approximately $7,400 in cash that had fallen from the roof of the car of its rightful owner. The money...

LOS ANGELOS, CA — A local homeless man reported over the weekend that he had been made fun of by all of the other homeless men for not having an iPhone 17. According to witnesses, transient Ralph Nichols was brutally mocked by his fellow hobos for not having the latest iPhone like everyone else. "Hey guys, check out the loser bum over here who doesn't even have a 17!" one disheveled man allegedly said. "I bet he still goes to the library to use the computers all day instead of getting a free government handout to buy one for...

Few people understand the far-left extremist group Antifa as well as investigative journalist Andy Ngo, author of “Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He has been beaten, attacked, and nearly killed by Antifa for his undercover reporting of the group’s operations. In an executive order signed on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump designated the group a domestic terrorist organization. On Oct. 8, the president hosted a roundtable focused on Antifa and invited Ngo and other journalists to participate. In this episode, Ngo recounts his harrowing personal experiences. What will it take to actually dismantle Antifa? How is Antifa...

"Politics is a weapon in the cause of Islam"Zohran Mamdani’s decision to visit the Al-Taqwa Mosque, which used to be under NYPD surveillance, and then embraced its imam, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the WTC bombing, ends any debate about who he is.At this point the alternative is ignorance, lies and denial.Much as with Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, there’ll be plenty of that. But much as people were able to hear Wright scream hate for America in his own words, here’s Zohran’s new favorite imam expressing his hatred for America, enthusiasm for Jihad, and description of...

WASHINGTON — Spirit Christmas is kicking off its holiday season early, with the first of dozens of stores opening over the weekend. Spirit Halloween, known for seasonally popping up in hundreds of locations around the country and offering a wide variety of costume pieces and decorations for folks to prepare for the October holiday, is expanding its spinoff Christmas-themed stores. The company will open 30 Christmas-themed stores across the Northeastern U.S. this year. Spirit Halloween first teased the return of its Christmas-themed pop-up stores in August. The company recently shared on social media a tour inside its newly opened Mays...

@RandPaul Washington’s spending addiction is out of control. I refused to support the $2T GOP deficit or the $3T Democrat deficit. I don’t want a shutdown, and I’ll support legislation to ensure our troops are paid, but I won’t rubber-stamp reckless budgets from either party.

Helen Andrews argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine.Writer Helen Andrews turned a viral speech into an essay for Compact that’s been driving the Internet wild since it published Oct. 16. She argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over the majority of academia and other pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine: “Everything you think of as ‘wokeness’ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.”“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk,...

For years, archaeologists have struggled to answer a surprisingly human question: how do you tell if a skeleton from a thousand years ago was once pregnant? © Credit: Dr Hugh Willmott, University of Sheffield Pregnancy has long remained one of the most elusive aspects of human life to trace in the archaeological record, especially when it comes to skeletons. While modern tests rely on the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), this biomolecule degrades too quickly to survive underground for centuries. Now, a new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield reveals that bones and teeth from ancient skeletons...

Obviously, readers here are well aware of our research files on former DOJ-NSD head, Mary McCord, and her various tentacles of operations against Donald Trump before and after the 2016 election.To enhance this ongoing effort, Twitter user “pepesgrandma” shares an email exchange from Mary McCord to the FBI in December of 2020 following the election.Apparently, Mary McCord was conducting surveillance of an Oathkeeper chat room and sending information to the FBI following the November 2020 election, and in the runup to the January 6, 2021 protest.[SOURCE]This is interesting on a variety of levels, because we have documented Mary McCord working...

Study explains why ‘staying quit’ gets harder the longer you’re cigarette-free. In A Nutshell * One quick question predicts relapse: Feeling “tired of staying quit” flags higher relapse odds whether you quit months or years ago. * Time still helps: The longer you stay smoke-free, the lower your overall risk. Fatigue matters on top of that. * Vaping shows a protective link: Daily vapers had lower odds of relapse in this study, even after adjustment. The reasons were not tested. * Make it practical: Ask yourself at checkups, “How tired am I of trying to stay quit?” * High fatigue...

TrumpTruthOnXEd Gallrein and Donald Trump President Donald Trump thinks he has found his man to oust Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in next year’s primary contest. On Friday, the president called Massie a “RINO” and announced he was backing a combat veteran named Ed Gallrein.Gallrein has not yet filed to run for the 4th Congressional District’s federal representative seat, but three other Republicans and two Democrats have. The district leans heavily Republican, and the winner of the primary race will likely win the general race. The other three Republicans who’ve filed haven’t raised any money. Judging by Trump’s recent announcement, they...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will decide whether a federal law that prohibits unlawful drug users from having firearms violates the Second Amendment, adding a second high-stakes case involving gun rights to the docket for its current term. The Justice Department is urging the high court to uphold the prohibition, arguing that there are "narrow circumstances" in which the government may burden the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. A federal appeals court ruled that the law is unconstitutional in most cases, and the Trump administration said that decision should be reversed. In agreeing...

Early Tuesday evening, as National Guard troops faced off against protesters and rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, powerful teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten hosted a virtual town hall with Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.and two leading political operatives in Democratic Party politics, Leah Greenberg, founder of a political nonprofit, Indivisible, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of another political nonprofit, National Action Network. Greenberg hailed an upcoming wave of protests this Saturday — set to sweep through even "really red areas of the country," marked with mostly Republican voters — as a stand against President Donald Trump. Throughout the...

Left-wing “land acknowlegements” could be having real-world consequences for property owners in Canada. And the United States may be next.It began as a polite ritual. Before meetings or ceremonies, institutions began acknowledging that their buildings sit on land once inhabited by Indigenous peoples: “We recognize this is the unceded territory of the [tribe name].” The practice, with roots in Australia as far back as the 1970s, was picked up in Canada following the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and moved quickly from Canada to left-leaning universities, city councils and churches in the 2020s. Many saw it as a mere...

Every now and again in this world of unknowing, we get a glance at reality in a blinding flash of light. For instance, I have been wondering about the Feds arresting drug gang members in various blue cities. What was that all about? Then I read Instapundit Glenn Reynolds’ regular piece in the NY Post, and now everything makes sense. I wrote it up in my Substack.Did you know that the whole Sanctuary City grift is needed because our blue cities have a longstanding relationship between the drug cartels and the politicians? Here’s how it works in Chicago, according to...

Since 1981, Oregon has participated in the vote-by-mail system, also known as the “cheat-by-mail” system, because in 1981, Republicans stopped winning elections in Oregon. Up until that date, it was more or less balanced, with Republicans and Democrats trading places in power. When voting by mail became permanent in Oregon in 1987, a majority of the counties adopted the VBM process; that was the last year Republicans held the office of governor in the state.During that time, Oregon had one Republican Secretary of State, Dennis Richardson, who was a very popular legislator and a Vietnam Veteran who prioritized state business...

President Donald Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations in his Sept. 23 address wasn’t just another form of political theater.It served as a reality check for an institution that has long sacrificed its purpose and mission for pretenses and spectacle, and Americans, for the most part, have noticed this.“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them, and not finance them,” Trump reminded.That line hit home at Turtle Bay because it’s true.According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, 60% of voters agree, including 43% who strongly agree. That’s not the MAGA fringe. That’s mainstream America, tired of writing...

It took only a few minutes for thieves to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning, coming away with jewels of “inestimable value” that had once belonged to Napoleon and his empresses.The Louvre, which is the world's most visited museum with 8.7 million visitors in 2024 alone, was closed for the day as police investigated how the robbers were able to carry out the most high-profile theft in modern French history."The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our History," President Emmanuel...