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The United States Department of Justice has released a formal Office of Legal Counsel memorandum opinion clarifying that law-abiding Americans may carry constitutionally protected firearms into publicly accessible post offices for self-defense without violating federal criminal law. The opinion, dated August 12, 2026, and authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit, interprets 18 U.S.C. § 930(a), the longstanding prohibition on possessing firearms or other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, as not reaching ordinary self-defense carry in post offices open to the public. Section 930(a) makes it a federal crime to knowingly possess a firearm in a federal...

LAWRENCE, Mass. — Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña has been arrested on wire fraud and money laundering charges. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts, DePeña allegedly obtained more than $1.5 million in COVID small-business loans and used the money for personal and political expenses. DePeña, 61, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. According to federal prosecutors, DePena used the money to pay personal tax debts, fund his mayoral campaign and pay off more than $880,000 in high-interest mortgages on properties he owned in Lawrence. The charges center on Economic Injury Disaster...

It’s not what AOC wants you to think it is. Readers familiar with Dr. Seuss’s classic, The Cat in the Hat, will remember the twin chaos agents Thing 1 and Thing 2. “‘These Things are good Things,’” the Cat reassures the children whose mother has inexplicably left them under the supervision of a fish. “‘They are tame. Oh, so tame! / They have come here to play.’” The Things briefly feign innocence, then quickly reveal themselves to be marauding imps, knocking over nightstands and ruining the linens. “I do not like the way that they play!” says the son of...

From 2015 to 2017, El-Sayed ran the Detroit Health Department. That put him in charge of the city’s Animal Care and Control operation during some of its ugliest years. According to records obtained by the Daily Mail, nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized while he held that post. In 2015 alone, the shelter killed 1,988 dogs and 272 cats. That was more than a quarter of every dog put down in the entire county that year. The live-release rate sat at a miserable 20 percent. Four out of five animals that walked through those doors never walked out.A former...

Liberal Democrat Governor Maura Healey signs bill allowing babies to be aborted all the way up to birth. Fox News says, “Democratic Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and smiles as she signed away Massachusetts’ gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the 10th to permit the procedure up to birth. Under the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care workers will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state’s previous restrictions. Massachusetts is now the tenth state to allow this kind of de-humanizing law.”...

Progressive Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has wooed voters with his credentials as a doctor with a mission of healthcare for all. But his record overseeing Detroit's troubled animal-control system, which saw high rates of animal euthanasia, has received far less attention as he's campaigned. From 2015 to 2017, El-Sayed served as executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department – a powerful post that put him over the city's Animal Control operation during some of its darkest days. In a 2017 ABC News profile of his bid for governor, El-Sayed pointed to his record as Detroit's health...

The CEO of Flock Safety apologized Thursday for cases in which law enforcement agencies misused the company’s license plate reader technology and announced a series of policy changes aimed at preventing further abuse. “The short message would be, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that the system has failed you,” CEO Garrett Langley said. Langley said the company is recommending law enforcement agencies reduce the time camera data is stored from 30 days down to seven. Earlier this week, New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon revealed his office had been storing license plate reader data for 90 days. McMahon said the office...

Flock Safety raised $960M total, reaching a $7.5B valuation backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund. Toka reportedly lets clients hack cameras, alter footage, and erase evidence without leaving forensic traces. Researchers demonstrated live camera-feed hijacking at Black Hat, proving footage tampering is technically achievable today. SNIP

When they are weak, communists and Muslims create seemingly durable pluralist partnerships that they then ruthlessly destroy once they achieve power. In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated their shared goals of violence, wealth redistribution, inequality before the law, a binary world, monopoly rule by the elites, controlling the totality of society, and transitional-phase slaughter. Here we explore the game plan to infiltrate society and co-opt its machinery. Islamic political systems and Marxist-Leninist communism both construct power through organizational methods designed for times when they are still too weak to...

Today we laugh at Socialism/Communism (While we still can!)

For years, Americans have heard warnings about the national debt climbing into the tens of trillions of dollars. The numbers have become so large that they barely register anymore. Thirty trillion. Thirty-five trillion. Nearly forty trillion. But the real danger may no longer be simply how much America owes. It is how much America must now pay to keep borrowing. The U.S. Treasury is selling 30-year government bonds at yields around 5.2%, potentially the highest borrowing cost for that maturity in roughly a quarter century. That may sound like something only Wall Street investors should care about. It isn't. Because...

Kansas students have been forced to put cell phones into lockers before they set foot in class as part of a blanket ban on the devices in schools across the state. Thousands of students in grades K-12 are banned from using their cell phones during the school day under HB 2299, which outgoing Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law in March and hailed as a tool to “reduce distractions in the classroom.” School districts are granted the flexibility to enforce the policy as they see fit. Schools in the Kansas City public school district have spent $150,000 on special...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/14/26)[Prayer]Personalities2 Samuel 3:22-39Joab Murders Abner 22 Just then David’s men and Joab returned from a raid and brought with them a great deal of plunder. But Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, because David had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. 23 When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace. 24 So Joab went to the king and said, “What...

There’s an old saw in politics that says, “If you are explaining, you’re losing.” Over the past few months, Big Tech and its allies in the legacy media have been doing a lot of explaining about data centers, including why they are needed and why more communities should welcome the projects. But Big Tech’s public relations challenge got a lot harder last month, when country music legend Willie Nelson declared people need to “fight against data centers invading our land.” Nelson, who owns a house and farm in his hometown of Abbott, Texas, also said, “The last thing we need...

BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Beaver Dam police are investigating after more than 30 vehicles were egged Tuesday night. Police said they identified and interviewed three people in connection with the vandalism. The three are cooperating with the investigation and are expected to receive several citations. Police ask anyone whose vehicle was egged to call the department at ***_***_****

people speak often of “suicidal empathy” as a plague consuming the west, and to be sure, they have a point. but where does this come from? from whence did it arise and take hold? i have an idea around a dovetail. hear me out on this: the other day, i spoke about communism being a failure of second order thinking and that basically anyone capable of asking the question “but if we do that, it creates a certain set of incentives and won’t those incentives then lead to X?” does not become a communist. (apart from the select few who...

The reports are everywhere — miserable conditions supposedly aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including food shortages, broken plumbing, widespread exhaustion, and plummeting morale. It’s so bad, these reports say, that some sailors have attempted to jump overboard and presumably drown. Breathless headlines like “Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms” are rampant. Democrat lawmakers like Richard "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal (D-CT) are demanding answers and writing strongly worded letters. The U.S. military was already preparing to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln with the USS George Washington as part of a scheduled Middle East...

Before gay marriage was legalized, its supporters made three specific promises. Every single one of them has failed. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse walks through the actual data — Gallup polls, the UCLA Williams Institute study, and a 2025 systematic review of 123 studies across 31 countries — to show what really happened after decades of pro-gay advocacy and the legalization of same-sex marriage.

he Sport & Rights Alliance on Thursday called on the Women's Tennis Association to drop its sex-testing policy, calling it a ​discriminatory measure in the game. The women's tennis tour said last month it ‌would require players to clear a one-time gene test for the SRY gene, which helps in determining biological sex and can be conducted via cheek swab or blood ​test.

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