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Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation after Tuesday’s dominance in midterm election by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians.That’s according to Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan Gottlieb.Tuesday’s election saw Democrats win seats across the country. Gun control groups heralded the wins.“This wave of progress flipped control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, a rare shift seen only twice before in the last 70 years,” said a statement from Brady United, a gun...

Kyle Fellers missed half his daughter’s senior-year soccer games after a dispute over a pink wristband. Two years later, Bow School District has a federal judgment declaring that it violated the parents’ First Amendment rights, plus a settlement providing $275,000 in legal fees and costs. The wristbands carried two letters: XX. Apparently, defending girls’ sports required parents to defend their right to wear something smaller than the average school identification badge. From KSAT: In a dismissal order Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe said the men have a First Amendment right to silently wear the wristbands and that school...

Cardinal Parolin confirms Pope Leo’s approval of China bishop appointments despite ‘imperfect’ agreement Cardinal Pietro Parolin has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has approved episcopal appointments under the Vatican’s agreement with China, acknowledging that the arrangement remains imperfect but insisting that dialogue with Beijing must continueCardinal Pietro Parolin has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has given his assent to episcopal appointments made under the agreement between the Holy See and China, while acknowledging that the arrangement remains imperfect and defending the Vatican’s decision to continue implementing it.Speaking to journalists on Thursday, 5 November, the Vatican Secretary of State reaffirmed that...

Woke 2.0 in America is, unfortunately, off to a strong start, as singers now feel emboldened to shamelessly mock our nation's beautiful national anthem. As Yahoo Sports reported, the NBA's Golden State Warriors celebrated their annual Pride Night during their home game against the Miami Heat. As part of the Warriors' Pride Night celebration, they had openly gay singer Jason Brock perform the national anthem. Brock is a former finalist on The X Factor USA and a prominent male cabaret singer in San Francisco. He certainly qualifies as a national anthem singer based on talent. But Brock decided to use...

Mark Ruffalo is backing a petition pressuring House Democrats to deny Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker’s chair, escalating the actor’s public activism after Democrats overturned the House majority in the Nov. 3 midterms. ======================================================================= WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Mark Ruffalo is promoting a petition urging House Democrats to reject Hakeem Jeffries as the next Speaker. * The petition argues that Jeffries represents the Democratic establishment rather than Democratic voters. * Jeffries has remained a firm supporter of Israel and U.S. military aid during the war with Hamas. * Ruffalo recently appeared in a celebrity video message during Macklemore’s “Free...

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that when you win, it’s never as good as it seems.” Rogan O’Handley (DCDraino on X) Half the country is doing an end-zone war dance, the other half is scratching its weary head. That was some election! But you know what? The numbers are a little. . . queer. I mean queer in the old-school sense. Peculiar. Puzzling. Kind of. . . fishy. . . maybe statistically impossible? What I think happened: Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as...

Democrats’ midterm gains have opened a path to fundamentally changing how America elects its president, potentially locking in the national popular vote winner through an interstate agreement.Check Voting Info The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would leave the Electoral College formally intact while changing how participating states award their votes. A member state could back one candidate at the ballot box and still hand every electoral vote to that candidate’s opponent. That is because the agreement commits participating states to awarding their electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide, regardless of the outcome within their borders. The compact...

WASHINGTON—The White House delivered a warning to conservative groups on Thursday: We’re watching you. Two days after voters rebuked President Trump and his party, the administration moved to hold together a coalition that was beginning to splinter. The White House Office of Public Liaison, which works with outside groups, sent a memo to more than 3,000 conservative organizations that laid out a list of Trump’s accomplishments in office and pledged to prevent newly ascendant Democrats from reversing them. The memo concluded with a sentence that was highlighted in yellow. “As always, we are monitoring statements, press releases, and media engagements...

Two more DOJ officials abruptly resigned on Friday just days after the Democrats swept the midterm elections. The top prosecutor who was spearheading the Russiagate case against John Brennan - US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Quiñones - resigned. US Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement on Friday. "United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation from the Department of Justice," Blanche said. "We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl Castro. Jason has served...

The Left is already demanding punishment after an MLB All-Star called out Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) — and political Islam — in the wake of Tuesday’s midterms. Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander, an All-Star in 2024 before suffering a major shoulder injury during his team's American League championship run the following year, reshared two videos to his Instagram story after Michigan elected El-Sayed as the next U.S. senator from that state. One was captioned “America voted for Sharia Last Night.” The other was titled “Islam is not peaceful.” Ah, it seems like only yesterday people could state the obvious...

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced Thursday he won’t seek another term at the helm of his chamber next year, acknowledging his tenure was doomed after 26 Democratic state representatives signed a statement calling for a change in leadership. The seismic statehouse shakeup comes in the wake of revelations over the summer that Welch was aware of sexual harassment allegations against disgraced ex-state Rep. Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, almost three years before additional complaints prompted Benton’s resignation. The call for new leadership was distributed late Wednesday by North Side state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, the most vocal public critic of Welch’s...

Tesla’s most revolutionary product didn’t even last a decade. On Friday, in the middle of the night Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X.com that Tesla Cybertruck production will stop in the middle of 2027. The reason? According to Musk it’s to make room for Cybercab production. Musk make the announcement on X.com, which was formerly Twitter before he bought the platform in a hostile takeover, at 12:30 am on Friday. The executive has since posted nine times on X effectively burying the post, though it’s currently trending on the platform he owns. The quiet part out loud: The Cybertruck...

The U.S. economy added jobs at a much stronger-than-expected pace in October, while the unemployment rate moved lower as the labor market showed surprising strength...In addition to the strong payroll gains for October, prior months were revised up substantially...

By my count there are 58 days to the start of the Cultural Revolution.

Libya's highest Islamic authority, the Dar al-Ifta, has issued a fatwa in the Islamic nation, barring Muslims from buying, selling, or wearing clothing featuring the Nike logo. Sadiq al-Ghariani, the nation's highest Islamic jurist, approved the fatwa. It was issued after the Dar al-Ifta accused Nike of supporting Israel. It's the second brand-related fatwa in the country. Last year, the Dar al-Ifta issued a fatwa against luxury brand Van Cleef & Arpels, which sells jewelry, perfume, and other high-end items. Van Cleef & Arpels' four-leaf clover design is associated with Christianity and contradicted Islamic teachings. Libya has been politically divided...

OUCH! Assuming what we're seeing is true, it was a quite disappointing election cycle. Everything I thought was potential for conservatives went out the window. What a shocker.... ... As Believers living at the end of the Church Age, our mission has not changed. We will continue to warn people that the Rapture of Born Again Believers is close, and the horrible 7-year Tribulation immediately follows. The article is about the problems with embracing an A-Millennial eschatology doctrine, its effect on Israel today, and how it has duped people like Tucker Carlson.. ... Tucker Carlson and other A-Millennials think the...

One of the more striking things about my liberal friends is how they keep fantasizing about how Trump is an authoritarian who is upending the Constitutional order (He will cancel the midterms and put the military outside voting stations!) as they fantasize about seizing companies, jailing or killing their political opponents, and "Trump-proofing" America by permanently changing the Constitution. Every accusation is a confession, and in this case I mean literally. They think Trump would do those things because it is precisely what they want to do themselves. Even before the election, the Democrats were making lists and discussing which...

This is the modern day communist left. Evil, vile, ugly. Leftist darling Jennifer Welch and co-hort Angie Sullivan laugh uncontrollably at the thought of someone digging up Charlie Kirk and shooting him again. Sadly, this type of demonic leftist humor is rife in Democrat circles today. The two then said that Charlie's assassin was somehow linked to MAGA. Another sick lie. This is the modern day left - demonic possessed and celebrating murder. Podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan can't stop laughing at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk's corpse and "doing it" again to him. After laughing for...

Tuesday’s wave election swept Democrats into power in Congress. But the most seismic result for American politics and democracy may come out of the battleground states where Democrats just won trifecta control by taking both state houses and the governor’s mansion: Come January, Democratic legislators will have the votes to elect the next president by the popular vote. State lawmakers could circumvent the Electoral College by enacting what’s known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Under the current system, each state gets a set number of electors, and the candidate who wins enough states to accumulate at least 270...

This is the landlord who reminds me of Trump. We're the landlord now. The Dustin Hoffman character(Benjamin Braddock) has several potential stand-in's to evict.