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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) called a joint press conference on “election integrity” from former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “absurd” Friday, given the indictments Trump faces over 2020 election interference. “I mean, it’s too rich that Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are talking to us about election integrity. That’s like having to listen to a lecture by Bonnie and Clyde on bank security. I mean, it’s absurd considering what they did in the 2020 election to try and overturn it,” Swalwell said during an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”.

Tempers flared at a House hearing Wednesday after a Republican lawmaker went off on Rep. Eric Swalwell over his ties to a suspected Chinese spy, prompting the Democrat to fire back

MTG Nukes Eric Swalwell from Space: “You Slept With A Chinese Spy

As we can see, Christine Fang (Fang Fang) was quite a social butterfly, mingled with low to mid-level state politicians, and eventually found her way into California House Rep Eric Swalwell's circle. (Many photos at his feed. She really was dedicated if she took on jabba the hut, I mean harrison)

Five people were wounded early Tuesday morning in a warehouse shooting in Democrat-controlled Los Angeles, California. CBS 2 reports the incident occurred in the Harbor-Gateway neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. and witnesses report hearing 30 to 50 gun shots. Their were upwards of 200 people in the facility at the time, where The Hill reports they were “illegally hosted.” Three women and two men were wounded by gunfire and a sixth individual was injured by being cut on a fence while trying to flee the bullets. ABC 7 reports shots were fired outside as well as inside the warehouse, and “police...

The best half hour of TV in a decade occurred last night on Laura Ingraham’s “The Ingraham Angle”. Guests former mayor of New York and President Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and former US Attorney Joe diGenova tore into the Democrat’s phony impeachment and then went to the heart of all the corruption in D.C. and they were brilliant. Shortly before a break Laura’s guests shared the following – Rudy – For years Obama had a pay for play operation in his administration and it’s disgusting and one of the reasons they’re fighting so hard – If Biden comes out, so...

Police indicate that a New Jersey resident took away an intrusion suspect’s gun then shot and killed him with it. NBC 10 reports that the incident occurred around 7:30 pm Wednesday, after an “intruder allegedly arrived at the residence brandishing a semi-automatic handgun.” Police say the resident and the suspect, 29-year-old Terrence Coulanges, wrestled for control of the firearm on the patio, with the resident ultimately taking control of it and shooting Coulanges.

Hey Steven, Wasn't it in November you were going to do your drawing for the long gun? I didn't see it posted here or on your site. How'd it go? Did the winner accept your invitation to come out and go to the range with you?

Goldman Arming Itself? :-> This is a riot (well, ok, I might be a week - or a month early on that): Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the...

Patrick Green and Robert Rothe told WBAL TV 11 News that they were antagonized and attacked after boarding the No. 64 bus late Monday night in south Baltimore. The men, who are white, said the attackers yelled racial slurs and that no one on board, including the driver, stepped in to stop the attack. MTA surveillance cameras captured four men boarding the bus at the Hanover Street stop Monday night, moments before Green and Rothe got on. Green and Rothe said they believe other passengers were afraid to help and that the driver refused to call for help. "We were...

KINGSPORT - When Lowell Wilson realized his Brookside Drive house was being broken into late Thursday night - for the third time in less than a year - he was pretty fed up. So fed up that this time he shot the intruder. Sullivan County Sheriff's Department officials questioned the alleged robber after he showed up later at Indian Path Medical Center with a gunshot wound. Medical officials are obligated to notify law enforcement anytime someone comes to the emergency room with a gunshot wound. Donald Scott Bridges, 25, of 3814 Memorial Boulevard, Kingsport, told police that he had been...

Floridians could shoot anyone who invades their homes or cars with the intention of harming them, under a bill that got preliminary approval today in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Durrell Peaden, R-Crestview, basically says that you don't have to back away from a confrontation. Under existing law, people can be prosecuted if they don't first try to find a way to escape from a confrontation. Sen. Steve Geller, D-Hallendale, unsuccessfully tried to amend the bill so that it would only apply to homes, cars and other private locations - not confrontations on the street. Geller said he supported...

09:24 AM CST on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News Police on Tuesday captured a teenager suspected in the fatal weekend shooting of a 14-year-old boy. The 16-year-old suspect was taken into custody about 1:30 p.m. after a tip from an informant, police said. His name is not being released because he is a minor. One police official said the suspect had his bags packed and a bus ticket to leave the area. Ruben Juarez, a Greiner Middle School seventh-grader, was shot and killed Sunday afternoon in a shopping center parking lot in west...

Fatal shooting follows near fender-bender 14-year-old boy dies; man critically wounded 05:09 PM CST on Sunday, January 30, 2005 By IAN McCANN and TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot and his stepfather critically wounded Sunday afternoon after nearly being involved in a traffic accident in a parking lot, police said. The names of the shooting victims were not released. The shooting happened about 2 p.m. Sunday in a busy parking lot shared by Mexican restaurant, a bus depot and a flea market. According to police, the stepfather and teenager were headed south in...

British soldiers training for Iraq are saying "bang bang" instead of firing their grenade launchers because the Ministry of Defence did not buy enough, defence sources said yesterday. The MoD did not have the money to order sufficient Under-Barrel Grenade Launchers for the SA80 rifle, so all those available have had to be sent to Iraq. British soldiers stationed in Basra They also failed to buy any training rounds so soldiers cannot be trained on the weapon until they reach Iraq. They are having similar problems with the Minimi Light Machinegun because there are no blank attachments, which allow blank...

Chicken Little arrives every four years in a feather-ruffled flurry squawking about some kind of impending doom. This year she is incited to a level of hen-ish hysteria by the encroaching expiration of the federal "assault weapons" ban. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry is all for extending the ban on 19 military-style firearms, coos Chicken Little. He suspended his campaign back in March so he could go to Washington and cast one of the few Senate votes he found time to make in the past year. No one should read anything political into that. But that bad ol' President Bush,...

The Presidential Office has yet to decide whether to form an independent organ to investigate March 19's shootings that slightly wounded President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu, the office Secretary General James Huang said yesterday. Chen is still discussing the issue with chiefs of the major government agencies, including the Cabinet, the Legislature Yuan and the Control Yuan, the Central News Agency quoted Huang as saying. The president has also sought opinions from Lu and the Presidential Office's human rights committee, which Lu heads, according to Huang, who was speaking during a press conference. Creating an independent investigation...

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. - Perhaps visiting hours were over. Police shot and killed a full-grown black bear that wandered into a hospital Tuesday. The 300-pound male bear wandered in front of Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital at about 9:10 p.m. and activated a sensor that opens the hospital's doors, police said. The bear wandered down a few hallways and into a computer room, said Lt. Karl Martin of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Two police officers yanked the door shut behind it. Officers planned to sedate the bear, but because the hospital was nearly full they worried about...

In the 1971 movie "Dirty Harry," actor Clint Eastwood introduced the world to the double-action Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44-cal. Magnum revolver--"the most powerful handgun in the world." It was a crown S&W wore proudly, albeit briefly. The rising popularity of handgun hunting for big game (spurred largely by the .44 Magnum itself) prompted the introduction of newer and significantly more powerful revolver cartridges. Many powerful enough that they had to be chambered in single-action handguns because existing double-action designs could not contain the recoil forces and pressures they produced. Since S&W does not make single-action revolvers, and no...

'I have not been well' February 6 2003 'I HAVE not been well," says Phil Spector, choosing his words carefully. "I was crippled inside. Emotionally. Insane is a hard word. I wasn't insane, but I wasn't well enough to function as a regular part of society, so I didn't. I chose not to." He pauses. "I have devils inside that fight me." The classical music that has been playing throughout our conversation ebbs and flows. Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Spector is responsible for producing some of the greatest pop music ever: Be My Baby by the Ronettes, You've Lost That...