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ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg · Follow Just one month before Charlie Kirk's assassination, a young cross-dressing man in Utah requested the death penalty for himself after confessing to murdering both his parents and attempting to murder his brother. This story received little media interest

The bill to restore silencers/suppressors to legal status in Guam was introduced by William A. Parkinson on January 15, 2025. Senator Parkinson is a Democrat in Guam. Nine of the fifteen senators in Guam are Republicans. Ten votes are needed in the Guam legislature to override a governor’s veto. If all 9 Republican senators in the Guam legislature vote for the bill with Senator Parkinson, they could override Governor Guerrero’s veto. That is what happened on July 31, 2025. The legislature had previously passed legislation to restore legal status for suppressors/silencers in 2021, but Governor Guerrero had vetoed the bill....

Late-night TV legend Jay Leno called the assassination of conservative rockstar Charlie Kirk “the death of free speech. The Tonight Show icon also said Kirk’s cold-blooded murder “was not a random shooting.” “I mean, it’s the death of free speech, to think that you are so illiterate and so stupid you can’t answer verbally, and you have to shoot somebody with a gun to win the argument,” Jay Leno said last week on The Tim Conway Jr. Show on KFI 640 in Los Angeles. Leno said the days of “lively” debates between conservative intellectuals like William F. Buckley and liberal...

Fists were flying at a restaurant chain known for flying shrimp fried rice.

(Sep. 17, 2025) — During the process of developing the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton submitted a suggested draft for a Constitution on June 18, 1787. At some point, he also suggested to the framers a proposal for the qualification requirements in Article II as to the necessary Citizenship status for the office of President and Commander in Chief of the Military. Another version of Hamilton’s proposed Constitution and which principles were stated during the convention’s deliberations per Madison notes and journal (see work of Farrand – pg 619), was given to Madison near the close of the convention for inclusion...

Choosing a college major is a life-altering decision, made millions of times a year by 18-year-olds with little exposure to higher education or labor markets. Colleges frame programs in terms of possibilities, not probabilities. They pitch degrees like products, emphasizing prestige and potential while downplaying the risks of dropping out or ending up underemployed. These institutions influence such decisions millions of times a year, but students make them only once. And while schools hold internal data on outcomes and labor markets, they rarely share what matters most. To the institution, the student is a sales prospect, not a learner they’re...

Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox Montel Williams is now trying to steer the conversation away from the truth...refusing to call Charlie Kirk’s assassin what he was: an unhinged leftist with hate in his heart. Instead, Montel is spinning it as a love story...a young man defending someone he cared about. Wow. This is absolutely twisted. Nothing says “love” like murdering someone in cold blood. “There are people trying to pigeonhole this as a leftist thing and a right thing.” “And what we’re really talking about, hear me, because I’m going to throw you when I say this… we’re talking about a...

Run time 19 m 26 s Minnesota Senator Fought the Release of This Bodycam.

Pomp and pageantry at Windsor.

This morning, just as the first light crept over the trees, I heard the barred owl. Not the playful “who cooks for you” cadence, but the long, searching whooooo. A contact call, the owl’s way of saying: I am here. Where are you?Earlier this summer, the valley answered back. Adults and fledglings filled the night with their location calls, a chorus of presence and reassurance. Today, there was only silence.Isn’t it funny? An owl today. A creature recognized for centuries as a symbol of wisdom. And that’s what struck me: wisdom calls. The long whoooo was not just a location...

Sep 17, 2025 Rita Panahi Sky News host Rita Panahi has blasted the far-left for making excuses for Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer.

Virginia Lt. Gov Winsome Earle-Sears is continuing to ask President Donald Trump to back her bid in the high-stakes Virginia governor’s race — but the president, as of now, is refusing to endorse her. Earle-Sears has met with Trump in the Oval Office at least once to discuss her challenging campaign, and her team has coordinated daily with the White House’s political operation for months, according to sources familiar with the conversations who spoke with Bloomberg Government. The former House member [Abigail Spanberger] has specifically focused her message on blaming Trump — and Earle-Sears by association — for defunding education...

Reading the 'touching' (ABC News called these sick texts that) it struck me that these were written to absolve the roommate of being part of the conspiracy. So I asked A.I. and it agrees. Here's the exchange shared by law enforcement and then the analysis: Robinson: I am still ok my love, but am stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you....

The Great Experiment and How It Ends: A Return to Nature, Purpose, and PartnershipIn the last several decades, Western society has launched what could be called a Great Experiment: a full-scale reengineering of the human relationship structure that has served civilization for thousands of years. The traditional roles of men and women have been dismantled, the institution of marriage devalued, and the idea of long-term partnership often treated as optional, or even regressive.This experiment was built on the promise of personal freedom: that women could have it all—career, independence, and family—on their own terms, and that men could be liberated...

The Permanent Record: From Empty Threat to Everyday Reality When I was a student back in the 1950s, we used to joke about the phrase “That’s going on your permanent record.” It was a hollow threat from teachers, something said when a kid stepped out of line — broke a rule, said something smart-alecky, or handed in an assignment late. We all laughed quietly to ourselves, because we knew there was no such thing. There was no record, and certainly nothing “permanent.” Today, that joke is no longer funny — because it has come true. We now live in a...

Olivia Krolczyk ✞ @oliviakrolczyk_ (Name omitted pending verification) destroying a Charlie Kirk memorial in front of Bentonville Court House in Bentonville Arkansas.

Since I announced the Anti-Communist Film Festival last month, the response has been fantastic. Conservatives understand that a film festival showcasing some of the great anti-communist movies can be a powerful - and fun - inoculation against a poisonous false god. What’s also been surprising is how many anti-communist movies there are. I’ve heard from people not only in the United States but with ties to Cuba, China, and the old Soviet Union. I’ve also heard from directors and actors in Hollywood. We’re planning the festival for fall 2026 if we can raise the money for it and attract a...

I have been trying to visit the website keepandbeararms.com. It has been available for years. I was able to obtain an image of the site which showed today's date, but I cannot actually connect with the website itself. One resource, isitdownrightnow.com told me it had been down for more than a week, but I remember seeing it last week. My suspicion is some browsers can see it and others cannot. Please report if you can bring it up or not.

On Tuesday’s ABC News Special Report about Utah County officials formally announcing charges against the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder, chief national correspondent Matt Gutman expressed affinity for the suspect and admiration for his love story with a trans person, gushing the text messages released by authorities were “lovingly” stated, “very intimate,” and “very touching.” Gutman was reporting from the site of the press conference when he told World News Tonight anchor David Muir something “that stood out” was “those text messages” between the suspect and his roommate/lover. “I don’t know if we have seen an alleged murder with such...

Climate Change, Control, and the Question of Trust For as long as humans have walked the Earth, we have adapted to the forces of nature. Our species has survived ice ages, scorching droughts, violent storms, and even near-extinction events. We’ve done so not because we controlled nature, but because we learned to live with it — to adjust, to innovate, and to endure. Our greatest strengths have always been our intelligence and our adaptability. So when we’re told today that climate change represents an existential crisis, one that can only be solved through radical restructuring of our lives, our freedoms,...