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BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 27, 2026 — Plaintiffs have filed a motion for summary judgment in Roberts v. ATF, one of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) three supported lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) registration requirements for short-barreled firearms and silencers. Until President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the NFA established a $200 tax and registration regime on certain classes of firearms including silencers and short-barreled rifles, purportedly drawing from Congressional authority to levy taxes. After the One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the $200 tax on those arms, SAF and its partners filed...

ENDING PROCUREMENT AND FORCED USE OF PAPER STRAWS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. An irrational campaign against plastic straws has resulted in major cities, States, and businesses banning the use or automatic inclusion of plastic straws with beverages. Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to human health, are more expensive to produce than plastic straws, and often force users to use multiple straws. Additionally, paper straws sometimes...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced legislation today to repeal Donald Trump’s global tariffs, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The binding measure will be treated as a privileged resolution that must receive a vote on the Senate floor. The measure would terminate the emergency that Trump declared in order to slap tariffs of up to 40% on products Americans buy from other countries. In the wake of Trump’s tariff declaration, costs have...

The Florida House of Representatives approved a joint resolution on Thursday to put in motion a possible constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would completely end non-school property taxes for homesteaded properties beginning on Jan. 1, 2027. The final vote was 80-30, with all Republicans supporting the proposal and all Democrats opposing it. The chances of Floridians actually voting on the amendment are long, however. The Florida Senate has yet to propose any bill during this legislative session addressing property taxes. Joint resolutions can only be placed on the ballot if they are approved by a three-fifths majority in...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A Gadsden County man was arrested Wednesday night in Tallahassee for his role in a Panama City shooting, according to police. Davion Sutton, 18, was arrested at a family member’s home in Tallahassee, according to the U.S. Marshals. He faces murder and firearms charges. 57-year-old Tammy Chambers was found dead inside her car on Jenks Ave. in Panama City on Tuesday. Panama City police say the shooting is the result of mistaken identity. Authorities also said Chambers was on the phone with her husband during the incident. Sutton, who is from Gadsden County, was released from...

Here is a wonderful little story A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day." The young clerk said, "Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said “Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the...

This is a significant difference Trump makes as President! Instead of a month of homosexual agenda and lighting up the whitehut with a rainbow that signifies support for the homosexual agenda, Trump lights up the White House with the colors of the United States flag!

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES Subject: Ensuring the Enforcement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even Government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief contemplated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, functionally inserting themselves into the executive policy making process and therefore undermining the democratic process. This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by forum-shopping organizations that repeatedly bring meritless suits, used for fundraising and political grandstanding, without any repercussions when they fail. Taxpayers are forced...

Boeing is exploring a possible $6 billion sale of its Jeppesen navigation unit, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The planemaker is working with an adviser on the potential sale of the unit, which provides interactive flight plans, the report said. Suitors are already circling Jeppesen, which could attract sizable interest from private equity firms as well as other companies and could fetch more than $6 billion, the report said.

Interesting observation about the Democratic National Convention (DNC) logo. It seems to represent "Death to America". Anyone else think this?

Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation. “Noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism, including from the more than 8,500 new startups that would be created a year once noncompetes are banned,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC’s final rule to ban noncompetes will ensure Americans have the freedom to pursue a new job, start a new business, or bring a new idea to market.”...

A great website exists that has logged evidence of foul play in the 2020 election. It has nearly 2,000 pieces of reported evidence of election fraud. The website contains links to the individual pieces of evidence. The website also has COVID-19 and the January 6th Capitol Protest as separate lists containing evidence of foul play by the democrats/liberals. This is an interesting site I came across and thought it might be a great research tool for those wanting to know specifically what frauds in the 2020 election were committed. Here's the Evidence

Gaslighting DefinedGaslighting is the psychological warfare conditioning of a victim to believe something that is not true. It leads the victim to a conclusion they think they arrived at on their own. It compels the victim to take, or not take, an action. It starts with a conceptual idea then it leads the person to physical evidence, fake or not, that causes them to believe and act on a false reality. Gaslighting takes time as memories become fuzzy and the victim believes the gaslighting. Gaslighting works on individuals and entire populations. False FlagA False Flag operation is one where someone...

The K5 is massive robot with no arms, no legs and four surveillance cameras. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is implementing a new security measure at the Times Square subway station. It's deploying a security robot to patrol the premises, which authorities say is meant to "keep you safe." We're not talking about a RoboCop-like machine or any human-like biped robot — the K5, which was made by California-based company Knightscope, looks like a massive version of R2-D2. Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of privacy rights group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, has a less flattering description for it,...

WASHINGTON – A remedial course designed to prepare potential Army recruits for basic training will become a permanent part of the service’s strategy in overcoming its sagging enlistment numbers, officials said. The Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course was launched at Fort Jackson, S.C., in August 2022 as an experiment to help young Americans qualify physically and academically for military service. With higher obesity rates in America and fewer young people qualified to meet the Army’s entry standards, the service hoped the course would give those who don’t qualify much-needed time and training to get in shape. Service leaders said the...

Elon Musk Tweet "If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know." 10:00 PM · Aug 5, 2023

Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) OFFICIAL BULLETINCodified Basic Agreement and Television AgreementSTRIKE NOTICE AND ORDERTo All Members of SAG-AFTRAThe National Board has declared a strike of all covered services under the Producer -SAG-AFTRA Codified Basic Agreement and SAG-AFTRA Television Agreements and theirrelated agreements (“TV/Theatrical Contracts”) and instructs all SAG-AFTRA members to ceaserendering all services and performing all work covered by the TV/Theatrical Contracts. Thestrike extends to productions covered by any of the following agreements, effective at 12:01 AMPacific Time, July 14, 2023:● Producer-SAG-AFTRA Codified Basic Agreement● SAG-AFTRA Television Agreement (includes New Media)● SAG-AFTRA...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom has opened up about the death of her older sister in Hawaii and revealed that she accidentally ran her over with a golf buggy. Governor Gavin Newsom's wife admitted that days before her seventh birthday, she had been playing on the carts with several other children, including her sister Stacia, in Hawaii in 1981. The second-eldest of five daughters, Siebel Newsom, 48, had been on a family vacation when the cart reversed and killed her sibling who she hadn't seen hiding behind her buggy. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, she wrapped her arms around herself as...

Cadillac has been laboring in the shadow of European luxury brands for several decades, but it hasn’t given up: witness the company’s new electric flagship, the Celestiq sedan. This stunner shares a family resemblance to the new Lyriq EV SUV, but its sleek lines, sweeping roof, and bustle rear end give it dynamic proportions and jaw-dropping presence. Cadillac’s designers say that they have incorporated design elements from the past alongside high-tech systems that predict the future direction of the American luxury brand. The cabin is just as dramatic as the exterior styling, and it dazzles with brightly colored leather,...