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A major ruling by a federal appeals court has blocked New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period on gun purchases, and while some officials are disappointed, others are cheering the decision. In a 2-1 ruling, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law likely infringes on the Second Amendment and sent the case back down to a lower court. Trending: Search for missing Los Alamos National Laboratory employee goes into 8th week The seven-day waiting period narrowly passed in the 2024 legislative session, and state Senator Crystal Brantley (R-Truth or Consequences) said Tuesday’s decision comes as no surprise. “The Second Amendment...

Warning: This article contains strong languageListen to Helen read this article The video opens with some white cliffs and a politician standing on a beach. This isn't Dover, and it's not Nigel Farage (although the echoes with Reform UK are deliberate). Rather, it's a campaign video for the Green Party's leadership hopeful, Zack Polanski. Amid slick filming and a moody orchestral soundtrack, he delivers an animated and uncompromising message. Small boats, he declares, are an "obsession that has gripped the country," blamed for a "crumbling" NHS and "obscene" rents, while people are told there's no money left. "Well," he says,...

Plus: The National Guard deployed to D.C., the Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine, Texas Democrats flee the state, and a listener question on free speech in the U.K.This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by special guest Reem Ibrahim, head of media for the Institute of Economic Affairs. They begin with Jim Acosta's AI-generated interview featuring a deceased child urging gun control, using it as a springboard to discuss nationwide declines in violent crime and the political tendency to focus on banning specific tools. The conversation then shifts to the White House's decision to deploy the...

VIDEOWatch as woke Commies try to shut down someone trying to speak the TRUTH about slavery. The audience tries to shut him down by yelling but perhaps even worse the moderator continually tries to talk over him. The TRUTH about slavery is something they can't handle so they try to drown out the TRUTH.

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008, majority opinion by Justice Scalia): “[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed. NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022, majority opinion by Justice Thomas): The Second Amendment guaranteed to ‘all Americans’ the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions. For rational Americans, Heller and Bruen make clear that the Second Amendment is a natural, unalienable right that encompasses keeping and bearing—wherever one might be—“commonly used...

Socialist Zohran Mamdani called for ‘abolition of private property,’ resurfaced video shows New York City socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is being ripped for advocating “the abolition of private property” — as a video resurfaced of him touting the radical position this week. “If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing — whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee — it is preferable to what is going on right now,” Mamdani said in the video shared by RNC Research. “People try to play gotcha games about...

"Good Trouble Lives On" demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his administration's policies are scheduled to take place across the U.S. on July 17. The upcoming protests follow other nationwide demonstrations against the Trump administration organized by the 50501 Movement (50 protests, 50 states, one movement) and other groups since Trump returned to office in January. Millions of people took to the streets for "No Kings" protests on June 14, targeting a military parade in Washington marking the Army's 250th anniversary that coincided with Trump's 79th birthday. Over Fourth of July weekend, "Free America" events were held across the country...

President Trump is again amping up his trade threats, unveiling a new batch of letters to country leaders outlining tariffs on goods imported from their countries beginning in August. The highlight of his letter barrage late Wednesday was his announcement of a coming 50% tariff on goods from Brazil in a letter sent to its president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Trump cited the country's treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial in Brazil’s Supreme Court on charges that he plotted a coup in 2022. "This Trial should not be taking place," Trump said. "It is a...

(The Lion) — A well-regarded education watchdog has published a raft of alarming resolutions adopted by the National Education Association at its latest national assembly. They include a measure that encourages resistance of federal immigration enforcement and another that mandates labeling President Donald Trump a fascist in all union materials. Senior Fellow at the American Culture Project Corey DeAngelis obtained a copy of the NEA’s recently passed resolutions and posted them to X. “I just received a copy of the National Education Association’s resolutions that they passed at their annual convention,” said DeAngelis. “They kept them private this year.” It’s...

BREAKING: Tom Homan GOES OFF after a Texas officer was SH0T at by a left-wing lunatic outside an ICE facility. He is furious and says MEMBERS OF CONGRESS are fanning the flames. "We have senators, we have Congress people that compare ICE to the Nazis, to racists, and it just continues!" "The attacks on ICE are up nearly 700% now. We were talking 500% a couple weeks ago, so it continues." "The rhetoric against the men and women of ICE is skyrocketing, ESPECIALLY by members of Congress." It must stop.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has come under fire from critics who label him a "communist" – a charge he dismisses as a distraction. However, the criticisms may not be as unfounded as Mamdani claims. Videos show the NYC mayoral candidate espousing language and theories rooted in communist revolutionary language. In one 2021 video, Mamdani urges fellow socialists at a conference to not compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production." In a second video, released on YouTube by progressive advocacy group The Gravel Institute that same year, Mamdani discusses the need to...

David Hogg has yet to bring home the bacon. Two months ago, the recently defenestrated Democratic National Committee vice chair ignited a firestorm among Democrats by vowing to deploy $20 million from his “grassroots” Leaders We Deserve PAC against incumbents in safe blue districts. But there’s just one small problem. Leaders We Deserve only has a measly $1.5 million cash on hand, far short of the promised $20 million it has committed to spend, according to Federal Election Commission records for the month of May. Worse yet, the PAC has never actually raised that kind of money in the two...

One of the things Dan Bongino used to say on his show was that his principles remained steady, so he avoided the appearance of hypocrisy in the face of changing circumstances. (That’s not how he said it, but it’s the gist.) That’s not something you’ll ever hear a Democrat say, and nothing more clearly illustrates it than its latest bumper-sticker protest: “No Kings.”I never post on my Facebook page, but I still check it regularly because it is my personal window into the Democrat mind. Given that I grew up in San Francisco, went to a law school that saw...

Blocks away from Palo Alto’s Rinconada park, tree-shaded streets echoed with the shouts of protestors, car-honks and live music as part of a day full of demonstrations against the Trump administration on Saturday. Crowds of people walked from the corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road toward the park, where over 5,000 participants met for what was branded as a Democracy Fair. They toted signs reading “Stop the kidnapping,” “Hire a clown, expect a circus,” and many others in response to the president’s increased immigration enforcement and targeting of government agencies for massive staff reductions. Indivisible Mid-Peninsula, a local...

Refuse Fascism, a communist nonprofit organization with a history of staging violent riots against President Trump is organizing a protest in Washington D.C. on Saturday ahead of Trump’s Grand Military Parade, marking the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army. Refuse Fascism, reportedly an offshoot of the radical-left Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), plans to gather in D.C. at Logan Circle at 1:00 PM and later march on to the White House. Trump’s military parade, which also coincides with Flag Day and his 79th birthday, is scheduled to take at 6:30 p.m. near the National Mall on Constitution Avenue. A flyer promoting...

The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity. The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false. The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington Kids myth were quickly exposed. The Duke Lacrosse and Jussie Smollett melodramas were laughable. Russian “collusion,” “laptop” disinformation, and Joe Biden “fit as a fiddle” gaslighting were utter lies. But more recently, the hard left lost its mind championing...

The left threw violent anti-immigration protests in seven different areas of Los Angeles beginning on Friday, and you’ll never guess who paid for it. If you guessed "you," you are right. Not only are taxpayers paying for the initial ICE raids, which netted 44 illegal aliens, but we’re paying for the police, sheriff's deputies, enhanced California Highway Patrol, and the federal response to the violent protests against the ICE raids, too. But that's only the half of it. Most Americans are only too willing to pay for law enforcement, but it turns out that you’re also paying for the L.A....

WASHINGTON (7News) — While President Donald Trump will be hosting a military parade in Washington, people across the country are getting together to protest his administration. According to organizers, this mobilization is inspired by the success of the Hands Off! and May Day protests. The NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance is set to take place on Flag Day, June 14, at over 100 locations. Gatherings in the area include: Garrett Park, MD: Strathmore Avenue, Garrett Park **SNIP** You can find a full list of them all here. Indivisible is organizing the protests with the following partners: 50501, American Federation...

Around 1,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Santa Cruz Main Beach to spell out the word “Resist!” The event, organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County, aimed to protest the Trump administration and celebrate Santa Cruz Pride’s 50th anniversary.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation - a move that has put him at odds with some members of his government. Black people only own a small fraction of farmland nationwide more than 30 years after the end of the racist system of apartheid - the majority remains with the white minority. This has led to frustration and anger over the slow pace of reform. While Ramaphosa's ANC party hailed the law as a "significant milestone" in the country's transformation, some members of the coalition government say...