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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who earlier embraced protesters outside a federal immigration detention center in Newark, acknowledged early Sunday that some had engaged in “dangerous actions” against local police as escalating violence forced the city’s mayor to impose an emergency curfew. Protesters grew increasingly aggressive Saturday night as they threw projectiles, grabbed security barriers and set fires outside ICE’s Delaney Hall facility. Mayor Ros J. Baraka admitted some were arrested in possession of weapons, necessitating the curfew. The escalating violence created an embarrassment for Democrats like Sherrill who had embraced the protests just 24 hours earlier and asked ICE...

Los Angeles District 4 City Councilwoman and socialist candidate for L.A. mayor, Nithya Raman, has gotten a small taste of what Angelenos have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, and she does not like it one bit. An advocacy group called Safe Cities USA decided to stage a full-on homeless encampment at Raman's doorstep over Memorial Day weekend, and she was shocked that the campaign for mayor has come to this. She thought she'd be spouting World Economic Forum (WEF) garbage about bike lanes, transportation, and 15-minute cities. Instead, she's being confronted with what the majority of Los Angeles...

Things got absolutely wild at a Mayor Karen Bass event in Los Angeles when she was approached and called out by an irate resident who called her out for her many governmental failures, not least of which is the disastrously bad homelessness situation in LA and the massive amount of city funding spent on dealing with it, to no good effect. As background, Mayor Bass is currently facing a stiff primary challenge from Spencer Pratt, who is running on handling the massive disaster that has been her response to homelessness, vagrancy, and the Pacific Palisades fire that wiped out thousands...

Another day, another “hate crime” that doesn’t fit the script the media loves to push. Taquon Jameek Vereen, a black man, was arrested in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for spray-painting swastikas on multiple properties. Police say he’s responsible for the vandalism that had the usual suspects immediately blaming white supremacists and “MAGA extremism.” Instead, the suspect is black. Once again, the narrative collapses the second the facts come out.

Authorities reported a bomb at an Alabama dam that posed “an unprecedented threat” during routine repairs on Tuesday. Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team and bomb squads from the FBI, Mobile Police Department (MPD) and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) also handled the situation, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was notified of the discovery. The Converse Reservoir is a 3,600-acre lake that “is the source of...

ALERT: Pro-LA Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt music video drops called ‘California Fried.’The video depicts Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, and Nithya Raman scamming Californians.🎥: dxfilms | IG pic.twitter.com/YjLTBFlLT4— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) May 8, 2026

Long-standing regulations mean the United States may not be able to compete with Chinese critical mineral production despite the recent discovery of 328 years’ worth of lithium stretching across the Appalachian Mountains. In April, the United States Geological Survey estimated 2.33 million metric tons of extractable lithium lay underneath multiple Appalachian states. Red tape and lacking infrastructure could thwart the find’s promised economic potential, analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Lithium is a critical resource essential for rechargeable batteries, including those used in electric vehicles, portable electronics such as laptops and phones, and electrical grid storage. Chinese companies presently...

Public domain map showing area of the two bear attacks. On February 15, 2026, a Slovenian father and son used a handgun or handguns to defend against an attacking European brown bear, ursus arctos. From bernama.com:Environment state secretary Filip Kuffa said the father and son had been inspecting timber in a mountain forest with a hunting dog when the bear attacked unexpectedly.According to Mr Kuffa, the father fired several shots from his pistol in self-defence, but the bear knocked him to the ground and bit him repeatedly.His son then shot and killed the animal with a handgun.The incident has been...

Three bears were caught on camera charging through a ski slope right through on-coming skiers at Northstar California Resort. 😱🐻

VIDEOThe Florida Freeze this winter almost completely wiped out the iguanas in South Florida. The first week of the Big Freeze the nighttime temperatures fell below 40 degrees on most nights and dropped below freezing on at least a couple of nights. After that first week, temperatures rose again only to drop for a few more days killing many/most of the hardy iguanas that barely survived the first week. Although the temperature has risen into the 80s for over a week, I still have seen NO iguanas until today probably due to the fact that Lake PJ is well stocked...

Does anyone have a recollection of Tom Smith, the bear researcher, telling of a time when he and another were doing bear research and the companion shot a handgun but missed all the shots at the bear? I have a vague recollection, but cannot find a source. I thought it was in an interview by Tom Smith, maybe in a hunting or outdoor publication. If anyone remembers such a thing, please reply.

Yesterday, January 18, this correspondent was driving on the way to Las Vegas for the Shot Show, 2026. In Nevada, on highway 95, contrails showed a remarkable cross or X in the sky. The cross was very close to the section of Highway 95 dedicated to US veterans from WWII on up. This correspondent served in the Cold War, so it was nice to see the sign. I will be at the Shot Show this week, so blog articles may be a little spotty. Today will be Industry Day at the Range. It appears the weather will be cool, with...

A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his shoulder like a knight carrying a dragon back from battle and it truly puts into perspective the size of these invasive pythons here in Florida. Using ‘male scout snakes’ to locate the breeding female, Conservancy of Southwest Florida wildlife biologist Ian Easterling was able to capture and remove one of the largest invasive pythons caught this year. Florida Man Dressed As Santa Captures 153-Pound Invasive Burmese Python The Conservancy of Southwest Florida...

We lived in Dresden, Germany a while back. The BEST time to be in Germany is during Christmas. The choir in the background is the choir that is pictured in the video.

The U.S. Marshals Service has now issued a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Virginia high school football coach Travis Turner, who is facing child pornography charges in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The Marshals Service is urging members of the public to report any information they might have to 911, the Virginia State Police, or the USMS tips line (1-877-WANTED2), according to the New York Post. Late last month, police went looking for Turner, who is the head coach at Union High School, to interview him in an investigation that was not initially advertised. But just as...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is in the news once again. As usual, she’s making national headlines for the wrong reasons. Italian authorities have fined and banned Thunberg from Venice, Italy after she was part of a group that dumped green dye in the Grand Canal. Fox News reported more on Thunberg’s actions: Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been slapped with a 48-hour ban from entering Venice, Italy after joining Extinction Rebellion protesters in dyeing the Grand Canal bright green, according to reports. The Swedish activist, 22, was also fined $172 along with roughly 35 other demonstrators involved in the action,...

A look at the Last Stop on a Hunting Bullet’s Journey We ask an awful lot of our bullets, especially those of us who rely on them for self defense or for hunting. We need the bullet to be accurate, we ask it to feed properly from a variety of magazine types, and finally, we want our bullet to perform perfectly once it makes contact with our intended target. The terminal phase of the bullet – that which begins upon impact with the target and ends upon cessation of forward movement or once it exits the target – is...

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Houston and you're at your kid's baseball game. The coach is leading the players in prayer before the first inning. Then you hear the shots. Houston Warriors founder Andy Baize said the injured coach was saying a pregame prayer with their team. 'He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left, and so thankfully we avoided a major disaster. Still very, very emotional over it,' Baize told KHOU 11. The three suspects, Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah did not appear to be targeting the game. They...