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Spain's Socialist Party achieved a first place finish in the country's general election. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez improved the position of his party in Spain's Parliament, but fell short of a majority in the lower house...... Police in Sri Lanka killed the father and two brothers of the man believed to have organized the eight terrorist attacks last Sunday..... Four people suspected of planning a terrorist attack on French police were arrested last Friday April 26th.... One of two suspected spies for the United Arab Emirates committed suicide while in a Turkish prison..... The commander of the detention facilities at...

A man opened fire inside a San Diego synagogue Saturday and a good guy with a gun chased him out of the building and opened fire on this fleeing vehicle. The Los Angeles Times reports that the gunman, entered the Chabad of Poway around 11:20 am. He opened fire shortly thereafter. Three individuals were injured and a fourth was killed. NBC San Diego reports that “an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent who was in the synagogue at the time of the shooting opened fire on the suspect, missing the man but striking his vehicle.” A suspect thought to be the...

Israeli politicians responding to the shooting at the Chabad Synagogue in Poway, San Diego, during Shabbat services tied it to a cartoon published by the New York Times which was accused of anti-Semitic themes. In the cartoon published on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is portrayed as a dog wearing a collar featuring a blue Star of David, guiding a “blind” President Donald Trump who is shown wearing a kippah (skullcap). Member of Knesset-elect Michal Shir stated on Sunday that “where hatred is being printed, hate crimes will be committed.” “Lori Gilbert Kay’s horrific anti-Semitic murder, while she was praying...

FULL TITLE: Under Fire, New York Times Finally Apologizes for Antisemitic Cartoon After Days of Failing to Do So The New York Times has finally apologized for printing a blatantly antisemitic cartoon on the opinion pages of its international section last week. The Times ran a cartoon on Thursday showing a blind President Donald Trump, wearing a skullcap, and being led around by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu–who is portrayed as a dog. The leash and collar on the Netanyahu dog character in the cartoon have a Star of David on it. It mirrors literal Nazi propaganda against Jews and...

Full Headline: Anti-Gunners Call For Gun Control Laws Following Poway Synagogue Shooting But This Is What They're Getting Wrong Every time some sort of mass shooting occurs, anti-gunners rush to call for stricter gun control laws. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the FBI are still investigating the shooting that took place earlier today at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, just outside of San Diego. We don't even know all of the facts yet, but from what we do know, gun control laws anti-gunners want to push are either already on the books or would have made no difference.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Well, I want to thank Chris and Wayne. I’m thrilled to be here in Indiana with the men and women of the NRA. You are great American patriots. (Applause.) Chris Cox, Wayne LaPierre, Oliver North — I’ve been following Oliver for a long time. Great guy. Three extraordinary champions for the Second Amendment. And I’m a champion for the Second Amendment and so are you. It’s not going anywhere. (Applause.) It’s under assault. It’s under assault but not when we’re here. Not even close. I also want to thank our tremendous Vice President...

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The secular reprobate mind is filled with godlessness, violence, moral relativism and lawlessness designs and its actions have ravished this nation since the 60's beyond all recognition of what the Founding Fathers envisioned! Let us first look at the barbaric act of abortion. Since 1973 there have been 60 million abortions of our American children! Abortion doesn't discriminate and it has been implemented on all nationalities and races today here in America. May I say that NO gun in America has ever achieved that ASTOUNDING statistic! Also, the very people who commit violent gun crimes are found to be those...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday made his first comments on a U.S. court sentencing admitted Russian foreign agent Maria Butina to 18 months in prison, calling her treatment a travesty of justice.Butina was sentenced on Friday after the Siberia native, her voice breaking with emotion, begged a judge for mercy and expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence U.S. conservative activists and Republicans. Speaking in Beijing, Putin said the sentence looked like an attempt by U.S. law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.

The National Rifle Association has recovered from a membership drop after President Trump’s 2016 election and is now at the highest levels ever 'in its history'...New figures put the membership at approximately 5.5 million. Typically the gun lobby membership dips after elections, especially in nonelection years like this year. But officials said it is “holding steady” at unusually high levels, an indication that members are steeling for the upcoming presidential election. The positive news for the NRA comes amid lingering concerns about a costly New York fight. It prompted Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre to write a letter to supporters...

Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the NRA, made an unannounced visit to CPAC on Thursday morning — where he promptly ripped the media, Democrats, and even the FBI in the wake “As usual, the opportunists wasted not one second to exploit for political gain,” LaPierre said. He added, “The breathless national media [was] eager to smear the NRA.” LaPierre’s appearance was not publicized on the published CPAC agenda — released earlier this week — so as to minimize public protest. But on the agenda given to attendees Thursday, LaPierre’s name was included. As millions of Americans searched for meaningful solutions...

Wayne LaPierre's speech at CPAC today. Powerful truth summarized beautifully.

Congressional Democrats and the NRA are at odds over a provision of Democrats' Violence Against Women Act that would keep people with certain criminal convictions from getting guns.In what has been referred to as the “boyfriend loophole,” those convicted of abusing or stalking a partner would be blocked from owning a gun.

Cory "Spartacus" Booker says he wants to fight the NRA. Colion Noir says bring it on: "Look... I get that Cory Booker thinks he's some modern-day Spartacus. But on the issue of the Second Amendment, he's more like a Constitutional oligarch."3 1/2 minute video

The National Rifle Association’s CEO Wayne LaPierre has accused its president Oliver North, of trying to extort him into resigning. LaPierre told NRA board members that North had called him to say that Ackerman McQueen, one of the gun rights organization's vendors, was going to send a letter that would be “bad for me” unless he quit. LaPierre accused North of having “contractual and financial loyalties” to Ackerman McQueen, the longtime public relations firm for the NRA which the association filed a suit against this month. The New York Times confirmed they reviewed documents showing that North had asked LaPierre...

Retired U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North will step down as president of the National Rifle Association, North said on Saturday, adding he was being forced out due to his allegations that NRA leaders engaged in financial improprieties. In a letter to the organization’s annual meeting in Indianapolis read by an NRA board member, North, a conservative commentator best known for his central role in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, said he had hoped to stand for re-election when his term ends on Monday. “I am now informed that will not happen,” North said in the letter. His departure came after...

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making. This winter, members of the National Rifle Association — elk hunters in Montana, skeet shooters in upstate New York, concealed-carry enthusiasts in Jacksonville — might have noticed a desperate tone in the organization’s fundraising efforts. In a letter from early March, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s top executive, warned that liberal regulators were threatening to destroy the organization. “We’re facing an attack that’s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA but in the entire history of our country,” he wrote. “The Second...

Oliver North Is out as NRA President CEO Wayne LaPierre has won an internal battle for control Updated April 27, 2019 11:22 a.m. ET National Rifle Association President Oliver North is leaving the gun-rights organization, after losing a bruising internal political battle with the group’s longtime CEO, Wayne LaPierre. Mr. North, in a letter read to NRA members Saturday morning at the group’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, said he had hoped to be renominated for a second one-year term as president, but “I am now informed that will not happen.” The departure of Mr. North, a conservative folk hero from...

Group’s longtime leader says Oliver North, president of the NRA, wants him out Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has told the group’s board he is being extorted and pressured to resign by the organization’s president, Oliver North, over allegations of financial improprieties, in an extraordinary battle roiling one of the nation’s most powerful nonprofit political groups. In a letter sent to NRA board members late Thursday afternoon, LaPierre, the group’s CEO and executive vice president, said he refused the demand. Instead he called on board members to “see this for what it is: a threat meant to intimidate...

The National Rifle Association is used to battling forces that criticize its fiery and unbending efforts to protect gun rights. But as the group gathers for its annual convention this week, the NRA may be facing its toughest foe in decades: its own members. NRA insiders and longtime observers describe an organization at war with itself over a central question: Has it strayed too far from its original mission of gun safety and outdoor shooting sports and become too political? It is rare for the NRA to betray any hint of internal turmoil. But it erupted very publicly recently when...