A U.S. court ruled Thursday that the federal government can’t stop people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns. The three-judge panel called the 1994 law an “outlier that our ancestors wouldn’t have accepted.” The Fifth District Court of Appeal’s ruling doesn’t affect similar state laws. However, proponents of the right to bear arms […]
For the next two decades, a wide swath of resource-rich land crucial to our national defense will be tantalizingly out of reach. The Department of the Interior recently announced a 20-year mining ban for the entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed. The watershed extends well beyond the already protected Voyageurs National Park. Officials in […]
Federal authorities arrested former ABC News investigative journalist James Gordon Meek on criminal charges related to the alleged transportation of images of child sex abuse. According to the DOJ, the case against Meek was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the DOJ to combat the growing […]
America’s top diplomat is suspending his high-stakes visit to China after a suspected surveillance balloon was discovered loitering above nuclear missile silos in Montana. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing hoped to stabilize U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when a future conflict between the two nations seems more likely than not. Per Fox […]
Beijing admits the balloon is theirs, but… Senior Defense Department officials revealed to the world Thursday night that the military had detected a suspected Chinese-operated surveillance balloon hundreds of miles inside U.S. airspace, well above the altitude of commercial air traffic. The Pentagon spotted the giant balloon over an Air Force base in Montana that […]
Further Proof Neither Party Cares About Debt
Neither Republicans nor Democrats appear willing to even consider the most modest of changes to the federal government’s programs – Social Security and Medicare. These most sacred of political cows are off limits because neither party wants to be tagged as the guys who cut grandma’s benefits. While this is a case study of why […]