MONDAY PDB – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING – DUELING PACIFIC BASES AND ALLIES – Both the U.S. and China are expanding and deepening their military ties with two key Pacific allies. China with Cambodia and the U.S. with the Philippines. China and Cambodia hold first naval drills in Cambodian waters. Exercises underline deepening relationship between Phnom Penh and Beijing, […]
There was plenty of excitement in the financial world over the weekend…
Early reports that former president Donald Trump will be indicted this week by a Manhattan grand jury have rocked Capitol Hill. Over the weekend, Trump remarked that New York City authorities may arrest him on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He called on his supporters to […]
We go to the gas station several million times a day. It is part of our routine. As ordinary as filling up your car or van can be, sometimes unusual things happen because gas stations bring all kinds of people together. Some customers want to get gas and go. Some visitors need a restroom and […]
As criminal charges loom over former President Donald Trump from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, prosecutors under Atlanta DA Fani Willis (D) are weighing racketeering and conspiracy charges against those who conspired to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat in Georgia. A source close to the investigation says prosecutors have compiled substantial evidence related to a […]
Forbes misrepresents IRS audit numbers in a way that supports Democrat recommendations for changes at the IRS. Well, people can make mistakes. But every error – or misrepresentation – has the effect of making Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues’ complaints and ideas about the IRS look good. It would be remarkable if all mistakes […]
President Biden traveled to Monterey Park, California, the site of a mass public shooting that left 11 dead in January, to announce new executive actions on gun control. He touts the proposals as necessary “to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.” But California already has all the gun control laws that Biden put […]
The Illinois State Police solicit grant requests from law enforcement agencies throughout the state each year to perform “firearm enforcement” activities. In other words, the ISP pays for local LEOs to conduct “compliance checks,” confiscating firearms from those who violate the Illinois FOID Act. While this is not the time or place to debate the […]
The Russian military, particularly the country’s air force, is behaving increasingly aggressively toward U.S. troops and military assets. Not just over the Black Sea, where a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft clipped an MQ-9 Reaper drone’s propeller, causing it to plummet into the murky waters below — but in Syria, where hundreds of U.S. service members […]
NBC News is reporting that law enforcement agencies are preparing for what was, until recently, largely considered unthinkable. The indictment of a former president of the United States. According to five senior law enforcement figures speaking on the condition of anonymity, local, state and federal agencies are discussing security plans involving the Manhattan Criminal Court […]
One of the repeated arguments in gun circles lately has been the viability of revolvers as effective defensive weapons in the modern days of a variety of automatics. I’ll have to admit I fell prey to the arguments against them for years and slowly came around to both their effectiveness and their charms. Those arguments […]
Hunters’ Art Dealer Is Hiding From Congress As Money Laundering Probe Deepens
A Chinese-tied art dealer is refusing to answer questions from Congress on just who is spending as much as $500,000 on paintings by Hunter Biden, the adult son of President Joe Biden and whether Biden’s “art sales” are actually a form of foreign money laundering and influence peddling. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman […]