By Parker Asmann and Steven Dudley InSight Crime Human trafficking is one of the most complex and misunderstood criminal economies in the world. This is especially true along the US-Mexico border, where a smattering of organized crime groups operate with varying degrees of power and sophistication and engage in a wide variety of criminal activities. […]
Under Fire: Georgia Mayor’s Plan To Punish Gun Theft Victims
Leave your gun unsecured in your car? Straight to the gulag! Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah, Georgia is sick of gun violence in his city, so he’s going after what he views as one source of the problem: people who have their firearms stolen from their car. If that sounds off to you, you’re not alone. But Mayor Johnson […]
Gun Salesman Turned Anti-Gun Activist Reinvents Himself In Run For Governor
By Cam Edwards Bearing Arms Ryan Busse, the one-time Kimber executive who left the firearms industry to work as an advisor to Joe Biden‘s 2020 campaign before joining the gun control group Giffords as a senior advisor, is now gunning for a new job: governor of Montana. And while Busse has spent the past few years […]
Former Congressman Sentenced To 22 Months In Prison
A former Indiana congressman was sentenced to 22 months in prison on Tuesday. Stephen Buyer, who served as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1993 to 2011, was convicted earlier this year for operating off insider information. “Stephen Buyer was convicted by a jury of twice engaging in insider trading. He abused positions of trust […]
Disillusioned House Republican Open To Working At CNN
Representative Ken Buck (R-Colo.) has taken a critical stance towards his party. The conservative legislator has expressed his concerns publicly since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initiated an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden despite the lack of direct evidence showing that Biden benefited from his son’s business deals or that they influenced any of his […]
Mexico’s Hosts Russian And Chinese Military Units In Independence Parade
ANALYSIS – In the ‘what the h*ll are you thinking’ category – a contingent of Russian soldiers marched in the annual Mexican Independence Day parade over the weekend. Russian troops had participated before, but not since Moscow launched its war of aggression against Ukraine. This year marked 213 years since the end of Spanish rule […]
The Hunt For The Elusive ‘Zombie’ F-35: How America Was Asked To Help
ANALYSIS – Please help us find our lost stealth fighter. One of the world’s most sophisticated and expensive fighter jets is missing somewhere in the Eastern United States. The plane in question is a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II – that’s the vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) version flown off amphibious warfare ships. The missing jet […]
Matt Gaetz Drafts Subpoena For Hunter Biden – Requests McCarthy’s Signature
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz (R) escalated his feud with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday. The Republican firebrand took to X (formerly Twitter) earlier in the day, announcing that he had “taken the liberty of drafting a subpoena to Hunter Biden.” Gaetz’s post ended with a thinly veiled taunt for McCarthy: “It simply requires […]
Report: Motion To Remove House Speaker Discovered In Capitol Bathroom
Talk about an unexpected turn of events… On a baby-changing station in a bathroom under the House floor, an unknown culprit left a draft resolution put forward by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to remove Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) as House Speaker. Intelligencer has more: The discarded draft, first reported by independent journalist Matt Laslo, looks to be […]
Both Parties Gleefully Exploiting Complex New Legislation
The federal government’s “Chips and Science Act,” which will throw hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money at private computer chip manufacturers over the next few years, is up, rolling and creating something of a taxpayer-subsidy arms race at the state level. As the Tax Foundation reports, state governments are opening their coffers wide […]
Texas Single-Handedly Stopping A Foreign Invasion At The Border
WEDNESDAY PDB – Joe Biden has basically opened the floodgates at the border. Texas National Guard orders hundreds of asylum-seekers on US territory back into Mexico. Just after midday, Texas Guard soldiers could be seen ordering migrants to return to Mexico through the Rio Grande. Pushed back into Mexico, dozens walked farther east along the concrete river […]