Published reports in the aftermath of the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard troopers in Washington, D.C., say only four rounds were fired from the .357 Magnum revolver allegedly used by murder suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was also wounded by other Guardsmen. By Dave Workman for The Gun Mag The handgun, described as a Smith […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Pentagon rushes forward with $1 billion ‘Drone Dominance’ program to field massive fleets of UAVs. Pentagon seeks to acquire and rapidly field over 300,000 small first-person-view (FPV) one-way-attack quadcopter drones —hoping to put them in the field quickly so that operators can learn to use them within 2 hours. The […]
A new Gallup poll discussed by CNN analyst Harry Enten shows President Donald Trump’s job approval falling to 36% — his weakest standing since shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The drop leaves Trump with a net approval rating of minus 24 points. Earlier this year, his numbers were slightly positive or close […]
He’s made a decision… Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has opted to remain in the Golden State to run in the newly gerrymandered 48th Congressional District despite chatter he’s eyeing a run the Lone Star State. A source familiar with the matter told Fox News that Issa’s friends and congressional colleagues asked him to consider running in Texas […]
The Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff publicly confronted podcaster Candace Owens on Wednesday, sharply criticizing her for what he described as a “flood of allegations” accusing TPUSA insiders of involvement in the murder of the organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk. Kirk was fatally shot on Septempber 10 during a TPUSA event at Utah Valley University. […]
After a classified briefing before lawmakers, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley was “very clear” that he never received any order to “give no quarter” or “kill them all” before the Sept. 2, 2025, operation that sank a suspected drug-smuggling boat in Caribbean waters. The strike was part of a new campaign […]
The suspect’s name is now public — and investigators are revealing new details. Federal authorities have made a significant breakthrough in a case that has puzzled investigators and the public for nearly five years. A suspect identified as Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia, is in custody after investigators linked him to the pipe bombs […]
Ken Burns’ new six-part, 12-hour PBS series The American Revolution arrives with the familiar promises. It will be definitive. It will scrape away myth. It will finally tell “everyone’s” story. At the level of production values, it delivers exactly what viewers expect. The maps are elegant, the voice-over is confident, the selection of anecdotes is […]
On Thursday, The New York Times announced its lawsuit against the Defense Department, now the Department of War, for allegedly infringing on reporters’ Constitutional rights after officials imposed new restrictions at the Pentagon earlier this year. The Times’ lawsuit argues the new rules violate journalists’ First and Fifth Amendment rights and “will deprive the public of vital information […]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Monday that a sweeping federal audit uncovered widespread illegal issuance of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to non-citizens in Minnesota — a finding that could cost the state up to $30.4 million in federal highway funding. According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) […]
President Trump has signed the Medal of Honor Act, a bipartisan measure that delivers the first pension increase for Medal of Honor recipients in a quarter-century. The law lifts annual compensation from $16,880 to $67,500, a major boost aimed at honoring the 61 living Americans who earned the nation’s highest award for valor. A Rare […]
How One Algorithm Quietly Shifted The Census – And The House
The 2020 census was marketed as an “actual enumeration,” a neutral count of people for apportionment and funding. It was not. The same official who helped block a basic citizenship question in 2018, John M. Abowd, then the Census Bureau’s Chief Scientist, pushed through a new, opaque methodology in 2020 called differential privacy. The new […]