By Shooting News Weekly In 2022, the year before alleged Bondi gunman Sajid Akram was permitted to have a gun, the NSW Firearms Registry granted a licence to one of the first men to be charged with anti-terrorism offences in Australia. His nickname was Jihad Jack. The permit, given to a man who had once shaken […]
States face new verification requirements as Minnesota comes under heightened scrutiny… The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has paused federal child care funding to all 50 states while it reviews how the funds are distributed, following allegations of fraud involving daycare centers in Minnesota. The move affects payments from the Child Care […]
For now… President Trump said he is abandoning (or pausing) the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon. The troops are being withdrawn, and those missions will not continue in their current form for now. Trump said he expects crime to rise again and warned that “we will come back, […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – China’s military dispatched air, navy, and missile units to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan, which Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces. Taiwan 2027: China’s target date for potential takeover fast approaches. China’s massive live-fire military exercises around Taiwan come as we get one year closer to […]
On New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to launch a scathing attack on Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) and a Republican district attorney over the imprisonment of former election official Tina Peters, saying they should “rot in Hell.” Trump’s language — including calling Polis a “scumbag governor” and referring to […]
McALLEN, Texas — Eddy Betancourt, 61, a well-known businessman and longtime public servant who was appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to the Texas Facilities Commission, was fatally shot over the weekend in McAllen. McAllen police were called to a business in the 800 block of North Ware Road shortly after 3:40 p.m. Saturday, following […]
By Kevin Michalowski USCCA Call me lucky: I get to shoot a lot of guns during the course of a year. Now, the powers that be would like me to distill that list to my top six favorite guns. It’s no small task. Still, I will give it a valiant effort. Though I do have one […]
By Mark Chesnut The Truth About Guns As anti-gun activists call for multiple new gun restrictions following the brutal murder of two students in a classroom at Brown University, new reports indicate that security personnel were twice warned about the shooter “casing” the building. In fact, according to a report at redstate.com referencing a Boston Globe story, the murderer, […]
Mali and Burkina Faso have announced travel bans on United States citizens, responding to a recent decision by the American government to restrict entry for nationals of several countries, including the two West African states. In separate statements released late Tuesday, the foreign ministries of Mali and Burkina Faso said the measures were taken on […]
America does not run elections; America runs election procedures. This essay’s objective is to examine the state of voter ID in the United States as of 2026, ahead of the midterm elections, arguably the most consequential midterm election in a generation, by laying out, in plain terms, how Americans are asked to prove who they […]
A longtime Harvard University history professor has left the Ivy League after four decades, using his departure to deliver a sweeping and sharply worded critique of what he described as the school’s ideological drift, lowered academic standards, and embrace of progressive orthodoxy. James Hankins, who taught history at Harvard for 40 years, announced his departure […]
The Most Important Export Of Trump’s Presidency Is Results
The most underappreciated effect of Donald Trump’s second term is not domestic. It is hemispheric. American commentators remain absorbed by court battles, media feuds, and partisan realignments at home. But south of the Rio Grande, voters and political elites are watching something else entirely. They are watching a governing model deliver visible results in defiance […]