Now it’s Senate Republicans’ turn to use tragedy as pretext to violate our rights By Darrell England Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote to expand the FBI’s warrantless surveillance to include metadata and even some browsing history. This can certainly be seen as an intentional move to expand the FBI’s power. Republicans are pointing…
A cracked windshield led to arrests just outside the Holland Tunnel while traveling to New York City By Darrell England Early reports stating 2 men in their 50’s and one woman in her 20’s were on the way to New York City when they were arrested with a cache of guns, tons of ammo, body…
A reporter’s attempt to buy a gun to demonstrate how easy it was backfired on him in epic fashion. Neil Steinberg, hell-bent on personally proving how flawed the gun-buying system is, dramatically described his harrowing descent into the process in his Chicago Sun Times editorial. Driving to Maxon Shooter’s Supplies in Des Plaines on Wednesday to purchase…
Donald Trump has been a busy man for the past year, but it turns out running president has been surprisingly lucrative. New FEC filings show that the Trump campaigned has cycled over $6 million into Trump companies. In fact, his increased popularity and campaigning helped increase Trump’s revenue by nearly $200 million since he began…
By Craig Boudreau President Barack Obama made a Saturday climate change speech at Yosemite National Park, with a motorcade 40-deep spewing the same CO2 into the air he was railing against. Not only was there a 40-car motorcade, there were also four helicopters and, of course, Air Force One to account for (leaving out the army of police…
By Juliegrace Brufke The Senate voted down four gun amendments tacked onto a Department of Justice spending bill Monday evening. The measures – two introduced by Democrats and two by Republicans – were attached in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, which left 49 people dead and many more injured at a gay night club. Senate…
The Trump campaign may still be able to capture the GOP nomination, but signs are strongly suggesting November will be a crushing defeat. Numerous reports indicating Trump’s national campaign is short on donors, cash, staff, and is losing ground in the polls, have fed life to calls for a delegate revolt at the Republican Convention…
By Andrew Follett Blue states have 42 percent more mass shootings than red states after adjusting for population, according to data published by Vox, a progressive media outlet, and examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Vox published its data after the Orlando terror attack last Sunday, and it suggests that blue states, which tend to have extremely strict…
By: Brett Chandrasekhar The Orlando shooting at the Pulse Nightclub on June 12th reignited the never-ending movement for increased gun regulation. While most proposals solely attacked the Second Amendment, one surreptitiously violated the Fifth, the right to due process, as well. This was the proposal to bar individuals on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns. That…
by Chris Slavens In the three weeks since Gary Johnson received the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president, the former governor has been on a nonstop media tour, appearing everywhere from MSNBC to Late Night With Stephen Colbert. Throughout numerous interviews, a consistent narrative has emerged: there’s a credible alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,…