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Brad Sylvester Gun control advocate and March For Our Lives co-founder David Hogg claimed on MSNBC Feb. 12 that AR-15s “have an effective range of over 1,500 meters.” Verdict: False The effective range of an AR-15 is between 400 and 600 meters, according to firearms experts. AR-15s can be modified to chamber and fire larger bullets that…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), one of the most famous progressive politicians in Congress, has managed to amass an extensive Twitter following and stay in the headlines on all media platforms. Has her position of power gone to her head? Last week at a Girls Who Code town hall event in New York City, Ocasio-Cortez boldly…
A same-sex couple in Indiana is demanding that lawmakers in the state pass new legislation after they were turned away by a Christian tax prepper. For the past four years, Baily Brazzel has filed her taxes with Nancy Fivecoate, the owner of Carter Tax Service. But to her disappointment, Brazzel says, she was turned away…
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The Republican base is waking up, and their establishment darlings are sleeping on them. In what once would have been fresh red meat, Florida Senator Marco Rubio tweeted out a rather morbid before-and-after photo of the late Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi; the before being while he was still in power, and the after during his…
Emily Larsen Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made several claims about wealth inequality and the economy in a 2020 presidential campaign announcement video released Tuesday. Here are five checks on his claims. Claim 1: “Three billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country.” The Daily Caller News Foundation found in November 2017…
Peter Hasson Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the 2020 Democratic presidential field in the key primary state of New Hampshire, according to an Emerson College poll released Saturday. The Emerson poll has Sanders, an independent, receiving 27 percent of the vote and former Vice President Joe Biden trailing closely behind at 25 percent. Biden has yet to…
Evie Fordham At least 12 ISIS recruits went to the Middle East and returned to the U.S., according to The Washington Post. Nine of them were arrested and charged for terror-related crimes. Controversy is roiling over whether the Trump administration will allow the so-called “ISIS bride” Hoda Muthana back into the U.S. Secretary of State…
Julie Borowski on February 23, 2019 Actor Jussie Smollett is facing charges over allegedly submitting a false police report and staging a hate crime in what police say was an effort to boost his acting career, and libertarian commentator Julie Borowski is calling it a “disservice to real hate crime victims.” “Police are saying that the…
Animal Rights Activist Group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) made the poorly thought out mistake of trashing the legacy of the late Steve Irwin on the anniversary of his birthday. Steve Irwin was best known as The Crocodile Hunter. The controversy began when @GoogleDoodles honored Steve Irwin with a Google Doodle to…