By Joseph Lord and Zachary Stieber Democrat leaders in the House of Representatives on June 9 blocked a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices, asserting that more time is needed to alter the legislation and that nobody is in danger. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) asked on the House floor for unanimous consent to take the […]
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A Call to Arms: Teachers in Conservative States Are Volunteering to Carry Guns
By Darlene McCormick Sanchez Crosses and flowers laid out in the public square of the grief-stricken town Uvalde, where a teen gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, are an all-too-familiar scene igniting a call to arms for teachers in Texas and beyond. The Republican-led Texas legislature is addressing the twin issues of school safety and mass violence […]
House Approves Gun Control Bills Raising Age Limit for Semiautomatic Rifles, Imposing Other Restrictions
By Joseph Lord The House on June 8 voted to pass several bills including the “Protecting Our Kids” Act, a Democrat-sponsored omnibus package of gun control legislation. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is all but doomed to fail to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold. The final vote on the bill […]
Man Arrested Near Home of Supreme Court Justice Had a Gun, Wanted to Kill: Officials
By Zachary Stieber A California man arrested near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on June 8 has been charged with attempted murder. Nicholas John Roske was arrested with a Glock 17 pistol, a tactical knife, and other items in the early hours of Wednesday in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Kavanaugh and his family reside, […]
Grassley, Franken, Nunn Win Iowa Primary Races
By Jeff Louderback Seven-term Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) easily won in his race against state Sen. Jim Carlin (R) while Republican state Senator and Air Force veteran Zach Nunn defeated two challengers in the newly redrawn 3rd Congressional District in Iowa’s June 7 primary. With 30 percent of the precincts reporting at 9:46 p.m. ET, Grassley […]
How Fake Is Twitter’s User Data?
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Over the last several weeks, the perception has grown that Elon Musk will not be the emancipator of Twitter, freeing it finally from its mysterious algorithms that throttle, block, and ban perfectly wonderful accounts solely based on the political vendetta of employees and management. It’s said that he has cold feet, as if Elon’s […]
More Than 8,000 Double-Registered Voters Found on New Jersey Rolls
By Mark Tapscott New Jersey voter registration records contain more than 8,200 duplicate names, making it possible for one person to cast two ballots, plus another 61 triplicate registrations, seven quadruplicates, three pentaplicates, and one sextuplicate, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). “New Jersey’s voter registration system, like nearly every other studied by PILF, […]
Election Integrity Group Unveils Findings on Ballot Trafficking in Arizona
By Allan Stein The election integrity group True the Vote presented Arizona lawmakers with cell phone tracking data showing alleged ballot traffickers visited drop boxes in two of the state’s largest counties no less than 5,700 times during the 2020 election. “When we started the project, we didn’t know [what we would find],” said Catherine Engelbrecht, the Texas group’s founder […]
GOP Rep. Displays Guns During Hearing He Says Will Be Banned by Legislation
By Caden Pearson A Republican lawmaker has used his own firearms as an example of how a ban on high-capacity magazines would target common handguns used by law-abiding Americans to defend themselves and their homes. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) virtually attended a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a gun control bill on Thursday, where he held […]
OPEC+ Agrees to Boost Production to Offset Russian Output Losses
By Tom Ozimek Oil-producing countries allied under the OPEC+ banner have agreed to pump more oil in July and August, accommodating months of requests by the United States and others to boost production to cool soaring crude prices that have fed into a cost-of-living crisis amid sky-high inflation. The OPEC+ cartel said in a June 2 statement that […]
FBI Shared Transcripts of Flynn-Russia Calls Without Masking Flynn’s Name: Report
By Zachary Stieber The FBI distributed transcripts of calls between then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States without shielding Flynn’s name, according to a newly published report, which also found no evidence that requests from then-Vice President Joe Biden and other Executive Branch officials to unmask Flynn’s identity were politically motivated. […]
House Judiciary Committee to Consider Gun Control Bill
By Joseph Lord The House Judiciary Committee will meet in an emergency session to mark up a gun control bill that would impose heavy new federal restrictions and limits on firearms. The push for the legislation comes in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead. House […]