Four Republicans crossed party lines on Wednesday evening, joining Democrats to pass a war powers resolution that checks President Donald Trump’s authority as it pertains to the ongoing conflict in Iran. The White House said it doesn’t matter. The vote marks a drastic shift from more than a dozen previous war powers resolution votes in both the House and Senate, as Democrats have lacked support from both GOP-controlled chambers to put a legislative check on the Trump administration’s military operation in Iran that began on Feb. 28 without congressional approval. An original vote was scheduled for May 21 but canceled…

This article was originally published by Vincent Cook at The Mises Institute.  The socialists who have been taking over the Democratic Party lately have a problem—the state and local jurisdictions where they are able to seize power still have to compete with rival jurisdictions that are still relatively friendly to private property and capitalist businesses. The principal targets of egalitarian fury, namely possessors of great wealth, are strongly incentivized to escape from dystopian hell-holes created by socialists to saner locales. Even those who aren’t so clearly targeted as objects of envy suffer from the effects of economic and social decline…

The ATF has announced a slew of rule changes that will work out pretty well for gun owners. That’s the good news, though it’s not exactly breaking news. This follows decades of the ATF maintaining a certain hostility toward anyone who exercises their right to keep and bear arms and those who sell them guns. “Zero tolerance” may have kicked off under President Joe Biden, but there’s never been any reason to think folks in the ATF were upset by the declaration. Recently, Cam addressed a piece by ProPublica. It was supposedly taking issue with…

The Second Amendment Foundation is expanding a lawsuit against New Jersey officials after discovering what it says is a disturbing pattern: law-abiding residents allegedly losing gun rights not because of anything they did, but because of who they lived with. That’s the central claim in Aliaj v. Fort Lee Police Department, a federal lawsuit that now includes multiple plaintiffs who say Bergen County officials revoked permits, denied applications, and confiscated firearms based solely on concerns about other people living in their homes. And if SAF’s allegations are accurate, the implications are pretty staggering. The case originally began with plaintiff Elsid…

LONDON (AP) — “Mad” King George III — the villain of “Hamilton,” “Schoolhouse Rock” and the Revolutionary War — has undergone a makeover in time for America’s 250th birthday. He’s been known in the United States for centuries as the English ruler who lost the American colonies. You might remember him as the maniacal monarch from the Broadway musical or the subject of the 1990s play and film, “ The Madness of King George.” Americans of a certain age would recall him as the tyrant who taxed them without consent in the song, “ No More Kings.” Except the runup…

I’ll give North Carolina state Rep. Zack Hawkins a little bit of credit for wanting to do something about the safety of rideshare drivers after an Uber driver was shot and killed in his vehicle last year. Unfortunately, what Hawkins is pushing for won’t improve driver safety in the slightest, and he’s ignoring the most obvious policy change that would make a difference: requiring Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare companies to allow contractors to lawfully carry a firearm in their vehicle when they’re on the job.  Instead, Hawkins wants to mandate the reporting of criminal incidents…

A case out of Oklahoma is raising uncomfortable questions about property rights, self-defense, and where the law draws the line when homeowners confront squatters. According to reporting by KOCO 5 News, 59-year-old Timothy Smith is facing a first-degree manslaughter charge after authorities say he shot and killed a man he found inside a vacant home he owned. The incident happened on May 1. Police say Smith and his daughter went to check on the property after dealing with problems involving homeless individuals at the home in the past. When they entered, they reportedly found Justin King and a woman inside…

A GOP lawmaker has doubled down on recent statements calling for some Democrats to be investigated for treason for providing security to Cuba, via evading U.S. sanctions or otherwise. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), a Cuban-American, made the initial remarks May 29 in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, referencing a recent delegation of Democrats including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) traveling to Cuba and openly admitting that they put forth efforts to provide Cuba with oil, other necessities as the nation suffers from food and electricity shortages. “Look, I personally, think they need to be investigated for treason,” Malliotakis…

Lynchburgh, Virginia Circuit Court Judge F. Patrick Yeatts has sided with Gun Owners of America and Virginia Citizens Defense League and rejected the attempt by Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones to resume requiring background checks on the private transfers of firearms.  In a ruling delivered from the bench after a hearing on Thursday, Yeatts declared that his previously-issued injunction on Virginia’s universal background check scheme is still intact, despite Democrats’ efforts to do an end-run around the injunction. 🚨BREAKING🚨A judge has reaffirmed his prior order in the GOA-VCDL lawsuit.VA’s Universal Background Check law…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A museum in Georgia’s oldest city on Wednesday welcomed a truckload of treasures from the earliest period of U.S. history — 17 cannons that experts believe sank to the bottom of the Savannah River during the American Revolution and remained undiscovered for nearly 240 years. Workers carefully hoisted the big guns one-by-one from the back of a truck and wheeled them inside their new home at the Savannah History Museum, which will put them on display just in time for the Fourth of July celebration of America’s 250th birthday. “They look brand new,” said Andrea Farmer,…

People in Kenya are protesting the United States’ plan to create a quarantine facility in the country for Americans who may be infected with the Ebola virus. Kenya’s high court effectively delayed the Trump administration’s plan to send American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to a quarantine unit at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya. A judge at the court, the Honorable Lady Justice Patricia Nyaundi, said in a ruling that the next proceedings in the case would not take place until June 23rd, at which point a date for a full hearing would be set, according to a…

Wyoming by day is a playground without fences — biking, hiking, fishing, four-wheeling, or just picnicking on a carpet of wildflowers. But it doesn’t end when the sun slides behind the horizon. Come nighttime, Wyoming puts on a show unlike any you’ve seen before.  Out here, where pronghorn antelope outnumber people and your campfire is the only light for miles, the cosmos comes alive. There’s just you, your rig, and a sky so dark and clear that you understand for the first time why it’s called the Milky Way. Wyoming has some of the darkest skies in the Lower 48…