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The Illinois Supreme Court is facing a lawsuit by a former Cook County judge who was canned for writing a column supportive of President Trump when he was not even on the bench, but as NRA board member Todd Vandermyde pointed out on social media, the state’s highest court has at least one justice who’s engaged in some blatant partisan politicking of her own without losing her job. Former Cook County Judge James R. Brown retired in 2020 but was brought back by the Illinois Supreme Court five years later, assigning him to Cook County’s…
After a long life of dangerous feats in the mountains, Jim Whittaker died peacefully in his Washington home on Tuesday. He was 97. He was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest and a vital figure in the history of REI Co-op, where he eventually served as president and CEO. His impact on both climbing and the outdoor industry is impossible to overstate, and his life has become the stuff of legend. The tributes came quickly on Wednesday. REI said Whittaker “showed the world what’s possible when courage is grounded in purpose.” In a statement shared with…
In addition to gun control, I’m not fond of taxes. I might understand why a government needs to tax its citizens to some degree or another, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Especially when the taxes aren’t just about funding things like police and fire departments, but about trying to create some kind of social change. Yes, even if that social change is something we can all agree is a good thing.For example, let’s take homicides. No one seems to think of murder as a good thing, after all, and while homicide…
If your HEAD ski boots have fluorescent yellow components and were made between the years 2016 and 2022, stop using them immediately and contact the brand. On April 9, HEAD announced a significant recall of 20 boot models that use this fluorescent plastic, which can “deteriorate and break, posing a risk of serious injury from a fall.” About 1,365 units are part of this recall in the U.S., along with an additional 525 units sold in Canada. It includes Next Edge, Vector Evo, Advant Edge, Raptor, and Formula models. They were sold both online and at retailers, priced from $500…
Maryland has already banned the sale of the most popular long guns in the country, but now Democrats are targeting some of the most popular handguns as well. On Wednesday, the House of Delegates gave its stamp of approval to legislation that would prohibit the sale of semi-automatic, striker-fired pistols that have a “cruciform trigger bar,” which would cover Glock pistols and Glock clones. California already has a virtually identical law in place, and Democrats in Illinois and New York are also pushing similar bans this session. Glock has faced litigation over the design of its…
The U.S. Army has frozen plans to close more than two dozen of its museums after Congress passed legislation barring the service from doing so without formal justification and lawmaker approval.The U.S. Army Center of Military History said in a statement it “has paused all previously announced changes to the Army Museum Enterprise, including proposed museum closures, in accordance with the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026.”The Plan to Close Army MuseumsThe Center of Military History announced the plan in June 2025, calling for the Army Museum Enterprise to downsize from 41 facilities to…
In this episode of Reacts or Back, I break down the newly released video footage of an ICE officer involved in a fatal shooting that … Watch full video on YouTube
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Army veteran Matthew Spang has loved playing basketball from as far back as he can remember. As an athletic child, Sprang played the sport often and considered basketball a passion. “I grew up playing basketball… sports are a big passion with my family and friends and kind of my life in general,” Spang told KOAA News in Southern Colorado. But that all changed during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. “My truck hit two IEDs… it crushed my legs, my feet and ankles and broke my legs,” Spang said. It was a huge blow for the combat engineer who, in an instant, became a…
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A veto out of Kentucky is drawing serious pushback from gun rights advocates. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling Gov. Andy Beshear’s rejection of House Bill 312 a major misstep, arguing it strips young adults of their ability to defend themselves. At the center of the fight is a simple question: Should 18- to 20-year-olds be allowed to carry for self-defense? HB 312 would have created a provisional concealed carry license for that age group, giving young adults (who can already vote, serve in the military, and sign contracts) the legal ability to…
HK is going small but not changing much else. The company just rolled out the VP9CC, a micro-compact version of its well-known VP9 platform, and the pitch is pretty straightforward: take everything people already like about the VP9… and scale it down for concealed carry. No reinvention. No gimmicks. Just a smaller VP9. That’s actually the most interesting part here. A lot of micro-compacts end up feeling like a compromise: shorter grip, snappier recoil, stripped-down features. HK is clearly trying to avoid that by keeping as much of the original VP9 DNA intact as possible. You still get the same…
When John Lott talks gun policy, he doesn’t deal in vibes. He deals in numbers. And in his recent interview on Alaska’s Michael Dukes Show, he laid out several data points that directly challenge some of the most common claims in the gun control debate. One of the first areas he touched on was the concept of “gun-free zones,” particularly on military bases, where he pointed to a clear pattern in how attackers select targets. “These murderers time after time… write about how they pick these targets precisely because they want to go to a gun-free zone,” Lott explained. “Their…
For a long time, I’ve ascribed to the idea that if you don’t want to go to prison, you shouldn’t break the law. To be sure, that’s an important first step, to say the least, but we all know that’s never been enough. Still, most of the cases of wrongful conviction were uncovered and corrected, because we want the innocent to be free and the guilty to be punished. Or so I thought.Patrick “Tate” Adamiak first popped up on my radar when he was convicted. Like many other people, I accepted the conviction as evidence…
