The United States is a pretty special place, especially when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms. As James Madison noted in Federalist 46, most other nations at the time of the Founding didn’t trust the people to keep and bear arms. Sadly, not much has changed in the centuries since, and the U.S. is still one of just a handful of nations where owning a gun (much less carrying one) is seen as an individual right and not a privilege doled out by the State. Last week we covered the plight…
A nationwide labor crunch in ports, rail yards and trucking is colliding with yet another week of Senate inaction on the Transport Jobs Act—a bill meant to tear down the barriers that keep veterans from stepping into thousands of open supply chain jobs.The legislation, H.R. 3055, would require the Department of Transportation to publish a public “Veteran to Supply Chain Employee Action Plan” within 30 days of enactment, contributed to by the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Labor. The plan must spell out why veterans struggle to enter port operations, trucking, rail, warehousing and logistics…
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A late fall tradition for many motorists who live north of the 45th parallel is swapping out street tread under their vehicles for tires designed for winter driving conditions. This is to maximize safety when roads are frequently covered with snow and ice. I’m one of those motorists. Every year around Thanksgiving, depending on the weather, the floor jack and air wrench come out as I pull off the “all-season” summer tires and replace them with winter tires. This year, the annual swap meant changing out the Goodyear Assurance WeatherReady 2 all-season tires under my Mazda CX-5 AWD for a…
The Justice Department’s new Second Amendment Section hasn’t taken any official action since its formation was announced late last week, but Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon says it will be aggressively challenging state and local gun laws and policies that are infringing on our right to keep and bear arms. During a recent appearance on The Joe Pags Show, Dhillon specifically brought up the District of Columbia’s carry laws, noting that it took her six days to get her carry permit (which, honestly, is much improved over the months-long delays that were common before the…
North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals and refused to set a date to resume discussions. Five days later, American B-52 bombers struck Hanoi in the most intensive bombing campaign in military history. Eleven days after that, North Vietnam requested new negotiations. Operation Linebacker II brought the communist government back to the negotiation table and led directly to the Paris Peace Accords signed Jan. 27, 1973.The bombing campaign sparked international condemnation and remains controversial five decades later. Critics called it barbaric. Supporters argued it achieved its objective. The historical…
United States President Donald Trump has given Volodymyr Zelensky only “days” to respond to the peace plan deal. The agreement would require Kiev to accept territorial losses to Russia in exchange for unspecified security guarantees. The US ruler submitted a peace plan in November that reportedly called for Ukraine to withdraw troops from part of Russia’s Donbass. Kiev currently controls that region, one of Moscow’s key conditions for a broad ceasefire. In early December, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), a Donbass city President Vladimir Putin has described as an important “bridgehead” for further offensives. Previously, this…
Chevrolet wants to say happy birthday, America! To put its mark on the 250-year celebrations in 2026, Chevrolet is launching a range of Corvettes and pickups called the Stars & Steel collection. Each one will get special graphics and trim, and the sale of each vehicle will mean a donation to nonprofits that support veterans. It’s a Party, But Not a Brash One (Photo/Chevrolet) For marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, these Stars & Steel Chevys are surprisingly subtle in their designs. If you were hoping for something more rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting…
For the past six months, Bearing Arms contributor John Petrolino has been covering the quiet revolution taking place across New Jersey, where a dozen communities have taken action to refund all or portions of the $150 that municipalities collect from every concealed carry application. The effort kicked off in Englishtown Borough back in June, and while eleven other municipalities have followed suit the campaign has received virtually no attention in the mainstream media… at least until now. As the Asbury Park Press reports, Toms River could become the 13th community (and largest to date) to…
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To hear Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez talk, you’d think that the so-called gun “buyback” that he has presided over for the past eight years is a life-saving tool that keeps his constituents safer. In a recent ny1.com report titled “Brooklyn gun buyback draws 160 weapons, officials say,” DA Gonzalez hyped up the recent compensated turn-in like it was the answer to every community’s criminal violence problem. What he didn’t say, however, is that a major study disproves everything he seems so proud of. “There’s so many people who have access to firearms and they don’t know how…
It’s darkly humorous to me how often anti-Second Amendment types see some kind of gun control law as the ultimate solution to everything. They pretend that this law will stop mass shootings, regular murders, suicides, domestic violence, type 2 diabetes, conflict in the Middle East, and Christmas’s encroachment into the rest of the year. It’s funny how often they try that crap, and how often the media pretends they’re hearing BS and mistaking it for brilliance.But there is one little change that could be made that would reduce a whole lot of problems. I’m honest…
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Christmas is around the corner, and plenty of companies that sell prepping supplies and survival gear are running countdown sales leading up to it. They approach it differently- a few move the 12 days further out to account for shipping, if they do most of their business online. Either way, the winter sales are a good opportunity to get those last-minute gifts, use up FSA funds, or round out a survival kit before 2026 gets here.For the most part, the deals are on emergency food storage and tactical gear. They are usually flash sales on specific gear or supplies, designed…
Those New York City council members can really hold a grudge. More than two years after Councilwoman Inna Vernikov was arrested and (briefly) charged with carrying a gun as she counter-protested a pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College less than a week after Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel, members of the NYC Council Ethics Committee this week roundly criticized her for her actions. The committee, however, declined to issue a formal censure of the councilwoman. Ethics Committee Chair Sandra Ung blasted Vernikov for allegedly showing a “brazen disregard” for public safety, and other committee…
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This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. I don’t want China to be the world’s most dominant economic superpower. I am an American, and so I want the United States to be the world’s most dominant economic superpower. Unfortunately, the facts that I am about to share with you in this article cannot be denied. We consume far more than we produce, and we go into colossal amounts of debt in order to make that possible. Somehow, we have convinced ourselves that this makes us an economic superpower. Meanwhile, the Chinese produce far more…
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