Andy Parker is one of the better known figures in the gun control movement in Virginia. His daughter Alison, a TV reporter in Roanoke, was shot and killed along with videographer Adam Ward by a former colleague during a live segment on the local news back in 2015. Ever since, Parker has devoted much of his time and energy pushing for more restrictive gun laws. I don’t really blame Parker for doing so, though I don’t know what policy would have stopped his daughter’s killer from acquiring a gun given that he had never been…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday launching the process of establishing a U.S. Space Academy, a new federal institution that could educate future Space Force Guardians alongside NASA engineers, scientists and other federal space professionals. Trump announced the academy Aug. 28 during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, comparing it with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy in Annapolis and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. But Trump did not create another military service academy outright. His order establishes a presidential commission with 120 days to recommend how the academy…
The Navy has announced new bonus schemes of up to $100,000 to keep specialized senior officers in the service. The Navy, in an administrative message posted on Wednesday, said chief warrant officers with between four and 16 years of commissioned service as SEALs and crewmen aboard special warfare combatant-craft should apply for the scheme, which began on Aug. 7. These roles are also known as 7151 and 7171 designations, with less than 1% of sailors holding these positions. “CWOs will receive the bonus in a lump sum payment, effective from the date of contract execution,” the Navy administrative message said.…
When violence is a problem in a community, it’s common for a mayor to call for gun control. This is especially true in anti-gun states like Vermont. Burlington is such a place, and the mayor there is such a mayor. There’s been a problem, and it does look like a problem from the outside. No question in my mind.But one resident has a problem with the mayor’s rhetoric. Reality suggests it’s not a gun issue.Burlington’s latest outbreak of violence should prompt a broader discussion about the city’s public safety system, not simply another debate over…
On the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, shared publicly for the first time, alongside Army Reserve Lt. Col. Marvin “Lee” Chase, the full account of a rescue that unfolded — from Gonzalez’s perspective — almost entirely over the phone, in the middle of the night, from a hotel room in Madrid. A Vacation Interrupted Gonzalez was on his August 2021 congressional recess in Spain when a constituent from his south Texas district called to say another constituent’s husband, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel in Afghanistan, needed help rescuing a…
The National Rifle Association is declaring victory in a federal lawsuit challenging New Mexico’s 7-day waiting period on firearm transfers after a federal judge entered his order permanently enjoining the statute from being enforced against the plaintiffs. In a statement, NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford hailed the decision. A right delayed is a right denied, and the court correctly held that forcing law-abiding citizens to wait after passing a background check cannot be squared with the Second Amendment. Under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the NRA’s landmark 2022 case, waiting period laws…
Buying your first home is a milestone worth celebrating, especially for military families who’ve spent years renting between duty stations. But that excitement can come with real financial risk if you’re not prepared for what homeownership actually costs. The best way to avoid foreclosure isn’t a last-minute rescue plan. It’s a set of smart habits you build before you ever sign closing papers. Military families face some unique financial pressures that civilian homebuyers don’t: PCS moves that force a sale or rental decision, deployments that disrupt dual incomes, and Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) that can shift when you move…
Iran’s top diplomat said resuming diplomacy with the U.S. “isn’t impossible,” after what he described as “creative discussions” with Qatar, a mediator in the war between Washington and Tehran. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Friday that progress “hinges on U.S. understanding of one simple fact: pressure doesn’t work.” He called on Washington to build trust and uphold its commitments, without elaborating. The relatively positive comments came after a series of diplomatic visits to Tehran alongside talks between Iran and Oman about a framework for allowing vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan, the main mediator in the…
Just a few months ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 922(g)(3)’s prohibition on gun ownership by “unlawful” drug users violated the Second Amendment rights of an admitted marijuana user, while leaving the door open to future prosecutions under the same statute for users of harder drugs and perhaps even pot users who’ve demonstrated their dangerousness in other ways. There are a number of disqualifiers in Section 922, including Section 922(g)(1)’s prohibition on gun ownership for anyone convicted of a felony or a crime punishable by more than a year in prison. Many states have…
Russia and Iran are advancing a $25 billion nuclear power program that would add several Russian-supported reactors to Iran’s electrical grid. Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said Wednesday that the countries had agreed on the investment framework and selected land near the Persian Gulf for a new nuclear facility, according to CNN, citing Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is also expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week. The announcement represents movement on an existing project, rather than an entirely new agreement signed Aug. 26. Iran and Russia originally formalized the $25 billion construction…
A generation that fought World War II is down to its last few thousand. With each passing year, the country loses another living connection to the men who crossed oceans to fight it. On Sunday, it lost the oldest of the Marines still among them. Roy Henry Drinkard died Aug. 23 in Cullman, Alabama, at 106. At the time of his death, he was recognized as the oldest living United States Marine, the last of a service and a generation that is fading from memory into history. By all accounts of those who knew him, he was never a man…
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The Washington, D.C. area is not only home to the federal government and the hundreds of thousands of government workers it employs, there’s a strong military and business community that is in many ways interdependent. That’s exactly what three D.C.-area entrepreneurs found as they took their military experience into an executive MBA-style program designed to help them grow and sustain small businesses. Their common thread, Clark Construction’s national Strategic Partnership Program (SPP), a no-cost business course created to help small, local, and disadvantaged subcontracting and construction firms build capacity and prepare for future growth. “Applying and being accepted into the…
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Steve Doocy thought he had a pretty good idea of what life inside one of America’s military service academies looked like. Then he went to see it for himself. Doocy, the longtime co-host of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” spent the week visiting the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy at West Point for a series examining a different kind of back-to-school experience. What he found challenged some of his assumptions about the institutions and left him optimistic about the young men and women preparing to lead the nation’s military. “I think it’s cool to…
One way large companies put smaller competitors out of business is by lobbying for regulations that increase the burdens on the smaller companies, thus increasing their operating costs and putting them out of business. This is called rent-seeking, and it’s scummy behavior, to say the least. And it’s not that different when it’s anti-gunners trying to do the same thing to gun stores. That’s been happening all over the place. While the feds are trying to relieve some burdens on gun stores, state and local governments are doing the opposite, and the NRA isn’t a…
Ohio’s gubernatorial race remains way too close for comfort for Second Amendment supporters, with RealClearPolling showing Democrat Amy Acton with a 0.2 percent lead over Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. If Acton wins in November, progress in strengthening Ohio’s Second Amendment protections will likely come to a screeching halt. To compound that danger, Acton is far more likely than Ramaswamy to take a soft-on-crime approach like the one offered up by Ohio’s Department of Youth Services a couple of years ago. In 2024 the department released a report that called for no juvenile detention for offenders…
Colorado has pushed through a lot of gun control lately, but questions remain as to just how long any of it will survive. That’s especially true after Wolford, where some “misapprehensions” about Bruen were cleared up. Especially in saying that the burden is on the government to show that a law is constitutional, not the other way around. And now, Colorado’s waiting period has had its first day in court, and the arguments are…special.But state attorney Joseph Michaels argued the Colorado law follows the federal government’s background check timeline. Michaels urged Kane to renew his…
Three Stars and Stripes journalists fired by the Pentagon last week have sued the Department of Defense, seeking to block their terminations. Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, Middle East reporter Lara Korte, and publisher Max Lederer filed the 45-page lawsuit Thursday in Washington. Among the defendants named were the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and two of the department’s public affairs officials, according to their now former employer. The suit asks the court to halt the terminations as unlawful, arguing they amounted to retaliation over unflattering coverage of a Navy deployment as part of a broader attempt to censor the press.…
