The Bruen decision may have made some things too muddy for some anti-gun activists — and by that, I mean they now have to actually show why a law is constitutional rather than just coast — but one thing was perfectly clear. Everyone was entitled to due process, meaning the requirements for a permit had to be objective, rather than subjective. Before that, the “good cause” requirement used by many states allowed officials to deny permits left and right, while the politically connected could get one with a phone call. The fact that the system…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has either fired myriad senior officers, or blocked the promotions of more than 80 generals and admirals during his tenure, reimagining the Pentagon at a rapid pace. This turnover is not a single event but three overlapping ones. Hegseth is cutting the number of senior positions by policy, removing sitting commanders, and personally intervening in the promotion lists that determine who will lead the military years from now. This week, after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation, criticism began coming from within his own party. Measured against the first 19 months of the Biden administration and of…
Authorities have arrested a U.S. Air Force member and his aunt, claiming they participated in an immigration fraud scheme. The two are accused of cooking up a scheme wherein they posed as mother and son in order for the Airman, John Paul Rivera, 30, to fraudulently obtain a green card, citizenship and seek citizenship for Rivera’s real mother. The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Rivera with conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, making false statements under oath on immigration documents, making false statements to a federal agency and unlawfully procuring citizenship and misuse of citizenship evidence, according to KCTV5. The arrests…
The U.S. and Iran have intensified tit-for-tat military strikes in recent days, remaining locked between ceasefire and all-out war as the White House struggles to end the six-month conflict. “Very clearly militarily, we are stalled,” Republican Representative Pat Harrigan of North Carolina, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview on Wednesday. “There’s no question about that.” The latest back and forth has seen Iran hit merchant vessels, spurring the U.S. to strike Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites that were used for targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz. That led to Iran firing missiles and…
The widow of a U.S. Airman who died during the United States’ ongoing military operations against Iran has claimed to have not received some of the benefits she is entitled to because of his death. US Air Force Major John “Alex” Klinner died in a crash in Iraq in March when an unspecified incident involving another aircraft occurred while his KC-135 Air Force refueling aircraft was in “friendly” airspace, supporting the war against Iran that began Feb 28 and recently exceeded the six-month mark. The other plane landed safely, U.S. military officials said, and officials began investigating the crash that…
I won’t call this a mass shooting, even if the media is, but it’s still a horrific enough scene in Minneapolis this morning. Two people are dead, and six others were injured, including three police officers, in an incident that had the police showing up to something that was probably a combination of a TV cop show scene and something out of their professional nightmares. It also appears that, thankfully, the gunman was also killed.Officers confronted a barrage of gunfire, their vision clouded by a haze, as they responded to a shooting at a Minneapolis…
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Stephanie Fussell is one of the leading minds at the intersection of science, technology and aircraft, working for the past decade to better understand and provide guidance on how extended reality (XR) can reshape workforce training, aviation and defense in a safe and effective manner—with humans at the center of leading the charge. She’s contributed to the FAA’s first formally published guidance on using XR in qualified commercial flight simulation training devices, as part of a broader framework for integrating virtual, augmented and mixed reality into commercial pilot training. Fussell, a scientist at Aptima, has spent years researching how extended…
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When Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the Bruen decision, he explicitly said that some places truly were sensitive enough to warrant preventing guns from being taken inside. Courthouses were one of the exceptions he named, and while I disagree about the usefulness of such bans, the ruling is the ruling. Of course, there are exceptions as to who can be armed in these places, but the point is that they are what they are.And in places like Minnesota, they’re really starting to love their gun control, which makes this a little less than thrilling.Firearms and other…
There is a big difference between reading a survival blog and actually living through a disaster. You may have all the highest-rated gear, or shelves filled with top freeze-dried meals, but you have no way of knowing what really works. If a severe storm hits, or a local power grid collapse occurs, you don’t want to be opening boxes of unused gear in the dark. The middle of a disaster is a bad time to discover that your main backup power source needs to be charged, or your manual can opener is missing from your emergency bin. The best way…
The estimates on defensive gun uses vary depending on who is doing the estimating. Yet even the low-ball figures from anti-gun researchers tend to put the number in the six-digit range per year, meaning guns protect innocent life more often than they’re used to take them. That’s true even if you leave the suicide numbers in the “gun death” figures. But the truth is that there are a lot more than 100,000 or so defensive gun uses.That’s not me talking, either. That’s the latest survey talking, and anti-gunners are going to be pissed.William English is…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge had no authority to overturn former U.S. Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl’s military conviction for deserting his post in Afghanistan before Taliban-allied forces abducted him and held him captive for nearly five years, an appeals court has ruled. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of Bergdahl’s claims in district court. The panel said District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington lacked the jurisdiction to vacate Bergdahl’s court-martial conviction and sentence in 2023. Bergdahl had sued in 2021, arguing that the punishment violated…
The North Carolina Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a man who killed a military veteran in a Greensboro hotel room in 2014 and is currently serving life in prison for his convictions. The announcement was made Tuesday by North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and the North Carolina Department of Justice, as part of the upholding of criminal convictions and sentences in 13 Court of Appeals opinions released Aug. 19. Another 11 North Carolina Supreme Court opinions were released Aug. 14. A Guilford County judge convicted Garry Joseph Gupton of first-degree murder and first-degree arson in 2017. At…
Rights are a lot more interconnected than people think, and nowhere is that more true than with the Second Amendment. For example, we count on the First Amendment to make sure we can advocate in defense of it. We need the Fourth Amendment to prevent the state from just walking into our homes and taking our guns simply because they feel like it. Due process is how we’ve protected our gun rights in court. But just as many police officers argue that certain laws restoring gun rights make it harder for them to do their…
CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. missile hit a home in southern Iran where dozens were gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter, according to a rights group and Iranian media. Iranian state media said four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than 60 were wounded. The rights group said one of the children, a teenager, was killed by another strike on a nearby communications tower. Heavy explosions shook the coastal town of Kuhestak on the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and security footage carried by Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency showed fireballs…
Hung Cao said President Donald Trump nominating him as the long-term Navy secretary is the “honor of a lifetime.” Trump nominated Cao, who currently serves as the acting Navy secretary, in a social media post on Tuesday night, after he fired his predecessor, John Phelan, a big Trump donor who was terminated in April for reasons including slowed shipbuilding schedules. “We need Patriots like Hung leading our Navy and Marine Corps, and I can think of no one better than him to make sure our Great Navy and Marine Corps remain the FIERCEST and BEST Force the World has ever…
The copper bull market has become much bigger than copper. This is rapidly becoming a do-or-die industrial challenge for the Western world. America wants AI supremacy. It wants gigantic data centers, new electrical grids, semiconductor fabs, autonomous factories, robots, drones, missiles, nuclear plants and a manufacturing renaissance. There is one problem: Almost everything America wants to build requires copper. And Washington has finally recognized copper as a national-security issue. · President Trump imposed Section 232 tariffs on copper products after determining that excessive import dependence threatened U.S. national security. In 2026, Washington strengthened the regime further: most covered copper products now…
Granite City, Illinois, looks to be just a little across the border from Saint Louis, Missouri. That’s a rough town, and while I can’t say that Granite City is as bad, I can say it has had its moments. For example, recently officers were forced to shoot and kill a suspect after he refused to comply with orders to drop his weapons — a handgun and a replica rifle of some sort.But while that is unpleasant, it’s not what grabbed my attention.No, that was the deceased’s history.According to court documents, Cerentano had a criminal history…
A built-in support system often does a lot of the heavy lifting for military families with a neurodivergent member. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) flags your family’s needs and factors them into assignments. Tricare and its Extended Care Health Option cover therapies that would cost a fortune anywhere else. Respite hours show up every month. And all around you is a community that does not flinch when your kid has a minor meltdown in the commissary — half of them have been there, too. Then one day, you separate, and much of what you built evaporates. Often this happens…
Warsh is Worried… Kevin Warsh spoke on Friday. Gold and silver SOLD OFF big on his remarks. In fact, gold closed below its 200-DMA, which means I must discuss what’s likely to happen next. We’re entering two of the most important economic periods in world history right now and it is essential to understand the IMMINENT DANGER. I have been discussing the September-October market sell-off at length throughout the summer, so to recap my concern: China’s economy is in free fall, which means it isn’t buying Treasuries. Between Japan’s financial crisis and China’s, the two foreign holders of U.S. debt…
