For many Americans, the nation’s 250th anniversary will center on July 4, 2026, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In Yorktown, Virginia, local officials are asking visitors to look further down the road, to the battlefield where independence was secured years later. Yorktown’s VA250 and America250 programming is being built around a longer Revolutionary War timeline, one that begins with the ideals of 1776 but continues through the military campaign that led to the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. The town’s commemorations are expected to continue beyond the national July Fourth anniversary and toward 2031, the 250th…

California has some of the worst gun laws in the nation, but that doesn’t mean that they’re popular in every part of the state. Outside of the more populous coastal counties, there are lots of locales where the right to keep and bear arms is seen as the fundamental right that it is, and even in the “may issue” days many places, like Fresno County, treated the concealed carry licensing process as “shall issue.”  Now Fresno County is looking to expand who can carry; specifically, which city employees should be able to bear arms when they’re…

Recent changes to the real-world Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C. by the Trump administration make it look like Fallout 3. Credit: via GameRant, Bethesda Originally published by  Game Rant Recent changes to the real-life Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool enacted by the Trump administration have made it resemble its counterpart in Fallout 3. Though the real version is creating a lot some controversy and is arguably a bit of an eyesore, fans of Fallout 3 have been poking fun at the similarity. The Fallout games have been set around various locales of the United States, but Fallout 3 in particular…

Two rights I care deeply about are gun rights and property rights. These have been ingrained in me for quite some time, but property rights were the first I came to care about. Learning about eminent domain in school sort of radicalized me to believe that a person’s property should be sacrosanct. Gun rights came later for me, but were no less important. For Salon, though, it seems that all they care about is how little they understand either.I mean, that’s the only take I can have when they, like so many others, have a…

Two proposals for the 2027 military pay raise are under consideration. The House of Representatives, in its draft of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, advanced a White House proposal for military pay raises ranging from 5 to 7 percent. The Senate separately proposed a flat 3.6% raise in its NDAA draft. Read More: Senate Rejects Pay Boost in NDAA for Junior Troops Who Need It Most For your personalized pay and allowance computation, check out our free Military Pay Calculator, which can provide you with personalized pay calculations. View the 2026 pay charts for active-duty and reserve members.…

Virginia Del. Dan Helmer routinely brags about his role in pushing the state’s new gun and magazine ban through the General Assembly, but there’s a really good chance that a year from now, the only thing Helmer really accomplished was ensuring that tens of thousands of Virginians ended up purchasing the guns he was trying to ban.  In addition to the half-dozen lawsuits that have already been filed in state and federal court over the ban, the Justice Department announced today that it’s bringing suit against Virginia over the law that was authored by Helmer…

Here are some of the most budget-friendly cars for young service members. For many young service members, buying a vehicle after joining the military is an exciting milestone, but it can also feel overwhelming. Whether you’re commuting to base, tackling a PCS move, or exploring a new duty station on your time off, you’ll want a vehicle that’s affordable to buy, inexpensive to own, and dependable for years to come. Fortunately, there are plenty of budget-friendly cars that check all those boxes. Here are some of the best vehicles for young service members looking to get the most value for…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  If you’re wondering why the Nasdaq is suddenly tumbling this morning, wonder no more… Nasdaq moves lower after Meta announces it is to build a cloud business to sell its excess AI compute, weighing on cloud peers like AMZN, ORCL, MSFT and chip and memory names like NVDA, MU, INTO. As Bloomberg reports: Meta, which has been rushing to secure expensive data centers and other infrastructure to fuel its own artificial intelligence ambitions, is forming a business to generate revenue from excess computing power sold to outside customers, according to people…

There’s an idea that exists in the mind of most anti-gunners, and that’s the fact that they’re not really anti-gun. They’re anti-you having a gun. They’re fine with guns in the hands of the police, even if they also want to defund the police and banish them into historical obscurity. Yes, the cognitive dissonance would be painful if they recognized that the two ideas are contradictory. As a result, though, they routinely exempt police from the laws they create for ordinary people.It also seems that the good people at CMMG aren’t amused by this.At this…

The Soulslike genre has evolved significantly since its creation over a decade ago, but one thing that has always been closely associated with it is difficulty. Bosses that take hours to take down, brutal enemies that unleash an array of attacks around every corner, and a world that is more out to get the player than even the enemies in it — these are all staples. There is no margin for error, and the challenge can often feel a bit unfair. Thankfully, there are still plenty of Soulslikes that capture the satisfying gameplay and expert worldbuilding without forcing the player…

American Prairie has already been fighting the federal government over its bison grazing permits. Now, a separate fight over Montana state trust lands has handed the nonprofit a temporary win. Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Christopher Abbott granted the nonprofit’s request for a preliminary injunction on Friday, June 26. The order temporarily blocks a Montana Board of Land Commissioners directive that told the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation not to authorize or approve any new pending bison grazing requests on state trust lands. The ruling doesn’t end the case. It just stops the state from using that…

Two hundred and fifty years ago, 56 men, with God’s divine providence, changed the course of world history.The signing of the Declaration of Independence didn’t merely announce that America’s 13 colonies were rejecting King George III’s tyrannical rule. It established a representative government and made clear, in no uncertain terms, what no nation had declared before: that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This week at Bearing Arms, we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest…