Mercedes-Benz is recalling 310,000 vehicles, including many of its most popular models. In an impressive cascade of failures, a problem with the door locks could lead to the vehicle rolling away. Yes, that seems like a stretch, but it can happen. A door that can’t tell if it’s open or closed can lead to some other problems, too, that are less about safety and more about convenience. Corrosion In A Switch Can Lead To Problems Credit: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz says that in 2021 it started receiving reports of complaints that radios and lights would stay on after drivers got out of the…
When Montgomery County, Maryland recently amended its concealed carry laws to comply with a state Supreme Court decision, the county left in place some “sensitive areas” that are legally dubious, at least from a Second Amendment perspective. The county bans lawful carry within 100 yards of a “public assembly”, which includes parks, places of worship, schools, libraries, courthouses, legislative assemblies, recreational facilities, multipurpose exhibition facilities, and polling places. Though the state Supreme Court says that ban doesn’t conflict with Maryland’s constitution, a rabbi in Montgomery County has filed a lawsuit arguing the prohibition violates his right…
A hero’s return home to the United States on Thursday for a World War II prisoner of war who died in captivity more than eight decades ago. Private First Class Bernard Folteen Sweet’s remains were set to return to the U.S. on a flight at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. According to the Army, Sweet was a native of Bennington, Vermont, who served with the Army’s Headquarters Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group in the Philippines during WWII, 84 years ago. Newspaper clipping from 1942 details Army Ffc. Bernard Sweet’s death as a WWII POW in Japan. His remains were returned to…
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This article was originally published by Conner McEleney at The Mises Institute. Many progressives, such as Robert Reich and Kyle Kulinski, argue that the economy needs a universal basic income (UBI) to fix it. Their argument stems from the idea that UBI has no serious flaws, that many studies show success, and that it’s the moral thing to do. An example that these progressives would cite would be the Denver UBI experiment. The study had three groups of people. Group A had $1,000 per month, and Group B had $6,500 for the first month; the other months were $500. Group C had…
New Jersey got slapped down by the Third Circuit, and the majority opinion was written by a Biden-nominated judge. They can’t even blame Trump or the NRA for that one. The thing is, I think anti-gun lawmakers secretly enjoyed it. I think they liked being smacked down to some degree, like they’re really into humiliation or something.Why? Because they seemed to respond to it by dusting off a previous mandatory storage bill that would be smacked down just as hard.New Jersey lawmakers, having just lost badly at the United States Court of Appeals for the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Tuesday denounced U.S. strikes a day earlier as a sign of “bad faith and unreliability” as negotiations continue toward a possible deal to end the war. The U.S. military has characterized Monday’s strikes in southern Iran as defensive, saying targets included missile launch sites and boats placing mines, and said the U.S. acted with “restraint” in light of the weekslong ceasefire. Iran’s foreign ministry called the strikes a ceasefire violation and warned that Washington would bear responsibility for “all consequences,” without details. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will leave no act of…
Yosemite National Park is one of America’s most iconic landscapes, and millions of people visit each year to get their chance to explore this magical place. The popular park has always experienced crowds, but a timed entry system, which limited the number of people admitted into the park at any one time, helped mitigate the congestion. Then, in early 2026, the National Park Service (NPS) announced it was abandoning the reservation system, which had been in place since 2020. Memorial Day posed the first real test of how the park would fare without it, and after the busy holiday weekend,…
Not a day seems to go by on social media where someone in the US doesn’t get a lecture from a European about how our gun control laws, or lack thereof, are some kind of social rot and that we’re completely wrong for not following their lead. After all, those deaths from gunfire are preventable, right? How dare we not take those precautions as they did!Well, I’m sorry that I’m not tripping over myself to “prevent gun deaths” by making it harder to defend myself, while they have people dropping like flies because they can’t…
With the clock counting down to its release, another Grand Theft Auto 6 feature has seemingly leaked from Rockstar Games by mistake. Credit: via Rockstar Games Originally published by Game Rant Grand Theft Auto 6 fans may have discovered a new feature coming to the game by way of Grand Theft Auto Online. The seemingly leaked GTA 6 feature seems to have accidentally made its way to the online component of GTA 5, providing a hint as to what players may have to contend with when dealing with the cops in GTA 6. Fans of the GTA franchise have been waiting…
As any business owner will tell you, “if you build it, they will come” isn’t necessarily the case. Having a product or service that people want is criticial, but creative marketing is also pretty important in terms of getting folks through the door. One range in the Chicago suburbs appears to have hit the bullseye with one of its offerings. New York Post reporter Georgia Worrell recently wrote about her first-hand experience at a “Pistols and Pilates” class at Eagle Sports Range in Oak Forest, Illinois, where two dozen women spent an hour on…
The best-selling vehicle in the US has just run into another roadblock. Ford has been struggling with F-Series pickup production and supply chain issues since last year, but the latest four-day stoppage has nothing to do with aluminum. This time, Ford is having hood problems, and it is working to stamp them out. Die Job Has Stopped Truck Production Dead Credit: Ford According to a report from the Detroit Free Press, Ford was forced to pause F-150 pickup production at its Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan on Thursday night. The report said that it was expected to be closed for four…
United States fighter jets have attacked the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboats. Explosions were heard near the port of Bandar Abbas. This attack occurred on Monday as US and Iranian negotiators arrived in Qatar in hopes of advancing stalled talks. A series of explosions also occurred on land in Bandar Abbas, where an Iranian naval base is located. Trump Warns “No More Mr. Nice Guy” During Iran Talks Announcement Al Jazeera journalist Ali Hashem reported on the situation, citing an Iranian official who said that the IRGC targeted an unidentified vessel after US jets struck IRGC boats. The source added…
The latest Iranian-linked alleged assassination plot targeting Ivanka Trump, combined with yet another purported attempt to harm the president, displays how rising levels of political violence have become more routine. Federal authorities on Friday accused an Iraqi national with alleged ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of plotting to assassinate the president’s daughter as retaliation for the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, was reportedly arrested in Turkey earlier this month before being extradited to the United States, according to the Times of Israel. Authorities…
Washington state lawmakers have passed a steady stream of gun control legislation in recent years, including waiting periods, “red flag” laws, universal background checks, and bans on “high capacity” ammunition magazines and so-called assault weapons. Despite those restrictions, or maybe even because of them, residents in one Seattle neighborhood say crime has become so bad that they’ve been forced to take dramatic steps in an attempt to keep criminals at bay. Folks who live on or near Aurora Avenue complain that drug dealing, prostitution, and shootings in the area are out of control. Despite pleas…
Americans have a long-standing love affair with the Jeep brand. It has symbolized adventure, freedom and luxurious capability – whether it’s the iconic Jeep Wrangler attacking the trails or the posh Grand Cherokee comfortably and safely transporting you and your loved ones. Sadly, there’s a little more to it than that. Behind the rugged exterior and beefy suspension parts that make our beloved Jeeps so capable is a reputation for spotty reliability. As Jeep pushes forward with new models and advanced powertrains, many buyers are wondering if the brand’s persistent reliability challenges have improved and if Jeeps are reliable. Not…
This article was originally published by Vincent Cook at Natural News. When it comes to production, capitalism and socialism are often presented as constituting extremes of a spectrum of economic organization, where control over the means of production is either entirely in the hands of profit-seeking private owners (the capitalists) at one extreme or in the hands of central planners (supposedly acting for the benefit of society according to socialists) at the other extreme. Framing the question with such terminology implicitly smears capitalists as profiting at the expense of society; a sordid linguistic trick that pretends that coercive centralization is…
What does one’s race have to do with one’s right to keep and bear arms? Well, nothing. The Second Amendment covers all American citizens and legal immigrants. Asking race is, at most, an identifier to help differentiate a black John Smith from a white one, and that’s about it. Unfortunately for us all, that wasn’t how many people viewed it back in the day. They thought anyone who wasn’t white was someone who needed to be disarmed. Whether it was because they didn’t want to be overthrown or they just thought non-whites (and Catholics, for…
