Two former members of the U.S. Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal jail after they participated in a $2.4 million cyber fraud scheme. Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu, 25, and Harafat Mogaji, 26, both Airmen at the time of their offenses, were sentenced Sept. 25 to a combined 189 months in federal prison. They were legally found to have diverted more than $2.4 million via wire transfers from two victims into bank accounts controlled by their conspirators, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Iowa. “When cyber intrusion schemes target businesses…
It seems self-evident that the Constitution would apply in all U.S. states and territories, but according to the High Court of American Samoa, the Second Amendment is utterly meaningless in the territory. Two years ago, the Court concluded in a case called Wiesner v. Fainu’ulelei that recognition of the Second Amendment would be “impracticable and anomalous” given American Samoa’s history of gun restrictions and its status as an unincorporated territory. Michael R. Davis, the founder and executive director of the Article III Project, says there’s a way to rectify the High Court’s error: remove and replace every…
Selected Reserve GI Bill Payment Rates for institutional training and on-the-job training are updated every year. The monthly payment rates for the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve change each October based on government calculations of higher education costs. Beneficiaries receive different amounts depending on what their “training time” is. For those taking undergraduate classes, their training time is determined as follows: 0-2 hours: 1/4 time 3-5 hours: less than 1/2 time 6-8 hours: 1/2 time 9-11 hours: 3/4 time 12 hours and above: full-time For graduate training, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will pay your benefits based on what…
Not every person is inherently violent. One reason I will never support laws that strip gun rights from adults under 21, even if a violent crime were never committed by anyone outside of that age group, is that it disarms those who don’t represent a threat to anyone. Some people are violent and need to be dealt with, and everyone else should be left the hell alone. Yes, the Second Amendment is the other reason I won’t support such a law.There are bad eggs who walk among us, and the justice system is a slow-moving…
A subsistence allowance is paid to veterans each month while enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VR&E program. A subsistence allowance is paid each month while enrolled in the Veteran Readiness and Employment program (VR&E). The allowance is based on type of training, rate of attendance (full or part time) and number of dependents. The chart below reflects the rates as of Oct. 1, 2026. Fiscal 2027 Veteran Readiness and Employment Subsistence Allowance Rates Training Time No Dependents One Dep. Two Deps. Each Addl. Dep. Full Time $837.23 $1,038.49 $1,223.79 $89.18 3/4 Time $629.08 $780.00 $914.97 $68.60 1/2 Time…
For years, the only Glocks on California’s roster of handguns allowed to be sold in the state were older models that were grandfathered in. Those models, though, have all been designated by the state’s Department of Justice as “machinegun-convertible pistols,” and as such dealers generally have not been able to sell, transfer, or deliver them since the state’s ban on striker-fired pistols took effect on July 1. This week, though, CalDOJ approved the Glock 43X CA, a California-compliant semi-automatic 9mm pistol that has not been deemed a “machinegun-convertible pistol.” Shortly thereafter, Attorney General Rob Bonta…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered military service academies to stop granting tenure to civilian professors, arguing that academic job protections undermine their war-fighting mission. The Pentagon declined to explain to Military.com who the policy affects, the evidence behind it, how the academies will recruit and retain qualified professors, and what will protect faculty from political pressure once tenure is removed and a more liberal administration is inevitably elected in the future. When reached with those questions, a Pentagon official responded: “We have nothing additional to provide beyond the statement and the memo.” The Sept. 29 memo stops new tenure…
We’ll get to the point. Making white vinegar from scratch is not easy. Unlike fruit based vinegars like apple cider vinegar or wine vinegars, white vinegar starts with ethanol. In case you’re rusty on your science that’s alcohol: alcohol as in homemade vodka or moonshine. That’s as opposed to the wines and hard ciders of all of the other fruit based vinegars. And making homemade vodka or moonshine is just the first step. You then need to introduce some aceto bacteria (Acetobacter aceti) to the alcohol to convert it to acetic acid which is the foundation of white vinegar. This…
The Department of Justice issued its own ruling that adults under 21 should be able to buy handguns. I doubt any gun store will complete such a transaction, in part because it’s likely to come back and bite them on the keister down the road if they do. Still, it was the DOJ’s finding, and while some are outraged over the perceived overreach, I don’t see it as anything of the sort. But one outcome we get is an official from Brady trying to twist history to make the case that the ban is, in…
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Laurie Laychak remembers the flags. They flew from houses and cars in the Washington, D.C., area after Sept. 11, 2001. But she remembers something else, too. People talked to strangers in grocery stores. Drivers seemed kinder to one another. Political differences suddenly felt insignificant. The country had suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in its history, and Laychak had suffered an intensely personal loss: Her husband, Dave, was killed while working as a civilian budget analyst for the Department of the Army at the Pentagon. Twenty-five years later, as the nation prepares to mark a milestone anniversary of the attacks, Laychak…
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For the first time in more than ten years, Colombians who have concealed carry permits will actually be able to bear arms in self-defense, after President Abelardo de la Espriella signed a decree that ends the long-running suspension of all carry permits in the country. That suspension was put in place by former president Juan Manuel Santos, who issued a decree to that effect in December 2015. The first suspension was supposed to last for a little more than a month, but was subsequently extended and kept in place for more than a decade. In announcing…
A bug out location is not a campsite. It’s somewhere you may need to live, defend, and feed your family for weeks, months, or longer. That means the land itself has to work in your favor. Some regions have short growing seasons, brutal winters, or almost no surface water. Others are packed with people, hostile to gun owners, or so expensive to own that most preppers could never afford to hold the land in the first place. A spot that looks perfect on a map can turn into a liability once the grid goes down. This is exactly why you…
A shooting at a Michigan mall in July ended when a 19-year-old drew his own pistol and shot a man who had already taken one life and was firing wildly. Now that teen has been sentenced to two years of probation for carrying a gun without a permit. Martinez Long isn’t old enough to receive a concealed pistol license in Michigan since he’s not 21, but by the time he completes his probation he should be able to lawfully exercise his Second Amendment rights. The judge admonished Long for carrying the gun and told him he…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin assured U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call Tuesday that Moscow doesn’t harbor aggressive tendencies toward Europe, a senior Kremlin official said, after European officials expressed concern about Russian sabotage campaigns on their soil. Also Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that U.S. envoys who visited Kyiv presented some “very good, worthwhile ideas” for ending Russia’s 4 1/2-year-old war, adding that he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump within two weeks. But Russia remains determined to accomplish its military goals and it believes it is close to winning, Kremlin spokesman…
Yair Golan, who heads Israel’s left-wing Democrats party, said he’ll join the government if the opposition wins next month’s election and will put tackling Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank on the agenda. Ending the war with Iran, rebuilding Gaza and forging regional alliances will also be among his top priorities, the former military commander told Bloomberg. “We must end the open wars,” Golan said in an interview in Tel Aviv on Sunday. “I will have substantive discussions inside the next government to implement the diplomatic arm of Israel’s national security. We cannot solve all problems with bombs.…
