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The Incredible Shrinking World of Social Media

by Jim Scoutten

7:00am Friday, March 30, 2018

“What ’cha gonna’ do when they come for you?” Two news items largely escaped notice this month: Twitter “restricted” a tweet from the President, and one from Donald Trump, Junior, that could be “offensive”. The offense? Linking to an article on Drudge. And YouTube “restricted” the videos from Prager University, the online series of conservative videos hosted by such notables as Mike Rowe and...

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"G is for gun" debuts to an engaged and questioning crowd

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Thursday, March 29, 2018

The movie, “G is for Gun: The Arming of Teachers in America” has debuted and will be coming to a PBS station near you. It was directed and produced by Massachusetts-based independent filmmakers. The promotion said about the film: This is the first documentary film of its kind to examine the rapidly growing, controversial trend of U.S. Kindergarten through 12 public schools arming teachers as a...

The Second Amendment rights of more than 4 million Americans are at risk thanks to Republicans in Congress (and President Trump)

by John R. Lott

3:00pm Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Republicans are jeopardizing the Second Amendment rights of 4.2 million senior citizens. At the same time, they have voted to funnel tens of millions of dollars to gun control organizations and support other actions that Democrats will love. About 10 percent of all people 65 and older risked being classified as “financially incompetent” – about 4.2 million in all. Using the Congressional Review...

Who Runs March for Our Lives?

by Daniel Greenfield

7:00am Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Follow the money. It’s a strange political fact, but nearly every major anti-gun group has been a front group. The NRA is maligned 24/7 and yet it’s completely obvious whom it represents. Despite the efforts to tie it to everyone from firearms manufacturers to the Russians (if you can’t tie any random Republican thing to the Russians these days, you won’t be working at the Washington Post or CNN...

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Buckeye Firearms Association PAC Endorses Joy Padgett

7:00am Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that our Political Action Committee has endorsed Joy Padgett for Republican State Central Committee for the 31st Senate district in the May 8, 2018 primary election. The State Central Committee is the governing power of the Ohio Republican Party. It recruits and endorses candidates for federal and state offices. "To ensure we continue to restore...

Trump/Sessions do what even Obama/Holder wouldn't: Move to ban bump stocks

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, March 26, 2018

In November 2017, President Donald Trump, who had a record of support for gun control before his latest run for president, directed his Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have the Department of Justice to "review" whether or not bump stocks could be banned through means other the legislation. This "review" was something that had been done twice before by their predecessors, President Barack Obama...

The Utah School Bombing

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, March 23, 2018

Editor's Note: This article was written before it was realized by officials in Austin, TX that a serial bomber was targeting people in that city. Let’s talk about bombs for a minute… [On March 6], a Utah high school student was arrested after he attempted to detonate a large backpack bomb in his school . Luckily, the bomb malfunctioned and the school was evacuated before anyone was hurt. Those of...

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Anti-gun Dick's Sporting Goods reports "deeper than expected" losses

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, March 23, 2018

Fortune magazine is reporting on the "tumbling" stock price of Dick's Sporting Goods, a company which recently made headlines for having decided (again) to stop selling modern sporting rifles in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, FL, and for discriminating against military-aged persons under 21 who wish to purchase a firearm. According to Fortune , Dick's is experiencing "deeper than...