You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.

Those numbers paint a fuller picture than the FBI’s crime statistics, which fail to include many of the defensive gun uses my organization has cataloged. But the problem with the FBI’s crime statistics isn’t just the errors in their reported data — they also fail to address useful questions, like how concealed handgun permit holders compare to law enforcement. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino face a major challenge in reforming how the data is collected and reported at the FBI. //

These findings highlight a reality that is often ignored: responsible gun owners save lives. Concealed handgun permit holders aren’t reckless vigilantes, but they are law-abiding citizens who step up in moments of crisis when seconds matter and police are minutes away.

The funny thing about this is that some of these memes started as leftist attacks, but the right co-opted them and ran with it. Why would they do it?

I think Tim Pool actually nailed it in a conversation he had about the memes. There are going to be people who don't get why Vance's own supporters would make memes that make fun of Vance, and a lot of these people are going to be women. Not bashing women, but the way men and women communicate is different.

When men like each other, they'll actively make fun of one another. It's how we express ourselves to one another in a way that might not seem close, and possibly even confrontational, but it's actually an expression of appreciation and respect. //

These memes are communicating to the public that Vance is fun, culturally relevant, and culturally irreverent at the same time. He can laugh with us, even at himself, making him more relatable and approachable. His levity stands in stark contrast to leftist severity, which makes him even more endearing to the people. //

Politics is downstream of culture, and Vance is being inserted into the culture in a way that is more or less unlooked-for but powerful nonetheless. Memes are a powerful cognitive tool, especially in the age of the internet, and Vance starring in so many — especially in the form of good-natured mocking — is making him a cultural mainstay.

It's the kind of popularity politicians wish they could get, but rarely do.

"Recruiting in the trade fields is a big problem for American companies today. We have millions of positions open and an untrained labor force to fill them," he said. //

The culture has caught up with his message, so much so that Rowe says they have 10 times more people applying for the scholarship his foundation offers. //

He's right about the shift in culture. People want to be part of this movement. You see it in TikTok accounts of plumbers, farmers and mechanics with insane numbers of followers and shares. It's the same on Instagram, X and Facebook. //

Rowe stressed that young people like Bambino are needed desperately to maintain and build our maritime industrial base.

"There are 15,000 individual companies building our nuclear-powered subs, which now, by the way, are the pointy part of the stick. If things go sideways with Taiwan and our aircraft carriers are very vulnerable, we need these submarines," he said.

Rowe said companies such as BlueForge deliver those submarines and are desperate to hire skilled tradespeople in areas such as additive manufacturing, computer numerical control machining, welding and more. //

And if Rowe gets his way, with a little help, he becomes not unlike George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life": a man who has had an effect far beyond what he'll ever fully realize.

Americans should support Elon Musk as President Trump has. His push to slash government waste through DOGE could lighten the tax load and boost economic vitality for all people.

The reason leftists are going after Tesla is not simply because it's his "baby." It's because the company is a symbol of his proven cost-cutting success.

They don't want that. Liberals want the waste and fraud to continue unabated. It's their "baby."

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🚨WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY🚨

We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency.

All used the same autopen signature except for the the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year. Here is the autopen signature.

Here is the signature from the letter announcing Biden was dropping out of the race. //

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BREAKING: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked the DOJ to investigate whether Biden’s cognitive mental decline allowed unelected officials to make decisions without his knowledge or approval.

If that’s the case, Biden’s executive orders, pardons, and other actions, may be unconstitutional and void.
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Recall that former President Biden admitted to
@SpeakerJohnson
that he did not remember signing an executive order pausing LNG exports.

So, who signed it?

For investigators to determine whether then-President Biden actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents, or if he even had the mental capacity to, they must first determine who controlled the autopen and what checks there were in place.

2:10 PM · Mar 6, 2025

On Thursday, President Trump issued an executive order that cut federal ties with the Spygate incubator and major Democrat law firm Perkins Coie. The president did so based on the firm’s partisan dishonesty, and because it openly discriminates based on sex and race.

This is a good legal basis for refusing to work with any company, and it should be extended to every legal entity in the country. Top of the list should be the American Bar Association, which also advocates for and engages in unlawful racial and sexual discrimination and is a highly partisan actor on behalf of the Democrat Party and other anti-Constitution activists.

The ABA deeply affects the U.S. lawyer pipeline and licensing system, accrediting law schools, rating judges, and weaponizing lawyer discipline. Its rabid leftism means the ABA systematically ratchets the entire U.S. legal system against the U.S. Constitution.

That’s an existential threat to the country, as most recently illustrated by the dozens of federal judges the ABA helped advance who hate our supreme law so much they rule that the elected executive cannot control the unelected executive branch. With judges like those the ABA advances, the United States will quickly discard what remnants of our constitutional order persist. //

“The ABA’s public actions grew increasingly partisan throughout the Biden presidency and now into the early days of Trump’s second term. The organization justified President Biden’s preposterous assertion that the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified; claimed that bar associations have a First Amendment right to engage in racial discrimination; and sued President Trump for slashing USAID subsidies,” Fragoso notes.

By endorsing race and sex discrimination, presidents unilaterally changing the Constitution, and forbidding elected executive control of unelected executive bureaucrats, the ABA has disqualified itself as a legal organization or any kind of legitimate player in American public life. No elected official who has made a public vow to preserve and protect the Constitution should give this anti-American pressure organization the time of day.

The White House moves have sent a chill through the world of Big Law, at a time when litigation has emerged as one of the few checks on the president.

In private conversations, partners at some of the nation’s leading firms have expressed outrage at the president’s actions. What they haven’t been willing to do is say so publicly. Back-channel efforts to persuade major law firms to sign public statements criticizing Trump’s actions thus far have foundered, in part because of retaliation fears, people familiar with the matter said. //

nothing in those orders prevents anyone from engaging either firm to defend, nor does it prevent anyone from associating with them.

The real complaint is that both firms, under Obama and Biden, had taken on the air of quasi-governmental law shops. Some of their lawyers held high-level security clearances without any need. Apparently, the US government maintained SCIFs at Perkins Coie offices, allowing easy access to highly classified intelligence. Some of their lawyers and staff held permanent passes permitting unescorted entry to some federal agencies. The orders do nothing to prevent either law firm from representing clients needing access to top secret information; they are just required to play by the same rules as every other law office in the country. Attorneys can get clearances on a case-by-case basis, they have to access top secret information in government SCIFs, and their attorneys can't meander through federal buildings without an escort and appointment.

McQuade's sniveling really rings false when one considers the concerted campaign by Democrats to disbar and socially disappear lawyers who worked for President Trump after the 2020 selection of Joe Biden to contest election results in Georgia and Arizona. //

If law firms want to be neutral parties, they must stop being political guns-for-hire. As former RedStater Bill Shipley noted, he took on January 6 defendants pro bono because major law firms would not touch these cases even though they would defend known terrorists. //

But if they want to be combatants, they have no reason to complain when they become targets. //

Mrminwnc T_Edward
a day ago
When you’re used to special treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination.

When starting a reform process, the rule generally is: You only need to fire one person. After that, word gets around quickly.

It only took the Trump administration one action to impose the funding equivalent of a termination. Columbia University got the “set an example” treatment late last week. The White House announced Friday that they would immediately cancel $400 million in grants and other funding. The new Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism (JTFCAS) warned that they could eventually end billions of dollars in financial support for the school’s refusal to defend its Jewish students and faculty from organized anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns.

That got the attention of two other Poison Ivies yesterday. //

Get ready for more financial reckonings in Academia. The JTFCAS sent warning letters to 60 schools today over their failures to abide by federal law in ensuring access for students regardless of religious affiliation. "All 60 colleges — which include high-profile institutions like Columbia University, Yale University and University of Southern California – are under investigation by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights,” reports Higher Ed Dive. Five of those investigations have apparently escalated: //

Update: A number of commenters wonder why we're funding Academia at all. Just to remind everyone, I've been making that argument for the last 18 months. But this is an excellent start in the "hoist by own petard" sense.

Data from PEW Research shows that rifles of all kinds–including those Democrats label “assault weapons”–accounted for only four percent of U.S. gun murders in 2023.

PEW gathered data via FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, which showed there were 17,927 gun murders in the United States in 2023. Of those murders, 13,529, or 53 percent, were committed with handguns.

Four percent of the U.S. gun murders were committed with rifles and one percent were committed with shotguns. //

knives are used twice as often to kill as rifles in 2021 and 3.5 times more in 2020. //

These kinds of weapons aren't the threat many like to claim. They're not even essential for mass killers to rack up high body counts, as the Virginia Tech killing amply demonstrates.

But they are useful for enabling a population to fight back against a tyrannical government or a foreign invader, which is the whole point of the Second Amendment in the first place.

In 1935, General Billy Mitchell, testifying before the House of Representatives, said:

I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world… I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.

This may be one of the most prescient geopolitical observations of the early 20th century. Alaska is, as I write regularly, the crown of the Pacific, and the Aleutians control the gateway to the Arctic. We ignore that at our peril. //

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Excellent history of the forgotten WWII front in the Aleutians: The 1000 Mile War.

Highly readable. Japanese were relentless and dug in up and down these remote islands, where the weather itself caused the death of more US soldiers than active warfare.

Their story is as compelling as the War in the Pacific and the European theater - just buried and forgotten as the site of a few military missteps when the weather itself forced errors.

Interforce rivalry and personalities played roles too: was this going to be an Army/Airforce War or a Navy War? But it did leave us with the AlCan Highway and now annual arrival of the millions of Alaska visitors every summer who typically know very little about why this highway was even built in the first place - just one of many challenge fighting in the American Ice Box.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA): Well, Mr. Khalil will receive due process because by now his lawyer has already filed a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Khalil was involved in the protests. He was a Columbia student under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. If you support a terrorist organization you can be deported. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Mr. Khalil's side of the story, I understand to be that I don't support Hamas, I just support Palestinians. All I did was file some -- post some Facebook posts. I wasn't involved in any of the illegal protests or the illegal occupation of student buildings or physically intimidating the Jewish people and Jewish students. We'll find out who's right.

The Immigration and Naturalization Act, though, is fairly broad. And if the administration can show acts directly and probably indirectly supporting Hamas, they'll deport him. And he should be deported, if that's what's shown in court.

TAPPER: It sounds like you think that the evidence should be presented, which is obviously the definition of habeas corpus, produce it.

KENNEDY: Yeah.

TAPPER: So, that makes a lot of sense to me as well. //

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Really straightforward why Mahmoud Khalil is getting deported

You don’t get to endorse or espouse terrorist activity as a non-citizen - even if you have a green card

Bye bye
10:12 PM · Mar 9, 2025

Simon then started running clips of "Gutfeld!," which hypocritical MSNBC apparently believes qualify as "insult conservatism." One example, which was said by Greg in a monologue:

"According to a new survey, nearly 10% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ. The other 90 percent identify as who gives a [expletive]."

Again, Gutfeld was unfazed:

What I meant to get at is that nobody cares. I actually have a very serious, I guess, philosophy about identity politics. I think it's a terrible thing to lead with. I am all for being an individual. And when you start talking about these characteristics that define you, it's actually not defining you at all. And you can see the misery on people's faces who kind of buy into identity politics.

Again, how true — with the best example being the "self-identity" focus of a so-called "transgender" whose "self-identity" is defined by a homogenous group.

After going back and forth about "racist" this and "racist" that, Gutfeld tried to explain his show to Simon — to no avail.

See, this is what's great, is I'm explaining - I have to explain this show to you, which is actually more entertaining to me than anything. It's like, I don't find this funny at all. That's the point. You need to get outside your bubble, Scott — and have some fun.

Ahh, and not to nitpick with Greg, but leftists are incapable of having fun while spewing bilge about President Donald Trump or anything conservative. As the late conservative political commentator Charles Krauthammer observed:

Conservatives think liberals are stupid, and liberals think conservatives are evil.

In the eyes of Greg Gutfeld, both sides should be able to "have fun" while disagreeing.

Unfortunately, the left disagrees. //

Red blip in a blue city
a day ago
Hilarious, "insult conservatism". The lib late night shows + SNL have been a non-stop hatefest on all things right of Teddy Kennedy for going on 25 years. //

NavyVet Red blip in a blue city
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When Greg jokes about leftist lunacy, he's poking fun and getting laughs. If they are insulted, it is due to lack of intelligence.

In contrast, when the media(D) insults us with labels like "racist" "fascist" and "Nazi", they are doing it in hate and deliberately insulting us with the intent that it offends and angers us.

While the media(D) tactics continue to offend, they no longer anger, because they have been doing it for so long, that we have been desensitized. We just consider the source, and recognize that it is projection, therefore they are describing themselves, not us. //

Jim Stewart
a day ago
Old Scott nearly wet his diaper over that joke about Asians not being able to drive. Come on pal, lighten up.

I love jokes about white people!

Why are white prison gangs the scariest? Because they had a fair trial and still ended up in prison.

Why is it called white noise?
Because if it wasn’t white, it’d be called disturbing the peace.

Sure, white people can't say the "N word" but at least we can say things like, "Thanks for the warning, Officer" and, "Happy birthday, Dad."

I’d like to add that obstacles making silencer ownership difficult and more arduous are also an assault on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). //

cite case studies demonstrating that tinnitus has been found to increase the risk of suicide as it causes emotional stress that can be extreme, bringing on anxiety, depression, or sleep disorders.

Every year, I would get some ATF agent with an IQ barely equivalent to his shoe size to grin as if about to profoundly put me in my place before saying, “Well, you don’t have to shoot guns,” to which I would always respond, “Neither does anyone need to be able to dine in at every restaurant in the city, but they still need to provide ramps and wheelchair access.” //

“Suppressors are a vital tool for responsible gun owners that protect hearing, enhance safety, and reduce firearm noise—but thanks to Hollywood and federal overreach, they’ve been unfairly vilified… Law-abiding Americans shouldn’t have to endure months of red tape and pay an additional tax just to access a safety accessory. The SHUSH Act puts an end to this unnecessary bureaucratic red tape, eliminates the federal tax, and prevents state overreach by treating suppressors like any other firearm accessory,” says Congressman Cloud. //

First, even if it could make the shot itself perfectly silent, most ammunition is supersonic. It's going to break the sound barrier as it flies through the air. Sonic booms are a real thing, folks, and you can't just make that go away in something that fast with no throttle control. Subsonic ammo does exist, of course, but that means giving up power in many cases unless you use some particular rounds. Most of them, however, aren't subsonic as designed. //

But as a safety device, it works. It works well.

It reduces the sound of the shot enough that you're not going to have quite as much issue. In many cases, you still need hearing protection, but not universally so. Even when you do need it, though, the sound is still lessened to such a degree that others in the general area of your range or your property won't have their own peace and quiet disturbed. //

Pat Hines
2 days ago
It's bill number H.R. 850.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/850/text