Mike Bales

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery.
You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

Dropped Wallet Leads Tulsa Police Straight To Burglar Shot By Homeowner

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa homeowner did exactly what a law-abiding gun owner is supposed to do when a stranger broke into his house overnight, and the suspected burglar is now recovering from a gunshot wound because of it.

According to News On 6, the break-in happened just before midnight near 21st Street and Mingo Road. The homeowner spotted a man outside on his security cameras, watched him look through windows and then saw him come in through a back door.

This is the part that should stick with every one of us who keeps a firearm for protection. The homeowner came down from the second floor and met the intruder inside his own home. Police said the man turned aggressive, and the homeowner fired a single shot.

The suspect ran off after being shot but dropped his wallet on the way out. Investigators used the identification inside it to track him while officers set up a perimeter around the neighborhood.

When officers found him nearby, police said he fought them and bit one of the officers during the arrest. Tulsa Police Lt. JT Snoddy said the man appeared to be impaired, telling reporters that none of the force applications seemed to faze him at all.

Only after taking him into custody did officers realize he had been shot in the chest. He was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery. Authorities believe he is about 46 years old and have not released his name. The bitten officer was also treated and is expected to be fine.

A man who chose to break into an occupied home at midnight and then square up with the person living there found out why that is a bad idea. The homeowner walked away unharmed. That is the outcome the Second Amendment is built to protect.

Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution.

The Trump administration is looking to push artificial intelligence in the U.S. military as it faces pressure from military leaders and companies to implement safeguards.

In a recent annual special forces conference in Tampa, Florida, Adm. Frank Bradley, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, told attendees that troops “have to be very careful about how we come to (AI’s) employment and its inspiration into the delivery of lethality.”

“We, as humans, have to have the confidence that … it’s going to deliver violence only where we intend it to be delivered,” Bradley said.

In response to the remarks, a Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Monterey Herald that the Pentagon was focussing on efforts to make “functional battlefield tools” with AI to help troops identify targets quickly.

Meanwhile, U.S. Special Operations Command officials said AI should not be a tool for eradicating targets, but to assist troops to focus on their mission. Sgt. Maj. Andrew Krogman said at the conference that AI could be used for administrative tasks or to modernize workflows.

AI has already been used by the military to identify targets, including the use of Palantir’s Maven Smart System, which integrates Anthropic’s Claude AI to speed up targeting and planning.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to integrate AI into the military.

Hegseth said he would reject AI models that “won’t allow you to fight wars,” in a recent speech at Elon Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX in south Texas. He also said that military AI systems should operate “without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications.”

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Scott Pelley fired from ’60 Minutes,’ deepening turmoil at CBS News

CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he reportedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job.

The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program, days after a leadership overhaul.

Pelley, 68, criticized management Monday during a fiery staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the program’s new executive producer installed by Weiss last week, according to a detailed report on the Status website.

In a termination notice obtained Tuesday night by The Associated Press, Bilton, a technology journalist and filmmaker with no traditional broadcast news experience, accused Pelley of carrying out an “ambush” against him.

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” the letter states.

Pelley said in a statement that “60 Minutes” has lost its DNA under new management. He accused them of asking him to “inject falsehoods and bias” into his work, without sharing specific details.

Pelley is accused of a ‘performative display of hostility’
Status, which said it had a recording of the Monday meeting, reported that Pelley had said Weiss was brought in to kill the news outlet, “and she’s doing exactly that.” Weiss was not present for the meeting.

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Insurrection Barbie:

Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained Presbyterian Church (USA) minister and professor of religious studies at Elon University in North Carolina. In a sermon, she said: “If Jesus were giving his sermon today, he might also have said, “Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.”

Peters also stated that if Jesus were alive today, he would be a clinic escort or an “abortion doula” holding women’s hands and offering support during abortions. She serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood and personally escorts patients at abortion clinics once a month.

This is not Christianity. This is literally insane. Progressive Christianity is an oxymoron.

BLUF
There’s no other way to interpret this, and not a single Democrat will distance themselves from Krugman’s comments or condemn them. In fact, they’ll repeat them, as they have countless times in the past.

Paul Krugman Calls for a Purging of the United States, and Guess Who He’s Talking About

Former New York Times reporter Paul Krugman, who worked for the outlet for more than two decades, is clearly grasping for relevance in his retirement and he’s doing so by calling for violence against Trump supporters.

The guy who once said the Internet’s impact on the economy would be no different than the fax machine thinks the country needs a ‘thorough purging’ and he’s targeting MAGA as the group that needs to go.

“We need to de-fang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections,” Krugman said. So they’re already laying the groundwork to claim that whatever Republican succeeds President Trump will somehow be even worse than President Trump, who was literally Hitler, according to Democrats.

Krugman wasn’t finished, however.

“But beyond that, we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States,” Krugman continued, “we need a de-MAGAfication and … I’m not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the de-Nazification that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.”

Right, and Krugman would probably vote for Graham Platner if he lived in Maine.

Here’s the entire video.

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“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1823

More Virginia prosecutors oppose gun ban enforcement

(The Center Square) – A growing number of Virginia prosecutors and sheriffs are publicly signaling they do not plan to enforce or prosecute certain violations under the commonwealth’s new assault firearms restrictions before the law takes effect July 1.

The expanding list of statements follows earlier opposition from several commonwealth’s attorneys after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Senate Bill 749 and House Bill 217 in May.

The law prohibits the future import, sale, manufacture, purchase or transfer of assault firearms and magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds. Existing owners are grandfathered under the law.

Violations are punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor carrying up to 12 months in jail and fines up to $2,500. A conviction also carries a three-year prohibition on possessing, purchasing or transporting firearms.

Since The Center Square’s earlier reporting on the issue, additional prosecutors and sheriffs across Virginia have issued public statements, formal memorandums and joint letters raising constitutional concerns and signaling they may decline prosecution under portions of the law.

In Clarke County, Sheriff Travis M. Sumption and Commonwealth’s Attorney Matthew E. Bass issued a joint statement saying charges and prosecutions under the new statutes “will not be enforced in Clarke County against nonviolent offenders, where no other criminal conduct is alleged.”

The statement cited constitutional concerns, pending litigation and limited local resources.

In Warren County, Commonwealth’s Attorney John S. Bell issued a formal memorandum stating his office would not prosecute law-abiding citizens for the possession, purchase, sale, transfer or transportation of firearms, ammunition or magazines that were lawful before the legislation took effect, pending constitutional challenges.

Bell also wrote his office would not devote resources to prosecuting charges brought solely under the assault firearms ban or related public carry restrictions.

Goochland County Commonwealth’s Attorney John Lumpkins Jr. similarly wrote that his office would “decline to initiate or pursue prosecutions” based on alleged violations of Senate Bill 749.

In Appomattox County, Commonwealth’s Attorney Leslie Fleet wrote in a public statement that he and the county sheriff were “in total agreement” they would not enforce the assault weapons and public carry bans because they believe the laws are unconstitutional.

Patrick County Commonwealth’s Attorney Dayna Kendrick Bobbitt also publicly raised constitutional concerns and cited prosecutorial discretion under Virginia law in a May 29 statement to residents.

Other prosecutors previously identified by The Center Square included officials in Powhatan, Spotsylvania, Pulaski, Smyth and Scott counties.

Democrats and statewide officials have criticized the pushback.

Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones previously said commonwealth’s attorneys are expected to enforce Virginia law when the restrictions take effect July 1.

“Gun violence is a key driver of violent crime, and the leading cause of death for young people in our Commonwealth,” Rae Pickett, a spokeswoman for Jones’ office, previously told The Center Square. “The General Assembly passed critical legislation to reduce violent crime and protect our communities and the Governor signed it into law. Commonwealth’s attorneys are elected to enforce our laws, which is what we expect them to do when these laws take effect on July 1.”

Multiple lawsuits seeking to block the firearms restrictions before July 1 remain pending in both state and federal court.

Gun rights organizations including the Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun Owners of America, Virginia Citizens Defense League, National Rifle Association and National Shooting Sports Foundation have filed separate legal challenges arguing the law violates constitutional protections under the Second Amendment and the Virginia Constitution.

Grassroots Legislative Report—June 1, 2026

By Tanya Metaksa

What’s New—Trump Administration: Department of the Interior: On May 26, the Department of the Interior announced significant steps to expand hunting and fishing access on lands and waters it manages; House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing: ATF Director Robert Cekada testified at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on May 14 about ATF oversight; 

Oregon Initiative Petition 28 (IP28), officially titled the PEACE Act: Extreme: Anti-hunting initiative to ban all cruelty to animals. As of late May 29, backers have submitted more than 120,000 signatures for the hunting ban referendum; 

State Legislation: Arizona: Governor Kathie Hobbs vetoed SB1058;

California: Four bills are awaiting Senate action; 

Connecticut: On May 26th, Governor Ned Lamont signed H5043;

 Florida: HB 7031-E includes holiday sales tax exemptions for ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories (including suppressors); 

New Hampshire: HB609: The bill is scheduled for votes in both houses on June 4, 2026;

New York: Governor Kathy Hochul signed the budget bill that included more gun restrictions on May 27; 

South Carolina: H3872 was signed by Governor Henry MacMaster; 

Virginia: HB1525 included immediate effective date, and ten Virginia prosecutors have publicly stated they will not enforce Governor Abigail Spanberger’s new “assault firearm” restrictions,

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