So, That’s Why We Know So Little About Trump’s Assassin

The observation was well-warranted: We know more about Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, than we do about Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to assassinate President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. Crooks was shot and killed during the attempt, but not after a slew of security breaches and all-around ineptitude from the Secret Service was exposed.

It was one of the few times where Democrats and Republicans found the Secret Service’s initial reasoning and demeanor after the attempt to be wholly unacceptable. Well, there seems to be a reason why Crooks has evaporated into the ether: the FBI is allegedly suppressing all information about the Trump assassin, which reportedly contains a possible lead on an accomplice.

Continue reading “”

BLUF
There is no more just and moral war than the war against Islamic terrorism. If the west fails, the west will fall and billions will die. There is no running away from it. It’s coming.

Cheryl E

This is going to hopefully be my most eye-opening thread I’ve written to date. I only regret that like all my other threads, this will never be seen by those who need to see it. I wish the big accounts would share it so the reality and truth can be seen by everyone.
There are so many people I wish I could tag and who would read it and share it, because it’s a history few talk about today that is so important and so frighteningly identical to everything that’s happening today. And incredibly, it has nothing to do with Israel and the Jewish people. It has everything to do with the United States of America.
When you read this thread, you’ll understand, and you’ll instantly be able to see events of today being identical to events from back then. If you are true to yourself, true to truth, you will see that the hero today in our modern times is @President Donald J. Trump @Donald J. Trump, @Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו and their administrations, including@SecRubio @Pete Hegseth @Pam Bondi @Elon Musk.
If you see otherwise, then not only are you unAmerican, but you’re simply not serious about truth. This thread has been written in conjunction with my wonderful friend, @(Salam) سلام, and as I mentioned, it touches on what @Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 said earlier in the week, and on information stated by @Stealth Medical and @Insurrection Barbie a few weeks ago (and I’m a massive fan of both). So let’s begin the journey to a time in history that tells the story of how it all began… the first ever: WAR ON TERROR

Continue reading “”

More Woke Craziness Uncovered by DOGE.

The Trump Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to uncover shameless misuse of our taxpayer dollars for insider payoffs and woke activism.

It really is stunning what our elected officials and unelected bureaucrats believe they have the right to spend our money on. Besides the Taliban condoms, European DEI musicals, and Iraqi muppets already exposed by DOGE, the new department led by Elon Musk has found yet more leftist nonsense and grift to cancel.

DOGE on Thursday revealed the following initiatives on which our money was set to be spent, but which fortunately have been shut down:

Continue reading “”

Knife Victory in Arkansas, Gov. Sanders Signs Preemption Law

Multiple United States Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that the Second Amendment applies to all bearable arms. Bearable arms include knives. Knife Rights, a knife owners’ organization, just secured a big win in Arkansas. Preemption legislation championed by the group was signed into law by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on February 25, 2025.

Knife Rights, a 501(c)(4), has been lobbying to have prohibitions on bladed arms removed across the country. One of their big pushes is having preemption put into the statute of state laws. With preemption, people don’t have to work through a patchwork of regulations that vary from town to town, and instead can follow one set of laws established by the state legislature.

“After over a decade of Knife Rights’ efforts, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed HB 1418 that enacts Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state, becoming Act 161,” a release from Knife Rights states. “The bill adds ‘Knives’ and ‘Knife-making components’ to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption statute. The new law is effective 91 days after the session ends, scheduled for April 11, but the session can be extended.”

Knife Rights has successfully deconstructed prohibitive laws across the country. They say that their first knife law preemption bill was in Arizona in 2010. Since then, Knife Rights has had knife preemption bills enacted in: Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and now in Arkansas.

Knife Rights’ release further states:

Knife Law Preemption is a Knife Rights’ criminal justice reform effort that repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere within a state.

Congratulations and our thanks to Rep. Joey Carr and Sen. Terry Rice for their support and successful sponsorship of this important bill. Thanks to all who used our Legislative Action center to help move this bill forward.

Victories like these are needed across the U.S. There are states where the bearing of bladed arms – even pocket knives or box cutters – is illegal without just cause. Some jurisdictions are so strict that if a person admits that they’ve armed themselves with a knife for self-defense, they’d be in violation of the law. This work helps to keep prohibitive regulations from becoming a reality in municipalities that are in states with preemption.

A hearty congratulations to Knife Rights and the good people of Arkansas for securing this victory. We applaud Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her leadership on this issue. We’ll be continuing to keep our eyes peeled for more Knife Rights supported legislation and lobbying efforts. Their work leads to the destruction of unconstitutional laws and regulations.
More information about Knife Rights:

Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 51 bills enacted repealing knife bans and protecting knife owners in 32 states and over 200 cities and towns since 2010.

Homeowner kills man during break-in

BASTROP — A Cedar Creek man was fatally shot after he reportedly broke into a Bastrop County home last week.

Edwin Garcia, 28, was killed in the early morning hours of Feb. 20 after a reported scuffle with a homeowner in KC Estates, just northeast of the Bastrop city limits. According to the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office, no charges will be filed against the homeowner, who is believed to have acted in self-defense.

Bastrop County deputies were first dispatched to Kelley Road around 4:18 a.m. for a wrecked vehicle.

About 10 minutes later, deputies responded to a burglary-in-progress call at a Kelley Road residence, according to Sheriff Maurice Cook.

Cook said deputies heard gunshots. When they arrived at the home where the burglary reportedly took place, they found a suspected intruder losing consciousness from his injuries.

Deputies attempted life-saving measures, but first responders could not revive Garcia. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Cook said.

Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Should Hold its Decision in VanDerStok
The new Administration should notify the Court of its change in position on ATF regulations.

As of now, of the nine cases argued in the Supreme Court’s October calendar, five have been decided.  Still pending is Garland v. VanDerStok, which was argued on October 8.  Before rendering a decision, the Court should give the Trump Administration an opportunity to express its views of the case with the Court.  It’s a challenge to the Final Rule of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) redefining and expanding the definitions of “firearm” and “firearm frame or receiver” that criminalizes conduct not made unlawful by Congress, with Second Amendment implications.

The new Administration is sure to hold views adverse to those presented by the Biden Administration. Indeed, the Plaintiffs’ arguments in the case are similar to those made by DOJ in defense of the previous, longstanding regulatory definition of “firearm” before the Biden Administration upended that definition in the Rule.

On February 7, the President issued the Executive Order Protecting Second Amendment Rights directing the Attorney General to examine all regulations and other actions of executive departments to assess any ongoing infringements on Second Amendment rights and to propose a plan of action to the President to protect those rights.  That includes rules promulgated by ATF and the positions taken by the United States in ongoing litigation that could affect the ability of Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Prompted by the Executive Order, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 29 other U.S. Senators wrote to ATF Deputy Director Marvin Richardson requesting that ATF immediately rescind several regulations promulgated by the Biden Administration, including the “so-called ‘ghost gun’ rule, which cracks down on law-abiding hobbyists who are exercising their Second Amendment rights to privately build firearms—a longstanding tradition that traces back to the Colonial Era.”  That’s the rule at issue here.

If the Supreme Court is on the verge of issuing an opinion in VanDerStok, it should delay to give Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris an opportunity to review the matter and advise the Court of the new Administration’s position.  That office must be overwhelmed by the deluge of cases in which the district courts are enjoining actions of the President, such as the DOGE efforts to weed out fraud and abuse from the executive branch and the effort to exclude birth-right citizenship to unlawful aliens and temporary visitors.

The SG’s Office should act quickly to ensure that the Court is advised of the Administration’s views on VanDerStock.  If it doesn’t make this a top priority, it risks a decision that is uninformed by the Executive Branch’s position on a constitutional right exercised by millions of Americans.

The Department of Justice has already taken steps to ask courts to put cases on hold to give counsel an opportunity to advise the courts on the government’s position consistent with the Executive Order.  In Colon v. BATFE (11th Cir.), a challenge to ATF’s pistol brace regulation, DOJ filed a motion to postpone the oral argument scheduled for March 5 and to hold the appeal in abeyance.  Similarly, in Kansas v. U.S. Attorney General (D. Kansas), involving ATF’s “engaged in the business rule,” the DOJ submitted a brief requesting that the Court stay the case, including all deadlines on pending motions, in light of the Executive Order.

In VanDerStok, the Department of Justice should promptly file a letter to notify the Court that the position of the United States has been reconsidered and that the government’s previously stated views no longer represent the United States’ position.  It recently filed such a letter in United States v. Skrmetti, advising the Court that the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge Tennessee’s ban on gender-altering medical “experimentation” on minors.  The letter did not seek further “likely duplicative briefing from the same parties about the same court of appeals judgment in the underlying suit.”

Here, it is unlikely that the Court would accept any further briefing from the United States, which in any event would likely duplicate the excellent briefing from the respondents and their amici.  I commented on two of such amici briefs here and here (which I coauthored).  Whatever alternative the Acting Solicitor General chooses, she should notify the Court quickly of the government’s change in position.

For a comprehensive review of the issue on the merits, see my article “The Meaning of ‘Firearm’ and ‘Frame or Receiver’ in the Federal Gun Control Act: ATF’s 2022 Final Rule in Light of Text, Precedent, and History.”

Don Kilmer

One of their markers of credibility when the left preached their altruistic egalitarian drivel, that was their substitute for political philosophy, was their supposed willingness to live a middle class life themselves. They told us everyone was supposed to be happy with modest off-the-shelf clothes, split-level homes in suburban neighborhoods, driving a Chevy or Ford, and a two-week vacation in Yellowstone. Some of them even lived that life for a while.

It was the greedy Capitalists and Robber-Barons who wanted piles of cash, tailor-made clothes, mansions (+ vacation homes), expensive cars, and exotic vacations.

Now it turns out Ayn Rand was right all along. Altruism is a racket.

Mila Joy

🚨 EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin’s $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

You won’t believe this – Representative Jamie Raskin, one of the key figures on the J6 Committee sho received a pardon from Biden, is linked to a MASSIVE $160 MILLION from USAID! 😱

Not only was he part of the squad trying to ‘keep us in check’ during the J6 hearings, but he’s also the representative for Global Communities, a giant USAID contractor that raked in $160,000,000 in 2023! 🤑💸

Is this what they call “following the money”? Talk about a conflict of interest!

Chief Justice John Roberts pauses judge’s order for Trump admin to pay foreign aid contractors by midnight

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge’s order that required the Trump administration to pay around $2 billion in foreign aid funds to contractors by midnight.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block the release of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, which the federal judge had required by midnight. Officials had said they would not be able to comply with the judge’s order.

The Trump administration said U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali’s order had created “an untenable payment plan at odds with the President’s obligations under Article II to protect the integrity of the federal fisc and make appropriate judgements(sic) about foreign aid – clear forms of irreparable harm.”

Any response from the groups that are fighting the Trump administration is due before Friday at 12 p.m., meaning the pause could potentially be relatively short-lived.

The Trump administration said it was eliminating more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world, putting numbers on its plans to eliminate the majority of U.S. development and humanitarian help abroad.

Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, have been found dead at their home, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office says.
In an interview with Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said there was no indication of foul play and their dog had also died.

He said Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 63 and a classical pianist, were found dead on Wednesday afternoon (Thursday AEDT) at their home in Santa Fe Summit north-east of the New Mexican city.

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Denise Avila said deputies responded to a request to do a welfare check at the home on Wednesday about 1.45pm and found the bodies.

Mendoza did not provide a cause of death for the actor, one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, or Arakawa, his wife of more than 30 years.

 The Great Unraveling.

For the last few weeks we have been watching one of the greatest collections of weaponized autistics in the world going happily about their task of unraveling exactly how much of our money was directed through previously undetected means for previously undetected and wholly curious ends. The Doge crew are going at it with the zeal and joy of unleashed rat terriers turned loose on a field of suitable prey, in tracking millions of dollars’ worth of our money into various progressive slush funds.

And interesting things are suddenly happening. Although coincidence is not causality, by any means … still, there are things that people on the conservativish side of things have wondered about for the last decade. Things like … strangely well-choreographed protests, with tens and hundreds of participants (who mostly have no obvious means of support) appearing almost like magic, carrying professionally-printed signs. Hmmm … we all wondered in times past: who is footing the bill for all this?

It may very well turn out that we all were – just as it has turned out that USAID grants went out to support practically every cause beloved by progressives nationally and world-wide. To non-governmental organizations playing hopscotch with international migrants. To champion the causes of LGBTWXYZLOL-whatever, around the world in our own back yard and in our elementary schools. To progressive media voices, like the BBC. What the ever-loving H-E-double hockey sticks? Don’t those smooth-talking euro-snob Jew-haters get enough moola from their own government, they have to vacuum up from us as well, like a coke addict snorting a line as long as the US-Canada border?

And while I’m on the topic of our very own dear media, what about the ongoing slaughter of careers and the driving rain of pink slips falling at CBS and NBC? Joy Reid, Lester Holt and other expensive performers are being pried out of their comfortable sinecures. Personalities whom I have never particularly followed and only hear about when they have been spectacularly stupid on camera and the conservative blogosphere takes notice. I imagine their superiors pried them loose, like a dentist with an impacted molar – but why now?

Is it because top management at the various media enterprises have suddenly realized with the election of Trump that a large chunk of the public ignores them – and they have not anything like the power that they thought they had? Have they figured out that advertising on their programs was money wasted, and business sponsors know it? This is a new world for our national establishment media organs, where CBS Sixty Minutes counts for naught, and a podcaster like Joe Rogan may have put Trump and Vance over the top with an important segment of the voting public through doing searching, free-form long-format interviews.

Or could it be that laundered government funds were holding up our own media, at least as much as paid advertising? Now that such funds are being short-stopped – is that another reason for the collapsing of our media’s house of cards, now that the gravy train has come to a halt?