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By Cam Edwards According to the gun control lobby, Republicans have been bought and paid for by the NRA and the firearms industry, while Democrats are bravely standing up to the special interests and putting public safety ahead of campaign contributions. There's just one little problem with that narrative. As the Everytown-funded website The Trace reports, gun control organizations have outspent gun rights groups by more than 13-1 in the 2026 election cycle.  That hasn't stopped Giffords executive director Emma Brown from making accusations of corruption a central part of the group's midterm strategy. “Our midterm strategy is combining a weak-on-public-safety message with a corruption message, arguing that incumbent House Republicans have sold out to the gun lobby and the gun industry,” Brown told The Trace. “They’ve made it far easier for dangerous people to access firearms, endangering the lives of kids in school, and making it harder for law enforcement to do their ...

By Benjamin Bartee Following the 2019 repeal of all religious exemptions for vaccine mandates statewide, New York Public Health™ authorities have been crusading to crush one of the last remnants of resistance in their jurisdiction: the Amish and their private schools. In so doing, the state issued over a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of fines to private Amish schools in 2022 that failed to comply with Albany’s edicts. Related: WebMD Claims COVID Vax ‘Still Crucial for Children’ The Amish have thus far refused to pay. Via Reason (emphasis added): From 1966 to 2019, unvaccinated students were allowed to attend school in New York with a medical exemption issued by a physician, or if they "hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs" opposed to vaccination… Officials amended the state's legal code in June 2019 to remove all religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates . The legislator who introduced the bill, Jeffrey Dinowitz (D–Bronx), attributed the outbreak [of ...

By Bob Hoge A new report Thursday alleges that CBS News insiders tried to downplay the significance of the Mary Peltola “Decoy Dan” scandal, in which the New York Times accused her Alaska Senate campaign of trying to deceive the electorate by recruiting a man with the same name as her GOP rival, incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, to get his name on the ballot. If true, it is grossly unethical, and the investigations underway by the Department of Justice and the State of Alaska may determine that it is, in fact, criminal. But over at CBS News, some of their journalists reportedly think it’s no big deal : CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss faced "significant resistance" from staff at Thursday's 9 a.m. meeting about the growing Alaska ballot controversy, network insiders told Fox News Digital . "This is a scandal," Weiss declared to staff. According to multiple sources on the call, several CBS News staffers pushed back at Weiss' enthusiasm over the bombshell Ne...

Self-styled ‘principled conservatives’ and the dissident influencers who claim to oppose them are working toward the same goal: sinking Trump’s political movement.  By  Samuel Kimzey The 2026 midterm elections will come down to President Trump and his supporters versus everyone else who hates America and is willing to lose politically to the left. The Democrats obviously hope to use the unpopularity of the Iran War and resulting higher fuel prices to leverage a sweeping victory. Since 2016 we’ve witnessed a decade of disqualifying animus against Trump, the only viable vehicle for conservative national policy accomplishments, openly displayed by prominent figures who claim to be conservative. We are now in yet another election cycle in which those cheering for Republican defeat are not confined to officially Democrat ranks. ‘Never Trump’ Still Fighting Retiring Republican Sen. Tom Tillis, R-N.C., long hostile to Trump and personally mentored by Senate Majority Leader Mit...

By Mariane Angela A federal judge refused to force California to set aside mailed ballots from more than 20,000 people the Justice Department says are noncitizens. In a 26-page order issued late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David Carter said Washington cannot dictate how California counts its votes. The judge, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, opened by referring back to Ronald Reagan, who called the right to vote the crown jewel of American liberties. Granting the request would upend a vote already in progress, scare off the people running it, and discard ballots citizens had lawfully cast, he wrote. Congress never handed the executive branch the power it was claiming, the judge found. The criminal statute the department leaned on makes it a crime for a noncitizen to vote, but says nothing about forcing states to segregate ballots or stop counting. A separate law bars systematic removals from the rolls inside 90 days of an election, and he said tem...

By Bob Hoge We’ve reported on Virginia's Democrat governor Abigail Spanberger extensively because she ran as somewhat of a moderate but is governing like AOC on steroids. She’s aggressively pushed for DEI , refused to cooperate with the federal government even as her residents get murdered , and has morphed into a foe of the Second Amendment . She also said on the campaign trail that she wasn’t interested in gerrymandering, but then once in office she quickly abandoned that stance and went all-in on redistricting . Other than that, she’s been great. Her latest gaffe came Thursday as she posted a self-congratulatory tweet that extolled her immense virtue by claiming that her cabinet was the most diverse in Virginia history. There are just a couple of things wrong with her message; I’m guessing you’ll spot them: I’m proud to have the most talented, hardest-working cabinet in Virginia’s history. They are also the most diverse cabinet Virginia has ever seen. Every single one of ou...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK - The US filed a lawsuit accusing Google of failing ‌to give an employee his old job back or find him a similar job after he took one year of military leave as a US Army reservist. Thursday's lawsuit in Manhattan federal court is a rare instance of the US government suing a private employer for violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), which protects the civilian employment of military personnel called to active duty. According ⁠to the complaint, Mark Davisson spent 2-1/2 years before taking military leave as a Google key account executive, handling cloud services accounts for asset manager BlackRock and hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and managing the US business of the former Credit Suisse. Upon Davisson's return from leave in May 2023, Google allegedly refused to let him handle any customer accounts, depriving him of career advancement though he kept his pay and title. Employee fired ...

By Jasmyn Jordan CLIVE, Iowa –Republican Iowa gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn took aim at the establishment media during a Make Iowa Healthy Again rally on Wednesday, accusing the press of contributing to public forgetfulness about the past and what is at stake ahead of the midterm elections, while Steak ‘n Shake Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes challenged media portrayals of the Trump administration’s efforts to improve Americans’ health. MAHA PAC hosted the October 28 “Get Out the Vote Rally” in Clive, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines, ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. Speakers included Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Lahn, Steak ‘n Shake Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes, and Republican candidates, elected officials, and health, consumer, and agricultural advocates. Former HHS senior adviser and current Steak ‘n Shake Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes told attendees, “I want to tell a little story about what the media will never portray.” “So when I went into the admin, I watched Secreta...

C.S. Lewis on the lost ideal of the Christian gentleman and the fate of the West By SEAN BERUBE It’s an all too popular adage today that “chivalry is dead.” The saying is often invoked to lament the poor manners of men who lack the qualities of a gentleman, whether that means holding a door open or offering a lady their seat on the bus. But chivalry had begun to die long before the saying became commonplace, and far more has been lost than the simple courtesies of a civilized society. In fact, CS Lewis wrote an entire essay lamenting the death, and subsequent need, of chivalry. His argument is that the abandonment of chivalry means more than the death of the virtuous man, but the destruction of civilization itself. Today, we’ll revisit this argument to rediscover the full meaning of chivalry, and why its the life-blood of a healthy, functioning civilization. Lewis begins his essay, The Necessity of Chivalry, by positing a simple question: “What, you may ask, is the ...