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By Cam Edwards In the Heller decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that one limitation on the right to keep and carry arms is that "the sorts of weapons protected were those 'in common use at the time,'" adding that the Court thinks "that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of 'dangerous and unusual weapons.'"  The New York Times believes it's uncovered a smoking gun in Scalia's opinion: a single word that, according to the paper and gun control advocates, has distorted Second Amendment jurisprudence for nearly two decades. Scalia's first citation for the phrase "dangerous and unusual" was Sir William Blackstone (though he also cited 11 other sources).  As the Times reports, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in 1769, actually uses the phrase "dangerous or unusual." And the paper (along with gun control advocates) contends that ...

By Catherine Salgado An illegal alien who is somehow back in our country and driving despite four prior deportations put an Utah man in critical condition in a hit-and-run. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared details about the Utah crash with Border Hawk on Thursday. Mexican national Maria Del Rocio Morales Ruvalcaba is the culprit. At about 6 p.m. on November 4, an unnamed 25-year-old man was crossing a street with friends in Spanish Fork when a minivan careened into him. Border Hawk stated that the driver, who DHS has now confirmed was Morales Ruvalcaba, “continued onward without stopping.”  As of Wednesday, the young man was still in critical condition at a local hospital, Border Hawk added. On Nov. 10, Spanish Fork Police arrested Morales Ruvalcaba after locating a Dodge van with significant windshield damage that matched the description of the at-fault vehicle. Morales Ruvalcaba was booked into the Utah County Jail on a charge of Third-Degree Felony Leaving t...

By Ward Clark It's hard to overstate how dependent we've become on our internet connectivity. More and more software has gone to a fully online, cloud-based profile, rather than having the big programs physically installed in their entirety on your computer. That comes with risks of its own, of course, including the loss or even just the degradation of connections.  That would appear to be what is happening across much of the U.S. today with Microsoft's near-ubiquitous Microsoft 365 package . Microsoft 365 users across multiple regions experienced connectivity errors Thursday as the tech giant worked to resolve a widespread outage caused by elevated system loads. The "elevated load" wasn't driven by an increase in traffic, according to an alert from the Microsoft Admin Center. Instead, it was the result of a "number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, straining the remaini...

By Matt Margolis When Greta Thunberg started skipping school to protest climate change back in 2018, many of us scoffed at her and at the media that gushed over her, propelling her to international fame. We saw what was really happening: a brainwashed child being exploited by her parents and the media. Well, now even Thunberg seems to realize all that climate nonsense was a joke. She has simply traded being brainwashed for one cause for being brainwashed by another. A new documentary caught Thunberg cackling at the news that Fridays for Future, the climate movement she founded, still holds demonstrations. Her activism, of course, has moved on to the pro-Palestinian crusade. Worth noting, Fridays for Future was her baby. She launched it in Sweden at age 15 by ditching class every Friday to demand climate action, and the media turned it into a global phenomenon that pulled millions of students out of school and into the streets. The moment comes in the newly released documentary On ...

By Victoria Taft Democrats on the House Oversight Committee looking into how the government dealt with the Jeffrey Epstein case tried so hard to tie Donald Trump to the sex pervert that they tampered with some of the “evidence” they leaked to the media. Oh, yes, they did, according to the head of the committee, James Comer. Indeed, their lies blew a 10 out of 10 on the Adam Schiff Prevarication Scale. And the guy behind it is the same one who will ascend to chair of the Oversight Committee come January, Robert Garcia. I’ll be writing more about that empty suit soon, so keep an eye over here for it. He conducted himself badly during these depositions, which are probably a tease for what’s to come. Comer says Garcia’s gang spent more time trying to frame Trump than trying to find justice for the victims. Now that’s saying something, considering that the Democrats took every opportunity to grandstand with the women who said they were survivors of the sicko and pretended that Trump wa...

By Rusty Weiss President Trump said Thursday that the United States no longer needs a deal with Iran, declaring that "those days have long since passed." Instead, he's directed Vice President JD Vance to train his sights on the ever-growing crime and corruption taking place in Democrat-run cities and states. Trump singled out Minnesota, California, and Illinois as "poorly run, corrupt disasters" in a Truth Social post earlier this morning, warning that "Billions of Dollars (are) being stolen each and every month." He also claimed the federal budget could be balanced by straightening out the massive corruption alone. Then the president turned to Tehran. "We don’t need a deal with Iran," he insisted. "Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait! Thank you for your attention to this matter." BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS UNITED STATES DOESN'T NEED A DEAL...

By Victor Davis Hanson The MAGA divide over Iran isn’t a neoconservative revival but a clash between Jacksonian interventionists and isolationists, with accusations of neocon influence obscuring the real debate. After the midterm wipeout, divisive blame-gaming erupted on the Right. One particularly bitter divide was over supposed “neocon” interventionism and the Iran war. But who are—or were—the neocons, and what is neoconservatism? The word, clearly, means “new conservatives.” It was first used to characterize former liberals and Democrats in the 1970s who were turned off by their erstwhile party’s soft-on-crime domestic policies and especially by its cheery notion that we no longer needed to fear Soviet communism. They were even more appalled by Jimmy Carter’s paralytic reaction to Iran’s hostage-taking. In reaction, a number of public intellectuals and officials—such as Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, James Q. Wilson, Bill Bennett, and Jeane Kirkpatrick—began supporting Ronald...