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In a suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta, a mother exercised her fundamental American right to bear arms and protect her children from an intruder during a home invasion yesterday afternoon. A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety...

I recently shared some dialog between San Diego citizen activists regarding the roles of social and fiscal conservatism in deciding "tea party" agenda items. Author and "Manosphere" pundit Aaron Clarey (Captain Capitalism) recently offered his very independent perspective, Why Communism Killed the American Muse.  It highlights the...

I don't normally prowl the threads of Democratic Underground, but was interested to read comments regarding one of their complaints about an increase in social security withholding tax after Rush Limbaugh remarked on it today. Surprise! The author self-deleted the comment. I guess being featured on Limbaugh's...

In my Saturday Night Race Card post a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was researching a book on real estate fraud and corruption. The main characters in my narrative are a couple who look like you and me and seem perfectly lovely.  But in...

Last night's broadcast of ABC World News featured a segment in which Diane Sawyer interviewed all twenty female U.S. Senators in the newly sworn in 113th Congress. The segment touched on an array of issues, from contraception, to abortion, to who they thought would be the...

A little over two years ago, the newly-minted Speaker of the House John Boehner essentially said that Tea Party freshman would soon have an “adult moment,” when their principles came in to contact with Beltway politics. Dawn Wildman is a state coordinator for the California Tea...

An edict was issued on Wednesday by Iranian authorities ordering Isfahan's 1.5 million residents to leave the city because pollution in the area "has reached emergency levels." Skeptical of Iran's explanation for the evacuation, some believe it to have been prompted by more than just your...

A year ago, sixteen scientists wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal to explain that there is “no compelling scientific argument” for “drastic actions on global warming", despite the fact that the media continues reporting there is "incontrovertible" proof otherwise. One of those scientists is...

The Putnam County (NY) Clerk has refused to give the Lower Hudson Journal News data on gun permit holders. The publication of gun permit holder information by the Journal News for Rockland County caused a firestorm of controversy, including retaliatory publication of information about...

The Council on American Islamist Relations (CAIR) demanded the media drop the term "Islamist" in a commentary piece today from communications director Ibrahim Hooper, ISLAM-OPED: Media Urged to Drop Term 'Islamist' in New Year. In it, Hooper laments that the term "Islamist" is "used in an almost...

Updates: John Boehner was relected, but just barely. It looked for a short while like he may not make it, but once it became clear he would get a majority of those voting, some "conservatives" who had not voted when first called decided...