The Selective Service system currently requires men aged 18-25 to register for the draft. An amendment that would extend this to women as well was adopted in a 35-24 vote by the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill …
Read More »‘F-15s and nuclear weapons’: Biden brushes off point of 2nd Amendment & undermines ‘insurrection’ narrative in gun control push
“Those who say the blood of patriots y’know and all the stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government. Well the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots,” Biden said on Wednesday, announcing new gun control actions from the White House. “What’s …
Read More »With every other argument against the 2nd Amendment failing, a professor has finally found the killer blow: yep, it’s ‘RACIST’
Anderson, an African-American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta, is promoting her new book, which provides critical race theorists the dual benefits of vilifying the founding fathers and telling us that the gun rights enshrined in our Constitution were not about individual liberty but – you guessed it – …
Read More »Prince Harry calling the First Amendment ‘bonkers’ is a bad move if he’s hoping to ingratiate himself with Americans
After causing plenty of controversy in his native UK by walking away from royal life, Prince Harry has now angered his new neighbors across the pond. While appearing on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s podcast “Armchair Expert,” the polarizing Duke labeled America’s First Amendment “bonkers.” And though many of Harry’s …
Read More »US Supreme Court agrees to hear landmark 2nd Amendment case on carrying handguns in public
Two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the NRA are looking to overturn a decision by a lower court, which rejected their challenge to the state’s gun regulations. New York is one of just eight US states which currently limit a gun owner’s right to carry their weapon …
Read More »‘Commies with guns’: Second Amendment is racially motivated, says ultra left-wing pro-gun group
It’s a side of the debate that most of the world has never heard. The pro-gun lobby is the domain of right-wing, conservative Republicans in America. Or is it? The Socialist Rifle Association is everything the stereotypical gun community isn’t, apart from their steadfast commitment to bear arms. Since forming in …
Read More »Tough night shift: Senate passes an amendment to Covid bill… just to vote on an almost identical one later
The Senate voted on Friday night against adjourning business until Saturday morning, ensuring that senators would stay on Capitol Hill overnight voting on a flood of amendments to President Biden’s long-anticipated Covid-19 relief bill, a $1.9 trillion package that includes $1,400 stimulus checks for eligible Americans and bailouts for state …
Read More »US House advances bill to urge Vice President to invoke 25th Amendment despite Pence saying ‘NO’
The resolution cleared its first hurdle in the House after a 222-204 vote on Tuesday, with lawmakers voting along party lines. However, while no Republicans openly sided with their rivals across the aisle, seven GOP lawmakers did not cast a vote for the bill, none of whom have yet weighed …
Read More »Cuomo’s First Amendment-flouting ban of the Confederate flag opens the door to unprecedented attacks on free speech
Signed into law on Tuesday, the new bill bars anyone from selling or displaying “symbols of hate” on New York state property unless the symbol appears in a book, “digital medium,” or within an educational context. The definition of “symbols of hate” is left deliberately open-ended, with the legislation noting …
Read More »Critics remind Cuomo of the First Amendment after he bans sale of Confederate flag & ‘other hate symbols’ on state property
The law bans the sale of Confederate flags, swastikas and other so-called hate symbols – a restriction that would require the government to determine what speech is hateful. Announcing the bill on Tuesday, the governor argued that the legislation will “safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-instilling effects of these abhorrent …
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