The Left is determined to make not being a Democrat a social offense sufficient to deny you your job, your education, your access to financial and banking services, your right to free speech.
Like California. Like Venezuela. Like Cuba. Like Soviet Russia.
Cato files lawsuit challenging NFA ban on new manufacture
This is the ace-in-the-hole lawsuit I have been expecting would be filed as soon as we had enough justices on the Supreme Court to have a chance at winning a vote. It's basically arguing that you can't charge someone for not paying a tax (and registering your NFA firearm) if you aren't allowed to pay the tax. It's a completely common sense argument that strikes at the nature of the NFA as an end-run around the Constitution.
Because the laws which regular firearms would blatantly violate the 2nd Amendment if written to achieve their true purpose, they were instead instituted as tax laws, with taxes set at prohibitive rates for the time period ($200 in the 1930s) and eventually a ban on new tax transactions (1986). It wasn't that machine guns were made illegal; you just had to pay the tax. And you weren't allowed to pay the tax. (Existing, registered machine guns were grandfathered). The idea is to ban gradually, over time, as the limited supply wore out and no new supply became available.
It was always a constitutional problem that made the NFA laws vulnerable. But there was no point taking it to the Supreme Court until there was a chance of success. With honest justices, this is a winning argument. We just haven't had enough honest justices... until, maybe, now.
I'll be watching this one. This is how the Heller case started.
Steele, from whom McCabe and his FBI accepted foreign dirt, is himself a foreigner. Steele's claimed sources are Russians, not only foreigners but from a hostile foreign power.
I think this segment will make great campaign ads.
Google thinks it should "prevent the next Trump situation"
See, Google, the thing is... you're not supposed to be in charge of deciding who wins elections. And that's what "preventing the next Trump situation" means.
If your definition of fairness explicitly excludes half the country, it doesn't actually define fairness. And if your definition of "Nazi" includes Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and PragerU, it also doesn't actually define a Nazi.
For those who are not aware, the actual definition of Nazi is National Socialist.
Nearly a million illegals to be released into the country
Those are huge numbers. And it's never just one year; the invasion goes on year after year after year while Congress collects pay raises for doing nothing.
FBI use of "black ledger" against Manafort suspect
Well, we know the Steele dossier is bunk... wait, two documents?
Once again, the FBI relied upon a document they knew was fake to open an investigation, obtain search warrants, conduct armed SWAT-style raids, and generally abuse their authority to violate civil rights under color of law.
And, in addition, it appears the FBI leaked information to reporters and then cited their stories in court.
Meadows is asking the Justice Department IG to investigate. Good. But the courts need to get involved too, lest the requirement to testify truthfully become a dead letter.
It certainly appears that Rosenstein was giving Mueller free reign to dig up pretty much anything Mueller wanted to dig up. Many of the elements of the additional scope memo(s?) remain redacted, but at least one concerned Manafort colluding with Russian officials to influence the 2016 election. Notably, Manafort was never even charged with that. And that was just in the expanded scope memo we knew about; it now appears a third secret scope memo exists, dated October 20th, 2017.
I wonder how many of them are being added to Hillary's file? Since it was her server that created the issue, she should get tagged in all of them, even if she didn't send any of the messages herself. (And surely she did send at least some).
Remember all those separate individuals at the FBI, CIA, and State Department who keep insisting they were all hearing about Trump and Russia from Steele independently?
Woman considered bringing her gun to work because she was worried about coworkers. She chose not to because there was a rule against it. The next day, one of the coworkers she was worried about ignored the no-guns rule and shot up[ the place, killing her and 11 others.
Mueller alleges Russian intel ties in a Manafort contact... but the Russian in question is actually a source for the State Department. Sure, still a Russian. But a helpful Russian, apparently. And as an established agent, if Manafort or Trump were actually colluding with Russians, he would probably have mentioned it. And it's certainly foul play to smear Trump by association with a Russian who happens to be one of our informants. Not to mention smearing Trump for receiving a peace plan that Obama also received, but only mentioning the delivery to Trump.
As far as gun rights go, Trump has been pretty much a disaster... unless his judges strike down the gun control rules his administration is pushing by fiat.
I'm not suggesting any 3-dimensional chess here, but the courts seem to be the only real hope for advancing gun rights. The Establishment Republicans won't do it. Trump seems to be worse on that issue that the Establishment. And the Democrats, who used to be afraid to touch guns after Gore lost, are finding their courage again.