A man who allegedly attacked Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., with a sharp object at a campaign stop in Perinton, New York, Thursday evening was charged with a felony and released from custody within hours of his arrest, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department said. The suspect, identified as David G. Jakubonis, 43 of Fairport, N.Y., was […]
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1st semi-automatic gun ban in 20 years being pushed by Dems
House Democrats pushed ahead Wednesday with legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons as they considered their most far-reaching response yet to this summer’s series of mass shootings. Democrats hope that the 100-page bill moving through the Judiciary Committee will pass the House before the August break. But that is far from assured because some […]
Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys over $1 million of computer chip stock. Insider trading?
Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, made a stock purchase of over $1 million in a computer chip company just weeks before a potential vote in congress which would give a massive subsidy to the industry. Mr. Pelosi made a purchase of between $1 million and $5 million shares of Nvidia, which is a […]
First Gun Bill in 28 Years passed by Senate
The Senate overcame a decades-long legislative log jam by passing a bill intended to reduce gun violence, but left out a key provision from the last time Congress took up firearm safety. The Senate passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act on a 65-33 bipartisan vote Thursday evening. Spurred by the elementary school shooting Uvalde, Texas, […]
Colbert calls staffers’ Capitol arrests: ‘First-degree puppetry’
Stephen Colbert addressed the recent arrests of his crew and production members, who were caught and charged with being in an unauthorized area of a U.S. Capitol building last week. During Monday night’s “Late Show,” Colbert downplayed the arrests as a “very professional” interaction between his staff and “cautious” Capitol Police officers. The host opened […]
TV Ratings for Jan. 6 Hearing Are In: 1/2 of viewers changed the channel
Ratings for Thursday night’s prime-time hearing by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion show Americans would have preferred some straight news Every one of the three major broadcast networks that aired the hearing ended up with a smaller audience than if they had simply provided their usual news content. Read more […]
Trump is main target of primetime Jan 6 hearings
The primetime Jan. 6 Committee hearing mostly resulted in losers. Former President Trump took another hit — just the latest in a nasty losing streak. But the Democrats and the legacy media managed to make themselves losers as well. In the end, the Committee is not likely to move the election needle, but it will […]
Bill to set minimum age of 21 for semi-automatic weapons passed by House
The White House praised House lawmakers after they voted on Wednesday to set the minimum age to buy semi-automatic weapons at 21 in response to a string of high-profile shootings. In a late night tweet Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre expressed gratitude, writing: “Thank you to @SpeakerPelosi & the House for passing bipartisan legislation to strengthen […]
Jan 6 hearing ‘blockbuster investigative special’ finally premieres
After 11 months, nearly 100 subpoenas and more than 1,000 interviews, the congressional committee investigating the 6 January, 2021, attack on the US Capitol will step out from behind closed doors and hold a series of public hearings to present its findings. The first one is on Thursday. The Democratic-led committee wants to create a […]
AR-15s will cost up to $20,000 if this House Dem’s bill passes
The US has experienced a string of mass shootings in the past three weeks in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma, that have left scores of adults and children dead. The recent violence is prompting one House Democrat to draft a measure aimed at severely restricting access to the AR-15-style weapons used by […]
Dem socialist congressional candidate calls for breaking into empty homes
Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson has a bold idea to get Congress to pass housing legislation: have a million people break into empty houses. She also says the minimum wage should be $30/hour Parson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running to represent Washington’s 6th Congressional District. In a video ad, […]
USA spending more on Ukraine than infrastructure
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has claimed on Twitter the federal government has spent more on Ukraine in the past six months than it has on road infrastructure annually. Massie was one of 57 members of the House of Representatives who voted against the package, which was later blocked in the Senate by one dissenting vote […]