By Colin Flaherty  |   American Thinker Chicago picked a strange time to go all colorblind on us. The occasion was the occasional riot in one of America’s premier high-end shopping districts: the Magnificent Mile. Wednesday night, 500 people rampaged through downtown looting, destroying property, attacking white people, defying police, stopping traffic, threatening tourists, and created lots of mayhem and chaos. All […]

by Tyler Durden  |   ZeroHedge A Washington federal judge on Thursday ordered special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to clarify election meddling claims lodged against a Russian company operated by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Bloomberg. Concord Management and Consulting, LLC. – one of three businesses indicted by Mueller in February along with 13 individuals for election […]

BY: Todd Shepherd  |  Washington Free Beacon Case of citizen activist could have significant First Amendment implications The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit is set to hear a case Friday in which a citizen activist who habitually walks the halls of the state capitol in Missouri to talk to elected lawmakers about political issues was later declared by a state ethics […]

BY MAX GREENWOOD AND JESSE BYRNES  |  THE HILL Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday called for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, wading into a topic that other 2020 White House hopefuls have so far been wary of discussing. Warren issued the call one day after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s report on his investigation into the 2016 election and the Trump campaign. […]

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- DC has some of the strictest gun laws in the county. When the courts forced DC to issue concealed handgun permits, DC instituted the most restrictive requirements possible to prevent its citizens from receiving a CHP. The person applying for the permit had to show “good reason” for the need to carry a concealed handgun. According to the DC […]

April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of the year. Holidays Christian feast day: Agnes of Montepulciano Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran) Blessed Oda of Brabant Theotimos April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá’í Faith) UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations) […]

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  —1 John 4:8 A farmer had a weather vane on his barn, on which was written “God is love.” When friends asked why, the farmer said, “This is to remind me that no matter which way the wind blows, God is love.” When the warm “south wind” […]

“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” Frank Leahy / Notre Dame Francis William Leahy (August 27, 1908 – June 21, 1973) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive. He served as the head football coach at Boston College from 1939 to 1940 and at the University of Notre Dame from 1941 to 1943 […]

By Erick Erickson In A.D. 324, Constantine became the undisputed ruler of the whole Roman Empire. Once secured in that position, Constantine demanded that persecution of Christians stop. Between the death of Christ around A.D. 33 and the rise of Constantine’s father, Constantius Chlorus, to caesar of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 293, Christians were persecuted throughout the empire. […]

By David Outten  |  Movie Guide Netflix knows everything you have watched on Netflix. Google knows everything you’ve searched for on Google. Amazon knows everything you even considered purchasing on Amazon. For all we know, the federal government knows everything you’ve ever done on a computer. But even so, God knows every thought you’ve ever had. He knows the thoughts […]

Those who are interested in liberty, in the protection of our rights, in firearms use and ownership, should know well many things.  They should know why the 2nd Amendment exists and its purpose. They should know the real stories behind the King’s assaults on Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.  The should know well the mechanics of marksmanship with […]

by Tyler Durden |  Zerohedge High net worth individuals (HNWIs) – persons with wealth over US$1 million – may decide to pick up and move for a number of reasons. In some cases they are attracted by jurisdictions with more favorable tax laws, or less pollution and crime. Sometimes, they’re simply looking for a change of scenery. Today’s graphic, using data […]

Today, April 19, is rightly identified as “Patriots’ Day.” April 19, 1775, should be regarded as important a date to Americans as July 4, 1776. It’s a shame that we don’t celebrate Patriots’ Day as enthusiastically as we do Independence Day. It’s even more shameful that many Americans don’t even know what actually happened on this day back in 1775. […]

by Dorothy Cummings McLean PALATINE, Illinois, (LifeSiteNews) ― An Illinois parents’ group has dropped its legal battle to keep males out of a school districts’ female-only spaces. According to the Chicago Herald Tribune, U.S. district judge Jorge Alonso approved the dismissal on Monday, ending the attempt of  “Students and Parents for Privacy” to force Township High School District 211 to abandon its policy […]

by Hans von Spakovsky Should elected officials be allowed to gain access to the federal income tax returns of American taxpayers? When President Richard Nixon tried to do this to get dirt on his political opponents he was deservedly condemned and Congress passed a law in 1976 to bar the practice. But now Democrats want to ignore that law to get their […]

Americans have become numb to financial intelligence. This is no more evident than a recent Sallie Mae survey, which indicated that college graduates can’t even answer simple questions about financial concepts, such as interest. The statistics are not looking good for the United States, a nation deeply indebted, addicted to consumerism, and woefully ignorant about it all.  Not long ago, SHTFPlan reported […]

The center of gravity of U.S. politics is shifting toward the Trump position of 2016. “The president has said that he does not want to see this country involved in endless wars… I agree with that,” Bernie Sanders told the Fox News audience at Monday’s town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Then turning and staring straight into the camera, Bernie […]

Editor’s Note: The deeper story of Lexington is a story about an unknown pastor, a small congregation, and how in the Providences of God the commencement of armed hostilities took place there. Today, April 19th, is the 240th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. Once known as Patriot’s Day, this day has been viewed as the commencement of the American […]

Good morning, it’s Thursday, April 19, 2018. In yesterday’s newsletter I wrote about a famous chapter in America’s founding — the midnight ride of Paul Revere — and today, in a passage reprised from my recent book, I’ll continue the story of “the shots heard ’round the world.” Alarmed about the militancy blossoming in Boston and surrounding towns, British Gen. […]

April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year. In AD 65,  The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. In 531,  Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated […]