New Documents Reveal the Extent of Federal Location Surveillance

The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.

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NBC News Report Shows Second Amendment Preservation Act Works

The bottom line is this law was intended to stop state and local police from working with the feds to enforce federal gun control. The report reveals it's doing exactly that.

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Top-5 Reasons We’re in this Mess

Living under the largest government in history is not the “land of the free,” and it’s not even close. But how did things get like this? Here are the top-5 reasons - the primary drivers of the monster state today.

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Today in History: Elbridge Gerry Born

Gerry was an American revolutionary, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the Constitution but refused to sign the document and campaigned against its ratification

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NYSRPA v. Bruen on the Merits

To be sure, the history of gun regulations is complex, so I don't mean to be definitive. But I'm not seeing conclusive evidence that public carry was widely prohibited (as opposed to being regulated) in the relevant period.  And without that evidence, the majority's conclusion seems sound.

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Today In History: Samuel Huntington Born

Huntington was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He went on to serve as President of the Continental Congress from 1779-1781 and President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781. In his home state of Connecticut, he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court and elected governor in 1786, an office he held until his death in 1796.

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Did Thomas Jefferson Write the 13th Amendment?

The first attempt in history to include anti-slavery, free-soil provisions into a national constitutional instrument was written by Thomas Jefferson. Most historians teach us about the slave-owning of Jefferson - which is important history, but they ignore this fact, and fact that his text of 1784 was copied almost verbatim as Section 1 of the 13th Amendment.

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Influx of Tax Revenue Papering Over Federal Government Spending Problem

Meanwhile, the federal government continues to spend money as if it has a printing press. The Biden administration blew through over half-a-trillion dollars last month alone. This brought total spending for fiscal 2022 to just over $4.4 trillion.

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