Forty-nine percent of Republicans and Democrats believe that democracy in the United States is on the ropes. Could America’s fate be the same as ancient Athens? Athenian democracy lasted about 250 years from the early seventh century B.C.E. It was a magnificently successful experiment involving military domination over the belligerent Persians while Athens grew in
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More than five million people became first-time gun owners during the pandemic as gun sales to the community rose by about 43% by Claire Wang in Los Angeles Vivian Moon, a real estate agent and artist, had never felt particularly afraid as a woman living alone in Buena Park, a small California city outside Los
Guns are costing lives, dollars and futures in Arkansas, and advocates for gun safety spoke up after this particularly violent weekend in Little Rock to call out the elected officials unwilling to do anything about it. People in and around Little Rock endured a stressful and dangerous weekend, with Little Rock Police, Arkansas State Police
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Mark Gordon has a clear path to reelection while more competitive Republican primary races have shaped up for secretary of state and state superintendent of public instruction in Wyoming on Tuesday. Democrats, meanwhile, have all but ceded these offices to Republicans, with just two candidates who don’t even have websites
During my service in Operation Desert Shield/Storm, one of my daily duties was to pick up trash in our area, carrying it the short distance to a large burn pit near our tents. After dumping off the trash, I would usually set it on fire and stand around talking with others while the fire grew
Viewers in Florida with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves between now and Election Day in November. Political communications experts viewed the first crop of campaign ads from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his two top Democratic opponents in the Sunshine State. Here are some quick
The Republican Party of Louisiana (LAGOP) unanimously passed on Saturday a resolution in support of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) defense of Second Amendment rights. The resolution begins by pointing to LAGOP’s “[commitment] to defend and promote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as memorialized in the Platform of the Republican Party, for all law-abiding
Josh Riley As voters navigate the confusing maze of congressional primaries and a special election, Josh Riley emerges as a candidate advocating for those whose struggle to make ends meet and find an affordable home. Riley is running in the August 23 Democratic Congressional primary against Jamie Cheney for the newly drawn 19th District that
California gun owners have been under siege for the past year – even by the not-so-Golden State’s standards. In September 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB-173, which allows for the disclosure of highly sensitive information, including a gun owner’s name, address, place of birth, phone number, occupation, driver’s license or ID number, race, sex,
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced Bill C-21, proposing a permanent freeze on the sale, transfer and import of handguns in Canada. The bill remains at the initial stages and did not pass prior to Parliament’s recess for the summer. While the bill works its way through the parliamentary process, CBC news
Viewers with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves in Florida between now and election day in the fall. Political communications experts viewed the first crop of gubernatorial campaign ads running in the Sunshine State. Then they spoke to The Epoch Times about what they
Orlando Sentinel hails Rich Santos as fiery maverick unafraid to challenge Republican Party leadership – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Monday, August 15, 2022 · 586,109,997 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases Events
August 14, 2022 When my high-school switched to online teaching because of the global pandemic, my friends and I joked that at least we wouldn’t have to worry about getting killed by a mass murderer with an AK47 during math class. But the truth is, the decisions that politicians make are not funny, and they
Monday evening The Former Guy released a statement which began, “These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.” This
U.S. Senate candidate Pat Chesbro speaks at at Bartlett Club political forum event at the Anchorage Senior Center on August 11, 2022. (Marc Lester / ADN) I’m voting for Pat Chesbro for Alaska’s U.S. senator because I care about woman’s rights, the health of our planet and curbing gun violence. Pat Chesbro is 100% pro-choice.
Jill Tokuda, a former state senator backed by the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, won the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press, after a sometimes vicious campaign that drew more than a million dollars in outside spending. Ms. Tokuda defeated her top rival, Patrick Branco, a first-term
Pat Brothwell | OPINION COLUMNIST After the Uvalde school massacre, Ted Cruz suggested that the solution to preventing future violence was to have only one heavily guarded door in and out of schools. Other Republicans echoed this solution, including former President Trump, which doesn’t hold up to the lightest of scrutinies — it gives students and
Our government wants to double the IRS by hiring 87,000 employees by 2031. But how does our current IRS staff perform? I’ll give you a quick story. In January, I got a notice from the Austin IRS office that my wife and I owed a few more thousand dollars on our 2020 return. I looked