1. John Lott: The Push by Democrats to Ban One of the Commonly Owned Handguns in the U.S.
2. James Hirsen: Hollywood Targets LA Mayoral
Candidate Spencer Pratt
3. Michele Steeb: HUD's
New Homelessness Count
4. Todd Sheets: Iran Update - A Balanced
Assessment
5. Kenneth Rapoza: Asian Emerging Markets are
Turning Stablecoins into Everyday Financial Infrastructure
6. Daniel Greenfield: Platner Loses Women
The Push by Democrats to Ban One of the Commonly Owned Handguns
in the U.S.
By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Gun control advocates are trying a new tactic.
Instead of trying to ban all handguns, some Democrat states are trying to ban
one of the most commonly owned handguns - Glocks - which they claim can be
easily converted into machine guns. Maryland's Democrat Governor Wes
Moore and Connecticut's Democrat Governor Ned Lamont joined California by
signing into law a ban on the manufacture, sale, purchase, and transfer of guns
with a cruciform trigger bar, which is a vital internal component of
semi-automatic pistols - most notably Glock and Glock-style firearms. Named
after its cross-like shape, it connects the trigger to the firing mechanism and
plays a crucial role in the firearm's safety and discharge sequence. [more...]
Hollywood Targets LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt
By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator
As the race for the Los Angeles city mayor heats up, some
top-name celebrities are rushing to the rescue of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass by
targeting her rising-star challenger Spencer Pratt. Actor, comedian, and game
show host Drew Carey recently took to the social media stage to spout off about
Pratt and cuss in current Dem fashion. "Anyone who votes for or endorses
Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a**,"
Carey wrote. Carey's tirade is no isolated rant; it's actually a reflection of
a broader pattern on the part of select Hollywood celebrities, who appear to be
trying to save Bass from an embarrassing loss come election day. [more...]
HUD's New Homelessness Count
By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert
The Department of Housing and Urban Development just released
the latest homelessness count: a 3% drop in overall numbers - but a staggering
81% surge in chronically homeless Americans after 12 years of "housing
first, treatment never." Untreated diseases - including addiction and
mental illness - worsen. That's exactly what happened. Thankfully, President
Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner are righting
the ship by prioritizing AND funding disease treatment in our approach to
homelessness. [more...]
Iran Update - A Balanced Assessment
By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
Depending on how negotiations proceed, we could
still end up with an extended blockade, perhaps combined with further targeted
air strikes. But, recent posturing aside, President Trump seems eager to
achieve a negotiated settlement that will reopen the Strait, reinvigorate the
global economy, and allow us to bring our troops home. Furthermore, only the
president and his team are in a position to fully evaluate the effect of the on-going
war on our own military resources and on other risks such as Taiwan and
Ukraine. And, finally, like it or not, the president has to take domestic
politics into account – if he loses too much support, his ambitious agenda will
be threatened. [more...]
Asian Emerging Markets are Turning Stablecoins into Everyday
Financial Infrastructure
By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America
The old crypto narrative was simply that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is
an investment everyone needed to hold. Maybe someday people will use it to buy
cars or real estate. But with Bitcoin and other major crypto
currencies declining all year, and alt-coins desperately trying
to prove their investability, the best cryptocurrency story today lies in two
things: stablecoins and payment infrastructure. [more...]
Platner Loses Women
By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center
"He's a cheater, he's an antisemite... he's a liar, a racist.
The Democrats have a massive gender gap so the logic of putting
up someone like Graham Platner in Maine, a Madison Avenue liberal's idea of
what working class looks like, is winning back men. But after the sexting
scandal, the math has shifted so that Dems have to bet that they're not going
to lose more women, a group they're counting on, than they're going to gain
men, a group they've been losing to Republicans. And the problem is that there's
something gross and off-putting about Platner. [more...]
