This Bill Would Make It Easier to Buy a Silencer. And Protect Your Hearing, Too.

In the movies, it’s the hitman who carries a silencer while slinking around the shadows. In real life, sportsmen use sound suppressors for their firearms at the shooting range, Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., says. The heavily regulated suppressors remain lawful in 41 of 50 states. But current law makes obtaining one difficult. Before purchasing the […]

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Cartoon: Welcome Home Nancy

Lee Edwards wrote earlier this week on Nancy Reagan. She was his closest and most influential adviser in matters of personnel. She was his closest and most influential adviser in matters of personnel. When she felt that someone was not serving her husband well or was putting his own interests ahead of the president’s, she pushed—sometimes […]

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Republicans Deal a Blow to the IRS

Millions of Americans are filing their taxes this month—and getting a good reminder of why they despise the IRS. But thanks to the Republican majority in Congress, the IRS is being forced to start cleaning up its act. When the IRS scandal broke, Congress demanded answers from the agency’s top officials. Were they targeting groups […]

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How To Reduce the Deficit by $9 Trillion

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the annual federal deficit will rise to $1.7 trillion by the 2026 fiscal year. The U.S. is on an unsustainable course that threatens to reduce economic prosperity for current and future generations. The Heritage Foundation’s Blueprint for Balance: A Federal Budget for 2017 quickly reverses this course, turning trillion-dollar […]

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Sheriff David Clarke on ‘3 Big Lies of Criminal Justice Reform’

Proposed reforms to the criminal justice system at the state and federal levels won’t do what advocates say it will, an outspoken county sheriff says, citing “the three big lies” of some proponents who want to reduce prison sentences. “I can’t figure out where coddling criminals and having sympathy and empathy for the hardened criminal is a conservative issue,” David […]

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Conservative Gay Marriage Advocates Urge Tolerance for Religious Objectors

Right-leaning advocates of gay marriage called for acceptance at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference, urging liberals to display more tolerance when addressing the issues of gay marriage and religious liberty. “This conversation that we are having right now literally couldn’t happen at left-wing conference because we’d all be hounded off the stage and booed,” […]

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