A month after the shooting in El Paso, Texas, Walmart has announced that it will be dramatically reducing its ammunition sales, including both handgun and assault rifle ammunition. They will also stop selling handguns in Alaska, the only state that still sells handguns in the store. Walmart has also asked customers to stop openly caring …

President Trump has tweeted a lot of dumb things. People have mocked him for those tweets, but rarely has one of his tweets caused as much fallout as this one: The president, of course, cannot “hereby order” businesses to do anything. Well, to be more specific, he can “hereby order” whatever he wants, but he …

On July 24, Joseph Rubino lost control of his white Chevy van and crashed into a tree. When police arrived and began helping him out of his car, they saw the guns. A pile of assault-style weapons and ammunition. This led police to search his home, where they found more than a dozen other weapons, …

A twenty-year-old man named James Reardon Jr. has been arrested after threatening a Jewish community in New Middletown, Ohio. Reardon posted a video of a man shooting a semi-automatic rifle with screams in the background. He tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown in his post, which triggered an investigation. Reardon has ties to the …

As some kind of bizarre sign of the dystopian nightmare we’re living in, one Texas gun store had a tongue-in-cheek “back to school” sale at the same time that bulletproof backpacks are selling like hotcakes. Meanwhile, a month after the New Zealand government initiated a buyback of the now-illegal military-style semi-automatic weapons, the government has …

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of sexual abuse against underaged girls, has committed suicide in his jail cell. He was able to hang himself because he has been off suicide watch since July 29th. On July 23, Eptsein was found unconscious in his jail cell with injuries around his neck. The day before he was found, …

Virginia Giuffre has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a number of powerful men were all involved in a sex trafficking ring that ensnared her. The men include former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew, Glenn Dublin, former Senator George Mitchell, fomer MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, as well …

As part of its efforts to Sinicize its Muslim population, the Chinese government has ordered Chinese restaurants to remove Arabic language signs and Muslim symbols. Reuters reporters contacted 11 different Muslim-owned restaurants, all of whom told reporters that the government demanded removal of the signs. The United States has already condemned China for imprisoning millions …

The FTC has fined Facebook five billion dollars over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. To put it in perspective, that amount represents 9% of Facebook’s 2018 revenue. The fine is the largest ever levied against a tech company––the second largest was against Google in 2012, which had to pay a mere $22.5 billion. Despite the size …

The governor of Illinois has signed into a law a bill making marijuana legal for recreational use. Residents can now purchase one gram of pot at a time, while non-residents can purchase 15 grams at a time. Most importantly, though, the bill will expunge the records of nearly 800,000 people who have minor convictions for marijuana …

Migrant detention centers have been the source of much scandal in recent weeks. There has been plenty of political fall out over the issue, but there has also been a surprising amount of economic consequences. Most recently, Bank of America has announced it will no longer finance private prisons or detention centers. Previously, it has …

The first Cold War ended nearly thirty years ago, but there’s second Cold War being waged right now. Over the past six months, China has ramped up its attacks on the US and the West writ large. Most recently, hackers have broken into more than a dozen telecommunication companies and stolen tremendous amounts of personal …