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President Trump called out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter Wednesday morning over the Justice Department’s investigation into alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act under the Obama administration.
Trump asked his 48.4 million followers on Twitter why Inspector General Michael Horowitz will be investigating, instead of Justice Department lawyers. Trump called such a decision “DISGRACEFUL!” [Read More]
Veteran with PTSD wins battle to buy work dog (Fox 5 DC)
Bobby Kling and his explosive detection-trained dog Silox are back together after about a month apart.
FOX 5 first reported on Kling’s struggle to purchase Silox at the beginning of the month. Kling was awarded the Purple Heart and served his country on two tours in the Middle East. Since coming back home, he has battled post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and symptoms from a traumatic brain injury.
Kling and Silox worked and lived together for more than three years until Kling took a new job. The company he worked for has allowed handlers to purchase dogs that are aging or have medical issues in the past, but originally Inter-Con Security, a government contractor, denied Kling’s request to buy Silox. [Read More]
Why It’s Time To Raise The Voting Age Back To 21 (The Federalist)
The events since the Parkland shooting have convinced me that we need to change the Constitution to eliminate an ill-considered amendment that has done more harm than good. We need to repeal the 26th Amendment and raise the voting age back to 21.
That’s the opposite of what a lot of people are advocating. Seeing Parkland students go on television and agitate for gun control has people on the Left excited at the prospect of lowering the voting age to 16. That is, they’re excited about the small subset of Parkland students opportunistic talk-show hosts have paraded in front of television cameras—not the ones who dropped out of scripted “town halls” when they refused to let CNN tell them what they could say. [Read More]
Dem candidate who smoked pot in campaign ad says he’ll ‘definitely’ get high if he wins (Fox News)
A congressional candidate who attracted attention for an ad showing him smoking pot is making no apologies for his campaign stunt – and says he’ll “definitely” get high if he wins in the upcoming primary election.
Benjamin Thomas Wolf, a Democrat, is running against incumbent Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., for his Chicago seat in the Democratic primary election on March 20 in what would be his first step to becoming the “Cannabis Congressman.”
“I think it’s important that we actually start talking about legalizing cannabis,” Wolf said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” “This is medicine for tens of millions of people in America. It can bring billions of dollars in tax revenue to Illinois and really, it’s the first component to completely overhauling the criminal justice system in America.” [Read More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods Says They Won’t Sell ‘Assault-Style Weapons’ Any Longer (The Daily Wire)
In response to the Parkland school shooting, the CEO of athletic retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods,Edward Stack, told Good Morning America on Wednesday that his stories will no longer be selling “assault-style weapons,” and won’t be allowing anyone under the age of 21 to buy a gun.
The company also said it would end sales of “high capacity magazines,” but the CEO did not specifically define what constitutes a “high capacity magazine,” nor whether “assault weapon” meant the AR-15 specifically, or several different styles of semi-automatic rifles. [Read More]
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