Author: Paul-Martin Foss

While it is often confused with the AK-47 by those with a lack of firearms knowledge, the SKS rifle has very little in common with the AK aside from the distinctive slots in its handguard. Developed towards the end of World War II by Sergei Simonov and quickly replaced by the AK in front-line Soviet […]

In news that could make the Equifax breach look minor, a little-known Florida company with records on just about every American consumer has had its data breached. Exactis, a Florida-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had amassed a database containing detailed information about 230 million American consumers and 110 million businesses. And all of those records […]

One of the organizers behind the heckling of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has been identified as Allison Hrabar, an employee of the Department of Justice. Hrabar, a paralegal specialist at DOJ, is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the group that organized the protest against Nielsen. Hrabar hopes that other people […]

In response to reports that Harley Davidson may move some of its production overseas in order to avoid the cost hit of tariffs, President Trump has threatened that the company “will be taxed like never before!” Harley had claimed that it is moving some of its production out of the United States in order to […]

In response to reports of individuals harassing senior Trump administration officials at restaurants and refusing to serve them at others, Congressman Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged people to continue the harassment. According to Waters: “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a […]

While the political polarization that has occurred after President Trump’s victory in 2016 may have had negative effects in that it is making it more and more difficult for opponents on both sides of certain issues to find common ground, it has had one major benefit. Those who oppose the Constitution and the basic rights […]

The AK-47-type rifle has been the longtime rival of the AR-15/M16 family of rifles. Developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the late 1940s, the AK and its derivatives were the mainstay rifle of Warsaw Pact forces throughout the Cold War. Modern developments of the AK remain in service with the Russian military and numerous militaries throughout […]

We’re already seeing signs that the tariff war started by President Trump is claiming its first victims. Famed American motorcycle maker Harley Davidson has stated that it will shift part of its production overseas in order to counter the effects of tariffs. Harley has been hit with a double whammy, as tariffs on steel imports […]

This past weekend, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out to dinner at The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA. Apparently her presence at the restaurant disturbed some of the restaurant’s employees, so they contacted the restaurant’s owner. The owner asked her employees whether she should ask Sanders to leave, to which they […]

If there’s one emotion that dominates any other in political discourse today, it’s envy. It’s important to distinguish between envy and jealousy. Jealousy is the state of being jealous, concerned with one’s relative lack of possessions, status, or value versus another person and wishing to achieve that same level of possessions, status, or value. Envy, […]