Category: America Now

It has long been alleged that significant amounts of the weaponry used by ISIS and various Islamist rebel groups throughout the Middle East came from stocks of arms and supplies that once belonged to US forces. But while much of that weaponry was believed to have come from stocks given to Iraqi forces and then […]

With heart disease remaining one of the biggest killers of Americans, more and more people are taking steps to monitor their health and mitigate their risk of developing heart disease. For many, that takes the form of lowering their blood pressure. Aside from the many medications that can be taken to lower blood pressure, many […]

As parents there are a number of things we want to teach our children. But aside from passing down family histories, taking our children to church, and making sure they learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, there are a number of practical skills that we can teach them that can help not only to help stimulate […]

In a move that angered both civil rights advocates and 2nd Amendment supporters, a police officer who killed an innocent man at an Alabama mall on Thanksgiving will not be charged with a crime. Emantic Bradford, Jr., an army veteran and concealed carry permit holder, was shot three times and killed by a police officer […]

With the election of new Democratic Congressmen who can best be described as socialists, there has been a lot of buzz about raising tax rates on the ultra-rich. Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to tax incomes above $10 million per year at a rate of 70% is one such example. And more and more media coverage […]

In a move that could be laying the ground for her run for President, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) apologized privately to a leader of the Cherokee Nation for previously having claimed to be part Cherokee, and for taking a DNA test to try to prove her Native American ancestry. Warren famously released the results that […]

If you’ve been following the political drama in Virginia, it almost seems like a surreal soap opera. Had anyone written a fictional account of what is going on, it would have been dismissed as being absurd and unrealistic. But every day seems to bring more and more damning revelations. To sum up what has happened […]

Like the United States Mint, the Royal Canadian Mint issues both gold and silver bullion coins. Its Gold Maple Leaf coins are one of the primary competitors to the American Gold Eagle for investor interest, while its Silver Maple Leaf is one of the primary competitors to the American Silver Eagle. Whereas the Gold Maple […]

By now in our series we’ve covered most, but not all, of the modern shotguns that you’re most likely to come across in your local gun shop or out on the shooting range. But that doesn’t mean that you should discount the utility of older, discontinued models. That’s particularly the case with the shotgun that […]

After two decades of socialism and two years of hyperinflation, the Venezuelan economy is in a shambles. The Venezuelan national currency is so worthless that the government doesn’t even have enough money to pay the printers who print its money. And since oil production has plummeted through years of socialist mismanagement, oil revenues have declined […]