They mandate that law-abiding citizens disarm themselves and remove any meaningful way to defend their own life, or the lives of those around them. These policies don’t create safe places, they create targets.
There is a reason that we protect banks, airports, government buildings, and etc. with armed guards.
Unfortunately in most cases schools and universities, which have historically been the targets of mass shootings, have been declared gun-free zones.
A new bill in Florida that has already cleared the Florida House would allow professors and other staffers at public universities to carry concealed weapons in case of an emergency.
Opponents of the bill cite all of the usual reasons for doing so, but having armed staff on college campuses would be smart.
This has a very good chance of passing because first, we’re talking about Florida, but also because of the horrific shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island a few months back.
The bill is being sponsored by Republican Rep. Michelle Salzman. Schools should be guarded by men with guns. It’s the most logical way to protect our students.
In 2013 under the Obama administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered a study which found between 500,000 and 3,000,000 defensive uses of firearms every year.
For comparison in the same year, 2013, there were only 33,636 firearm related deaths with approximately half being suicides.
In the 2020’s the number of firearm related deaths has ranged from 40,000-50,000 gun related deaths annually again with around half being suicide.
An armed society is a polite society.
When law-abiding citizens are stripped of their constitutional right to defend themselves it simply empowers those who wish to do them harm.
While Senator John Cornyn (RINO-TX) is trying to move closer to President Trump and the MAGA movement as the Texas GOP Senate runoff gets underway, his opponent is not letting him off the hook so easily.
As TGP readers know, Cornyn surprisingly finished slightly ahead of Texas Attorney General and MAGA favorite Ken Paxton in the initial vote on Tuesday, with Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) far behind.
This led Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to heap pressure on Trump to endorse Cornyn. Trump announced on Wednesday that he will soon make an endorsement in the ferocious and bloody battle between Paxton and Cornyn.
He also made it clear that the person who did not receive his coveted stamp of approval should drop out.
“I will be making my Endorsement soon, and will be asking the candidate that I don’t Endorse to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE! Is that fair? We must win in November!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
But no endorsement has yet come, leading some to speculate that Trump is having second thoughts, particularly as the SAVE Act, a highly critical election security bill, languishes in the Senate. This is largely because Senate Republicans are refusing to support either abolishing the filibuster or using a talking filibuster to pass the SAVE Act.
Perhaps concerned about these factors, Cornyn is doing everything possible to get in Trump’s good graces. After seeing a Fox News report claiming that he was opposed to using the talking filibuster to get the Save Act across the finish line, Cornyn took to X to claim it’s all fake news and officially endorsed the talking filibuster for the first time.
“Contrary to fake news in the twitterverse: I have supported the Save America Act from day one, Cornyn wrote. “I will happily support the ‘talking filibuster’ if that’s what it takes to pass this into law.”
This is a welcome and sudden change, as Cornyn did indeed express skepticism in an interview with NBC News last month about whether using the talking filibuster to pass the SAVE Act was a wise choice.
“My understanding is it would require 51 votes to table amendments. So, No. 1, you need 51 senators on the floor, and you need all of them willing to vote to table the amendment. That obviously can be problematic from a number of standpoints,” Cornyn said.
“One, you might not be able to defeat them. And secondly, this process could go on for literally weeks, if not months, and still not be successful.”
Noting Cornyn’s previous hesitation, Paxton mockingly replied that he had made Cornyn more conservative in just a few short days than he had been in his entire Senate career.
Paxton also noted that Cornyn is still opposed to abolishing the filibuster to get the SAVE Act to Trump’s desk.
“I made Cornyn more conservative in the last 3 days than he’s been in the last 24 years,” Paxton wrote. “Yet, flip-flop Cornyn’s still too cowardly to support abolishing the filibuster to get it done and to call out his best friend McConnell for opposing the bill.”
“The President deserves better.”
I made Cornyn more conservative in the last 3 days than he’s been in the last 24 years.
Yet, flip-flop Cornyn’s still too cowardly to support abolishing the filibuster to get it done and to call out his best friend McConnell for opposing the bill.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) March 7, 2026
The SAVE Act is an absolutely critical measure that requires every American to show ID to cast a ballot. It also requires proof of citizenship BEFORE registering to vote.
Democrats are in meltdown mode because, should the measure pass, they will find stealing elections far more challenging.
Paxton on Thursday said he would consider dropping his Senate bid if the SAVE Act passed the Senate and was signed into law by Trump.
Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
When U.S. and Israeli airstrikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, they were not just removing the head of the regime but also the leader of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” a network that includes Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen, which has historically served as Tehran’s forward-defense network.
On day two of the campaign, Hezbollah and several Iraqi militias joined attacks against Israel and U.S. interests. The Houthis have so far limited their response to political support and public mobilization.
The Houthis are one of Iran’s principal proxies, whose primary role has been to harass ships in the Red Sea at Iran’s direction. For more than a decade, the IRGC Navy has maintained a forward presence of commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, serving as auxiliary intelligence ships, collecting intelligence on international shipping and disseminating it to the Houthis.
By fusing all-source intelligence with Automatic Identification System data gathered from transiting vessels, these ships maintained an accurate maritime activity plot that could be passed to the Houthis to facilitate targeting. U.S. officials say Iran used the vessel MV Behshad specifically to provide that targeting information. The Behshad operated as an intelligence, command, and control center to help carry out strikes beyond the horizon, closing a technology gap in Houthi capabilities.
The U.S. conducted a cyberattack against the vessel in February 2024 to inhibit its ability to share intelligence with Houthi rebels. After the vessel’s departure from the region, Houthi attacks dropped sharply, from an average of 19 attacks per month during the first phase of the campaign to eight strikes in the period following its withdrawal.
During the campaign, the Houthis turned the Bab al-Mandab chokepoint into an anti-access/area-denial zone, conducting more than one hundred attacks against commercial ships and warships since November 2023. The campaign expanded in phases, beginning with Israel-linked vessels, then ships heading to Israeli ports, and later vessels linked to the United States and Britain.
The Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait link European and Mediterranean markets with Asia via the Suez Canal, carrying roughly 10–15 percent of global seaborne trade under normal conditions. During the Houthi campaign, major container lines and tanker operators rerouted vessels around southern Africa, adding approximately 10–14 days to voyages and increasing fuel costs.
Transits through the Bab al-Mandab hit a record low in June 2025, down 65 percent from June 2023. Eilat port halted operations, and Suez Canal revenues dropped. The Houthis’ real strength lies not in the volume of their arsenal but in their ability to sustain a high perception of risk.
In previous confrontations between Israel, Iran, and the United States from 2023 to 2025, the Houthis participated in “solidarity strikes,” launching missiles and drones and enforcing a maritime blockade around the Bab al-Mandab Strait, targeting Israeli-linked shipping, U.S. warships, and commercial vessels. This time, Abdulmalik al-Houthi has appeared three times since the outbreak of the war. In his first speech, he declared solidarity with Iran and affirmed readiness for “all developments.”
His second speech, following the announcement of Khamenei’s assassination, was more emotional, offering condolences to the Iranian people and reaffirming support for Tehran, though he again refrained from committing to military action. A third speech reinforced the same message. In none of the three did the group issue a clear declaration of military intervention, as it had done in past conflicts. He also called for mass demonstrations in Yemen in solidarity with the Iranian people.
The Associated Press, citing two anonymous senior Houthi officials, reported on February 28 that the group was planning to resume attacks on Red Sea shipping, but Houthi officials quickly denied that claim on social media. Analysts say the contradictory statements reflect internal divisions, with hardliners pushing for direct involvement while other factions favor restraint.
Several factors shape the Houthis’ decision-making: ideological alignment with Iran, pressure to share the burden within the Axis of Resistance, domestic political pressures, and the desire to maintain their reputation as a regional actor. If they do not join, the Houthis risk appearing disloyal or weak within that alliance. At the same time, joining the war risks retaliation from the United States and Israel, and public opinion in Houthi-controlled areas increasingly prioritizes economic stability over external military action.
Israeli strikes in August 2025 had already eliminated much of the Houthi senior leadership, including their chief of staff. UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg warned against dragging Yemen into a broader regional confrontation, and Yemen’s internationally recognized government cautioned the Houthis against military actions supporting Iran or using Yemeni territory to target neighboring countries.
Despite their current restraint, the Houthis retain long-range missile and drone capabilities and have redeployed assets along the Red Sea coast and near Saudi borders. If they enter the war, likely targets could include Israeli cities, Red Sea shipping, or U.S. bases in the region, along with a reimposed blockade at the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
If the Houthis stay out of the conflict, the main threat to global shipping will be IRGC drones. Most of Iran’s combat ships have been sunk at this point.
The destruction of the Shahid Bagheri drone carrier stripped the IRGC Navy of a platform designed to extend its operational reach beyond coastal waters and provide a survivable offshore node for unmanned systems even if shore infrastructure came under attack. CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated that Iran’s ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90 percent since day one of the campaign and drone attacks by 83 percent.
However, the drone threat has not been fully eliminated. Trump administration officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a larger challenge than anticipated and that U.S. air defenses would not be able to intercept them all. U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs acknowledged that the drones fly low and slow, making them more able to evade air defenses than ballistic missiles.
A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior fellow noted that targeting drones is resource-intensive and expensive, will drain certain types of interceptors quickly, and that ground-based air defense interceptor missiles are not infinite, an area where the United States and its allies have faced stockpile challenges for years.
The Houthis must choose between escalating alongside Iran or shifting toward a political settlement in Yemen. The coming days are expected to reveal whether the movement prioritizes its ideological alignment with Tehran or adopts a strategy focused on survival.
“’Specifically in relation to the comments made by President Zelenskyy, we are very clear as the European Commission that that type of language is not acceptable. There must not be threats against EU member states’, Commission deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill told reporters Friday, in a rare condemnation of the leader in Kyiv.
Tensions between Ukraine and Hungary have escalated in recent weeks as Budapest continues to veto a €90 billion loan package for Kyiv. Orbán’s core complaint remains the halt of Russian oil flowing through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, which Budapest believes Kyiv has deliberately shut off. Ukraine denies Orbán’s allegation, saying the pipe was severely damaged by a Russian drone attack in January.”
The EU stamds firm… with Ukraine, not its own members.
“The European Commission has publicly urged both Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to immediately ‘dial down’ their ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ over the Druzhba pipeline, which has pitted the two leaders in a head-to-head confrontation without precedent.”
Can you see? Non-member state threatens the life of a member state’s head of government, and they criticize both for ‘inflammatory rhetoric’.
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Rama Duwaji looks on as husband Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as Mayor of NYC/Image: Wikicommons Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license /NYC Mayor’s Office
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is twisting himself into a pretzel to try to explain the unexplainable.
His wife, Rama Duwaji, publicly celebrated the radical terrorist actions of Hamas when they attacked civilians on October 7, 2023.
According to a report from Jewish Insider (JI), Duwaji, a Syrian-American artist, liked Instagram posts just hours after the murderous attacks that celebrated the attacks and expressed anti-Israel rhetoric.
One post featured disturbing images of the depraved assault that left 1,200 dead and 250 more taken hostage to be brutally abused.
The report also notes Duwaji reportedly liked another post about a protest after Oct. 7, which featured the genocidal statement, “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!”
BREAKING: Jewish Insider reveals that Zohran Mamdani’s wife was mass-liking Instagram posts on October 7th, celebrating the massacre in real time.
When the radical Mayor was forced to address his wife’s disturbing behavior on social media, he tried to deflect her behavior by saying she isn’t a public figure.
“My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall,” Mamdani said.
“I, however, was elected to represent all 8.5 million people in the city. And I believe that it’s my responsibility because of that role to answer questions about my thoughts and my politics, and my stances.”
Watch:
Zohran Mamdani responds after posts surface showing his wife liked content celebrating the October 7 attacks, saying:
“My wife is the love of my life… she’s a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.”pic.twitter.com/bxyfJa02xL
JI notes, “Duwaji did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and the mayor’s office would not answer questions regarding his feelings about her online activity, or whether they had discussed the Oct. 7 attacks at the time.”
“Rather, his team repeated his standard line on the bloody terrorist rampage.”
Senator Adam Schiff embarrassed himself after appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night. Credit: Real Time with Bill Maher YouTube screenshot
Loathsome Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) stepped into a clever trap set by Bill Maher on Friday night that exposed his complete foreign policy ignorance and his unhinged Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Schiff appeared as a guest on Maher’s eponymous show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to discuss the ongoing bombing campaign in Iran.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the United States and Israel launched ‘Operation Epic Fury’ against Iran last weekend.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was eliminated in a joint military operation conducted by Israel and the United States. At least 40 other senior Iranian regime leaders were also killed in the strikes.
The bombing campaign has been hailed as a stunning success, even from Democrats and left-leaning news sources.
Schiff, a staunch critic of the conflict, was quick to criticize Trump on partisan grounds but did not find agreement with the liberal HBO host.
Maher decided to play a little game to expose Schiff as an ignorant fraud. He read a vague statement from a presidential administration on the constitutional use of military force in the national interest.
Schiff assumed the statement was from the Trump administration regarding Iran and called it “totally vague.” Then Maher broke the ‘devastating’ news to him.
The statement was actually from Obama when his regime decided to bomb Libya, which, unlike Iran, posed absolutely no threat to America.
Schiff then scrambled in a panic and started talking about Syria and Assad, attempting to wash away the fact that he had been tricked.
What a clown.
WATCH:
Adam Schiff falls right into Bill Maher’s trap as he criticizes a statement he thought was from Trump but was actually from Obama.
MAHER: “This statement from the administration: ‘The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could… pic.twitter.com/5jg3wpdAQZ
MAHER: Here’s this statement from the administration: ‘The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.’
That’s too vague for you?
SCHIFF: Totally vague!
MAHER: Okay. That’s from Obama about Libya.
SCHIFF: Well, Obama made the argument, ummm, initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization…Ultimately, he did go forward with going after Assad even though Assad was gassing his own people because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.
Former Metropolitan Correctional Center worker Tova Noel. Credit: Department of Justice
Newly released Department of Justice documents will raise even more suspicions surrounding the alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein back in 2019.
As the New York Post reported, DOJ records reveal that Tova Noel, one of Epstein’s prison guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, not only googled the p*dophile’s name just minutes before he was found deceased but slept on the job and shopped online when she was supposed to be watching him.
Noel googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.
Earlier that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.
The FBI highlighted the eerie internet search in its 66-page forensic examination of the Bureau of Prisons’ desktop computers of Noel and Thomas. It was the only search highlighted.
Noel, who previously admitted to falsifying records after Epstein died, but escaped charges thanks to a so-called judge, lied and said she never googled Epstein.
“I don’t remember doing that,” she said, according to an FBI transcript. She also said that FBI records were not “accurate” and stated she did not recall looking him up.
Noel also made a mysterious $5,000 deposit 10 days before his death. This was after other suspicious cash deposits also appeared in her bank.
Meanwhile, Chase Bank flagged cash deposits in Noel’s bank account in a “suspicious activity report” to the FBI in November 2019, another file from the DOJ revealed.
A total of 12 deposits began in April 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit, for $5,000, on July 30, 2019, the records showed.
The files only contain Noel’s bank records beginning in December 2018. They show seven cash deposits totaling $11,880. Noel started working at the Special Housing Unit — where Epstein had been held — beginning on July 7, 2019, just weeks before his death.
Noel, who drove a $62,000 2019 Land Rover Range Rover, wasn’t asked about the cash during her DOJ interview, records showed.
On another interesting note, an internal FBI briefing that was also uncovered in the DOJ files revealed the agency believed Noel was the orange ‘flash’ moving toward Epstein’s jail cell the night he died.
At approximately 10:40 pm, a correctional officer, believed to be Tova Noel, carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L-Tier, the last time any correctional officer approached the only entrance to the SHU tier.
Noel denied carrying any linens or clothing to Epstein’s cell.
Adding a bit more intrigue, Noel has since been sued in Westchester County Supreme Court for alleged assault at her current job as a medical office assistant at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care.
Could she have been capable of helping carry out an infamous prisoner’s death?
The Iran War entered its eighth day on Saturday, with President Trump announcing on Truth Social that “Today Iran will be hit very hard!”
Iran continued to target several Gulf countries while Israeli warplanes carried out new strikes in Tehran and other Iranian cities. Air defenses in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain intercepted incoming missiles and drones.
At least 1,172 Iranian civilians had been killed by U.S.–Israeli strikes, CNN reported.
The UAE said Iran launched 15 ballistic missiles and 119 drones at the country on Saturday, with most intercepted.
Residents reported heavy bombardment in Tehran after Israeli strikes hit targets including Mehrabad Airport.
Kuwait will cut crude oil production and refining throughput as a precaution amid Iranian attacks and disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said. It did not say how much output would be reduced; Kuwait produced about 2.6 million barrels per day in February.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that Sen. Lindsey Graham, to help him prepare to convince Trump to launch war against Iran, traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency. “They’ll tell me things our own government won’t tell me,” he told the paper.
The State Department on Friday indicated that it will bypass Congress to expedite shipping around $660 million worth of weapons to Israel to help its war effort.
The White House on Friday blocked an intelligence report warning of rising U.S. terror threats that could come from the Iran War, the Daily Mailreported.
Crude oil futures at the start of the weekend were over $91 per barrel while AAA reported that the national average gas price on Saturday climbed to $3.41.
The Federal Reserve has done it in every major conflict America has faced: cut rates, inject liquidity, and ensure the financial system stays strong as the country confronts its enemies.
So why now, in the middle of rising global conflict and instability, is the Fed sitting on its hands?
On this episode of Stinchfield, we break down why the refusal to lower interest rates right now isn’t just bad policy, but it looks like blatant political bias. Historically, when America goes to war, the Federal Reserve rushes to buy up loans, pump cash into the banking system, and stabilize markets to project strength.
Instead, under Chairman Jerome Powell, the Fed is holding back while Americans face higher borrowing costs and markets remain unnecessarily tight.
Is this economic malpractice… or something worse?
Vertical Research Advisors CEO Kip Herriage is one of many who are beginning to ask whether the Fed is quietly working against President Trump’s economic agenda. Herriage is our guest today. Powell and the Federal Reserve should be ashamed if politics are being allowed to override what has always been standard policy during wartime.
We’ll break down the history, the economics, and why millions of Americans are starting to question the motives of the most powerful central bank in the world.
Zohran Mamdani responds after posts surface showing his wife liked content celebrating the October 7 attacks, saying:
(@VigilantFox) 
The Federal Reserve has done it in every major conflict America has faced: cut rates, inject liquidity, and ensure the financial system stays strong as the country confronts its enemies.