Senior Legal Fellow @AmericanFreedom. Always technically as advertised, but never quite what you expected. All views and cat pictures are my own.
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Sarah is a dear friend and former colleague of mine, whose 17-year-old son was just diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of leukemia.
Your prayers and support for this wonderful family would be greatly appreciated.
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Meet Dakota Wood, a twenty year Marine, who will be spearheading the Institute for National Security at AAF.
“I couldn’t be prouder to join the world-class team at Advancing American Freedom nor more grateful for the opportunity they have entrusted to me to stand-up the Institute for National Security.”
AAF’s Institute for National Security will advance a conservative strategy to strengthen American leadership abroad and prosperity at home.
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@AmericanFreedom is starting an Institute for National Security, @NRO has learned.
The center will focus on establishing a strategic advantage over China, reviving the defense industrial base, supporting NATO, and creating a durable peace in the Middle East, all while maintaining free markets at home and addressing the looming debt crisis.
“It has become very clear that national security and domestic policy are more intertwined than they’ve ever been,” @TimChapman tells me.
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Among these are some of the most clear-cut cases justifying execution you can imagine, including:
- A cult leader who systematically sexually abused his own daughters and nieces, then murdered nine of his kids and grandkids over a custody dispute.
- A serial killer who murdered at least 11 people (likely closer to 25), including two infants, and who subjected his female victims to prolonged periods of horrific sexual torture, which he video taped.
- A mass shooter who killed 7 people and wounded 4 more because he was upset that the female co-worker he stalked for years finally filed a restraining order against him.
Breaking News: California Governor Gavin Newsom spared the lives of everyone on death row in the state, commuting the sentences of 548 prisoners. nyti.ms/4zu9I2f
Among these inmates: a serial killer who abducted whole families, murdered at least 11 people (including two infants), and subjected women to horrific sexual torture *that he video taped* before killing them.
And yeah, actually, that guy deserves to be executed.
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Countless illegal aliens use U visa fraud to magically transform themselves into lawful residents on a path to citizenship. All with the flick of a wand (well, the flick of a gun, at least).
And by countless, we mean USCIS literally won't count them.
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Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/buckt…
One of the more insane stories is a 2024 incident in Houston. I've yet to find any indication that the fake "victims" had their U visas revoked.
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The really wild part of the Houston story is that the dead fraudster's fiancee knew the whole time that he was committing fake robberies for immigration fraud schemes, and still blames *the bystander* as the real villain.
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Another month, another defensive gun use round-up!
This time, we're celebrating the CDC's resurrection of defensive gun use data that anti-2A advocates wanted "killed, buried, and killed again."
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Like clockwork.
Most kids from broken homes don't shoot up schools. But basically every school shooter comes from a very broken home.
There are a few exceptions. The Bend gunman wasn't one of them.
It's blackout bingo on the "school shooter card."
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(paywall bypass here: archive.ph/DAwgn)
I want to be clear - what this kid did was unspeakably evil. He made a choice. But good Lord was he set up for failure.
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Add to that - just last year, his mother's then-boyfriend beat the daylights out of him. The police investigation closed without charges because the family refused to cooperate. It's horrific.
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Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/buckt…
I understand a coach caring deeply about one of his players and not wanting to kick a guy who's probably at the lowest point of his life, but we can't downplay how serious this is or sugarcoat what happened.
Elliott not only thought about turning a gun on himself or a teammate, but had to be talked down halfway through the process of acting on that thought...
He needs professional help. And that help should involve him not having access to firearms for the foreseeable future. Not forever. But certainly for right now.
Ideally, that would be a voluntary decision made as part of a plan he agrees with and buys into because he understands he needs help. But he presents a substantial and imminent risk of harm to himself and others. He got halfway to killing himself or someone else over a relatively minor incident at practice. He shouldn't have a gun right now.
This shouldn't be a controversial statement. It inevitably will be, for reasons that continue to baffle me.
What happened here wasn't a "small sign of a cry for help." It wasn't a "lapse in judgment."
It's a very serious, very significant, and very obvious indication that a person is mentally and emotionally unwell - and violently so.
The fact that he showed no apparent warning signs before *the very moment he engaged in steps to get his gun to hurt himself or a teammate* is actually one of the most concerning parts, to be honest.
I hope he gets the help he needs.
#Titans HC Robert Saleh says Jordan Elliott having a gun was, in a way, a “small sign of a cry for help,” considering he had no prior issues and is a father and a hard worker.
Saleh referenced two suicides in the NFL over the past year and expressed concern about players struggling without getting the help they need.
“These kids go through a lot. I will stand on the table for Jordan’s character. My message to 31 other teams: If you need a hell of a run-stopping DT that can help for a playoff run, give me a call. I'll tell you everything you need to know about him. He’s a good man. Had a terrible lapse in judgment.”
"When they promised the right to free speech, they had printing presses and soap boxes.
So, yeah, everyone has a right to say whatever stupid thing they want with their unenhanced voice or on a physical piece of paper.
But with a mic? On video? Over the internet? Pshhh."
Let the record reflect that I also take umbrage with the phrase "when they promised."
"They" didn't "promise" anything.
The nation's defining charter protects a right that its people already understood themselves to naturally possess, by clarifying that the government has no power to infringe upon it.
This is grossly dishonest framing about the locks, as well.
All the locks in the world won't make ordinary glass panes shatter-resistant, especially against a shotgun. This wasn't a lock failure. It was a catastrophically stupid design failure that make the locks worthless.
Second, the physical security measures slowed the gunman down, probably saving dozens of lives when combined with the incredibly fast armed response.
4 dead is tragic.
But how did measures that prevented 14 more deaths "fail"?
I thought the whole schtick of gun control was "if it saves even one life, why wouldn't we do it?"
Finally, ya'll there are studies on this. Including a very recent one by Texas State University.
Secured doors save lives.
Barriers to external entry are particularly vital in the context of elementary school active shooters, who universally aren't students.
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(1) Sharing an SRO with "6 or 7" other schools basically means no school has an SRO.
(2) Why train a lock down drill with 4 SROs, when you normally have no SROs?
(3) 4 SROs on scene *the day of the shooting* would've completely changed the outcome.
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