Curtez Riggs had an idea, a pitch deck and a request for $60,000. The answer wasn’t exactly encouraging. “They pretty much laughed me out of the room,” Riggs recalled. Nearly a decade later, the idea behind that unsuccessful pitch has become the Military Influencer Conference, or MIC. Its 10th gathering…

An Air Force colonel shot down over Iran said he hit the ground at 70 to 100 mph after a parachute malfunction. He spent nearly 50 hours injured, with limited food or water, while escaping Iranian forces in the mountains. The officer, identified publicly only by his mission call sign,…

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ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) — European leaders joined forces Monday to highlight growing competition in the Arctic, where global warming is opening new shipping routes, governments are vying for vast natural resources and a Russian military buildup is heightening security concerns. The leaders, mostly from Nordic and Baltic countries, put a…

Ah, the Firearms Policy Coalition, one of the most persistent pro-gun organizations out there, one that actively celebrates its lawsuit printer as if it were a physical person and part of the team. It’s glorious. They also have excellent taste in gun rights writers, so…

For military families, travel isn’t always about getting away. Sometimes it’s driving across three states for a graduation. Sometimes it’s catching a last-minute flight home for the holidays. Sometimes it’s another PCS, another temporary hotel, another airport, another goodbye. And sometimes it’s simply trying to make the journey a little…

There’s a tendency among gun control supporters to call anything and everything short of an outright gun ban and confiscation as “reasonable,” which means that anyone who disagrees is unreasonable.  I find this duplicitous argument incredibly annoying, particularly when those making it have to play…

Former New York City firefighter and U.S. Coast Guard reservist Jeffrey Palazzo’s legacy is officially enshrined on a newly commissioned cutter. On Sept. 12, the Coast Guard commissioned its newest Fast Response Cutter, Coast Guard Cutter Jeffrey Palazzo (WPC 1163), during a ceremony in New York City, marking the ship’s…

Over the years, I’ve not hidden my disdain for academia. Trying to do so would be like trying to hide Melissa McCarthy under a sock. It’s just not going to happen. And, to be fair to me, it’s not like academia has done particularly well for itself when it…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine is ready to halt its strikes on Russian territory if allies can secure a genuine Russian commitment not to hit Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. His comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that Russia…

We didn’t cover it all that much, in part because a fair bit was going on, but a shooting at a Minneapolis apartment building sent people scrambling last week as police descended upon it to deal with the active shooter threat. I wrote the original report and mostly moved…

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday announced a record-high $1.17 billion in grants to continue to fight veteran homelessness. Grants were awarded to 680 organizations across the nation to help veterans who are either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The grants will be distributed in Fiscal…

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a number of strong decisions in support of the Second Amendment in recent years, including the Hemani decision upheld by the Supreme Court that ruled the federal ban on gun possession for “unlawful drug users was unconstitutional as applied to a Texas…

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Rarely seen 9/11 photos have their own unique power, showing quiet, often overlooked moments that remind us of individual stories and human connections. Sept. 11 is etched in the collective memory of the United States, not just because of the shock and tragedy of that day, but also due to…

People who hold federal firearms licenses, or FFLs, need to be on top of what the ATF is doing. In theory, they should be partners in combating criminals obtaining firearms, so communication is important. Unfortunately, that hasn’t always been the case. The ATF has long…

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The Selective Service System has withdrawn the regulation intended to implement nationwide automatic draft registration, leaving the agency without a public implementation rule months before a congressionally mandated deadline. An official federal docket shows that the agency submitted the proposed rule March 30 and withdrew it July 23. The withdrawal…

Last week a Maryland rabbi won the ability to carry a firearm in his synagogue, despite Montgomery County’s ban on lawful carry in houses of worship. The injunction granted by a federal judge only applies to the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but there’s no shortage of rabbis around…

When most people picture an emergency stockpile, they imagine a basement lined with shelves, a spare bedroom packed floor to ceiling, or a garage full of five-gallon buckets. And if you’ve got that kind of room, great. But a lot of us don’t. If you live in a small house…

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The Pentagon has invested $450 million into a company that develops tungsten, as part of a move anticipated to create 1,200 jobs. Tungsten is a dense, ultra-hard metal with the highest melting point of any element. It is used in critical components for missiles, munitions, aerospace, propulsion, naval, undersea, electronics,…