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Colorado’s new voter-approved gun initiative has a target unlike those of previous measures meant to reduce gun violence. The tax on guns and ammunition is meant to generate revenue to support cash-strapped victim services, and it’s an open question whether it will affect firearms sales. The 6.5% tax on manufacturers and sellers — including pawnbrokers — of guns, gun parts, and ammunition will generate an estimated $39 million a year.

Yep, Rep. Melanie Stansbury did what Democrats are supposed to do, and took it to JD Vance and his fellow MAGA stooges for wanting to create a "blacklist" of government employees not loyal enough to the Trump cult. Therefore, they must be "purged." Stanbury educated anyone listening as she ripped into thugs like Vance and The Heritage Foundation, for their Project 2025 attempt to use "McCarthyism" to force out government employees not deemed sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump.

“With much fanfare, Ukraine was granted permission to fire Western long-range missiles at Russian military targets more than a month ago. But after initially firing a flurry of them, Ukraine has already slowed their use,” the New York Times reports. “Kyiv is running out of missiles. It also might be running out of time: President-elect Donald Trump has said publicly that allowing U.

Communism “works in theory” but in reality? It never does.

The Biden administration, set up as it was by the Obama administration, has been a clear and present danger to the United States of America. In almost every way imaginable.