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Former Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones says that Americans should not be allowed to own “assault rifles.” A columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was tipped to Jones’ controversial opinion and put the question to the former player, asking him what he thought of guns today and the many mass shootings that have been perpetrated across the nation. “I believe in our Constitutional right to bear arms and protect ourselves,” Jones told columnist Jeff Schultz. “But I do not believe there is any need for civilians to own assault rifles. I just don’t.” Jones insisted that banning certain guns is “like” the war against drugs. “I would like to see something (new legislation) happen. I liken it to drugs – you’re not going to get rid of all the guns. But AR-15s and AK-47s and all this kind of stuff – they belong in the hands of soldiers,” Jones said. “Those belong in the hands of people who know how to operate them, and whose lives depend on them operating them. Not with civ...

President Trump favors a policy that executes major drug dealers to deter the trafficking of drugs across the United States, according to an exclusive report. Axios’ Jonathan Swan reports that, in private, Trump talks frequently about his support for the drug trafficking policies of Singapore and the Phillippines, where high-profile drug dealers are executed. Swan spoke to an anonymous senior official in the Trump White House, who said: “He often jokes about killing drug dealers … He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.’” Additionally, five sources in the Trump administration have told Swan that the populist president sees drug dealers of the Mexican drug cartels “as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty,” Swan reports. Singapore has some of the harshest sentencing laws in the world when it comes to drug offenses, giving drug dealers an automatic death sentence. In the Phillippines, President Rodrigo Duter...

OXON HILL, MD — Sheriff David Clarke blamed the nation’s crippling cycle of poverty and the “myth” of mass incarceration of black males on the Democrats and their “failed, liberal urban policies” which he says have “screwed this country up.” Clarke said while speaking on a panel titled “Breaking Bad: What it Takes to Rise Above Circumstances,” at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) on Friday: Mass incarcerations, especially of black males, is a myth. Look, the Democrats did this. They have screwed this country up. They screwed it up with failed, liberal urban polices.” Clarke added his belief that the Democrats did this because while the country is discussing ways to break the cycle of poverty, they call for “more programs, more government intervention, and more spending of your tax dollars. Clarke was joined on the panel by Ashley McGuire of The Catholic Association, Margaret Iuculano, of the American Conservative Union, and Dr. Wendy Warcholik and J. Scott Moody, wh...

Reality television star Khloe Kardashian has revealed she plans to eat her newborn child’s placenta, copying a trend set by her elder sister Kim. “I’m going to eat it in pills,” Khloe told Kim on Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. “I really can’t deal with that belly button, placenta thing.” “My placenta was like double the size, it was really oddly big, so she gave me two jars,” Kim responded, adding that she asked for “grape flavor” in her “picked placenta.” Khloe Kardashian, 33, is currently expecting her first child with basketball player Tristan Thompson, although the pair are not currently married. “I was married before and it didn’t do anything for me,” she said. “I’m in a good, healthy relationship.” The baby will be the third child to be born into the Kardashian-Jenner clan in 2018, following the birth of Kim and Kanye West’s third child, Chicago West, and Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott’s firstborn Stormi Webster. Doctors are split over the health benefi...

NEW YORK — As Michael Savage contemplates a run for the U.S. Senate in California, the radio star on Monday unveiled a platform of borders, language and culture. In an email to Breitbart News, Savage outlined his plan for the Golden State if he decides to jump into the race: Seal the borders, build the wall like a citadel, deport illegal aliens. English is the only language permitted on government documents, including ballots used for voting. Again: English only voting Fix the homeless problem in the big cities of California – get rid of the needles, feces and trash off the streets. Bring the state taxes of California down to 9%. No more racism as a way of life among the political class. Be strong on the environment. On his national program on Friday, “The Savage Nation” host said he was asked by “some very important people” to run as an independent against Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Listen to the audio here: Savage told his audience: “Some very important people have come to me ...

First daughter Ivanka Trump struck back at NBC News for asking if she believes President Donald Trump’s sexual harassment accusers in an interview that aired on Monday’s broadcast of The Today Show. “Do you believe your father’s [sexual misconduct] accusers?” – @PeterAlexander “I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it.” – @IvankaTrump pic.twitter.com/23AVPgcOdE — TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 26, 2018 Trump’s answer comes as some of the president’s accusers from the 2016 presidential campaign have been thrust back into the news. The Washington Post recently profiled accuser Rachel Crooks, who claims she introduced herself to Trump briefly while working as a secretary in his building. “He started kissing me on one cheek, then the other cheek,” she recounted in a meeting with the Post. “He was talking to me in between kisses, asking where I was from, or if I wante...

The liberal campaign against the NRA has successfully pressured some companies to sever their partnerships with the gun rights group but it’s having another, unintended effect: galvanizing conservatives who feel the NRA has been unfairly attacked. Liberal activist groups turned the NRA into a scapegoat for the Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead and immediately launched a pressure campaign meant to weaken the NRA, which touts itself as the nation’s longest-standing civil rights organization. Liberals have threatened boycott campaigns against companies like FedEx, for having discount partnerships with NRA members. On that front, the activists have had some success, as several companies including United Airlines and Delta Airlines caved to the pressure and severed their ties with the NRA. Left-wing website ThinkProgress, a project of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, has since taken credit for launching that boycott campaign. Two left-wing gun control ...