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Yesterday abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s website went down. The organization that harvests baby parts is blaming the website crash on “extremists” however they have not named any groups or persons. Planned Parenthood has been highly criticized after the group The Center for Medical Progress released several under cover videos showing their top doctors haggling over the price of baby organs harvested after abortions. ****WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES ON LINK**** A recent video uploaded by CMP showed inside a Planned Parenthood Path Lab. The video showed behind the scenes of the abortion clinic including graphic images of the babies being dissected by...

Dallas – McLennan County’s criminal justice community is not trying to “scheme against” defendants in the Twin Peaks shooting, said a lawyer appointed to represent a judge recused in the case. A supplemental pleading to the 10th District Court of Appeals cites those remarks as evidence a gag order is unconstitutional and unworkable, according to the lawyer who filed the court papers. “Mr. (Matthew) Clendennen and his counsel are subject to the gag order entered by the Judge of the 54th District Court, Matt Johnson, and cannot publicly speak to this matter of grave public concern to our justice system....

I thought it best to post a follow up to my previous post of yesterday. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3317547/posts I would first like to thank everyone for the prayers/thoughts/advice. I noticed several others who have gone through similar circumstances and I thank you for sharing. Since the original post we have got new meds for my wife and she started taking it last night. I’ve also received additional comments from our children. When I got home from work yesterday she kept asking me why I was acting different. She said I was not acting like myself. When I asked what she meant she...

It sounds like a scene from a disaster movie – mass power failures, plane crashes, satellite disruptions, and train derailments. These are some of the threats modern society would face in the case of a massive solar storm, according to a new document released by the U.K. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The “Space Weather Preparedness Strategy” outlines the disturbances that could be caused by unpredictable solar weather. The most striking find from the report is the fact that a country would have only a 12-hour warning period before the storm would hit the planet. The worst possible scenario...

If I kill an endangered lion in Africa and bring its head and skin home to be stuffed, I will be fined anywhere between $500 and $10,500, depending on how many times I’m caught doing it—not to mention calls for my soul to be fed to Cthulhu after my body is slow roasted on a spit.  But if I sell my own plasma or sperm, I can make $50 per week or more for my blood (for twice a week), and up to $1,500 per month for my sperm. ($125 every 3 days, are you kidding me?). But I can’t...

I used to think there was a consensus among government-funded certified climate scientists, but a better study by Verheggen et al shows even that is not true. The “97% consensus” is now 43%. Finally there is a decent survey on the topic, and it shows that less than half of what we would call “climate scientists” who research the topic and for the most part, publish in the peer reviewed literature, would agree with the IPCC’s main conclusions. Only 43% of climate scientists agree with the IPCC “95%” certainty..

What you say on 911 is recorded.  It can and will be used against you in a court of law.  My friend and publisher of numerous books on gun laws, Alan Korwin, says that in the vast majority of cases where people involved in self defense scenarios end up in serious legal difficulties, it is what they said on 911 that got them into trouble.  He expounds on this in his book "After You Shoot".   In a recent case in Florida, both male participants made errors.  One is dead and one has been charged.         I...

Ezra Levan of TheRebel.Media reports yet another example of Obama's inept and dangerous negotiating skills as he sacrifices the Kurds in order to have the right to do what he has a right to do anyway. Even though Turkey is a member of NATO, they hate the Kurds more than they oppose the Islamic State terrorists. Obama has just given the Islamic government of Turkey permission to attack our allies in Kurdistan, who are the only liberal Muslims in the region. Obama will be gone in eighteen months but in the meantime, thousands will die as he continues to throw...

The Muslim penchant to target “white” women for sexual exploitation—an epidemic currently plaguing Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia—is as old as Islam itself, and even traces back to Muhammad.Much literary evidence attests to this in the context of Islam’s early predations on Byzantium (for centuries, Christendom’s easternmost bulwark against the jihad). According to Ahmad M. H. Shboul (author of “Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature”) Christian Byzantium was the “classic example of the house of war,” or Dar al-Harb—that is, the quintessential realm that needs to be conquered by jihad. Moreover, Byzantium...

In urban centers around the country, rental prices are soaring. Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City routinely report double-digit increases that make it nearly impossible for residents to make ends meet. But it’s not just dwellers of those metropolitan areas who are having a hard time paying the rent. According to a report out this week from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, more than half of renters in America are considered to be financially burdened by their rent, meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their income just on where they live. High...

RIKERS ISLAND — The head of the Harlem Historical Society wants Rikers Island renamed based on the namesake family's connection to slavery. The embattled jail complex, which has been beset with scandal over poor treatment of inmates and calls to shut it down, gets its name from the family of Abraham Rycken, a Dutch immigrant who settled in New York in the 1600s, according to the New York Historical Society. Jacob Morris, director of the Harlem Historical Society, recently started a petition to rename the embattled jail complex due to family member Richard Riker's history of helping send blacks into...

Does anyone know where i can buy a correct "Appeal to Heaven" Flag? not one with "an Appeal to Heaven" Flag. but the original without the an.

A friend of my family's was shot a little bit ago in Dallas. Details unecessary and unknown except that he is in surgery (status unknown). He is a true man of God. And he has a family. Prayers urgently requested.

I was more or less forced to go out in the middle of the day to go to a neighboring bank and then pay my comcast internet bill. I passed by the most local Planned Infanticide Compound...and noted the same 4 prayer warriors Ive encountered there for several years. They will not be run off!

Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson testified at the Texas state Senate Committee on Health & Human Services about the organ harvesting practices at the abortion company that still receives federal funding. Contrary to Planned Parenthood’s insistence that they don’t profit from organ harvesting from dead babies, Abby gave testimony that pointed to a different story.Some tweets from the event:And this: Abby now works for a group that helps employees leave Planned Parenthood. Here’s also an interview with her on Sean Hannity’s show a week ago: (video at link)

It started with a wrong turn and ended with a World War II veteran being absolutely embraced by the residents of one New Jersey township. Lost while driving nearly three hours from his home in Pennsylvania, 92-year-old Oscar Ehrhart was returning from a veteran’s convention when he ended up in Bob Shea’s driveway. Bob called Robbinsville Township police officer Thomas Egan for assistance. In the meantime, Oscar told some old stories, while proudly donning his WWII baseball cap. He then had one request: “Oscar asked if it would be O.K. for him to sleep in his car overnight since he...

"Bernie Sanders is closer 2 my position on immigration than a wing of GOP. Avowed socialist is opposed 2 open borders." http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/01/17/rep-joaquin-castro-boehner-called-steve-king-a-hole-to-house-dems/

Presidential candidate Donald Trump begs to differ with President Barack Obama’s assessment that if he ran for a third term, he could win it.

Had this idea while chatting on another thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3318260/posts?page=42 I thought this might provoke some interesting insights from veterans. Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War", many people are familiar with. If you were to add your own proverb or paragraph of wisdom about VietNam to instruct future generations, what would it be? Thank you for your service.

If I were the PR firm that Planned Parenthood hired this is the ad I'd tell them to run...but then again my objective would be the truth, not damage control.