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The head of Philadelphia's FBI field office is facing an investigation after she shot and killed a pit bull outside a Center City apartment building Monday evening. The shooting of a pit bull by an off-duty FBI agent on a busy Center City street this week has sparked an uproar on social media and protests by animal rights activists outside the FBI’s offices on Arch Street. Here’s what we know about the incident, the agent involved, and what happens next: What do we know about the incident? Philadelphia police and the FBI have confirmed that an off-duty FBI agent shot...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile had to make a pit stop on Friday after thieves targeted the iconic vehicle. The catalytic converter on the 27-foot-long hot dog on wheels was stolen, according to Joseph Rodriguez with Penske Trucks. According to Rodriguez, his team at Penske helped give the vehicle a temporary repair so it could get back on the road. Rodriguez said staff at Penske near West Hacienda Avenue and South Decatur Boulevard sealed up where the catalytic converter had been cut. The iconic vehicle was back on the road and able to make it to...

So, a San Francisco reparations panel pitches $5 million — each — to black residents. This totally blows out the recent California Reparations Task Force proposal for reparations of $223,000 per recipient according to their recent report. Adding insult to injury is the contradiction that California has always been a Free State since statehood. If such reparations are actually made, then send the bill to one major remaining guilty party responsible for slavery, Jim Crow discrimination, and the KKK terrorism inflicted upon freed slaves and their descendants. Of course it would be the Democratic Party, whose sordid history is consistently...

In response to your recent December news release statement concerning “Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions” and request for public comments, I have the following comment to your board. The intended purpose of the Federal Reserve is formulating U.S. monetary policy through the control of currency and interest rates, as well as promoting financial stability through the regulating of financial institutions. If members of the Federal Reserve are so concerned about climate, environmental and energy policies, then I strongly suggest that those members resign from the Federal Reserve. These former members could then simply seek other...

It was hard to miss the loaded headline regarding a convicted psychopathic killer titled “Clemency Probe Fails to Exonerate Kevin Cooper.” It just goes to show that this was intended as a politically motivated exoneration project and not as a search for objective truth. A better and more accurate headline should have read DNA Tests Confirm Kevin Cooper’s Guilt, Again. This recent probe further proves Cooper’s guilt to a degree of accuracy that more than meets the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. There is a better chance of you having the recent billion dollar MegaMillions ticket than of Kevin...

An 80-year-old Norco market owner whose videotaped shooting of a would-be robber in July made national headlines and spawned a get-tough slogan to commemorate the confrontation, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, two months after suffering a stroke. Craig Cope’s death was confirmed by the market, Norco Mayor Kevin Bash and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the four men charged in the case. “We lost our Craig this morning. I’m sorry I am without words right now but I promised to not leave you in the dark,” an unnamed employee of the Norco Market & Liquor posted on...

Temecula, California school board members Dr. Joseph Komrosky and Jen Wiersma share their goals for improving their school district's curriculum after enacting a ban on critical race theory.

A California school district voted this week to ban Critical Race Theory from being taught in its schools. In a 3-2 vote, the Temecula Valley Unified School District in southern California voted to ban schools from teaching CRT. The vote came at the end of a marathon session on Tuesday night that ran into the wee hours of Wednesday morning; a new conservative majority had just been sworn in at the beginning of the meeting. “The TVUSD desires to uplift and unite students by not imposing the responsibility of historical transgressions in the past and instead will engage students of...

New conservative Christian majority leads way on board’s 3-2 vote to prohibit critical race theory The teaching of critical race theory was banned in Temecula Valley schools after an emotional marathon meeting that drew hundreds to a Tuesday night, Dec. 13, session in a packed high school theater. Led by a new conservative Christian board majority seated at the beginning of the meeting, the school board’s 3-2 vote to prohibit such lessons came early Wednesday, Dec. 14. “A lot has been said tonight,” said newly elected trustee Joseph Komrosky, who proposed the resolution. “I’m here to keep a campaign promise....

President Joe Biden's demagoguery has no limits, nor even a grain of logic. His clueless and knee-jerk reflex just reverts to labeling political opponents and dissenters as embracing "semi-fascism," and so-called "MAGA Republicans" as "thriving on chaos." Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You would be hard pressed to find any American joyfully thriving on the chaos created by Joe Biden's utterly contemptible and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago; or the blatant chaos created by Biden's un-enforced southern border; or the chaos of the fentanyl epidemic created by Biden's feckless border and national security policies; or...

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George Orwell’s novella ”Animal Farm” is regarded as one of the great books of Western literature. Orwell’s allegory reveals its epiphany when the pigs, symbols of the Communist ruling class, revise it’s seventh commandment from “All animals are equal” to “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Meanwhile the Marxist-affiliated group, Black Lives Matter, is a prime example of life imitating art. Reports that BLM has $42 million in assets, while going on real estate spending sprees for mansions, stock market purchases and other luxuries, should raise the interest of the IRS and other law...

I’ve known and know a number of girls and women named Karen. I cannot think of anything bad about any one of them. One Karen I dated in high school. Others I’ve met and/or worked with while becoming friends and colleagues with. All of them are very nice with nothing derogatory that I can think of nor remember. Yet “Karen” has become a pejorative in our current hyper “woke” culture. “Karen” has become a caricature of that certain middle-aged white woman calling 911 on children skateboarding in the cul-de-sac, dog-walkers in urban parks and that bossy woman demanding to see...

President Joe Biden’s incompetent withdrawal and evacuation of US Armed Forces from Afghanistan has been a dismal failure causing America to be seen as an international embarrassment on the world stage. President Biden conducted his poorly planned withdrawal with little to no consultation and planning with our NATO Allies. Our NATO Allies were there to support America when she was attacked on September 11, 2001, yet they were shortchanged by Biden’s hasty retreat. President Biden also sullies the memories of all of those who died and sacrificed during the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent military actions to overthrow and neutralize...

In 2003 then President George W. Bush signed into federal law the Prison Rape Elimination Act, i.e., PREA, passed by the US Congress with unanimous bi-partisan support. This federal law has been widely seen as a big advance forward in protecting the human rights and dignity of those who, despite their criminal violations of law and subsequent incarcerations, are entitled to serve their time free of rape, sexual abuse and sexual coercion by other inmates or compromised officers and staff. One major provision of PREA is a mandate for the US Department of Justice to "make the prevention of prison...

Dear Editor, During the May 11 City Council meeting, Mayor Pro Tem Matt Rahn unjustly maligned fellow Council Member Jessica Alexander for her reference to the Covid-19 virus as China Virus. Matt Rahn is simply parroting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) talking points while also failing to note that in late 2019 and early 2020, the virus was routinely called Wuhan Virus and Chinese Virus throughout our American establishment and major news media outlets. It was only after the Beijing-approved talking point by the China Xinhua News and intense behind the scenes lobbying by Chinese Communists that the narrative moved from...

They’re young, hot and ready for war. Members of the Israel Defense Forces are posting “thirst traps” on TikTok amid the nation’s conflict with Hamas — and experts say it’s part of a larger strategy to garner support and spread nationalism as the social media masses flock to support Palestinians, Rolling Stone reported. The IDF, which is in the midst of a cease-fire with Hamas following a short war that left 13 Israelis and over 240 Palestinians dead, has long been social media-savvy with a strong online presence, but they’ve stepped up their game amid the latest round of conflict...

FReep this poll/survey. I received this via e-mail today. The poll takes about 5-8 minutes and surveys political background, past voting preferences and attitudes towards voter integrity, campaign financing and election reform laws. This link below is cut and pasted from directly from my e-mail ... hopefully it will work here for FReepers too. If you can ... swamp this poll. Good luck and g’day! https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6197066/RMG-Research-FW-National-Survey

Has your God-given right to freedom of assembly been deemed #nonessential? Have California bureaucrats deemed you as #nonessential? Our communities, our families, and our Judeo-Christian way of life are under attack. The California governor and bureaucracy have deemed our cherished freedoms as “Non-Essential”. They call us deplorables. They call us bitter-clingers. They call us smelly WalMart shoppers. They call us chumps. They call us non-essential. We are unapologetic and we are going to speak the truth. Nobody is “non-essential.” Together, we are an unstoppable force. A rally of the “Non-Essentials” on November 1 beginning at 5:30 p.m.at Temecula City Hall...

FReep this poll ... Did Joe Biden’s acceptance speech neutralize Donald Trump’s questioning of Biden’s cognitive abilities? Yes No Go to the link provided .... scroll down on the home page until you see the poll. Vote your choice.