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  • Travis McGee (Matt Bracken) making his books free on Kindle beginning Sunday

    12/02/2017 4:53:40 PM PST · by Travis McGee · 92 replies
    Amazon kindle store ^ | December 2, 2017 | Matthew Bracken
    Starting tonight at midnight California (Amazon) time, my books will be free to download on Kindle. One title per day through all six of them, including my new counter-jihad novel The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun. Merry Christmas, Freepers!
  • How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years?

    12/02/2017 12:19:56 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 73 replies
    Backreaction ^ | Sabine Hossenfelder
    Planet Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago. The first primitive forms of life appeared about 4 billion years ago. Natural selection did the rest, giving rise to species increasingly better adapted to their environment. Evidence, as they say, is overwhelming. Or is it? Imagine planet Earth began its existence a mere 10,000 years ago, with all fossil records in place and carbon-14 well into decaying. From there on, however, evolution proceeded as scientists tell us. How’d you prove this story wrong? You can’t. I know it hurts. But hang on there, band aid follows below. You can’t prove this...
  • Did Americans In 1776 Have British Accents?

    12/02/2017 9:17:33 AM PST · by gaggs · 154 replies
    Have you ever wondered if the Founding Fathers spoke with a British accent? I know I have. Well here is the answer. The typical English accent didn’t develop until after the Revolutionary War, so Americans actually speak proper English. Here comes the science.
  • 110 Years of Semi-Auto Hunting Rifles

    12/02/2017 4:26:28 AM PST · by marktwain · 21 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 21 November, 2017 | Dean Weingarten
    Semi-automatic rifles have been common in the hunting fields in the United States for a hundred and ten years and more.  I picked up the Remington model 8 above at a gun show in Tucson a few years ago. The design has been popular for a long time. The rifle pictured was manufactured early in 1907. It was called the Remington Autoloading Repeating Rifle at the time. The Model 8 designation was applied in 1911. The rifle pictured was one of the first chambered in the .30 Remington caliber, Remington's ballistic equal to Winchester's .30-30. Unfortunately, the Remington model...
  • Flynn to Testify Against Trump [semi-satire]

    12/02/2017 12:26:36 AM PST · by John Semmens · 4 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 3 Dec 2017 | John Semmens
    U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras advised admitted liar Gen. Michael Flynn "to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller" and told him he can avoid substantial prison time "if and only if he provides substantial assistance in the prosecution of another person." Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about a conversation he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the post-election transition period following Donald Trump's victory over presidential rival Hillary Clinton. Insiders are reporting that Flynn has told Mueller that "Trump told me to contact the Russians and have them set up the 'accidental' tarmac meeting...
  • Greenfield: Islamic Gender Apartheid: Real Feminism Means Resisting Islam

    12/01/2017 8:51:41 PM PST · by Louis Foxwell · 7 replies
    FrontPage ^ | 12/01/17 | Greenfield
    Islamic Gender Apartheid: Real Feminism Means Resisting Islam Dr. Phyllis Chesler’s book is a reminder of what fighting for women actually means. December 1, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. America’s leading feminist is Linda Sarsour. The Islamist activist has praised Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women while touting Mohammed, whose sex slave habits ISIS had adopted, as a feminist. Sarsour is as much of a feminist as her prophet. But what does it say about feminism that it embraces...
  • Generation Commie – Why Millennials are Embracing Communism

    11/30/2017 6:37:35 PM PST · by pboyington · 63 replies
    US Defense Watch ^ | November 30, 2017 | Ray Starmann
    America has a new and growing internal security threat. This new threat is not ISIS, nor is it Rocket Man’s sleeper agents wandering downtown Seattle with a six pack of SADM’s; nor is it Morning Joe with a chain saw in a room full of interns. The new threat wafting across the country, meandering through the nation’s streets, and floating through the country’s neighborhoods like a poison gas is the Millennial Generation’s love affair with socialism and communism. “Millennials now make up the largest generation in America, and we’re seeing some deeply worrisome trends,” said Marion Smith, executive director of...
  • In a Planned Parenthood Culture, The Matt Lauers Thrive

    11/30/2017 9:05:06 AM PST · by iowamark · 5 replies
    The Resurgent ^ | 11/29/17 | Erick Erickson
    It is not a partisan issue. It is a power issue. Powerful men, emboldened by a culture that lets them get away with whatever they want, engage in all sorts of sordid behaviors. We live in a fallen world and both in the power corridors of churches and in the media, not to mention politics and Hollywood, bad men can get away with all sorts of terrible things when people refuse to hold them accountable. But there is another aspect of this as well. We live in an age of prostitots where 4 year olds can dress up like sluts...
  • Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874: here he is on Islam

    11/30/2017 8:15:02 AM PST · by harpygoddess · 7 replies
    vaviper.blogspot.com ^ | 11/30/2017 | VA Viper
    How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as...
  • power, sex, and politics

    11/30/2017 5:29:10 AM PST · by Louis Foxwell · 20 replies
    AMERICAN GREATNESS ^ | 11/30/17 | Angelo Codevilla
    AMERICAN GREATNESS Power, Sex, and Politics Angelo Codevilla Power,” Henry Kissinger observed, “is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Men, but mostly women, have been trading erotic services for access to power since time began. The ruling class’s recent carrying on over a supposed epidemic of powerful grabbers and gropers runs counter to common sense and experience. If Henry, who resembled less a prince than a frog even in his youth found his connections with power and wealth sufficient to satisfy his longings, so can anyone similarly placed. Nor is there any evidence of a sudden increase in morality or restraint having cut...
  • A Senate of the States: July 14th, 1787

    11/30/2017 1:57:30 AM PST · by Jacquerie
    Article V Blog ^ | November 30th 2017 | Rodney Dodsworth
    As of this Saturday in mid-July, the familiar enumeration of specific powers in Article I § 8 and prohibitions in Sections 9 & 10 didn’t exist. Delegates had agreed to a single executive, a judiciary, a House of Representatives proportioned by population, and little else. From Madison’s notes it appears that most delegates assumed the new government would act only on the people, and not the states. Without knowing if the new government was to act on just the people (a national government) or the people plus the states (mixed national and federal), today’s proceedings were somewhat murky and confusing...
  • Good if Trump Derangement goes zombipocalypse, next 9-11, Martial Law

    11/29/2017 1:55:46 PM PST · by CharlesOConnell · 28 replies
    Freep | 11-29-19 | Anonymous
    We're going to lose our freedom anyway. Antifa has training contacts with Isis. Cong. Schiff is making impeachment for potty talk a permanent institution. More power to him. The next 9-11 will be 10 times worse. The left will be in open revolution street fighting. Martial Law infristructure has long been in pkace, black ops holiday camps Make your real Donald contributions now.
  • Do Roy Moore's Accusers Have False Memories?

    11/29/2017 9:26:09 AM PST · by kathsua · 16 replies
    A Janitor's View ^ | 11/29/17 | Reasonmclucus
    The human brain is an unreliable memory device. It can forget events that happened and remember events that didn't. I don't know if the allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by Ray Moore 40 years ago are true or not. I do know that it is unlikely he would remember such casual affairs so many years in the past. Many men would forget such affairs in weeks, if not days. A young woman might consider an older man's attention significant, but to the older man the young woman is just another warm body who might be used and forgotten. It is...
  • GREENFIELD: Calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ is the Best Way to Fight Racism

    11/29/2017 4:20:15 AM PST · by Louis Foxwell · 26 replies
    FrontPage ^ | 11/29/17 | Greenfield
    Calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ is the Best Way to Fight Racism Trump isn’t hurling a racial slur at a white leftist liar. He’s exposing a racist. November 29, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. “On the shores of her Cambridge mansion, by the shining Charles River waters, stood Elizabeth Warren, pointing with her finger at the White House.” The Song of Warrenwatha Senator Elizabeth Warren, America’s greatest living fake Indian, is outraged. "There he was, at a ceremony to...
  • Greenfield: How Obama Brought Back Muslim Enslavement of Black People

    11/28/2017 9:07:01 AM PST · by Louis Foxwell · 17 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | 11/27/17 | Greenfield
    Monday, November 27, 2017 How Obama Brought Back Muslim Enslavement of Black People Posted by Daniel Greenfield America’s first black president didn’t bring “Hope” to America, but he did bring slave auctions to Africa. After Obama “liberated” Libya for the Islamist rebels, Arab Muslims sell black slaves for a few hundred dollars at slave auctions. While leftists tear down the statues of slave owners from centuries ago, it was the left that brought back the sale of black men as property. Slavery was always one of Barack Obama’s favorite subjects. It was a favorite subject because it provided him with...
  • The Media Accuse Trump Of Using Racial Slur To Navajo

    11/28/2017 6:42:22 AM PST · by Pinkbell · 10 replies
    Donald Trump For President Blog ^ | November 28, 2017 | Pinkbell
    Full Title - The Media (Who Only Talked About the Navajo Because Of Trump) Accuse Trump Of Using Racial Slur To Navajo Today, while having an event celebrating the Navajo Code Talkers, Trump made a quip about Elizabeth Warren: "I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although, we have a representative in Congress who has been here a long time ... longer than you -- they call her Pocahontas!  But you know what, I like you. You are special people." The media went ballistic...
  • President Teddy Roosevelt Loved his Suppressed Rifles

    11/27/2017 5:32:57 AM PST · by w1n1 · 9 replies
    Am Shooting Journal ^ | 11/27/2017 | J Hines
    If you didn’t know, the late President Teddy Roosevelt really loved his guns for shooting, hunting and battle. He was obviously an avid user and collector. He was seriously into the Winchester lever-action rifles. Historians say his most prized was the Winchester Model 1894 chambered in .30-30, titled by Roosevelt as the “little .30”. When this rifle was first introduced, Roosevelt tried it out and took down an antelope at approximately 190 yards. He marveled at its usefulness and called the .30-30, “Aces.” Because he was such a gun nut, he had to have this one at his Long Island...
  • A Senate of the States: July 13th, 1787

    11/27/2017 1:41:47 AM PST · by Jacquerie · 4 replies
    Article V Blog ^ | November 27th 2017 | Rodney Dodsworth
    Up to now, the convention’s great divide was between the large and small states. Today, focus drifted toward the rift between north and south, non-slave vs. slave-holding states. The 3/5 rule and expected rapid population growth in the southwest disturbed some northern delegates. If slaves and whites filled new states as anticipated, southern states would soon dominate the House of Representatives. Abruptly, yet understandably, the aristocratic Gouverneur Morris (PA), who recently recommended doing away with the states, turned about in support of equal state suffrage in the senate as a counterbalance to a fast-growing south. Only a northern state senate...
  • POLL: Who should be Time Person of the Year?

    11/26/2017 10:55:20 AM PST · by Jeff Chandler · 83 replies
    POLL: Who should be Time Person of the Year? Donald Trump Pope Francis Mohammed bin Salman James Comey Robert Mueller The Dreamers Colin Kaepernick Hillary Clinton
  • POLL: Who is your favorite First Lady?

    11/25/2017 12:14:30 PM PST · by Jeff Chandler · 84 replies
    POLL: Who is your favorite First Lady? Melania Trump Michelle Obama Laura Bush Hillary Clinton Barbara Bush Nancy Reagan Rosalynn Carter Betty Ford Pat Nixon Lady Bird Johnson Jacqueline Kennedy Mamie Eisenhower Bess Truman Eleanor Roosevelt Other