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The financial landscape is in turmoil: credit card interest rates have surged to an unprecedented 21.47%, while credit card debt has crossed the $1 trillion mark. Personal interest payments have climbed to over $500 billion, signaling a looming consumer crisis. With excess savings depleted, the consumer's financial health is more vulnerable than ever. Inflation remains deeply entrenched, posing a significant threat to the economy.

@laurenboebert Thank you all for your love and support. This victory belongs to the faithful voters of Colorado’s 4th district! Now let’s win this thing November 5th and also reelect (for a third time) President Donald J. Trump! We’ve got a country to save!

Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a new ethics complaint alleging she did not report tens of thousands of dollars in assets from her husband's weed and alcohol business. Since Omar and Tim Mynett, a Democratic operative, wed in 2020, there has been scrutiny over his business ventures. Now, there is a scathing new complaint against Mynett following a Minnesota Reformer report. It states that he is being sued for failing to properly pay back his business investors. It calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to launch a 'preliminary inquiry' before referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee....

God bless you all for watching the video! If you liked it and want to see more, please subscribe to the channel, comment your ideas and impressions, and don't forget to give that wonderful like! From the transcripts: "...Mary was the mother of Jesus describing her pregnancy the scriptures say that she was with a child Matthew 1:18 soon after conceiving she went to her relative Elizabeth then there was a celebration that the Messiah had just been conceived not only that but Elizabeth also referred to Mary as the mother of my Lord Luke 1:43 while Jesus had not...

“Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. Then the king arose with the dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den. And when he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, ‘Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?’ Then Daniel spoke to the king, ‘O king, live...

Experts have found a rare bronze bust depicting one of the most colourful characters in Roman history – the mad, sexually-depraved Emperor Caligula.Considered lost for nearly 200 years, the 5-inch-tall bust was originally excavated at Herculaneum, a Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79...After a determined decade-long search, the bust has been found by Dr Silvia Davoli, curator of Strawberry Hill and historian at the University of Oxford...At some point in the 18th century, the bust was gifted to renowned English writer and politician Horace Walpole (1717-1797) by Sir Horace Mann, a distant relative who...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson says he supports Louisiana’s new law mandating the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms, says he thinks the law will survive legal challenges.

I'm referring to SPAM! Me, when I'm in the local Grocery Outlet, I'll pick up a couple cans of it every now and then. No, I don't eat it regularly (who does?) but being it has a 2-3 years shelf life, why not? Every now and then, I get an urge for a SPAM sandwich and/or some SPAM and eggs for breakfast. Yes, it's a bit on the salty side but boiling it takes a lot of the salt/sodium out of it. Thoughts?????

Florida has joined 22 other states in extending its infant surrender law to allow a 30-day surrender period up from seven days of age. Additional amendments to the law include a provision for the mom to call 911 for a direct surrender to responders, provided she remains with the baby until their arrival. Governor Ron DeSantis’ signature means HB 775 takes effect on July 1, 2024. The anonymous surrender granted by the law provides parents immunity from criminal prosecution if there are no indications of abuse or neglect. The extension to 30 days is vital to situations where premature infants...

On a recent episode of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host Alex Witt suggested that pro-life laws violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, saying: [T]here’s supposed to be separation of church and state in our system of government, a tenet of the First Amendment known as the Establishment Clause, which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” but the issue of abortion makes you question if that’s the case. Her hypothesis betrays her ignorance of the philosophical and moral foundations of pro-life legal protections, and possibly her ignorance of the science regarding when new life...

According to Federal Reserve data, for the first time in its history, the Fed has been losing money on a consistent monthly basis since September 28, 2022. As of the last reporting date of June 19, 2024, those losses add up to a cumulative $176 billion. As the chart above using Fed data shows, the losses thus far in 2024 have ranged from a monthly high of $11.076 billion in February to a low of $5.674 billion in May.

"Anybody who knows anything about that case and believes that Assange should still be in prison is your enemy, by the way, and the enemy of human freedom and flourishing." Carlson didn't hold back, calling it "monstrous" that Assange spent twelve years locked away for exposing other people's crimes. "Typically, the guy who discovers the crime doesn’t go to jail. It's the guy who commits the crime that goes to jail, and that's been inverted in his case." Assange was never charged with a crime in Great Britain, yet he was nearly tortured to death in Belmarsh prison for over...

There’s a reason why FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver wanted Joe Biden to consider quitting the 2024 race. The president’s polls were abysmal, and this wasn’t 2020, though some people in Biden’s orbit think they will win anyway because Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee. On crucial issues, Biden is underwater by double-digits, with most of his 2020 supporters admitting they think he’s too old to be effective. That’s on top of the 86 percent from a Washington Post/ABC News poll who think he’s too old to run again. These aren’t outliers; it’s a consensus. It also didn’t help that Biden looked...

Of all the Left's revolutionary movements seeking to transform traditional American liberties and culture, none is as senseless and barbaric as that of transgenderism. It's the "T" in the "LGBTQ++++Etc..." formulation. Transgenderism is simple to understand but difficult to contemplate why anybody in their right mind would adopt it as their fundamental worldview. But they do, and here's the rationale: Think you were born in the "wrong" body? Don't worry, we've got the drugs and surgical procedures to fix that! Through its deadening control of most precincts in public education and public health, as well as a mainstream media that...

A wave of San Diego beaches have been shut down following a disgusting discovery in the water. City health officials released an updated advisory and closure list of beaches due to sewage creating frighteningly high levels of bacteria in the open waters. Water contact closures were issued for Silver Strand Shoreline, Imperial Beach Shorelines, and the Tijuana Slough Shoreline, along the U.S, Mexico border.Advisories were issued for the La Jolla, Children's Pool, Coronado, Coronado Lifeguard Tower, the Ocean Beach, Dog Beach, the San Diego River outlet, Mission Bay, North Cove, and Vacation Isle. In Imperial Beach, the number one dirtiest...

Last week a cyberattack hit a huge number of car dealers in the United States. The software designed by the company CDK was completely disabled, affecting the whole of an integrated process of purchasing and processing. Sellers could not process sales, loans, insurance, registrations, and much more. It happened suddenly, lasted two and a half days, came back, then went down again.How did car dealers function? They wrote it all out on paper and pledged to complete the process after the systems came back. They are back and all seems well but the experience is a warning sign. These systems...

The extremism of the Biden administration apparently knows no bounds. Today the NY Times reports that the administration pushed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove age limits for transgender surgery.The draft guidelines, released in late 2021, recommended lowering the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies.The proposed age limits were eliminated in the final guidelines outlining standards of care, spurring concerns within the international group and with outside experts as to why the age proposals had vanished. A minor...

The wheels of justice turn slowly enough that calling them rusted may be an understatement. In the case of Congressional investigations, they may rotate even less, with the realization of things culminating in anything approaching punishment a long shot, at best. That said, there is at least a glimmer of hope of accountability being realized in a long-simmering issue with the last general election. As our Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported, a bombshell report was released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee related to the "51 former intelligence officials" letter alleging that allegations surrounding the Hunter Biden Laptop From...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...