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More than two decades ago, in 2004, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington warned in his book “Who Are We?” that America was facing a crisis of identity. He argued that a nation cannot remain united without a common culture, a common history, and a common understanding of itself. Remove those foundations, and a society inevitably fragments into competing tribes, interests, and identities.Huntington pointed to the Anglo-Protestant Creed as the core of America’s unifying identity. He argued that America’s political institutions and civic ideals did not arise in a vacuum but were rooted in a culture shaped by Protestant Christianity. If Huntington...

Eggs are a dietary staple for millions worldwide, known for their flavor and nutritional value. In the United States alone, per capita egg consumption reached 281.3 eggs in 2023, with projections suggesting it will rise to 284.4 in 2024, according to Statista. Yet, eggs have long been at the center of debates about their effects on cholesterol and heart health. In a groundbreaking experiment, Nick Norwitz, a Harvard student and Oxford-trained physiologist, consumed 24 eggs a day for 30 days, challenging conventional beliefs about dietary cholesterol. His unexpected results have sparked renewed discussions about the role of eggs in a...

State Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina, NBC News projected Tuesday, after a closely watched runoff that featured President Donald Trump’s unusual double endorsement of two candidates. Wilson is now heavily favored heading into the general election in South Carolina’s first open governor’s race since 2010. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster was term-limited and could not seek re-election. Democratic candidate Jermaine Johnson won his primary this month In the initial June 9 Republican primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette finished first with 29% of the votes, while Wilson placed second with 26%, with both...

Grok 4.1 has informed me the June 1962 Guns & Ammo magazine had a letter or short article in it about a boy/young man or boy scout who encountered a black bear on a mountain trail and shot it with a .22 handgun, killing the bear. I do not know if it is true. However, Freepers have vast stores of knowledge. A freeper may even have a copy of the June 1962 Guns & Ammo magazine, or know where one may be accessed. Any help in tracking down this lead would be appreciated.

Acting DNI Bill Pulte has fired over 50 career Deep State intel officials so far. “The Deep State firings have begun” a source told CNN on Monday. On Tuesday, CBS News reported that Pulte fired six political intelligence staffers and sent 45 others to their home agencies. It was previously reported that Trump wanted to reduce the size of the federal intel agencies. CBS News reported: Just over 50 career and political intelligence staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have lost their jobs since Bill Pulte became the agency’s acting director, Friday. Six career and political...

Tuesday’s decision in Pung v. Isabella County squarely rejects an argument that the longstanding use of tax foreclosure sales as a method to collect unpaid real-estate taxes violates the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment or the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment. The specific problem that gives rise to the case is the reality that a tax foreclosure sale typically, perhaps invariably, produces a sale price far lower than the price that would come from the ordinary sale process of listing the property with a broker and marketing it over the course of weeks (or months). In this...

MORE than 11,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, official statistics show. In the last seven days 1,912 people have been picked up by Border Force and taken to Dover as the warm weather continues. It includes 310 people in five dinghies who crossed on Sunday, latest statistics show. The figure for 2026 so far is almost 40 per cent down compared to this time last year. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Keir Starmer has given the British public a toxic leaving present – in the last week alone he’s let in nearly 2,000 illegal...

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo has put together an all-women music fest that will feature talents like Stevie Nicks and Chappell Roan with the aim of benefitting several progressive organizations, including Planned Parenthood. The event, titled the Daisy Chain Fields Festival, will be held on August 29 at Great Park in Irvine, California, with performances from Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Katseye, Mitski, The Breeders, Die Spitz, Bikini Kill, Eli, Garbage, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri and Not for Radio. Karen O, Stevie Nicks, and Sarah McLachlan will also be making guest appearances. “The festival will benefit the following charities: Baby2Baby, Black Mamas...

BOISE, Idaho - Idaho Department of Corrections released its plan this week for how it will carry out executions by firing squad. July 1st, firing squad will become the primary method for carrying out the death penalty. It's the first state to have the firing squad as a primary form; four other states have firing squad as a secondary option. The state passed legislation making this change, after encountering several issues carrying out executions by lethal injection. In 2024, the execution of Thomas Creech had to be stopped because of failure to establish an IV line through which to administer...

European Union staff and members of the Afghan Taliban have met in Brussels to discuss diplomatic services and “dignified returns” of Afghans, according to a Taliban official. Afghans make up one of the largest groups of migrants seeking asylum in the European Union and efforts to return failed asylum seekers have been hindered by war and the likelihood of executions and human rights abuses. However, a growing number of governments in the 27-nation bloc want to speed up and increase deportations for those whose claims are rejected or who commit crimes in their host countries. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a New...

Far-left House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier couldn't stand up to the questioning of mere radio hosts — abruptly ending the interview and storming out of the station. The dust up Tuesday morning unfolded when the La Mega radio hosts pressed the Mamdani-backed candidates in the NY13 race on her old social posts. The thin-skin socialist was set off when one of the hosts pressed her on a now-deleted post that referred to the Dominican flag as "violent" and decried the "f------ nationalism" of putting the flag in her profile. "As a Dominican, I come back and say it, I am...

Starting under the Biden administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into New Mexico because Justice Department prosecutors wanted to bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers, The Associated Press first reported. The AP cited three current and former DEA agents as well as government records showing that, between 2023 and 2025, the DEA monitored fentanyl shipments but didn’t seize the highly lethal drugs. “We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the...

It's so easy... first you shoot the arrow....then you paint the targetRetroactive justification.When the UN's traditional anti-Israel blocs want to level a particularly inflammatory accusation, they package a predetermined verdict as the result of an "independent inquiry." The only real investigation appears to be finding new ways to manipulate methodology, ignore inconvenient facts, or recycle outright falsehoods in service of a conclusion that was decided in advance. The goal is not to discover the truth, but to give a political narrative the appearance of due process.For decades, it is difficult to find a single UN statement on Israel that did...

The Orange County woman who faces a series of felonies for registering her dog to vote in 2021 and 2022 made her first court appearance on Tuesday, saying through her legal team that she did so to "expose flaws" in California's voting system. Laura Lee Yourex, 62, of Costa Mesa, was charged with five felonies last week as she registered her dog, Maya, to vote in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election and the 2022 primary election, Orange County District Attorney prosecutors said. "The dog's vote was successfully counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election but was rejected in the 2022...

The unsettling swarm of drones that a downed US pilot in Iran said moved in a bizarre “jellyfish-like” formation indicates the Iranian regime has devoted significant resources to beefing up its drone program — so it can counter the conventional battlefield tech of its rivals. “They are adapting faster than us,” Brett Velicovich, drone expert and founder of Powerus, told The Post. “Iran has spent years developing capabilities designed to offset the overwhelmingly conventional advantages of the United States and its allies.” The unnamed F-15 pilot, who was rescued April 3 after hiding deep in enemy territory in the Zagros...

People who are HIV positive but are otherwise qualified to join the military can once again do so while a legal challenge to the Pentagon’s restrictions on military service moves forward, according to a federal appeals court order issued this week. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified Tuesday that a lower-court order blocking enforcement of the restrictions has been back in effect since May 18, when the full court agreed to rehear the case. The order applies to applicants who are HIV-positive but asymptomatic and have undetectable viral loads through medication.

The Supreme Court hit an inauspicious milestone Tuesday as it raced to finish its most divisive pending cases by the end of the month: It has already handed down more 6-3 decisions along ideological lines than it did for the entire term that ended last year. As it navigates a charged political atmosphere during President Donald Trump’s second term and endures sharp criticism from the left and right, the court has already split into conservative and liberal camps in seven decisions this year — one more than last year — before it even gets to major cases on presidential power...

A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned. Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle...

A new ban on Glock handguns takes effect in California, starting July 1. The law will, once again, remind Americans why California has become the ultimate legislative laboratory for aggressive gun control. Firearms dealers across the state will no longer be permitted to sell new Glock handguns or similar models that state lawmakers have aggressively reclassified as a form of machine gun. The justification behind this radical pivot is that these pistols can supposedly be modified easily with illegal, aftermarket conversion devices that fundamentally alter their rate of fire. But rather than focusing energy and resources on the criminals who...

The U.S. and Iran presented differing narratives Tuesday on whether U.N. inspectors could visit nuclear sites and if Tehran had any interest in buying American crops, underscoring a complex start to the 60-day negotiations. Mr. Trump insisted Tuesday that Iran would agree to inspections of its nuclear sites as part of peace talks “despite their protestations and false statements to the contrary.” “If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!” Mr. Trump said on social media. But on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei denied that Tehran agreed to accept visits from the International...