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HUNGRY parents in North Korea have been caught eating their CHILDREN to avoid starvation, according to reports. One father is said to have been executed by firing squad for killing his two kids for food. And it has sparked fears there could be further cases of cannibalism in the country. The Sunday Times told how undercover reporters recorded several horror stories from inside the poverty-stricken nation. They included one man who dug up his grandchild's corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh. Thousands of North Koreans are feared to be starving to death while...

Gay Marriage: Catholic Church Tells Priests 'Time To Act Is Now' The Roman Catholic Church has launched a final push against the Government’s plans for gay marriage with just 10 days before MPs vote on the issue. By John Bingham 27 Jan 2013 The Archbishop of Southwark, the Most Rev Peter Smith, spoke of a desire to “mobilise” opposition in the Church. He urged them to capitalize on the decision by all three main party leaders to allow free votes on the matter and increase pressure on their local MPs to halt such a “fundamental change in the law”. A...

How many of you realize how great a forum Free Republic really is not only as a home for conservatives, but a home for technical information as well? For the first Freeper who can help me download only an excerpt of a Youtube video clip into an MP3 file, I will donate to the current Freepathon in YOUR name. We all know there are forums out there who allow you to donate to get information on computer assistance, auto repair and virtually everything imaginable.But we have some of the brightest people on this forum and I want to make a...

<p>At least once a day, Robert Mackey and Paul Trucchio would pray to "the alligator god" that a human head, the only evidence of the brutal murder they committed, would be devoured by a reptile in the Everglades, two witnesses told jurors Thursday.</p>

Lawyers for the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will square off Friday before a federal judge in Oakland in the first round of a legal battle to continue the commercial oyster operation in the Point Reyes National Seashore. At stake is Salazar's decision in November not to renew a 40-year lease that gave oyster farm operator Kevin Lunny the right to commercial operations in 2,500-acre Drakes Estero, a five-fingered estuary that features extensive eelgrass beds and a harbor seal colony. The decision, hailed by wilderness advocates, gave Lunny's company 90 days to shut down a business...

**SNIP** The president also conceded that “[t]he same dynamic happens on the Democratic side,” but in his mind, “the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.” He claimed that “leaders like myself—and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this—are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done,” as opposed to the opposing party which he views as obstructionist. “[T]hat’s one of the biggest problems we’ve got in how folks report about Washington right now, because I think journalists rightly value...

The overwhelming media adulation for Hillary Clinton this week really brings into focus the fact that mainstream media is a branch of the Democrat party. They don’t attempt to hide it much any more. They are simply cheerleaders for leftists and consistent advocates of big government as the solution to all problems. As the praise was piled higher and deeper for the phenomenal job Hillary has done as Secretary of State, I wondered what world they were living in. Where, in the real world, are things better from Hillary’s efforts? Is the middle east better? Do we have better relationships...

Homes and businesses voluntarily register their surveillance camerasThinking outside the box – one East Bay police force has unveiled a brand new crime-fighting tool to not only track down thieves, but in hopes it will prevent crime altogether. The San Ramon Police Department announced “Citizen’s View,” a new program that asks both home and business owners to voluntarily register their private security cameras so that anytime a crime happens, officers know if there may be some extra footage or evidence to help find suspects. It’s a welcome idea for San Ramon moms like Kristin Swiers and Cindy Friederichs, who are...

Obama and his socialist-fascist regime now wants to take our guns. Like hell you say. America answers by buying guns in record numbers. Americans will never allow themselves to be disarmed. The founding fathers intended American citizens to be armed to defend themselves from just such runaway tyrannical government. America's response to Obama's attempted gun grab: FUBO!! Come and take them!! Never surrender!! Never retreat!! Free Republic stands for God and country!! We defend Life, Family, Constitution, Liberty!! And we defend our God-given, constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms!! TO THE HILT!! FR is funded solely by contributions made by...

A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of defense, saying he would make the United States “a weaker country.” Another freshly minted and anonymously backed organization, Use Your Mandate, which presents itself as a liberal gay rights group but purchases its television time through a prominent Republican firm, is attacking Mr. Hagel as “anti-Gay,” “anti-woman” and “anti-Israel” in ads and mailers. Those groups are joining at least five others that...

We officially wrapped up the 2013 Sundance Festival last night with the Awards Ceremony.As in previous years,there were precious few films deserving of rewards,butt that’s never stopped the Awards Committee before and it didn’t this year either.(snip) (snip) Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic competition: Fruitvale “…the true story of a senseless police shooting that takes the life of yet another young urban black man;”   Do you need to know any more?(snip) World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Pussy Riot–A Punk Prayer   (snip)They were arrested,tried and convicted, butt the fact that they chose to...

John Cornelius, who is married, will be ordained this weekend -- and sex-free life beginsJohn Cornelius will be ordained a Roman Catholic priest this weekend — and with the blessing of his wife they're giving up their sex life. Cornelius, a father of three, will become the first married Roman Catholic priest in New York — and Sharyl, his wife of 33-years, has agreed to the whole celibacy thing. “We have decided to do that voluntarily,” Cornelius told WGRZ-TV. “I have always had friends that are Roman Catholic priests and I appreciate what they've given up to serve God and...

Robin Hall (Brevard County Sheriff's Department) She could run but she couldn't hide. The long arm of the law has finally caught up with the notorious Robin Hall and I, for one, feel safer. Way back in 1991, an 18-year Robin Hall entered a Florida Wal-Mart store and brazenly snatched a pack of cigarettes. That's right, she was a shoplifter. And a smoker. A smoking shoplifter. That's the worst kind. Caught red-handed, Hall was turned over to authorities and ordered to pay the state of Florida $85 in court costs. But Hall was too slippery for Florida. She dodged her...

Horsemeat found in beef burgers manufactured for British supermarkets was imported from Poland, it emerged last night. Tests have revealed that ‘raw material’ supplied to an Irish processing plant, which made burgers for Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland, contained as much as 20 per cent horse DNA, the Irish Government said. Around 10million beef burgers have been withdrawn from sale by supermarkets, and other smaller retailers in the UK, since the scandal, which centred around the Silvercrest factory, in County Monaghan, broke earlier this month. Customers and food standards experts were left reeling after tests by the Foods Safety Authority...

<p>A Favorite apocryphal tale goes like this: A New Jersey town where 90 percent of the residents are Irish and 10 percent Jewish had an election. The Irish candidate got 90 percent of the vote, and the Jewish candidate got 10 percent, whereupon the Irish victor celebrated by lamenting the clannishness of the Jews.</p>

Bob Hughson offered a warning to everyone in South FloridaMore than five months after a snake bit Bob Hughson, he is still suffering. “I couldn’t get the snake off of me,” Hughson said. “He was on me and you could see his head going back and forth, pumping venom into me.” The Miramar man said from his hospital bed that since he was bitten by a Coral snake in August, his left leg has been swollen, his ankle barely moves, and his toes are constantly curled. All of that caused him to fall last week, leading to multiple fractures in...

Hundreds of people showed up Saturday morning for a gun buyback in Seattle. One man even brought a rocket launcher. He said it had already been used and could not do any harm. Mason Vranish said he bought it from a man for $100, but within seconds police took it off his hands. “Their reason was even though it was single time use item it is still military property concern that a soldier had stolen it from the base or whatever and it wasn't theirs to own... so it somehow ended up in the civilian market illegally,” said Vranish. Officers...

In one of the 23 executive actions on gun control signed this month, President Obama instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal science agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence. He called on Congress to aid that effort by providing $10 million for the C.D.C. in the next budget round and $20 million to expand the federal reporting system on violent deaths to all 50 states, from the current 18. That Mr. Obama had to make such a decree at all is a measure of the power of the gun lobby,...

Bipartisan Task Force On Gun Violence Prevention And Children's Safety Schedules Hearings A special bipartisan task force recently announced by legislative leaders and charged with developing recommendations designed to reduce gun violence, enhance school safety and increase access to mental health care has scheduled a series of public hearings. There will be a public hearing focusing on school safety on January 25 at 9:30 a.m., a gun safety hearing on January 28 at 10:00 a.m., and a hearing on mental health issues January 29 at 10:30 a.m., all in room 2C at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. A fourth...

Can anyone translate the foreign language part of this?