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Saturday, in the aftermath of the El Paso mass shooting, near the scene, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), a candidate vying for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, blamed President Donald Trump in part for the day’s tragedy. O’Rourke called Trump a “racist” and accused the president of stoking racism, which he said could be a part of the alleged shooter’s motivations. “We’ve had a rise in hate crimes every single one of the last three years during an administration where you have a president who’s called Mexican rapists and criminals. Though Mexicans commit crimes at far lower rates than...

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ – For the third time in less than 24 hours, United States military aircraft forced a small single-engine plane to land at Central New Jersey Airport Saturday morning after it violated the airspace security zone in place for President Donald Trump’s weekend visit to his golf club in Bedminister. Two Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a Coast Guard helicopter were scrambled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command when the plane was detected on radarng. Hillsborough police were called to the airport, located at 1034 Millstone River Road. The same procedure was followed on Friday night in...

Published on Jul 19, 2019 This video ranks the top 15 countries in the world by total exports of goods and services from 1960 to 2018. Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services.

Far-right activist Laura Loomer announced her candidacy for Florida's 21st Congressional District in the 2020 election on Friday. Loomer, 26, is registered to run as a Republican against the incumbent, Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission. Frankel represents a heavily Democratic district and did not face a challenger in 2018. “The congressional seat is currently held by Democrat Lois Frankel, a staunch obstructionist and critic of President Donald J. Trump, and a close friend and ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi," a press release from Loomer said. "Frankel, despite chairing the Democratic Congressional Women’s...

Texas General Land Office Commissioner George P. Bush issued a statement that called on all Americans to stand against "white terrorism" Saturday after a gunman who espoused white supremacist views in a manifesto killed at least 18 in El Paso. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), said Saturday evening that "white terrorism" was a "real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat." "I believe fighting terrorism remains a national priority," Bush said. "And that should include standing firm against white terrorism." "There have now been multiple attacks from self-declared white terrorists here in the...

The Islamic State terror group continues to pose a real and present danger, according to the latest United Nations six-month report on jihadist activities. Islamic State (ISIS) leadership “aims to adapt, survive and consolidate in the core area and to establish sleeper cells at the local level in preparation for eventual resurgence, while using propaganda to maintain the group’s reputation as the leading global terrorist brand – the ‘virtual caliphate,’” the report declares. “When it has the time and space to reinvest in an external operations capability, ISIL will direct and facilitate international attacks in addition to the ISIL-inspired attacks...

Lila Rose, president of Live Action, was in the White House on Thursday to talk about censorship and Big Tech’s attempts to mute the spread of pro-life information with President Donald Trump. Live Action, one of the pro-life movement’s biggest and most influential companies, has run into issues across social media. They’re well known for their videos describing abortion procedures, undercover clinic videos in Planned Parenthood locations, and other materials that support a pro-life worldview. Pinterest removed its account and, when other users attempt to pin content from the organization, the content is placed on the same lists as pornographic...

In the wake of the horrific school shootings in Parkland, Fla., President Trump has called repeatedly for building or reopening mental institutions. Strangely, perhaps, he has echoed an argument made by some experts who study the mental health care system. It’s not that they believe that having more institutions would somehow prevent spree killings, as Mr. Trump apparently does. The majority of these murderers appear to be angry, antisocial individuals — with access to guns — whom the mental health system probably could not have spotted in advance. The proposal to bring back asylums — in a modern, transparent form...

Baltimore public schools spend more than $15,000 per student per year, but Democrats Bill Ferguson and Zeke Cohen say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms in January NPR just published this article about how students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing because the classrooms do not have any heat.One student said she couldn’t feel her feet.Another student said he was wearing four shirts, two hoodies, and a jacket.The same article also says that Democratic State Senator Bill Ferguson and Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen both said that the city’s public schools did not have enough money.But like all people who...

Mueller Report Photon Torpedo! Trump did create Dark Psychic Force! (Trump Property found on darkside of Dagobah) New evidence from yet another Mueller Report shows that Democrat Candidate Marianna Williamson was right in her claim that Donald Trump had created Dark Psychic Forces. With the help of a Chinese satellite and additional $2.5 million, the team investigating collusion between Trump and Russia was able to find that a Trump Tower was built property owned by Donald Trump on the planet Dagobah. The property includes a Rancor petting zoo, 52 gender bathroom, a billboard for Yoda’s towing service, a jedi...

The left online is blaming the right, the "Alt-Right", etc. Who's really to blame?

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, Farmers and the Media.2 Timothy 1:7 For God gave us a spirit not of fearbut of power and love and self-control. Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

I can't sing, dance or act. I'm in awe of anyone who can, particularly performers who leave everything on stage, who reportedly lose five pounds every night during their Vegas residency, who have zero vanity or inhibitions — who commit. "They make it look easy" is a cliché of a compliment. I most admire those who make it look hard. That's why I insist that Gene Kelly was a better dancer than Fred Astaire. And that Patty Duke deserved an Oscar nomination for Valley of the Dolls (1967). This film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's mega-blockbuster novel about three young women...

FULL TITLE: Man, 29, is charged with assault after being caught on video punching a protester, 61, at Donald Trump's Ohio rally and has his bond set at $10,000 A Kentucky man has been charged with assault after he was caught on video repeatedly punching a protester more than 30 years his senior outside an Ohio rally for President Donald Trump. Dallas Frazier, 29, of Georgetown, was arrested on Thursday night and charged with misdemeanor assault in connection to the attack on an anti-Trump protester in Cincinnati. Frazier appeared in court on Friday and had his bond set at $10,000....

FULL TITLE: Missing four-year-old girl is discovered 1200 miles from home during a human trafficking raid on a property in Texas - and authorities believe her own MOTHER 'handed her over to the group's pimp' A four-year-old girl missing for more than three weeks has been found alive nearly 1200 miles from her home. Aubriana Recinos - of Fayetteville, North Carolina - was discovered inside a property in Lewisville, Texas on Friday when it was raided by FBI investigators as part of a human trafficking sting. The toddler was last seen in Fayetteville on July 8, with her mother Carmen...

BALTIMORE — Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings on Saturday invited President Donald Trump and other Americans to Baltimore, taking the high road after a barrage of presidential tweets disparaging the black-majority city and its long-serving Democratic congressman. Cummings made his first public remarks after a week of Trump's name-calling and criticism during the opening of a neighborhood park near his home. He called Baltimore "a great community." He reminded those gathered at the park in Druid Heights of the city's history, home to the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and, more recently, the author Ta-Nehisi Coats. At 68, and using...

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Ankara (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the first new church in Turkey since it became a modern republic in 1923. The church in the Istanbul suburb of Yesilkoy will serve the 17,000-strong Syriac Christian community, which is also paying for the new building. "It is the Turkish republic's duty to meet the need for space to worship for the Syriac community, who are the ancient children of this geography," Erdogan said during the stone-laying ceremony.

Don’t get duped by moderate Democrats — their message is a loser. That was the warning Bill de Blasio made to union workers Saturday in Las Vegas, where he urged his party to go hard to the left if it hopes to defeat Donald Trump. “Do we need to nominate a moderate to win in 2020? You hear it everywhere,” said hizzoner at a forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “No, it is a trap, because when you listen to the moderates — I don’t disrespect them, I want to work with them —...

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) took shots at Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and her prosecutorial record during Wednesday night's Democratic Debate."Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and she'll be a prosecutor as president. But I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," Gabbard said. "She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She...