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The death of Jeffrey Epstein in the MCC federal jail has touched off no end of speculation. While the medical examiner’s conclusion indicating it was suicide has been made public, the report itself has not been released. Many don’t believe it. In many ways Epstein’s death reminds me of Sherlock Holmes’s mystery “Adventure in a Sealed Room” where a trained monkey was the culprit after lots of clues were sifted through. An online friend “Rocco,” a prison guard, agrees with me. He’s seen too much of this himself and knows how quickly and easily prisoners have killed themselves in locked...

This article is an updated version of the article published in January of 2017. Since then, the CDC corrected the number of fatal firearm accidents for 2014, the error being found and pointed out by Dr. John Lott. The reduction of fatal firearms accidents is one of the great, unnoticed success stories of the last 85 years. The rate of unintended firearm fatalities has been reduced by 94% since 1933.It is not simple to determine the rate of fatal firearm accidents in the United States over the long term.  In the chart above, three sources were used. The first...

The Talk Shows August 18th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow; Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont. NOPE*. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Kudlow; former Rep. Beta O’Rourke, D-Texas NOPE*; former Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; Navarro; Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang NOPE*.THIS WEEK (ABC): White House trade adviser Peter Navarro; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. NOPE*; Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight Action. STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Navarro; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. NOPE*. SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES...

When accused pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein died over the weekend, the president of the United States retweeted a far-right conspiracy theory that claimed the Clintons murdered him.On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris repeated false rumors about Brown’s death — specifically the now-proven lie he was killed mercilessly while attempting to surrender with his hands up. When the Miss America pageant decided to drop its swimsuit competition, Gretchen Carlson described it as a “cultural revolution.” The New York Times described it as an effort to “redefine its...

In 2016, President Donald Trump carried Louisiana with 58 percent of the vote. Every Louisiana statewide elected official, except one, is a Republican. The Louisiana Legislature has a strong Republican majority and the state’s six-member congressional delegation has only one Democrat.Clearly, Louisiana is a conservative, Republican state but it is led by Governor John Bel Edwards, who is a Democrat. Edwards was elected in 2015 because of his opponent’s personal and political baggage, which is why his victory has been called a fluke by many political observers.As Governor Edwards runs for re-election this fall, he has amassed over $10 million...

A rumor spread when legendary football coach Lou Holtz announced that he was leaving the University of Minnesota to accept the head coaching job at Notre Dame. The rumor? That he had been offered a lifetime contract. When he was asked about it by the press, his response was classic Lou Holtz. He said yes, he had been offered a lifetime contract. But, he added that we needed to understand what a lifetime contract means in big time college football. He said, “It means that I cannot be fired, during the third quarter, of a game in which we are...

CPT Frank Beckwith Tucker BIRTH 16 Aug 1924 Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 29 Sep 1951 (aged 27) North Korea BURIAL Zion Episcopal Churchyard Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 27668589 · View Source SHARE SAVE TOSUGGEST EDITS MEMORIAL PHOTOS 3 CPT Frank Beckwith Tucker BIRTH 16 Aug 1924 Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 29 Sep 1951 (aged 27) North Korea BURIAL Zion Episcopal Churchyard Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA USMA Class of 1946, Captain Tucker commanded Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was Killed in...

You’ve got to admire Israel. When people who want to destroy their country try to enter their borders, they turn them back. Rather than do the same, the political left in this country celebrate those people. No matter where they are in the world, progressives have one objective: destroy. People don’t volunteer to have something they love to be “fundamentally transformed,” and fundamental transformation of the country and the world is exactly what progressives ultimately want. And they’re willing to do anything to get there. When it was announced that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were going to travel to...

White House hopeful Joe Biden doubled down on his vow to cooperate with Republicans should he be elected president, saying he successfully worked across the aisle as vice president. “There’s an awful lot of really good Republicans out there,” he said Saturday at a Massachusetts fundraiser. “I get in trouble for saying that with Democrats, but the truth of the matter is, every time we ever got in trouble with our administration, remember who got sent up to Capitol Hill to fix it? Me. Because they know I respect the other team.” Biden acknowledged that while Republicans and Democrats appear...

FULL TITLE: Far-left and far-right groups clash in Portland: Four injured and 13 arrested as tensions flare between protesters on streets lined with more than 1,000 cops just hours after President Trump threatened to declare Antifa a 'terror organization' Police arrested at least 13 people and seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon. Authorities closed bridges and streets to try to keep the rival groups apart. The city's mayor said the situation was 'potentially dangerous and volatile,' and President Donald Trump tweeted 'Portland is being watched...

A waiter near Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich was not prepared quickly enough. Police say a murder investigation has been launched after the incident on Friday evening in the eastern suburb of Noisy-le-Grand. The suspect fled the scene and has not been caught. Ambulance crews tried to save the 28-year-old waiter, who had been shot in the shoulder, but he died at the scene.

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.

My 20th year of posting on FR is coming up in November. Dear President FReeper Jim Robinson, do I get a plaque? A watch? A certificate like I do at my morning job (12 years and counting of transportation logistics!) Will there be a food day in my honor? Please advise, thanks.

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Shirley Skipper-Scott is the former acting warden and current associate warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, New York. She was misreported as the warden of MCC in news reports following the death of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Shirley Skipper-Scott, a longtime employee of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was the associate warden at the jail where Epstein died. The warden and two MCC employees who were assigned to the cell block where Epstein died were reassigned pending an investigation into the death. The move comes days after ABC News reported that jail protocols...

August 18 2019 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king:"Jeremiah ought to be put to death;he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,and all the people, by speaking such things to them;he is not interested in the welfare of our people,but in their ruin." King Zedekiah answered: "He is in your power";for the king could do nothing with them. And so they took Jeremiahand threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah,which was in the quarters of the guard,letting him down with ropes. There...

In a shocking coincidence, the prison guard who was watching Jeffrey Epstein during his suicide, Malcolm Smith, was tragically killed in an auto accident tomorrow. “I can’t believe it,” Oswald Harvey Lee a Smith coworker said. “It’s hard to believe that he’s gone.” Smith had overseen the transfer of Epstein’s cellmate and the switching off of the security cameras that monitored Epstein during his 24-hour surveillance on suicide watch. “It’s just a shame. Nothing like this has ever happened in American politics,” Lee added. “I just can’t believe he died tomorrow.” Many questions have arisen since Epstein was suicided while...

President Trump has said that no President should go through this again. Does Mitch McConnell support these people who who were involved with the dossier, spied on Trump, and invented Russia collusion being subpoenaed or jailed if they are charged? He said on Hannity he didn't have a problem with Burr subpoenaing Don Jr again. People are blaming Lindsey Graham for not issuing subpoenas or holding hearings, but maybe McConnell doesn't want them. I have only heard McConnell make statements criticizing Russian hacking in our elections.

A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn't pay for in Memphis, Tennessee, in a case that had sparked protests, authorities said. Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday. "This defendant took it upon himself to be the judge and jury and the executioner over a $2 beer," prosecutor Lora Fowler said, according to CNN affiliate WMC. The shooting happened in March 2018, after Dorian Harris walked out of the Top Stop...

Fixing the nation’s infrastructure was a key Trump campaign pledge that he has not been able to meet because of its trillion-dollar cost. With China’s help, he could get the project started in a few months. If this idea sounds far-fetched, just take a look at Boston. In 2014, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority selected China’s CRRC Corp., the world’s largest rail manufacturer, to replace all 400 of Boston’s commuter rail cars. As The Boston Globe reported, the cars will be assembled in a new factory, already built by China, in Springfield, Mass., under the $843 million contract. The project...