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Accusing the Begusarai police of siding with the accused, the woman is now demanding justice for herself. In a Muslim dominated area of Bihar’s Begusarai district, a youth named Mohammad Chotu forcefully entered the house of a 30-year-old Hindu woman and tried to physically assault her. After she tried to put up resistance against the accused, the latter allegedly attacked the victim with a sharp knife, leaving her injured. The incident occurred in Baro Rampur Tola village falling under the Gadhara station area in​​ Begusarai, Bihar. According to reports, Mohammad Chotu broke into the woman’s house by jumping over the...

Pernicious grading practices start out as pernicious pedagogy. ... Think of grading as the output: If your programming code is bad, the output of the program will always be bad. ... One thing we understand from Universal Design for Learning is that there are multiple ways a kid can express their knowing. And so if you know 2+2=4, one way you can express your knowing is by writing it. Another way you can express your knowing is by discussing it. A third way is by creating a model that shows it. A fourth way is by illustrating it and a...

I thought maybe some may enjoy this. It's very good and boy those days were so glamorous. More than the Marmont, some of the Sunset Strip, the old stars, the mob, you know...good times ;) Just for fun.

The roughly $900 billion stimulus package is on its way to President Donald Trump for his signature, though it’s unclear whether he will sign the bill that would deliver aid to Americans, mutliple news outlets reported on Thursday. The massive 5,593-page bill, which includes the $1.4 trillion omnibus, is being flown on the plane to Florida, where Trump is staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort for Christmas...

The only demonstrable result of government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns has been the destruction of national economies, the crippling of domestic and cultural life, the suffering and death of multitudes due to untreated prior medical conditions, and the drastic rise in suicide rates. The lockdowns themselves have seemed to do little to prevent the onset of the disease, hence one lockdown after another has led to no discernible effect—apart from the fact that the virus appears to strike primarily a designated older cohort of the population already suffering from comorbidities. A recent graph charting the effects of repeated lockdowns in the province...

It appears that, as both vice president and president of the Senate, Pence has both access to information and actual power to affect the election outcome. For the most part, Americans assume that the vice president lacks power. The president may assign him responsibilities, but the Constitution does not. Instead, he's the understudy, there just in case something happens to the president. Except that, in this strange year of 2020, we may learn that the vice president is the most powerful man in America. Ivan Raiklin, a constitutional lawyer, claims that the Constitution grants Mike Pence the power to overturn...

December's Ratings Collapse for Fox News continues to be a nightmare for the Murdochs and their paid and unpaid minions. They thought we would stick around after their Election night treachery and they were wrong! Going from record ratings in November, to a massive ratings collapse by Wednesday 12/23. Here are the current Fox News ratings losses as of Wednesday 12/23 according to Nielsen: Ingraham -61% Hannity -57% MacCallum -54% Baier -54% Hemmer -53% Carlson -51% Cavuto -50% Sandra Smith -48% Outnumbered -48% Fox and Friendless -44% Perino -43% The Five -39%

Just wondering if any of my fellow Freepers are, like me, spending Christmas Eve solo. Unlike previous years, however, I'm not quite alone, as I am now sharing my home with a two year old Greyhound I adopted last Spring. Other than he and I, it's a cozy, quiet, peaceful and solo Christmas Eve. How about everyone else?

The coronavirus/omnibus spending bill was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial wasn’t signed by the president…old coronavirus/omnibus spending bill was as dead as a doornail. No. These aren’t the opening lines of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, writing about the death of Ebenezer Scrooge’s late business partner, Jacob Marley. But it’s pretty close. And certainly, what unfolded this Christmas on Capitol Hill surrounding a COVID aid package was just as Dickensian... It’s unclear if the president’s proposed changes to the bill could pass. And don’t forget that Congress has...

Over the past weekend the President filed a case with the Supreme Court and asked for it to be expedited due to the fact that it involves the 2020 election and the future of this country. If Joe Biden, who stole the election from record-setter President Trump is allowed to win the election, the country will never recover. How can President Trump’s record setting election that destroyed the previous all time high by nearly 10% be stolen? The Supreme Court yesterday acknowledged the filings were received. The court did not rule on the case. The court did not acknowledge the...

CNN claims a relatively mundane Christmas card sent out by former President George W. Bush is a shot at President Trump for having not been accepting of the 2020 election results. “George W. Bush sends holiday card with pointed message as Trump denies election loss,” reads the headline. The ‘pointed message’ appears to be an image of the Statue of Liberty titled, “Beacon of Hope, 2020.” The artwork is from a collection that celebrates immigrants. Here is CNN’s explanation for why this is a shot at President Trump: “The painting and its title come from a former President who has...

Proponents have called the state’s massive new toll road project a monumental opportunity and a thoughtful plan for smart growth. The 330 miles of new highways will curb interstate congestion, bolster the economy and facilitate hurricane evacuations, they say. In short, the argument goes, the roads would be a good investment. So why is it that so many of the preliminary studies are at best lukewarm on the idea? And the latest reports only add to the list of reasons to reconsider the controversial project. The tolls roads, dubbed the Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance, were largely pushed by...

True Who aficionados, though, know the rest of the story where this song is concerned, and are often just as fond of the original version of the song, which the Who’s Next version wasn’t. The song was originally recorded several months prior to Who’s Next, as a four-minute electric version with Townshend singing lead and playing rhythm guitar, and the lead solos performed by Leslie West, the guitarist for New York power trio Mountain (“Mississippi Queen”). The Who (apparently without Roger Daltrey) was recording at the Record Plant in New York, and Townshend reportedly didn’t want to spend time on...

Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos on Thursday discussed his threat of “imminent” legal action against the Donald Trump campaign for statements made about their company following the 2020 elections. Poulos said the lawsuit against “several different people that have been spreading lies and defamatory remarks” about his company since Election Day is in his legal team’s hands now. He said that entails Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and possibly even the president himself. “[S]everal different actors have been promoting lies and amplifying those lies, as I said, on various media platforms, since Election Day. And many Americans across the...

In doing so, the court rejected a rare challenge by the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, whose office normally represents county prosecutors when their cases are appealed... Becerra, tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...said that fear of prosecution may prevent pregnant women from seeking addiction services. The case could also prompt extra scrutiny by law enforcement on miscarriages and stillbirths, he said. Chelsea Becker of Hanford has been in jail on $2 million bail since the September 2019 stillbirth. Police say methamphetamine was found in the fetus and that Becker, who...

In the coming weeks, the Congress will meet to ratify the Electoral College results, and courts will hear whatever may be left of the legal challenges. Let's assume a worst case scenario, no miraculous reversal occurs, the Biden-Harris administration arrive in DC to be sworn in on January 20th. My belief is that they cannot in good conscience take the oath of office (to preserve and defend the constitution) because their actual mission is to weaken the country fatally in advance of some sort of globalist revolutionary government being installed (they are in fact it, for all intents and purposes)....

Are wind, solar, and batteries the magical solutions to all our energy needs? Or do they come with too high a price? Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, analyzes the true cost — both economic and environmental — of so-called green energy.

Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries.

Just under 30% say they already feel comfortable foregoing one. Nearly 40% of voters say they'll be ready to stop wearing masks in public in three months or less, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Among the 39% of respondents who indicated as much, the largest share — 27% — said they were "already comfortable" doing so, while 5% said it would be "a month or so" before they felt that way and 7% said it would be "two to three months." A 53% majority of voters, meanwhile, said they'd feel comfortable discarding their...

As we age, our skin is one of the first places it shows. But skin aging is caused by a number of things beyond just the years we're alive for. "Skin aging is the result of both intrinsic biologic processes that contribute to chronologic aging, as well as extrinsic factors such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, smoking, pollution, and poor nutrition," says Jacquelyn Sink, MD, a dermatologist at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. While it's important to wear a hat outside and avoid smoking, another preventative anti-aging skincare measure is to eat a healthy diet. "As with all aspects of our...