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A fitness-obsessed British man made his daughter sign a lifelong “contract” promising to never get fat — and weighed her almost daily as he ruled his family with an iron first, according to a report. Rachid Khadla, 56, faces charges of child cruelty and assault over his alleged treatment of his now-adult daughter, Amira, and sons, Hicham and Karim, Hyde News & Pictures reported. “I, Amira Khadla, will never let myself get fat. I will do lots of exercise to make sure I will never get fat, even until I die,” Khadla’s daughter wrote in her 2012 agreement, a court...

Former Army captain and ex-surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald — who is serving three life sentences for the high-profile slaying of his pregnant wife and two young daughters more than 50 years ago — is once again seeking his freedom. MacDonald, whose story was told in the bestselling true-crime book “Fatal Vision” by late journalist Joe McGinniss, has a hearing Thursday afternoon in the Eastern District of North Carolina to determine whether his motion for compassionate release will be granted. Chief Judge Terrence Boyle is scheduled to hear arguments from both sides but MacDonald, 77, will not be in court. It’s unclear...

On this date in 1421, a months-long campaign to purge Vienna of her Jews culminated with over 200 burned — and the rest of the once-thriving community either driven into exile or forced to convert. Vienna had had a Jewish presence for centuries, centered on the Judenplatz. The religious wars unleashed between Catholics and followers of the Czech reformer Jan Hus complicated the Jewish position. While not an unblemished relationship, Hussites were generally seen to be more sympathetic to Jews, and vice versa. Fellow-victims of Catholic persecution, Hussites recast the Biblical Antichrist with Papist rather than Jewish associations. Hussites openly...

Dutch public TV plans to broadcast a Danish program called “simply naked” in which children between the ages of 10 and 12 are exposed to naked adults to supposedly ask them questions about their bodies. The program, which some see as normalizing pedophilia, drew criticism from the public and politicians. Beyond the fact that the producers of the program, who obviously share the perverted view that innocent and pure children at that age have to look at the sexual organs of adults (for what exactly?!), have assured that it is all “carefully produced,” the argument is worthless, the impact on...

Joseph Farah inserts some reality into president's primetime pandemic address "Good evening my fellow Americans. Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about where we are as we mark one year since everything stopped because of this pandemic." Stop the tape! Everything did not stop because of this pandemic. "A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for days, weeks, then months." Stop the tape! It was not met with silence nor spread unchecked (except in New York) nor denials for days, weeks, then months. What you left out was...

NYC bagel mavens are boiling mad and ready to throw down some dough. The cause of their outrage? A recent New York Times article claiming that “the best bagels are in California.” “I am personally peeved. If California wants to go head-to-head with me, I am ready,” said Brooklyn-raised bagel-man Scot Rossillo, 55, owner of Park Slope’s the Bagel Store. Rossillo says the Big Apple’s bagel superiority goes beyond New York’s famously soft water, which weakens gluten and increases chewiness.

The wife of a youth hockey referee, who died from COVID-19, believes he contracted the virus while officiating games in Carver County. Sixty-two-year-old Dan Culhane passed away in late February. His wife, Nancy Mitchell, also got the virus and was later told by health officials that she had the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom and is considered highly contagious. “He loved the game itself. He loved the kids, especially the younger ones that were just kind of learning,” Mitchell said. For 20 years, Culhane built a bond with players, coaches and fellow referees. He was...

President Biden on Thursday evening directed states to make all adult Americans eligible to receive coronavirus vaccines no later than May 1, using a somber but hopeful prime-time address to the nation to say Americans may be able to “mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. If the UK were a TV show--… What a Country! Opening (1986) – I want to be an American… From one man He made all the nations,...

A NEVADA mom is suing her son's school for failing her biracial senior after he refused to "confess his white dominance" in a class intended to teach students about internalized oppression. Gabrielle Clark is suing her son William's Las Vegas school, Democracy Preparatory Academy at Agassi Campus, after it allegedly failed him for not admitting he was white passing.... ...Clark's lawsuit then details William's class exercise, where he was allegedly asked to reveal his race, gender, religious and sexual identifiers and "then attach derogatory labels to those identities."

The CDC study, released on March 5, found that mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily coronavirus case and death rates and that reopening of restaurants for in-person dining was associated with increases in daily coronavirus case and death rates. The size of these positive effects, however, was small — a finding which the study authors downplay in their summary. Mask mandates were associated with decreases in daily COVID case growth rates and daily death growth rates of just 1.8% and 1.9%, respectively, 81-100 days after mandate implementation. Reopening restaurants for in-person dining, meanwhile, was associated with increases in...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic scholars resist push for taking abortion-tainted vaccines in ‘Statement of Conscience’Among the signers is Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas.Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas.March 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In a newly released “Statement of Conscience,” five prominent Catholics in the U.S. (including Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas) have argued for refusing to receive any vaccine derived from abortion in good conscience. They also pushed back against attempts to qualify taking such vaccines as morally binding.Among those who penned the statement are Catherine Pakaluk, Ph.D., and Michael Pakaluk, Ph.D., both of the Catholic University of America;...

High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California. During COVID-19, Zoom-enabled tech workers have discovered the benefits of remote work from cheaper, less congested communities elsewhere. Is this the end of Silicon Valley as we know it? Perhaps. But other challenges to Silicon Valley’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora.Understanding four trends that may shape the future of Silicon Valley is also a road map to some of the biggest technology-enabled opportunities of the next decades:Consumer internet entrepreneurs lack many of...

Eleven states filed a motion in court challenging the White House’s move to rescind a Trump-era policy that ensures immigrants can financially support themselves in order to become American citizens or obtain permanent residency.

Direct deposits from the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday will come as early as this weekend, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. With the signing of the stimulus bill, Biden commemorated the one-year anniversary of a U.S. lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic with a measure designed to bring relief to Americans and boost the economy. “People can expect to start seeing direct deposits hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend. This is, of course, just the first wave,” Psaki said. Payments to eligible Americans will continue throughout the...

NEW YORK—New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Thursday he authorized its Judiciary Committee to start an “impeachment investigation” into sexual misconduct allegations six women have made against Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Many public servants in Hong Kong may be forced to quit their jobs because they refused to pledge an oath of loyalty to the Chinese regime. All Hong Kong civil servants were required to take an oath or sign a declaration to uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) by the end of February. On March 8, Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, the secretary for the Civil Service, stated in a press conference that nearly 200 civil servants are about to leave their jobs as they have refused to sign the declaration and pledge...

The campaign seeking to oust Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday it has verified more than 1.8 million of the more than 2 million signatures gathered in its effort to trigger a recall election. The news came as part of the campaign's announcement that it reached the 2 million signature mark, far surpassing the number it must collect ahead of its March 17 deadline. Orrin Heatlie, the lead proponent of Recall Gavin Newsom, celebrated the petition breaking the 2 million signature threshold in a Wednesday news release. The campaign's efforts to verify the signatures it gathers are independent of...

Amazon . com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues from its platforms because it decided not to sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses. The company explained its decision in a letter Thursday to Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The senators had written last month to Chief Executive Jeff Bezos requesting an explanation of why “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment” was no longer available...

People are troubled about the leftward and radical direction that it seems many schools are going. As I previously wrote, Bari Weiss wrote a great story about how even the private elite schools are being inundated with this stuff and that parents are organizing in secret against it. But it’s everywhere. People are seeing it now, but the indoctrination has been going on for decades, so it’s entrenched on every level. But it’s getting even crazier, as a segment revealed on Fox and Friends. They saw a part in the Bari Weiss story about one particular school. The hosts and...