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“He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him” (Proverbs 18:17).

‘You swipe left and right and there’s another option if you want to have intimacy’ says commissioner The police commissioner of New South Wales in Australia has floated the idea of a smartphone app to record consent to sexual activity. In a paywalled story published by News Corporation and broadcast on local radio, Michael Fuller suggested such an application would not be run by the cops nor the government, and could be either a standalone app or added as a feature in dating apps. “You swipe left and right and there’s another option if you want to have intimacy,” he...

It has stood for over nine centuries as the most celebrated record of the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, its famous images cemented into the mind of every British school child. But for all its enduring power, the 70-metre (230 feet) long Bayeux Tapestry -- held at a museum in the northern French town of the same name -- is a fragile object suffering from wear-and-tear, including thousands of holes. It will now be restored for the first since 1870, two years after an agreement between Paris and London for the tapestry to be loaned to Britain. "The tapestry is...

"No father should speak to their children like this," Kerrion Franklin posted with the recording.Grammy-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologized over the weekend after his son posted a recording of a phone call in which Franklin hurled profanities and an apparent threat at his son. In audio of the partial phone call posted to Kerrion Franklin's Instagram account, the elder Franklin can be heard saying: "You need to get your skinny motherf-----g ass back out the g------ way before I put my foot in your ass." "I will break your neck if you ever disrespect me," he continued before seeming...

In a Facebook post Wednesday, Placer County said their Agricultural Commissioner’s Office confirmed the ‘mysterious’ sound residents have been reporting in Roseville were ‘bird scare cannons.’ The county said farmers in the area have been using them to prevent geese from destroying their crops. The cannon, also known as a zon gun, is a small device that uses propane to emit a thunderclap-like sound to scare away birds from farms.

I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said. Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850. A line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist who stalked into three Atlanta-area massage parlors yesterday, and allegedly...

Did Joe Biden mislead the country about his tax plans during his campaign for president? Unless Jen Psaki misspoke this afternoon, it sure looks as if he did. Here’s what she said:Psaki says potential tax increase on those making $400,000 or more means that income threshold applies to "families."— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) March 17, 2021This is directly at odds with the promise on Joe Biden’s website, which reads:Joe Biden will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000. Period.One cannot square “anyone” and “families.” And what is that “period” doing there, if not to make the preceding statement emphatic?It...

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Eight people were killed in a series of shootings at massage parlors in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, including six Asian women, raising concerns that the crimes were racially motivated. While police are still investigating a connection and motivation, the attacks shook the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, which has been targeted in a surge of hate crimes. Online, the hashtags “#AsianLivesMatter,” modeled after the Black Lives Matter movement, and variations of “#StopAsianHate” were trending as many members of the community spoke out against racism. Other people of color, including Black activists, joined them in solidarity against white supremacist...

Ready to crawl into bed after a long day of "normal human" cosplay? Hoping to fall asleep fast instead of staring at your ceiling for hours? You probably already have the ingredients you need for a dietitian-approved bedtime snack that'll help you drift off. s a strong case for a banana with peanut butter as the best snack for better sleep. What a dietitian wants you to know about eating before bed: What you eat before bed and how soon before bed that you eat it can affect both sleep and your digestion. If your food isn't digested before you...

“‘Follow Me’: The Cross of Discipleship” (Mark 8:34-35) “Take up your cross and follow me.” Today in our series on discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, we take up the cross. We take it up, not just as a topic for a sermon, but we take it up as a way of life. Because in our text, Jesus tells us what being his disciple will be like: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for...

A new analysis suggests Earth may have been a water world three to four billion years ago with a global ocean large enough to have submerged Mount Everest. Scientists at Harvard University examined our planet's ancient mantle and found that in ages past it was four times hotter due to radioactivity, and would therefore not be able to hold the current amount of water. 'We find that water storage capacity in a hot, early mantle may have been smaller than the amount of water Earth's mantle currently holds, so the additional water in the mantle today would have resided on...

Phil Yu was not surprised that a white gunman killed eight people, six of them Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas advertising their "Asian" or "international" staff. The worst thought he had on Wednesday, the day after the massacre, was just that, he said — he had seen it coming. “Being Asian in this country, no matter how long you’ve been here or how you got here, often feels like a constant negotiation of feeling unwelcome," said Yu, a blogger and commentator in Southern California who posts as Angry Asian Man. Many Asian Americans are bristling with pain and fury, seeing...

Angela Levin, author of 'Harry: Conversations with the Prince', explains why she is doubtful of some of the couple's allegations.

Sky News host Rita Panahi says the Queen deserves better than to have the institution she has devoted her life to trashed by an indulged couple who wanted all the fame and riches of royalty but none of the work or scrutiny.

Candace Owens on the Meghan Markle Fiasco, 2021 Grammys Cringe, and Bill Maher's Cancel Culture Rant

Cumulus Media's Westwood One announced on Wednesday that Dan Bongino will be launching a new radio show during the time slot left vacant by conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh. The program, "The Dan Bongino Show," will broadcast 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET in markets nationwide on May 24, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, according to a press release. "The Dan Bongino Show will tackle the hot political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric," the press release described. "As a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer, Bongino is uniquely...

U.S.—There is a long-successful narrative about race in this country: Racism of the past has led to structural racism, which keeps minorities from being successful. It seems really, really true, but one group continually causes problems for that narrative: Asians. Asians in the U.S. have faced terrible discrimination in the past and continue to face discrimination today, and yet they continue to do even better academically and financially than white people -- the bad race that oppresses everyone. Woke activists are trying to put an end to this with a campaign urging Asians to be less successful so the simple...

Any other Freepers still enjoy watching the movie 'The Quite Man' on St. Patrick's Day as I do?

A judge on Tuesday ruled that former Trump White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is not allowed to depose former President Trump or former Trump chief of staff John Kelly in a lawsuit relating to her White House departure in 2018.... ...The lawsuit stems from Manigault Newman's failure to file to financial disclosure form upon being let go from her position as director of communications in the Office of Public Liaison. According to Leon's opinion, former government employees have to file their report within 30 days of departing, which Manigault Newman "knowingly and willingly" failed to do.