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The saga of Matt Gaetz continues apace. Last night, it was reported that he was under FBI investigation for sleeping with a 17-year-old and paying for her travel. Later, Gaetz would appear on Tucker Carlson’s show to deny the charges and claim that a man named David McGee had tried to extort him and his father in exchange for favorable treatment.Today, Gaetz’s father provided an email proving he was, indeed, working with the FBI. Here’s the text of that.“I can confirm that your client is working with my office as well as the FBI at the government’s request in order...

Facebook on Wednesday removed an interview with former President Donald Trump on his daughter-in-law’s Facebook page, drawing immediate backlash from conservatives renewing their ongoing complaints against Big Tech and Section 230 Lara Trump, who is married to Trump’s son, Eric, promoted an interview on Facebook and Instagram with the former president Wednesday for her show "The Right View.” Soon after, Facebook removed the interview because content posted “in the voice of Donald Trump” is not allowed while he remains banned from the platform, a Facebook employee said in a screenshot of an email posted by Lara Trump. (Facebook did not...

The Pakistani President tested positive for COVID-19 on March 29, 14 days after receiving his first injection with a Chinese vaccine; on March 20, the Pakistani Prime Minister tested positive for COVID-19, 2 days after he received his inoculation.Pakistani President Arif Alvi announced on Twitter that he tested positive for COVID-19. Both he and his wife were inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinopharm on March 15.وازا مرضت فھوا یشفیناور جب میں بیمار ہوتا ہوں تو وہی شفا دیتا ہےI have tested positive for Covid-19. May Allah have mercy on all Covid affectees. Had 1st dose of vaccine، but...

March 31, 2021 — The neo-Nazi group The Base was identified as a domestic extremism concern in a non-published version of a recent report by U.S... The non-public version of the report also reported that Americans had traveled to Ukraine to fight with pro-Russian forces against the country's elected central government, two of the sources said.

CommentaryPresident Joe Biden followed his raft of heavy-handed climate executive orders by announcing his loftiest goal yet: slashing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in half by the end of the decade.Biden’s ambitious climate fantasy is doomed to fail—not only failing to reach his emissions target, but also failing utterly to make the slightest impact on climate change.The best solution for preserving the natural beauty of our nation, contrary to the president’s pontificating, is to fully embrace domestically produced energy. Long-term environmental quality is a product not of big-government mandates, but of freedom and economic prosperity.Biden’s plan is hopeless because modern life...

President Joe Biden's dog Major was involved in yet another biting incident requiring medical attention. The notoriously unruly canine attacked a National Park Service employee just days after being returned to the White House. The dog had been forced to undergo training following a separate biting incident earlier this month. Equally disturbing were reports of a wayward turd deposited on the hallway outside the White House Diplomatic Reception Room. The seemingly unending canine-related chaos has many voters wondering whether Biden is fit to serve as commander in chief. As the saying goes: There are no bad dogs, only bad owners....

After Gov. Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s new voting legislation into law, some in Hollywood are calling for a boycott of the state’s bustling film and TV industry. "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill and "Ford v Ferrari" director James Mangold were among the first to announce they plan to avoid working in the state until something is done about the new law, which some, including President Joe Biden, say restricts voting access and eligibility in the state, which leaned in favor of the Democrats on the ticket in the 2020 general election. The new law adds early voting access for most...

Iowa Democrat Rita Hart has dropped her election challenge to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s 2020 victory in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Hart on March 31 withdrew her challenge to her state-certified, six-vote loss with the House Administration Committee. A number of Democratic lawmakers in recent days said House leaders shouldn’t attempt to overturn the election results. “After many conversations with people I trust about the future of this contest, I have made the decision to withdraw my contest before the House Committee on Administration,” Hart said in a statement. “Since Election Day, and throughout this entire process, my mission has...

The Biden administration on Wednesday released a comprehensive $2+ trillion spending proposal ostensibly focused on infrastructure. But there’s much more to this plan than meets the eye.A glance at the proposal reveals many items that appear only tenuously related to infrastructure. In fact, several don’t appear to be related to infrastructure at all. Here are 9 of the most suspect items in Biden’s “infrastructure” proposal, taken directly from a fact-sheet on the plan the White House released.1. $10 Billion to Create a ‘Civilian Climate Corp’ The Biden administration proposes spending $10 billion to create a “Civilian Climate Corp.” The White...

In modern America, we periodically offer up white men as human sacrifices to the PC gods. Among our benefactions: Jake Gardner, Kyle Rittenhouse, Darren Wilson, the Duke lacrosse players, University of Virginia fraternity members, Stacey Koon and Mark Fuhrman. The rest of us just keep our heads down and pray we won’t be next. At least the Duke and UVA human offerings were sufficiently upper-crust to have a few journalists and lawyers defending them. But policemen, bar owners, military veterans and a Midwest teenager? Definitely not our crowd, darling. Currently, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing...

The material suggests that Gaetz’s father was told his son’s legal problems could go away if he gave $25 million to help secure the release of Iranian hostage Bob Levinson. --- The scandal swirling around Rep. Matt Gaetz took a stunning turn Wednesday with the news that a former Air Force intelligence official and a Florida lawyer tried to get the congressman’s dad to cough up $25 million that would be used to free American Bob Levinson from Iranian custody—and somehow release Gaetz from a federal sex-crimes investigation. And if that wasn’t enough, here’s one more strange fact: Levinson was...

The federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is focused on allegations that the junior congressman had a sexual relationship with at least one minor, and is scrutinizing the Republican's conduct not only in Florida but in other states too, three sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News. The investigation, first reported by the New York Times Tuesday and confirmed by ABC News, has sent shockwaves through Republican circles, particularly among close associates of former President Donald Trump, who considered Gaetz a staunch ally and loyal friend.

Even as the nation begins to round the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden and his Democratic buddies don’t want what’s left of the crisis to go to waste. Enter his “vaccine passports.” Biden’s White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says any vaccine passports will be outsourced to Big Tech, but Acting Medicare and Medicaid Services chief, Andy Slavitt, says, “This is going to hit all parts of society, and so naturally, the government is involved.” OUTSOURCING VACCINE PASSPORT TO BIG TECH The passport sounds like the continuation of ObamaCare, but hitting “all parts of society” to achieve compliance. As...

When five unelected super-legislators on the Supreme Court unilaterally amended the Constitution to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the ruling would pose “hard questions” about the freedom of religious colleges to operate according to their convictions. Former Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said, “It will be an issue.” This week, Roberts’ warning has come to pass, and the time in which Verrilli’s “issue” comes to the fore is now. On Monday, 33 current and former students at federally-funded Christian colleges and universities launched a historic attack on religious freedom by filing a class-action lawsuit against...

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has declared that “Easter is good to go”, with the most severe lockdown restrictions due to end at 12 p.m. local time on Thursday, the day before the Easter holidays begin. “After discussions … the lockdown will be lifted from 12 noon today,” Palaszczuk told reporters on Thursday. The premier hopes that allowing Queenslanders freedom to move about from 12 p.m. will help avoid or reduce road collisions and accidents that typically occur on congested roads during the Easter period. “I understand a lot of families in the Greater Brisbane [region] have made plans, and the...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ We’re Practicing A Soldier and a Military Working Dog observe the landing of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for a collaborative exercise to simulate field care, loading, transport, and in-route emergency medical care for MWDs in Vilseck, Germany, Oct. 20, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. The Old Guard Always On Watch Soldiers assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old...

President Biden delivered remarks Wednesday afternoon on his economic vision for the future and the Biden-Harris Administration’s plan to “Build Back Better” for the American people following the pandemic. “It grows the economy in key ways. It puts people to work doing repairs and upgrades we sorely need,” Biden said of the infrastructure plan. Biden said: “I’m convinced, if we act now, in 50 years, people are gonna look back and say, ‘this was the moment that America won the future.'” Video below: LinkBut when it comes to COVID victims Biden seems to carry a list in his pocket to...

A border patrol agent shared a heart-stopping video of smugglers abandoning two little girls in the New Mexico desert in the middle of the night, after dropping them over a 14 foot-high fence. The smugglers can be seen scaling the fence and dropping the 5-year-old and 3-year-old to the hard ground and throwing items that appear to be belongings after them. The footage was tweeted by El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez, and occurred “miles from the nearest residence,” she said. The little girls were rescued by agents who spotted them while conducting virtual surveillance, according to the...

t was beyond time around here to go ahead and do a Woke All-Star Challenge Sweet 16 bracket to decide which member of this elite group will exit the Identity Politics Final Four with the crown as the wokest woke of 2021. Who has been putting in the work? Who has been on top of his/her game? Which woke wants it more than life itself? The honor. The street cred. The admiration from peers. The resume material. Who is going to rise to the top and take home the 2021 Woke All-Star Challenge? I know the conundrum you’re in: It’s...

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