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Reflections on the anniversary of George Washington‘s first inauguration… The United States of America declared our independence in 1776, and amazingly, won a revolution against the greatest military power on earth, as a loose and perpetually destitute federation. The Constitutional Convention in 1787, accompanied by its subsequent statewide ratification conventions, unified us as a nation, and set forth the building blocks for future success. We held elections in 1788... a new House and Senate found their way to the temporary capital in New York in the spring of 1789, and finally, on April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath...

group of German tourists travelled to Russia on Friday to get vaccinated against the coronavirus amid vaccine shortages in Europe. Around 50 Germans flew to Moscow from Frankfurt on Thursday evening to get their first shot of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine as part of the vaccine tour organised by the German office of European Tour Operators. During the three-night trip tourists are getting vaccinated by a Russian private clinic at a hotel and combine it with sightseeing of lockdown-free Moscow. "Lots of Germans want to go to Moscow to get the vaccinations and to combine the trip with holiday or...

We’re so damned stupid. For the second year in a row progressives in America have taken to retroactively trying historical figures in the 2020-2021 social justice tribunals. All historical context is expunged and those in the dock are judged as if plucked off the streets this year rather than when they lived their lives hundreds of years ago, when a lot of other stuff was going on. Now it is Hannah Duston who faces justice. There is a statue of her wielding an axe in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Last year, every self-important progressive did what they could to declare their virtuousness...

I don't eat it much myself but I'm going to let the experts weigh in on this topic. Americans do consume 14 billion quarts of popcorn each year. That is enough for each person to get 43 quarts each every year. Since I don't eat it much, not even a quart per year, others are bringing the average up.

This account of ‘selective reduction’ abortion is one of the most chilling you’ll ever read'Perhaps the fetus would register the cessation of the heartbeat in the neighboring sac, the stilling of the fluttery movements. Could the proximity of decaying fetal tissue infuse my womb with the specter of death?' April 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In 2016, the Washington Post covered the story of Brittneyrose Torres, a woman serving as a surrogate mother. Her womb was being rented to gestate triplets, for which she was being paid up to $30,000. There had been twins originally, but one embryo had split. The...

A former Pentagon investigator who claims to have run a hush-hush UFO program has warned that an upcoming blockbuster report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” could reveal a failure by US intelligence agencies on par with 9/11. Luis “Lue” Elizondo, former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has told The Post about the document slated for release in June under a mandate contained in former President Donald Trump’s $2.3 trillion appropriations bill for this year. The whistleblower said the highly anticipated report will address what UFO believers have been clamoring to discover about Tic Tac-shaped objects the Navy saw...

Many years ago, I had neighbors who were immigrants from Bolivia. One day, when the young daughter of the family was about to celebrate her fiesta de quinceañera, she asked me if I knew how to make an ‘egg roll’. I began to tell her about egg roll wrappers, cabbage, frying, &c, when she interrupted me and said that she meant the ‘hairstyle’. Apparently, young people of her set had begun to identify the classic‘French Twist’ hairstyle, as an ‘Egg Roll’. I had never worn a French Twist – for that matter, I had never actually made Egg Rolls; but...

Perched on a pontoon above the chilly water of Dundee's Victoria Dock, surveyors are inspecting every section of one of the world's oldest ships. HMS Unicorn has been a feature of the city since 1873, half a century after she was built at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. The former training ship has weathered many storms, including almost being scrapped in the 1960s.

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward gives an update on the Maricopa County ballot audit that is ongoing. As Ms. Ward notes there are many leftists demanding to know who is helping to pay for this audit; yet simultaneously those same Democrats do not talk about who is funding the hundreds of left-wing lawyers that are attempting to stop the audit. Good point.

Tucker on why you probably don't recognize the Republican party https://video.foxnews.com/v/6251335795001#sp=show-clips

Many American parents may assume that culture-war battles over critical race theory and “wokeness” are fought on legitimate terrain, involving such matters as how high school students can best grapple with our nation’s complex past. Perhaps they think that the suddenly ubiquitous topics of gender identity and preferred pronouns rankle only those parents who are old-fashioned in their thinking. If only. America’s youngest students are being bombarded with classroom activism and indoctrination that is inappropriate not only developmentally but for public school systems in general. The contemporary obsession with identity has made its way into elementary school policy, curricula, and...

The Freeper Canteen Presents....~ It's Kentucky Derby Time!! ~ Barbershop Quartet ~ Star Spangled BannerCall To The Post KENTUCKY DERBY TROPHY Since the 50th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1924, Churchill Downs has annually presented a gold trophy to the winning owner of the famed "Run for the Roses." History is unclear if a trophy was presented in 1875 to the winner of the first Kentucky Derby, and trophy presentations were sporadically made in following years. Finally, in 1924, legendary Churchill Downs President Matt Winn commissioned that a standard design be developed for the "Golden Anniversary" of the...

I received a letter today from the IRS. First thought - is something wrong with my tax return? Nope. The letter is from Joe Biden. Joe brags about vaccinations and the $1,400 check he sent me a month ago. Then, Joe says this: "With the $600 direct payment from December, this brings the total relief payment up to $2,000. This fulfills a promise I made to you, and will help get millions of Americans through this crisis."

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been spending time together in Los Angeles after her split from Alex Rodriguez, sources exclusively tell Page Six. The Oscar winner has been spotted multiple times going to J.Lo’s California home during the day, we hear, after having been picked up in a white Escalade SUV that allegedly belongs to Lopez and then taken to her nearby mansion. While the pair have not been spotted together, a source told Page Six, “Security picks him up at a nearby location and drops him off after spending a few hours at her house.”

Who still trusts the CDC?China has weaponized the US medical establishment. They've been making inroads for years but in the era of the Biden puppet, the CDC is largely unrestraind.The public is becoming aware that the vaccinated are contracting Covid and so the CDC is rushing to pretend to study the matter, basing their approach on false information. All along the way, the CDC has been present to wallpaper over the truth with its toxic narrative.If you look at what the CDC has done to us for over a year, you may conclude as I have that China's deep investment...

Explanation: On April 25 a nearly full moon rose just before sunset. Welcomed in a clear blue sky and framed by cherry blossoms, its familiar face was captured in this snapshot from Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Known to some as a Pink Moon, April's full lunar phase occurred with the moon near perigee. That's the closest point in its not-quite-circular orbit around planet Earth, making this Pink Moon one of the closest and brightest full moons of the year. If you missed it, don't worry. Your next chance to see a full perigee moon will be on May 26. Known to...

Some Facebook pages are under attack. Users are losing control of their pages and their memories, and some people are losing their money. "It's very much personal. It's very emotional," Renee Heller said. Heller can see her Facebook page but can't access anything on it, including thousands of family photos. "Looking back through photos, I have 15 years that I can't account for," she said. A few weeks ago, Heller got an email in the middle of the night. The message from Facebook said her account information had been charged. "My password was changed. My email address was changed. My...

The world’s largest municipal police union, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), quietly admitted to its members this month what civil rights advocates have long argued: Getting rid of qualified immunity will encourage government officials to obey the law. New York City made national headlines in March by limiting qualified immunity for police officers accused of violating New Yorkers’ rights. Pointing to this recent change, the memo “strongly caution(s)” police officers to limit their searches of individuals or private property to cases where the officer is “clearly and unequivocally within the bounds of the law.” In other words, when you remove...

This unbelievable....it is not up yet https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/on-air-tucker-carlson-tonight/

OKLAHOMA COUNTY (KFOR) – Construction will soon resume on the southern end of the Kickapoo Turnpike. The remaining portion of the turnpike’s southern end will undergo construction again during the second week of April, according to an Oklahoma Turnpike Authority news release. Crews opened the southern portion of the Kickapoo Turnpike to single lane traffic in both directions from NE 23rd Street south to Interstate 40 in January, then halted construction for the remaining winter months. “This turnpike uses a high-performance surface course of asphalt and has a strict temperature requirement in order to be put down and maximize the...