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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both nominated by Republican presidents, have both written absurd opinions on abortion laws. The case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which the Supreme Court will hear this year, could give them an opportunity to redeem themselves. At issue, in this case, is a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after a baby's 15th gestational week. The question: Can a state prohibit doctors from killing unborn babies who are not yet old enough to survive outside the womb? In the 2016 case of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, Chief Justice John Roberts...

Image screenshot from Rep. Shane Stringer’s Facebook, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten On 14 May, 2021, Alabama Representative Shane Stringer was fired by Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran because Representative Stringer is a strong proponent of Constitutional Carry in Alabama. From policetribune.com:But Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran and Capt. Stringer have clashed politically since he joined the department.Mobile County Sheriff’s Department Spokeswoman Lori Myles said that Capt. Stringer’s political views ran afoul of Sheriff Cochran’s beliefs, AL.com reported.Sheriff Cochran disagreed with Capt. Stringer’s sponsorship of constitutional-carry legislation, Myles said.Representative Shane Stringer was a Captain in the Mobile County Sheriff’s...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 18. Gen. BUTLER has received his orders, and leaves to-morrow morning, if he can complete his arrangements, for Fortress Monroe, where he will take command. What he will do, has already been foreshadowed in these dispatches. That Fortress Monroe is to be the rallying point for operations in Virginia, there will probably be no doubt hereafter. Gen. BUTLER's plan, as published in the TIMES, for retaking the public property, at Gosport, Richmond and Norfolk, is the most feasible and certain of any yet proposed, beyond a peradventure. He says, if possible, he shall...

Prioritizing government-owned broadband networks would be inconsistent with the Constitution’s provisions regarding private property and commerce.As part of its massive $2 billion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration is proposing an ambitious $100 billion broadband plan. The plan overreaches, misdirecting subsidies in ways that are wasteful, such as shoveling funds to areas already served instead of those lacking service. And the plan suggests the need to regulate the broadband prices of private service providers as if they were public utilities. As a matter of policy, these aspects of the Biden broadband plan are serious enough defects. But here we want to...

A group of young Brooklyn men ripped off $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by submitting fraudulent unemployment claims — and then stupidly posted pictures of themselves with their ill-gotten cash, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Six of the eight defendants — ranging in age from 18 to 25 — were charged in Brooklyn federal court, documents show. Two of the suspects — Armani Miller, 24, and Johan Santos, 19 — are still at large.

"There is no way the United States can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions without looking at how Americans drive," Schumer says. ========================================================================= Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says every vehicle on the road should be fully electric by 2040. "There is no way the United States can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions without looking at how Americans drive," Schumer said on Tuesday. "So I have put forward an ambitious, comprehensive proposal to accelerate our country's transition to zero-emission vehicles. We've called it Clean Cars for America. "The goal of that plan is that by 2040, all vehicles should be...

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is ending its participation in the federal pandemic unemployment program that gave unemployed workers an extra $300 each week and introducing a bonus for people who return to work. Gov. Chris Sununu said the additional federal benefit will end June 19. There's a 30-day notice requirement, and Sununu said he contacted the Department of Labor on Tuesday morning to say that New Hampshire would leave the program. Sununu said the state's unemployment has nearly fallen to what it was before the pandemic forced many businesses to close or reduce operations. He said more jobs are...

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 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. St. Paul:I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. But now, compelled by the...

We can see our military is in trouble just by looking at these military commericals in different countries. China and Russia look more like the military commericals we saw in the past.Today it is cartoons and appealing to leftist ideas. https://youtu.be/Kfe6d6MzeLM

Maricopa County's explanation of refusal to share routers, passwords suggests voting machines were connected to internet. ============================================================================= Arizona Senate Republicans tried to ease tensions with Maricopa County officials angry about the ongoing election audit in a special hearing Tuesday. "This has nothing to do with overturning the election" that Joe Biden won in the state's largest county, Senate President Karen Fann said in her opening statement. She claimed to have always said she doesn't expect to find "intentional wrongdoing" by county officials. The Board of Supervisors said they wouldn't testify at Tuesday's hearing in their own Monday meeting and formal...

Bitcoin price slump continues. Now trading at $37,550. For those who bought Bitcoin at $63,000 a month ago, they are likely having some buyer's remorse.

Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and China have been well-reported. Ukraine was where he landed a deal paying him tens of thousands of dollars a month just to sit on the board of a gas company under investigation for corruption. China was where he was working to set up a variety of operations, according to documents that have been revealed about his deals. But he also had his fingers in pies in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Ivory Coast, Oman, West Indies, Qatar, Taiwan, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Greece, Romania and Mexico, a new investigation by Daily Wire has revealed. His...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto conceded defeat to state Rep. Ed Gainey in a four-way Democratic primary race for mayor, positioning Gainey to become the first Black mayor in the city’s history.With 393 of the city’s 402 voting precincts reporting results around 1:15 a.m., Gainey had received about 46.2% of the votes counted, while Peduto collected 39.3%, retired Pittsburgh police officer Tony Moreno had 13.1% and math tutor and ride-hailing-service driver Michael Thompson had 1.2%, the tallies showed.Peduto had taken to Twitter about an hour earlier to congratulate Gainey.“I just called (Gainey) and congratulated him on earning the Democratic endorsement for...

As COVID restrictions begin to fall there seems to be a new problem emerging, namely, Americans’ inability to ditch the masks. Masks, it seems, have become a type of “security blanket” for many, reporter Karin Brulliard claims in a recent Washington Post article. She explains how David Díaz, a vaccinated 29-year-old, struggles to go for a run outside without a mask, worried not so much about the virus anymore, but rather what others will think of him. “At what point are you doing more harm than good and letting fear or something rule your life?’” Díaz is quoted as asking...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ gambling deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida is sailing through the Florida Legislature. The Florida Senate voted Tuesday 38-1 in favor of the gambling agreement, which will bring legal sports betting to Florida.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 69Psalm 69[a] For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. 1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. 2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. 3 I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. 4 Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to...

Biden is seeking higher taxes on real estate transactions with gains of more than $500,000, a target aimed directly at the heart of small real estate investors, family farmers and owner-occupied businesses. In combination with his plans to eliminate step-up basis on the resolution of estates, the Biden tax proposal will greatly increase the cost of farmland and thus food prices, property prices and rental costs in some markets. The strategy on the political chopping block is the so-called like-kind or 1031 exchanges, which allow investors to defer paying taxes on real estate by rolling profits into their next property....

Ever since the new administration has taken office, the Iranian regime has resorted to what it does best: terrorism and extortion.The Middle East is in turmoil again. From Kabul to Riyadh, and Beirut to the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, people are frightened and forced to hear the horrifying blasts of emergency sirens that had long been silenced. If one were to search anywhere other than in Iran for the detonators of these blasts, they would be wrong again. An explosion in front of a girls’ school in Kabul, Afghanistan two weeks ago killed dozens of innocent people, embarrassed the Afghan...

A four-year-old US boy was snatched from his bed and brutally murdered in an act of “evil”, police believe. Cash Gernon had been sleeping in his crib when he was abducted and killed with an “edged weapon”, police say. Gernon’s body was inexplicably left in the street about 800 meters from his southwest Dallas home and was found by a passerby. The suspect in the murder, 18-year-old Darriynn Brown, was arrested and charged in relation to the death. Video surveillance from inside the boy’s home showed a man taking him from his crib at about 5 am. According to his...

The FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office is conducting an investigation into the death that took place Monday in a courtroom at the Federal Courthouse in Fargo. Following a guilty verdict and after the jury left the courtroom, 55-year-old Jeffrey Ferris of Belcourt, North Dakota used an easily concealable instrument to take his own life. Ferris died in the courtroom. Ferris had been found guilty of reckless endangerment, terrorizing, and use of a firearm in relation to a felony crime of violence. The mandatory minimum sentence was seven years in federal prison. Ferris was found not guilty of eight counts of assault...