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If we consider a “perfect” country, it is not hard to find problems in America: racial prejudice, economic exploitation and inequality, greed, etc. However, countries do not exist in fantasyland; they exist in the real world. However, the world that surrounds us is not too idyllic. If we compare the US to its surroundings, America is the one that begins to resemble an idealized paradise. Otherwise, why do so many foreign nationals risk life and limb to get to America? In any election, the overriding consideration in voting should be the political ideologies associated with candidates and the direction America...

Portland, Oregon is without a riot squad because 50 members resigned in protest following the indictment of a fellow officer for striking an “activist photographer.” The left coast city has had repeated and ongoing riots since George Floyd’s death in May 2020. As you can imagine, the police force is stretched thin.

A paralysed man who challenged the law which criminalises assisted suicide has died, aged 65. Paul Lamb was severely injured in a car crash in 1990 and was left with no function from the neck down aside from limited movement in his right arm. Mr Lamb, from Leeds, had lived with chronic pain as a result of his paralysis and required 24-hour care. Humanists UK, which announced the news of Mr Lamb's death, said he had left a "fierce legacy of campaigning". Mr Lamb took on several legal challenges over the current law on assisted suicide, which he said breached...

[Biden] Let’s get this straight. How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engage in activities that he’s engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure it maintains its standing as a major world power.I mean, holy hell, President Joe. You’ve been in Washington since the damn Taft administration.

This isn’t a conservative-vs.-progressive thing. It’s not a Republican-vs.-Democrat thing. It’s not a coastal-elite-vs.-flyover-country thing. It’s not even a Trump thing. It’s a journalists-vs.-normal-people thing. Outside of the narcissistic and incestuous Thunderdome that houses the American media, it remains the case that people simply do not think in the way that the Beltway-media class believes they do. They are not traumatized by the daily news. They do not make key life decisions based upon the behavior of the president, nor wait for him to leave office before deciding that they are so disturbed that they no longer wish to work....

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) said during her 2018 Senate campaign that she wants to be the next “John McCain,” according to a report released Friday. Sinema, a moderate-leaning Democrat who frequently bucks her own party, told her advisers in 2018 that she wants to emulate “John McCain.” The Arizona Democrat lauded the former Arizona Senate Republican and one-time presidential candidate, calling him a “legend” and “my personal hero.” Sinema even copied some of McCain’s most dramatic acts in the Senate, including when he bucked his own party.

Evidence was presented at the Fulton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) hearing on June 16, indicating that Stacey Abrams “financed the main contractor used in Fulton County elections during the Nov 3rd poll and the Jan 5th U.S. Senate runoff,” according to CDMedia. CD media reported it as a developing story saying evidence shows the financing of a staffing service called Happy Faces Personnel Group by groups associated with Abrams. Former nine-year Precinct manager and Dominion Poll technician Bridget Thorne testified in the 2020 Election Fraud evidentiary hearing conducted by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Georgia on December 3 (2:18:32...

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrated their collective power at America's highest court on Thursday. They fueled the Supreme Court's limited opinions on Obamacare and religious liberty, in action that marks a twist for the conservative-dominated bench and adds to the suspense of the next two weeks as the court finishes its annual term. An overriding question going into the session that began last October was whether Roberts would still wield significant control, after former President Donald Trump appointed Barrett to succeed the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and created a...

ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 6:19–23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples not to store up treasures for themselves on earth, but to store up treasures in heaven, “where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.” St. Augustine once said that since every creature is made ex nihilo, it carries with it the heritage of nonbeing. There is a kind of penumbra or shadow of nothingness that haunts every finite thing. This is a rather high philosophical way of stating what all of us know in our bones: no matter how good, beautiful,...

Protecting their store with punches and a pistol. VIDEO AT LINK............................

A video shows a man’s awful reaction after he was rejected by a group of women. The woman shared the video on social media and has already generated millions of views, and has shared outrage. There are not many details surrounding the context of the video, but in the clip, you can see a man approach a group of ladies as they were sitting down at a restaurant. The man seemingly begins making passes at the ladies when someone begins recording. At one part of the video that didn’t get screen recorded. He said “I’m a killer” and still the...

Windows 7 users might finally decide to upgrade soon. Windows Latest today reported that a leaked build of Windows 11 suggests Microsoft plans to offer a free upgrade to the next significant update to the operating system when it debuts.A caveat: This is based on a configuration package in a leaked build of an operating system that hasn't officially been announced yet. Microsoft's plans could have changed, or it may have planned for the upgrade to be paid all along. Windows Latest said its claim was "based on the configuration keys found within Pkeyconfig (product key configuration package) in the...

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) argue in an op-ed published on Thursday that a global transition to renewable energy would be beneficial to the U.S.'s national security efforts. In their piece published in Time, the senators, who both sit on the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, say that transitioning to renewable energy sources would siphon off power from oil-rich countries and "Americans would instantly be safer."

Everyday here on Free Republic we see two posts about Steve Bannon's War Room, I've made a point to watch it on the Roku Channel One America News. For over a week now they have been talking about the "Ape Army" which the people on Reddit and elsewhere who drove up the stock of Gamestop costing Wall Street Hedge Funds billions, now they are onto AMC and have driven the price way up cost more Hedge Funds billions..... Today on The War Room they had a member of the Ape Army on, the young lady from Montana with some terrible...

As the world’s economy emerges from the crisis caused by the pandemic, global elites have pushed for a “Great Reset.” Brownstone Research founder Jeff Brown spoke with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow about the implications of this globalist vision for ordinary investors and how Brownstone Research’s personalized “Great Reset Protection Plan” provides all the tools investors need to protect themselves against these destructive market forces. Though the pandemic has pushed talk of the Great Reset into broader political discourse, Brown explained that the idea is much older. The phrase originated with Klaus Schwab, the founder and chairman of the World...

Click here to read the full articleBuck­le up, kids. The Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency has agreed to pro­duce records about the FBI’s ille­gal snoop­ing on 16,000 Amer­i­cans, accord­ing to a let­ter that I received from the NSA this after­noon, and that sug­gests a polit­i­cal fight between the two agencies.The NSA replied to the exact same request Cle­venger pro­vid­ed to the FBI where he received the response it would take the FBI decades to respond. Below is the NSA’s letter:

Hunter Biden’s connections to the New York art scene reportedly go through lingerie entrepreneur Zoe Kestan, otherwise known as @weed_slut_420 on Instagram. President Joe Biden’s 51-year-old scandal-plagued son is venturing into the art world, with Soho art dealer Georges Bergès, who reportedly has some ties to China, holding a private viewing for Hunter’s artwork in Los Angeles, followed by an art exhibition in New York in the fall. Hunter has reportedly been working on his art full time, and his pieces, Bergès told Artnet, will “range from $75,000 for works on paper to $500,000 for large-scale paintings.” Hunter’s gateway into...

Social media companies like Facebook don't show you all your friends’ posts. You may think they do, but they don’t. Instead, an algorithm picks which ones to show you -- and which not to show you. How do they decide? The companies won't reveal the details.

[Catholic Caucus] U.S. Bishops Continue Intense Debate Over Timing and Impact of Proposed Document on EucharistMost bishops voiced support for a teaching document on Holy Communion, but some pushed for the removal of the section that would address public officials who are at odds with the Church on abortion and other issues.WASHINGTON — The second day of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) spring general assembly featured a lengthy and passionate debate over the proposal to draft a document on the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist.The document, which would include a discussion of worthiness to receive Communion, remains a...

During a television appearance on Sunday night, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "sits on a lot of data." He also suggested the reason why the health organization holds back information is to better support their agenda. Along with being a healthy policy expert and surgeon, Makary is a Fox News contributor. It was on that network where he made the comments regarding the CDC not being forthcoming about its information. The claim came during the Sunday edition of the Fox News program The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton.While discussing...