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Bill Maher on Friday night urged Lin-Manuel Miranda to 'stop apologizing' and 'stand up to the bullies' after his film In the Heights was criticized for not having enough diversity, with Maher declaring: 'This is why people hate Democrats.' Miranda's film, telling the story of a Hispanic community in New York City, was attacked for not having enough Afro-Latino actors. On Monday the Hamilton creator issued a highly-apologetic statement, promising he would 'do better' in the future.

Singer Macy Gray argued in a recent op-ed that a new flag is needed for the United States, saying Old Glory is 'tattered, dated, divisive and incorrect' - and providing a design of her own. Gray, 53, wrote the op-ed for MarketWatch ahead of Juneteenth, which was declared a federal holiday this week and is set to be celebrated on Saturday. In her piece, the 'I Try' singer said the flag needs to be redesigned to represent all Americans, arguing the symbolism of Old Glory was harmed during the Capitol riot.

“Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge” (Proverbs 19:27).

A conservative radio show host has gone viral after he dramatically denounced Critical Race Theory at a meeting of an Illinois school board. Ty Smith, host of Cancel This on Cities 92.9 and star of a popular YouTube channel, appeared at the June 9 meeting. The Bloomington Public School area, District 87, does not teach Critical Race Theory - the controversial analysis of racial inequalities and historic disparities, which critics say encourages children to view each other as different. Teachers say they have no intention of introducing it.

Kevin Stone 2 days ago Breakthrough COVID-19 cases like Chris Paul’s are extremely rare PHOENIX – Although Phoenix Suns star Chris Paul reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 in a high-profile case despite being fully vaccinated, such breakthrough infections are extremely rare in Arizona.

Although we’re a year and a half from the 2022 elections, both parties are working hard behind the scenes to ready themselves for one of the most crucial midterms in U.S history. In the past 30 years, the party out of presidential power has usually made substantial gains in midterm elections during a president’s first term. And given Democrats’ extremely slim margins of control, the assumption that they will lose at least one if not both chambers of Congress seems like a safe bet at the moment (although I’m not at all convinced). One of the most-watched races will take...

<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Friday blamed a surge in COVID-19 cases on reluctance to have vaccinations and "nihilism" after a record 9,056 new infections in Moscow, mostly with the new Delta variant, fanned fears of a third wave.</p>

Mick Taylor was a freakin' guitar God. youtube link here

The Biden administration is speeding up the placement of young illegal immigrants in cities around the nation with little or no notice to local officials, a “reckless” result of the president’s bid to erase the border legacy of former President Donald Trump, according to a leading GOP critic. Indiana Sen. Todd Young told Secrets that there has been a 45% surge in children that entered the United States unaccompanied by an adult being sent to the Hoosier State. In one case, 19 were sent to Iowa and then put on a bus to other cities, including Fort Wayne, Indiana, to...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has his work cut out for him when it comes to fusing former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement with a more traditional brand of conservatism.“I think that is a really tough spot for him to be in,” Craig Robinson, an Iowa-based GOP strategist, said before Mr. Pence visited Florida. “You already see some of the most fervent activists don’t want anything to do with him - almost like he is a traitor.”“So you are going to have that drumbeat, and on the other hand he is going to be competing with newer fresher people,” he...

Voters have graded President Joe Biden’s first foreign trip with a shrug. In the first poll on Biden’s performance at the G-7 economic summit, the NATO meeting, and his one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rasmussen Reports found that 44% rated it a success and 40% said it wasn’t. The survey, sponsored by the National Pulse, also found that people are split over his foreign policy. Some 44% called it fair to poor, while 42% said it’s good to excellent. And they’re even divided on how his foreign policy compares to that of former President Donald Trump. Asked if Biden’s...

State Sen. David Argall, who heads a committee that oversees elections, told local news outlets he favors a forensic audit of the contest that state and federal officials insist was secure. The Republican, under pressure by former President Donald Trump to take action, told the Capital-Star the audit is now a “very real possibility." The report said he is considering subpoenas for ballot information and which jurisdictions to send them. “There are a lot of things under consideration right now, and I told them to check back in a week or two, and we hope to have some more detail,”...

China officially further relaxed its family planning policy, allowing couples to give birth to three children," the Communist Party's Global Times announced on May 31. "The move aims to improve China's population structure and actively respond to the country's aging problem." No, the move won't do that. A three-child policy will be even less successful than China's two-child policy, which itself was a complete flop. So watch out: Beijing could—and probably will—take the next step and outright force couples to have children. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, believed there should be as many Chinese in...

Evidence shows more than half of the 10 most severely affected countries by the CCP virus in the world have used Chinese vaccines.Our World in Data, an online database created by the UK’s Oxford University, provides data on the number of infections per day per 1 million people.As of June 16, the top 10 hard-hit countries and their relevant figures were: Seychelles (1,690), Uruguay (827), Mongolia (729), Colombia (551), Maldives (508), Bahrain (506), Argentina (506), Suriname (437), Kuwait (365), and Chile (342).In Seychelles, 57 percent of its vaccines are from China’s Sinopharm for the 18 to 60 age group, the...

As California’s population drops due to a mass exodus of residents escaping high taxes, exorbitant housing costs, and increasing homelessness, there’s another factor that’s been quietly contributing to the downturn: the declining birth rate.Data shows that while the Golden State’s population continues to grow old, young adults are having fewer kids.John Moorlach, a former state senator and Orange County supervisor, told The Epoch Times that the long-term impact of the state’s dropping birth rate is “hard to predict,” because the current administration’s border policy has made immigration numbers unclear.But if immigration is minimized and there is zero growth, Moorlach said...

The Lies and Reality of the USCCB VoteAs I’ve been saying ever since the letter trying to squash the forming of a document on “Eucharistic Coherence”, the loud crowd is in the minority. There is no “split down the middle.” Let’s look at the vote on drafting that document: 168 yea, 55 nay, and 6 abstentions. The club that wants to give Communion to whoever walks up to receive didn’t even retain their supposed 67! I don’t know why a bigger deal hasn’t been made about that, but more than one person who supposedly signed said they didn’t at all....

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson claims the Wuhan lab researchers deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility.The Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to handle the world’s most dangerous pathogens. The lab is just a few miles from a major seafood market in the city that Beijing first identified as the source of the virus.The possibility of an accidental laboratory leak from the Chinese lab was quickly shut down at...

Have a question for Freepers. Are appointments still needed for barber shops and hair salons? I called my barber yesterday to make an appointment for a haircut. I was told it was no longer required to make an appointment. I live in California and not in a homeless area. Temp. today was 108 degrees

A spoof of a Biden Press Conference It would be funnier if it were not so close to being true.