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He wasn’t fishing for compliments. A Montana man approached Fox News personality Tucker Carlson at an outdoors store Friday and told him: “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.” Dan Bailey shared a video of his interaction in Livingston, Mont., on Instagram. The rest of the conversation is tough to make out, but Bailey made his thoughts clear in the caption. “It’s not everyday you get to tell someone they are the worst person in the world and really mean it! What an a--hole!” Bailey wrote. “This man has killed more people...

PERHAPS THE best litmus test of the post-pandemic world will be how much international travel returns. In 2020 international tourism arrivals fell by 74% compared with 2019, to just 380m—by contrast the fall was just 4% during the financial crisis. In recent months international travel has begun to recover. With 3.7bn vaccine doses administered around the world, many people are raring to pack their bags for a foreign trip. But not every vaccine-acquired antibody automatically allows you freely to jet off overseas.Many governments are welcoming only recipients of certain covid-19 vaccines as visitors. This month the European Union said it...

We need more of this!Arizona Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita was one of two republicans who voted with Democrats to kill SB1241, an Arizona senate bill to reform election integrity. Senator Ugenti was scheduled to speak to the audience at Turning Point USA today; however, when she attempted to give her speech, the audience absolutely destroyed her with boos and jeers.Ms. Ugenti attempted to deliver her speech, but the crowd grew louder with every word until eventually she had to walk off stage completely humiliated. Well done Arizona. Senator Ugenti does not stand a chance in her vain attempt to become Secretary...

Sharon Alroy-Preis says pandemic is still here: "We need to learn to live with it"; health and education ministries to present dueling proposals for new school year on Sunday Public health chief Sharon Alroy-Preis said on Saturday that officials were debating whether to offer a third booster shot to Israelis, or to wait for a vaccine that is specifically tailored for the Delta variant of the coronavirus. "We are checking if we should give a third dose, or whether we should wait for a vaccine against Delta," the head of public health at the Health Ministry told Channel 12. The...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday at 6 p.m. ET at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan after being hospitalized for over two weeks, the celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told The Associated Press. Mason was known for his sharp wit and piercing social commentary, often about being Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies. “Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe,” he once joked. Another Mason...

A House Armed Services Committee task force will release legislative proposals today that would require the Pentagon to treat supply chain security as a “strategic priority” and identify a plan to wean itself off key materials sourced from China, according to a draft of the recommendations obtained by Federal News Network. The committee’s “Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force” final report includes six major legislative recommendations for inclusion in the fiscal year 2022 defense policy bill. They include a requirement for the Defense Department to have a “department-wide risk assessment strategy and system for continuous monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risk...

On the global news front I have been watching one event with special attention, mainly because it seems like almost no one else is – I am speaking of course about the social and economic collapse in South Africa that has been escalating over the past couple weeks. What is strange to me is that certain parallels between South Africa and the US are being summarily ignored.Basically, the South African situation is a more exaggerated version of what is happening in America, and we need to consider if it is merely a preview of future events as the extra financial...

We need more of this! Arizona Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita was one of two republicans who voted with Democrats to kill SB1241, an Arizona senate bill to reform election integrity. Senator Ugenti was scheduled to speak to the audience at Turning Point USA today; however, when she attempted to give her speech, the audience absolutely destroyed her with boos and jeers. Ms. Ugenti attempted to deliver her speech, but the crowd grew louder with every word until eventually she had to walk off stage completely humiliated. Well done Arizona.

An anti-mask protester in California is under fire for more than just her unorthodox medical beliefs after she was caught on video striking a masked woman who identified herself as a breast cancer patient by hitting her in the chest during a heated demonstration outside of a treatment center. Anti-mask demonstrators appear to have been gathered outside of the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building in West Hollywood Thursday to protest the facility’s rule that all persons who enter building wear a mask, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Traditionis Cultores: Why Francis “Could No Longer Wait”Francis “has an uncanny ability to drive his own people away without attracting those who are not his own,” La Cigüeña De La Torre wrote on InfoVaticana.com (July 18).Thus, Francis achieved loneliness by emptying St. Peter's Square, the Vatican Basilica, and even the smaller square to which his empty General Audiences were transferred.For La Cigüeña, Traditionis Custodes “is yet another absurd, gratuitous, offensive act - very much in Francis' usual line,” and an insult to Benedict XVI, including the painful spectacle of two Popes contradicting each other ten years apart and both still...

Here's What You Need to Remember: When Moscow intervened in Syria in 2015 on behalf the beleaguered regime of Bashar al-Assad, it also transferred around thirty T-90As to the Syrian Arab Army, as well as upgraded T-62Ms and T-72s. The Syrian military could desperately use this armored infusion, as it had lost over two thousand armored vehicles in the preceding years—especially after Syrian rebels began receiving American TOW-2A missiles in 2014. The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate...

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.

Taylor Swift’s return to No. 1 on Billboard’s 2020 Money Makers list is one of the few unsurprising results of a ranking that holds many surprises. A year with little touring resulted in many of rock and country music’s regular road warriors giving up their spots to artists with strong 2020 streaming and physical sales performances — many of them hip-hop acts.It’s also no surprise that the dearth of live revenue led to a precipitous decline in the paychecks of music’s top earners, who collectively took home $387 million in 2020, down from $969 million in 2019. Even Swift, that...

....Indeed, here in blue Rhode Island, parents are seeing red. They have had enough and they are rising up to defend their parental rights by organizing their own local groups and challenging school officials. And it’s not just about radical race theories – it’s a revolt against the entire pervasive “woke” agenda. Parents are further outraged at the many non-science-based and over-bearing Covid-19 protocols and mandates, the gender-equity agenda, as well as at the over-sexualization of their children in public schools. In one example, the RI Department of Health illegally declared that high school students aged 16-18 were “emancipated” from...

An unhinged leftist confronted Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a fly fishing shop in Livingston, Montana on Friday. “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that,” Dan Bailey, a fishing guide said as he got in Tucker Carlson’s face. Tucker kept his cool but stood his ground. “Settle down, son,” Tucker said as he walked away in an effort to deescalate, but the man followed him around and continued to argue. The original video was posted to Dan Bailey’s Instagram account and he claimed Tucker Carlson killed people with vaccine misinformation. “This...

It wasn’t exactly the trial scene between Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, but it was pretty dramatic stuff. Sen. Rand Paul has been taking repeated shots at Fauci over the funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and specifically the gain-of-function research it performed using bat coronaviruses. In a May appearance before a Senate committee, Fauci denied that NIAID, the National Institutes of Health agency Fauci leads, had funded gain-of-function research. That was a highly questionable contention. Technically you could perhaps make it seeing as though the funding of the Wuhan lab came from Dr....

A court in London has ruled that a Christian street preacher who was fined and prosecuted by the police for evangelizing during lockdown did not break regulations or do anything illegal. The London Magistrates Court ruled that Joshua Sutcliffe, 31, is “not guilty” as he “was outside and that he had a reasonable excuse as he was traveling to his place of work, as a worship leader,” said Christian Legal Centre, which supported the preacher, in a statement released Friday. Sutcliffe was detained and surrounded by four police officers as he was preaching and handing out leaflets in North London’s...

The mammoth scandal surrounding a 2019 energy bailout appeared to creep closer on Thursday to the administration of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. FirstEnergy said in a deferred prosecution agreement that the man DeWine appointed to lead the Public Utility Commission of Ohio took a $4.3 million payment and then acted on behalf of the Akron-based power company instead of as the state’s top regulator. That man, Sam Randazzo, has resigned. But FirstEnergy also helped control a 501(c)(4) “dark-money” group started by a senior DeWine aide while he was still a FirstEnergy lobbyist, the agreement showed. The company passed a torrent...

Jackie Mason, the sometimes-controversial standup comedian who unapologetically embraced Jewish themes and political incorrectness, achieving a national profile through a series of successful one-man shows on Broadway without substantial work in film or television, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93. The New York Times said his death was confirmed by his friend Raoul Felder. Mason was one of the last of the Borscht Belt comedians, and he married that sensibility to strong views on racial and ethnic politics. He also recurred on “The Simpsons” as the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, the father of Krusty the Clown, winning his...

Lightfoot, speaking during a press availability on Thursday afternoon, said that city officials are exploring different ways to invest in communities, and said that Chicago will focus on the city’s West Side, which has been ravaged by gun violence. “It’s obvious: we cannot arrest our way out of this problem,” she said. “Fundamentally, if you look at the West Side and you look at the problems, the opioid addiction that is really harming so many individuals, families and communities, the investments we have to make in human capital and the investments we have to make in infrastructure, those are why...