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Key Points Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden used a racist remark to describe the head of the National Football League Players Association, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Gruden used racist, anti-Black imagery to describe NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith in an email sent to a team executive on July 21, 2011. The NFL is reviewing Gruden’s status with the Raiders for potential discipline, a source familiar with the matter told the Journal. Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden used racist language to describe the head of the National Football League Players Association, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians could have higher cellphone bills after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws on Friday aimed at giving the state more money to build high-speed internet connections in unserved areas. California is one of 41 states that collect a tax on phone bills and uses the money to build high-speed internet connections. The laws Newsom signed Friday make sure the state will keep collecting that tax — and collect more of it. The laws don’t increase the tax, but it extends the tax, which was scheduled to expire at the end of next year. The laws...

A controversial law that established school choice for Kentucky students was ruled unconstitutional Friday by Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd. House Bill 563 passed in March, establishing a “school choice program” to allow students to attend schools outside of their district. Proponents of the law said they plan to appeal Shepherd’s ruling. ... The Institute for Justice intervened in the lawsuit to defend the law on behalf of Florence parent Akia McNeary and Newport great-grandparent Nancy Deaton. “Today’s ruling treats private donations as if they are government money,” said Institute for Justice Attorney Joshua House. “It holds that when...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California is the first state to let some adult children add their parents as dependents on their insurance plans, a move advocates hope will cover the small population of people living in the country illegally who don't qualify for other assistance programs. The trend nationally has been to let children linger on their parents' health insurance plans. Former President Barack Obama's health care law let children stay on their parents' plans until age 26. Some states have gone further and let kids stay on their parents' plans until at least age 30, including Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and...

Sorry for the link back to the Free Republic home page. I could not figure out how to post this without a source link. My 8-year old grand-niece's mother sent her a new HP laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed, and asked me to set it up. I have used Apple products exclusively at home, and always had dedicated IT people at work. I feel like a complete neophyte with Windows 10 stuff. I read online that the Windows parental controls are not good, and I should use third party software. Is that true? If so, what software do you-all recommend?...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. src="https://i.iheart.com/v3/url/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhcGhvbmU uaW1naXgubmV0L3BvZGNhc3RzL2RmYWYyNjUwLWQ5MDYtM TFlYi05ZTdhLTFiZjhhZWM2ZTlhYy9pbWFnZS9mZTJiMmQ0ZT c2YjU1N2JiY2E0ZWQzMzFhNGU2NDJlZmM1ZmFlMTdhMmM3 MzM0YzVmZjBjNDkyY2NlNGY2YWE1NGFmNzhjY2NlZjVlMWM 2ZDVhZTcxMzJkZjkxNGYxZmExMmE3OTJiMjEyZDY3MzhkNT UwYmNkNzc2NWQ1ZmIzZi5qcGVnP2l4bGliPXJhaWxzLTIuMS4y Jm1heC13PTMwMDAmbWF4LWg9MzAwMCZmaXQ9Y3JvcCZhd XRvPWZvcm1hdCxjb21wcmVzcw?ops=fit (960%2C960)"height=300"width=300">Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile...

American parents are organizing to fight racist critical race theories being taught in their kids’ schools. Attorney General Merrick Garland, once touted as a moderate, has responded by asking the FBI to treat them as domestic terrorists. As befits the Biden administration, this over-the-top authoritarianism is accompanied by the stench of corruption, as it turns out that Garland’s son-in-law is in the business of selling educational materials on CRT. Garland’s self-dealing and thuggery are grounds for resignation. But that isn’t the worst thing that’s happened. Bad as it is, the Biden administration’s poisonous combination of graft and authoritarianism can be...

From Vatican II to Abu Dhabi: Debate Between Bishop Schneider and Archbishop Viganò Mgr Athanasius Schneider On February 4, 2019, Pope Francis with the Grand Imam of the Cairo Mosque signed a Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together. On February 24, 2019, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X denounced this “impious gesture that scorns the First Commandment of God and attributes to the Divine Wisdom, incarnate in Jesus Christ who died for us on the Cross, the statement that ‘the pluralism and the diversity of religions’ is ‘willed by God...

“Let’s Go Brandon” was paged at O’Hare International Airport

Jason Miller, a former top adviser to Donald Trump, predicted again on Friday that the former president will run for the White House in 2024—but he doesn't expect him to do so against President Joe Biden. Trump has been teasing the possibility of another presidential run in 2024 for most of the year. Miller and other associates of the former president have repeatedly said publicly that they expect him to seek office in the next presidential election. During an interview with Fox Business on Friday, Miller shared his perspective on Trump's plans. "I think ultimately in 2024 President Trump does...

Iceland on Friday suspended the Moderna anti-COVID vaccine, citing the slight increased risks of cardiac inflammation, going further than its Nordic neighbours which simply limited use of the jabs. This decision owed to "the increased incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with the Moderna vaccine, as well as with vaccination using Pfizer/BioNTech," the chief epidemiologist said in a statement. For the past two months, Iceland has been administering an additional dose "almost exclusively" of the Moderna vaccine to Icelanders vaccinated with Janssen, a single-dose serum marketed by America's Johnson & Johnson, as well as to elderly and immunocompromised people...

Leave it to the cooky old commie to spend decades in office without an understanding of checks and balances. Especially when an insanely bloated and corrupt $3.5 TRILLION bill is on the table with the goal of creating one-party power in America forever. In fact, the Founders' entire point in creating the Senate was to 1) provide equal representation for states regardless of size and population and 2) temper the mob-like passions of the House by offering a check to any radical legislation that was being pushed forward.

The California bullet train is facing at least another billion dollars of proposed cost increases from its contractors... The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority has mostly approved such increases in the past, and if it does so again, contractors could proceed with one of the biggest price escalations since bullet train construction began in the San Joaquin Valley. The state has budgeted $22.8 billion to build a partial segment from Bakersfield to Merced. Originally, construction of the Los Angeles to San Francisco system was pegged at $33 billion. But the surging costs will probably force the state to dig deeper into...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan Friday to phase out the gifted and talented programs for elementary school students that many educators say discriminate against Black and Hispanic children enrolled in the nation’s largest public school system. It will be replaced by a program called “Brilliant NYC” that will expand the pool of students being offered accelerated learning, and not limit it to just the incoming kindergarteners who scored well on an optional exam that put them on a path to attend the city’s elite middle schools and high schools.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Friday that the city will phase out its controversial gifted and talented programs for elementary school students. The programs will be replaced with an initiative called "Brilliant NYC," which will increase the number of students who have access to accelerated learning, NBC News reported. The current gifted and talented programs are only available to incoming kindergarteners who score well on an exam that then sets them on a path to attending the city's elite schools. The exam is already suspended because the city's advisory school board did not renew it last year...

On Thursday Mark Levin broadcast a letter with insider information on the teachers union, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the FBI who met and organized how to combat America’s parents who were speaking out at local school board meetings across the country. The parents were outraged at the COVID masking and vaccination rules, critical race theory indoctrination and open porn disguised as literature promoted in American schools today.Mark Levin called this the biggest scandal of his lifetime on his radio show last night.The letter by America First Legal is fascinating. According to the letter the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized...

When a Cedar Cliff High School parent raised concerns that a booster club’s plan to raffle off five guns was inappropriate as a school-related fundraiser, district officials said they had no authority over the club’s activities. But the district policy and guidelines indicate that the district had the authority – and the opportunity – to nix or endorse the raffle and didn’t act. School board policy 915 says: “Booster organization fundraising activities shall be requested in writing and approved by the Athletic Director and building principal, and conform with District guidelines.” Among those guidelines is a statement on the district...

The View cohost Joy Behar raised more than a few eyebrows while urging black people to get the vaccine. Behar said that black people shouldn’t have vaccine hesitancy because “…the experiment has been done on white people.” The controversial figure brought up the Tuskegee experiments, during which untreated syphilis experimentation was done on nearly 400 black people without their knowledge or consent for 40 years, between 1932 and 1972. Over 100 people died as a result of the study. Behar said that because this was done, she does not blame the black community for their low vaccination rates. “How do...

1st October 2021 Features Emma’s interrogator said her arrest was part of a major national operation, in which Christians in as many as 23 other Iranian provinces had been detained. It was the day after Christmas in 2010, just two months since the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned in an infamous speech in Qom that the spread of house-churches were among the “critical threats” facing the Islamic Republic – by “deceiving young Muslims”. It was a speech that made headlines around the world, and it seems as though Emma’s interrogator was one of those listening. “He said that...

Sen. Rand Paul talks to Ben Domenech about the DOJ cracking down on concerned parents at school board meetings: "I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with." “I have a feeling and a fear that the left has become more authoritarian than we can really even imagine.” “Be Afraid Of Your Government” Watchlists Of Dissenters “Already Exist”