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VIRGINIA—Terry McAuliffe said he's completely confused that telling parents the state owns their children, that parents have no say over what their kids learn in school, and that repulsively disgusting pornographic books are good for kids didn't prove to be electorally popular. "It's so weird," a crestfallen McAuliffe told reporters. "We pulled out all the stops: we told parents that we own their children's minds, that they're wards of the state, and that their children should read horrific LGBTQ+ pornography in their school libraries, and it just didn't seem to connect with the people for some reason." McAuliffe also performed...

Senate President Steve Sweeney, the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey history, is on the verge of losing his own State Senate seat in what could be a stunning political upset. Edward Durr, a conservative truck driver who reported spending just $153 on his campaign, leads Sweeney by 2,009 votes in the South Jersey-based 3rd legislative district. Sweeney’s defeat would cause a total realignment of politics in New Jersey, and most immediately creates a wide-open race for Senate President. Democrats lost bids to flip two GOP Senate seats and appear to have lost two or three more, something that could...

New scientific findings in the prestigious Lancet Infectious Diseases journal blow a hole in the argument that workers need to get vaccinated to protect those around them. The findings prove the foolishness of forcing police and other public employees to get jabbed or lose their pay. And President Joe Biden should retract his order to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to compel large employers to mandate vaccines. The Journal reported Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines have "minimal" impact on preventing transmission of the delta strain. Delta is the COVID strain currently causing over 99% of U.S. cases. Vaccines protect the...

Before the Supreme Court allowed the Texas six-week abortion ban to go into effect on September 1, pregnant women had to travel an average of 17 miles to get to their nearest abortion clinic. Now, they have to travel 14 times longer—an average of 247 miles one way—to get to the nearest abortion provider, reports the Guttmacher Institute. The Supreme Court is now considering Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, a direct challenge to constitutional abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade close to half a century ago. If the Court, with Trump’s three anti-abortion Republican appointees, overturns or significantly...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 6Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[c] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[d] your whole body...

A flurry of six bear attacks has happened in North America in less than a week from 27 September to 2 October 2021. The attacks ranged from three by grizzly bears in Canada, two by grizzly bears in the Western United States, and one by a black bear in Ashville, North Carolina. The attacks continue a trend to make this a banner year for bear-human conflicts. Here are the six attacks: 1 & 2. Two separate bear maulings on 27 September 2021 in Alberta, Canada:Two men are in hospital after being mauled in separate grizzly bear attacks, roughly 70 kilometres...

After “tackling” – some say disastrously for online speech – the topics of US elections and Covid by promoting content that is considered “authoritative” and suppressing, to various degrees, everything else, Facebook, Twitter, and Google are further narrowing the space for their users’ free expression. These enormous digital squares, the social platforms-turned-approved speech enforcers will now add climate change to the list of issues discussions about which are strictly controlled and censored, when information users post or share clashes with the giants’ idea of what’s true and what’s false. Media like Axios already have something akin to a pejorative for...

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The activities of the Biden administration this past Friday featured two remarkable and profoundly contradictory events. In Rome, resident Joe Biden met with Pope Francis. In Washington, his Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing there is a "right" to kill an unborn baby with a beating heart. What transpired in Washington that day was in reaction to what happened in Texas this spring. On May 19, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, the "Texas Heartbeat Act." This law declared that "a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 2. There seems to be little doubt that, nearly a week ago, a special messenger left Washington with a letter to Gen. FREMONT, ordering him to transfer his command to Gen. HUNTER until a successor shall be specially designated. [We have good reason to believe that such a letter as the one spoken of by our correspondent has been prepared, but that it has or will be forwarded is not so certain. -- ED. TIMES.] Gen. MCCLELLAN will continue in actual command of the Army of the Potomac. A Committee of the City Councils of Philadelphia waited...

Jake Tapper (finally) had to announce in the early morning hours that McAuliffe lost to a white supremacist: “Youngkin pulling off a critical victory for his party in the highest-stakes election of the night. This is the first time Republicans have won an election for Virginia's top office in 12 years.” He went on, because he couldn’t believe it himself: “Again, CNN projecting Glenn Youngkin has been elected governor of Virginia. And Dana bash, this is the announcement that Joe Biden will not be happy to hear, and it also shows how incredibly divided this country is.” If the new...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room. Single and with three children ranging from 5 to 13, she worried that adding a baby now would take time, food, money and space away from her three children. She doesn’t have a job, and without help from groups offering a safe abortion, she said, she probably would have sought another way to end her pregnancy. “If you...

Attorney Dionne Webster-Cox asked the following question at a Tuesday protest in Pittsfield Township: How could an unarmed boy necessitate a police officer handcuffing and pointing a gun at him? Webster-Cox represents Markia Dixson, the mother of an 11-year-old Black boy who experienced this interaction with a Pittsfield Township police officer in April. Webster-Cox filed a lawsuit on Oct. 5 in U.S. District Court against the officer, requesting $400,000 for causing “emotional injury” to the boy.

Republicans do not need to adjust Trump administration policies. The policies worked. They do not need to rely on focus groups to inform them on what message to send. Freedom, opportunity, and a meritocracy work just fine. Nothing here to "completely transform." Just keep the trains running, secure the borders, and maintain a solvent currency. In other words, maintain an infrastructure that provides for efficient commerce, defend this nation against external threats, and be fiscally responsible. Other than that, stay out of the way. The current administration works feverishly with the opposite intentions: close the ports, open the borders, increase...

ransomnote: The FDA/NIH/CDC and pharma companies chose calculations of Covid 'vaccine' efficacy that falsely portray the 'vaccines' as being more effective than they actually are. This calculation is known as Relative Risk (RR) and it's similar to grading on a curve (e.g., 'Doug's test score is twice that of Jimmy's test score!').The Expose performs vaccine efficacy (i.e., real-world performance) calculuations by utilizing the manufacturer's chosen Relative Risk formula in order to make direct comparisons between what they claimed versus what actually happened. Some FReepers bitterly complain TheExpose is being deceptive or that its calcuations don't make any sense when...

Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat left-wing "squad" member in the House, attacked Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin for his opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better Act. Manchin is "anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant," according to Bush because of his opposition to this megaspending welfare bill. If Bush wants to identify politicians hurting Blacks, children, women and immigrants, she needn't go further than to look in the mirror. Bush represents Missouri's 1st Congressional district, which includes a big chunk of St. Louis. The district is 49% Black. According to Census Reporter, median household income in the district is $50,163, compared with...

She is a reminder that the paranoia about COVID is grossly disproportionate to the risks associated with COVID. When the Black Death arrived in Avignon, France, a courageous doctor named Guy de Chauliac stayed to care for the sick even as many of his fellow physicians fled the city. He wrote that the plague “was so contagious...that one man caught it from another not just when living nearby but simply by looking at him.... Father would not visit son, nor son, father; charity was dead, and hope prostrate.” The death rate for bubonic plague rose to 50%. The mortality rate...

Abortion activists are attacking pro-life efforts in every way possible, including by twisting Christian teachings to claim that it’s acceptable to kill a unique, living unborn baby who is created in the image of God. The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of them. In a column at Salon, she slammed the Texas heartbeat law as “un-Christian” and claimed it’s pro-lifers who are distorting the Bible for “their political goals.” “There is nothing godly about outlawing abortion — and Texas’ law is particularly un-Christian,” Jones began. “As a Christian biblical scholar,...

Somehow it is supposedly a great achievement that 136 countries got together to agree to a 15% minimum corporate tax. Somehow it is supposedly a great achievement that 136 countries got together to agree to a 15% minimum corporate tax. Nearly 140 countries agree to minimum global corporate tax rate of 15 percent US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hailed the deal as “a once-in-a-generation accomplishment for economic diplomacy.” Yellen congratulated countries that “decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation” and expressed hope that Congress will quickly implement the deal in the US. “International tax policymaking is...