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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.( Judges 13:1)The Book of Judges is a divine record of the early years of the History of Israel, as they took possession (or failed to take possession) of the Promised Land. It is a tedious and repetitious record consisting of a recurring cycle, in which Israel initially relied on God in Faith, and set out in Battle against her enemies to take the Land, and then would prevail for a season, possess the...

The New York state constitution will be amended to say people have the right to clean air and water and a healthy environment, after voters said yes to the measure in a referendum that was part of local elections on Tuesday. A total of 60.8 percent of voters approved the referendum question, compared to 27 percent against and 11.7 casting blank ballots, with 99 percent of state districts reporting. Supporters of the “yes” option are claiming victory. *** Questions remain on whether this environmental right will be truly binding and opponents are already warning that it would create a legal...

The House Progressive Caucus has drawn scorn for its hardball tactic of holding up the bipartisan infrastructure bill in order to pressure moderate Democrats to support President Biden’s larger climate and social policy initiatives. “The liberals’ tactics,” observed the New York Times last month, “were reminiscent of those employed by the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, whose members routinely threatened to withhold their bloc of votes unless Republican leaders met their demands.” The Freedom Caucus has cultivated a toxic reputation in Washington for its destructive predilections, issuing impossible and constantly changing demands with no clear goal except derailing legislation of almost...

They made it all up. If you haven’t been paying attention to all the ins and outs of RussiaGate and the so-called “collusion” scandal, that’s all you need to know about Thursday’s arrest of Russian analyst Igor Danchenko. ---SNIP--- How’s that for a vicious circle? Clinton officials feed their Russian stooge disinformation, it gets laundered through British spy Christopher Steele, and the FBI uses it as the basis for wiretapping the future president’s team. This, with the active connivance of Obama intelligence officials such as James Clapper and John Brennan, who certainly knew the dossier was utter bull but publicly...

Democrats have been forced to postpone a vote on President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda, consisting of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $1.75 trillion budget bill. The decision to postpone the vote, coming after negotiations with moderates fell through, is another loss for the party. Their legislative agenda is now months off schedule, as leadership still cannot rally enough votes behind either bill to advance them individually or together. Divisions in the party have now plagued leadership for months, causing Democrats across the ideological spectrum to grow increasingly frustrated. In the days leading up to the scheduled vote...

Three years after California voters approved a ballot initiative to take the first steps toward staying on daylight saving time the entire year, the state is preparing to “fall back” to standard time this weekend like nearly all of the U.S. And as the debate over the seasonal time change continues, a state lawmaker says all options are still on the table in the California Legislature — even a possible move to year-round standard time. Inaction by Congress, however, means California and other states looking to end the time change currently aren’t allowed to stay on daylight saving time throughout...

A poll worker in Buffalo, New York, admitted stamping several ballots in her custody during this past week’s election, when Mayor Byron Brown won an upset victory over India Walton, the socialist who had defeated him in the Democratic primary. As Breitbart News reported earlier this week, Brown apparently won nearly 60% of the vote:

Babel is a 2006 psychological drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It was an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France. The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States, starring an ensemble cast. Rinko Kikuchi portrays a teenage girl named Chieko, who is profoundly deaf and non-verbal. "Babel" (2006) - Chieko Nightclub Scene

The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover at the resort of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun. The two suspected drug dealers killed Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun earlier in the day, claiming it was now their territory. “About 15 people arrived on the beach [by boat] to assassinate two men who had showed up saying they were the new dealers in the area,” the head prosecutor of Quintana Roo state, Oscar Montes de Oca, told the Radio Formula station. Guests at the...

Good evening fellow Freepers. As many of you know, I am a federal worker who is facing the very real possibility of losing my job because I refuse to receive the poison the government tauts as a medical vaccine. I work at a midwestern military installation. Lately we, civilian employees, found out that we have to submit a religious exemption, a DD Form 3177, and have it filed with our civilian personnel office by 8 Nov, which we did. I know the questions asked on it are "gotcha" questions so I didn't give them much to go on, very brief...

The Charlottesville City Council rebuked the Lincoln Project on Thursday over a tiki torch stunt the group organized last week to protest a campaign event for Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R). In a letter to Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, the Charlottesville City Council said the anti-Trump activist group "tore open a still-healing wound in Charlottesville" with the stunt. The council further criticized the group, stating, “Your post-demonstration press release promised the potential for more such painful memories.

A weapons safety expert and industry armorer pushed back on the notion from Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers that “sabotage” may have been to blame for how live ammunition found its way into the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” last month. The sabotage claim, as floated by the lawyers for “Rust” armorer Gutierrez-Reed on “Today” Wednesday, is speculation and has not been substantiated with any evidence by the lawyers or authorities. And Steve Wolf, who has 30 years of experience as a movie armorer, told “TheWrap-Up Podcast,” that “speculation” is a “kind word” for how to describe...

Two 16-year-old Iowa schoolboys have been charged with murdering their Spanish teacher, after one of them bragged about it on social media, according to a criminal complaint. The body of Fairfield High School teacher Nohema Graber, 66, was found dumped in a park Tuesday hours after she was first reported missing, according to officials. Her body had been hidden “under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties” after she appeared to have been killed by “trauma to the head,” court records show. Officials have not speculated on a possible motive, or given details on what the teens allegedly discussed in the...

DENVER (CBS4) – Police typically use arrest affidavits to simply state the circumstances surrounding an arrest. Last week, a Denver police officer used an arrest affidavit to warn the court not to give a defendant bail. Robert Avila had been arrested three times in 24 hours. While his initial charges weren’t felonies, officers described him as erratic, incoherent and escalating, but the judges twice released him on a personal recognizance bond, which meant he just had to promise to return for his next court appearance. Avila’s first arrest came on Oct. 25 just after 10 p.m. Police were called to...

PITTSBURGH — A 34-year-old woman was arrested outside Family Court in downtown Pittsburgh after Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies say she pointed a gun at her mother. According to deputies, Kerneisha McClelland and her mother were at a court proceeding. When the women left the court facility and McClelland left to get her vehicle, deputies say when she returned, she confronted her mother and began arguing. With a child strapped into a car seat in the back of the vehicle, deputies said McClelland pulled out a Bersa .380 handgun and pointed it at her mother. McClelland’s mother went back into the...

President Biden’s approval is tanking among black voters, an Emerson College survey released this week found. The survey showed Biden’s overall disapproval increasing yet again in the last two months, going from 47 percent in September to 50 percent in November. Overall, that is an 11-point increase in overall disapproval since February. Meanwhile, in that same timeframe, his approval has dropped from 49 percent to 41 percent from February to November.

Gun violence is an endemic problem in the United States -- once again getting worse in some areas after many years of declines and persistent at high levels in others. Despite being one of the leading causes of death, one thing that that's difficult to know is the scope of the problem, fueled in part by a more than a two-decade-long prohibition -- recently changed -- on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using federal funds to "advocate or promote gun control." It wasn't always this way -- the CDC in 1983 adopted a public health approach to gun...

The date is Feb. 9, 1997, and the man responsible for one of the most egregious environmental follies in human history is sitting at a restaurant in Boyce, Virginia, with the leader of the movement seeking to undo his mistake. Of the hundreds of dams Floyd Dominy green lit during his decade running the Bureau of Reclamation, none are as loathed as his crown jewel, the Glen Canyon Dam. In 1963, Dominy erected the 710-foot (216-meter) tall monument to himself out of ego and concrete, deadening the Colorado River just upstream of the Grand Canyon, drowning more than 250 square...

Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday laughed when asked about Joe Biden’s plans to bring gas prices down.

I remember when it crashed down into the 7000's back in 2009 the pundits swore it would take 30 years to get back to it's 2008 level because massive amounts of people got burnt and they would never get back into the market. So much for that.