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A SUNY professor is under investigation after video clips emerged of him asserting that “it’s a mistake” to think pedophilia is wrong and that there are “evolutionary advantages to child/adult sex.”Yes, really.SUNY Fredonia professor Stephen Kershnar teaches teaches libertarian philosophy and applied ethics at the university.As part of his libertarian philosophy, Kershnar believes that society’s reaction to pedophilia is what’s wrong, and that consenting sexual relationships between adults and children could actually be a good thing.“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held...

Lawmakers in Iowa’s state Legislature have advanced a measure that would allow the use of ivermectin for critically sick COVID-19 patients who request it.Ivermectin has been used for decades to treat parasitic worms in humans, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, some patients and doctors have attested that the drug is effective in relieving symptoms of the disease.The Iowa measure stipulates that COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators should have the option to use ivermectin. Specifically, it expands the state’s “right to try” law, which allows terminally ill patients to access medicines that have been approved under the first phase of...

Billionaire Melinda French Gates will no longer give the bulk of her fortune to the foundation she started with her ex-husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according to a report, which cites people familiar. French Gates had committed to giving the bulk of her personal fortune — estimated at around $11 billion — to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest with more than $50 billion in assets. But now she will spread the money around to other philanthropic causes, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the people familiar with the matter. Her apparent decision follows her...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Yep! Still The Best Looking Navy In The World! 220129-N-PG226-1344 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Jan. 29, 2022) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to the "Dragonslayers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11, conducts a vertical replenishment alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Jan. 29, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security, and defend U.S., allied and partner interests in...

Media critics are calling for Brian Stelter to be fired after failing to report the 'open secret' affair between top boss Jeff Zucker and staffer Allison Gollust. 'The network needs to step up and fire Brian Stelter,' a CNN insider tells DailyMail.com. 'He is allegedly our top media reporter - yet he failed to report on the scoop that everyone in the office knew. And if he wants to say he didn't know, he is truly terrible at his job.' Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN program Reliable Sources. In a statement on...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) called Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) "one of the worst human beings" after the senator sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for the Biden administration to abandon its support for a prospective Ukrainian membership in NATO. "I hate to be so personal, but Hawley is one of the worst human beings, and a self egrandizing con artist," Kinzinger wrote in a post on Twitter. "When Trump goes down I certainly hope this evil will be layed in the open for all to see, and be ashamed of," the congressman added.

Former impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed suit against key Donald Trump allies – including Donald Trump. Jr. and lawyer Rudy Giuliani – charging them with having falsely attacked his loyalty to the U.S. and punishing him for his testimony. Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, also lashed out at the defendants in an op-ed, where he cited his removal from the White House National Security Council and a delay in his Army promotion. 'I was attacked in a way calculated to inflict maximum personal and professional damage likely in order to prevent me from testifying or to punish...

The billionaire French Gates wrote in her open letter: ‘The ultimate goal of any philanthropist should be to render the need for philanthropy obsolete.’Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will no longer be pledging the majority of her wealth to the philanthropic organization. According to the Wall Street Journal, French Gates still plans to distribute much of her fortune across philanthropic endeavors, but largely outside of the Gates Foundation, which is one of the world’s largest. “I recognize the absurdity of so much wealth being concentrated in the hands of one person, and I believe...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been mocked mercilessly for posting a bizarre photo of herself with cash on the floor that read, 'Get Vax'd' on Twitter on Thursday night as a way to promote the city's new vaccine campaign. The strange photo, posted on Twitter, shows Lightfoot standing next to the cash totaling $826 with the caption: 'The message is clear. Get vaccinated from the comfort of your home and this stack could be yours.' The 'Get Vax'd' message was comprised of 41 $20 bills, a $5 bill, and a $1 bill for the apostrophe. The odd post from the...

Yesterday they blocked it from search results. Today it's gone entirely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcVRZpIqYss

CNN chief Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned from the news giant Wednesday, throwing the management of one of WarnerMedia’s prize assets into utter disarray just weeks before the company is expected to be taken over by Discovery, after an investigation into fired anchor Chris Cuomo revealed that Zucker had not disclosed a consensual relationship with an unnamed colleague. “As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years. I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required...

Two Maine basketball announcers were fired by a local radio station for comments they made on a hot mic about female players. Jim Carter and Steve Shaw were preparing to call a game on WHOU-FM's livestream while another game was going on ahead of them. In a video posted to Twitter, you can hear either Carter and Shaw say, without realizing their microphones were on, that 'Easton has two girls out here extremely overweight. Awful.' The other followed by asking: 'How come you don't get uniforms that fit the girls?' accompanied with derisive laughter. Shaw - a retired athletic director...

[Catholic Caucus] “The Carnage Has Begun”: British Priest Rebukes Pope, Calls on Bishops to Openly Resist Suppression of Latin Mass “Sit back and consider it: the highest power on earth is attacking the greatest good on earth, precisely when it’s his job to defend and preserve tradition and to pass it on to the next generation.” - Fr. James MawdsleyA British traditional Catholic priest who was once imprisoned and tortured in a Burmese jail is openly challenging Pope Francis’ efforts to suppress the Church’s ancient Roman liturgy.In a 9-minute video titled “Why withstand Pope Francis publicly?” [watch it below]...

Former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson says Robert Kraft was so pissed about being left out of Tom Brady's retirement note ... he heard the New England owner threw a fit over it. Johnson said shortly after Brady omitted Kraft, Bill Belichick and the Patriots from his goodbye letter to football on Tuesday, he was told the Pats honcho exploded.

Facebook shut down a group early Wednesday that truckers were using to coordinate a convoy from California to Washington, D.C. Convoy to D.C. 2022, which reportedly had over 130,000 members and was being used to plan a protest of vaccine mandates in parts of the United States, was inspired by a protest by Canadian truckers over COVID-19 rules. “I feel like the presence of that amount of people that show they’re unhappy with what’s going on is a good way to get their attention,” Mike Landis, a trucker involved with the convoy, told Fox News. “I feel like this whole...

White House says 165,000 vehicles that would replace aging fleet are too gas guzzling. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Council on Environmental Quality sent letters to the Postal Service on Wednesday urging the agency to reconsider its plans to buy mostly gas-powered vehicles, according to the Washington Post. The Postal Service has long put off replacing the deteriorating fleet, which has been in use for over 30 years. The current vehicles don't have air conditioning or air bags, and overuse has led to a slew of vehicle fires. The agency, drowning in $206.4 billion in debt,...

'He was a prophet and we rejected him.' The man who was mocked on Twitter in 2019 for raising concerns about feral hogs is now being defended as a modern-day prophet due to a “feral swine bomb” that is ravaging the San Francisco Bay Area. The New York Times detailed in an article on Tuesday how feral pigs have been threatening drinking water and damaging property outside the Golden Gate City, leading many local residents to seek out their destruction. “They are tearing up lawns, ripping through golf course fairways, threatening the drinking water and disturbing the harvests at Napa...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on “Deadline” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is using the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol to say “F the law,” we are going to hold “dangerous buffoon” former President Donald Trump accountable. Wallace said, “I think the asymmetry of Trump has always been his greatest asset. You know, a campaign is set up to fact check someone. In the Republican primaries in 2015, the Jeb Bush campaign was ready to say, aha, but you weren’t for that tax policy, and Trump just went, you big fat...

MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said Wednesday on “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s “traitorous activity” has been revealed with his promises of pardons and reporting from documents obtained by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

This interview with Mr. Moric of the Geopolitical and Empire podcast is an attempt to give background on the Soviet long-range strategy, Anatoliy Golitsyn, James Angleton, and the fall of the Soviet Union. It is too big to treat so quickly, but an overview may be useful for some readers who want a snapshot before embarking on more serious reading. To correct an error, I misspoke when I referred to KGB defector Nosenko exonerating Oswald. I meant to say he exonerated Moscow in the death of JFK. Talking has no edits, but it is lively enough to carry you and...