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Sex offender Wesley Hawkins is now in the corner of the judge who once sentenced him to jail as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson undergoes her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In 2013, Hawkins pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, a felony. Jackson sentenced him to three months in jail, far below the sentencing guidelines of eight to 10 years and below the prosecution’s call for a two-year sentence. The case has emerged as a major point of concern for Senate Republicans, who have noted that Jackson regularly offers lighter sentences to sex offenders than recommended in sentencing guidelines. Hawkins has...

I've said before that this entire regional conflict seems to be Stage Two of The Great Reset rollout. Now that we've heard the narratives, I'm even more convinced we're not being told the truth. I posted some thoughts on Twitter: I’ll go and say something unpopular that I’ve been considering for a while… What if Russia isn’t really doing as poorly in Ukraine as we’re being told? What if they want the world to think the war is going poorly in order to prolong the conflict and draw us in? I have a hard time believing Ukraine and their 70...

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.

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - When a Greater Cincinnati Walmart location closes next month, it'll result in the laying off of nearly 200 employees who work at the store. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced last week that it will close its retail location at 1143 Smiley Ave. in Forest Park on April 22. It alerted the state of Ohio through a notice filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act that the closure would result in the termination of all 187 employees at the facility

President Joe Biden stunned pundits and politicians on Saturday when, at the end of a fiery speech in Warsaw, he seemed to endorse regime change in Russia, saying Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” His speech caused a huge reaction, particularly among members of the media and public figures in areas of foreign policy and politics. That included a lot of people on social media comparing his commentary to Ronald Reagan’s historic “Tear Down This Wall” speech in Berlin in June of 1987.

@ChadPergram At GA Trump rally, GOP FL Rep Gaetz promises to nominate Trump for Spkr of the House. Although it’s never happened, the Spkr does not need to be a mbr of the body. However, the Spkr must secure an absolute majority of the the full House. Not just the most votes

President Trump spoke tonight in Commerce, Georgia to a crowd of thousands. 105,000 people were watching RSBN Rumble live before Trump even hit the stage… That number grew to 175,000 when Trump took the stage! President Trump spelled out the numerous ways Democrats with the help of RINO Republicans stole the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. This was devastating! (video)

Tom Brady can’t keep a secret very long. Brady decided to unretire and return to quarterback the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the same day that he broke his own news on Twitter, and he gave his social-media team short notice to craft the message that reverberated through the sports world on March 13. “Once I made the decision, I knew I just wanted to get it out and move on to get ready for the season,” Brady told FoxSports.com. “So, I FaceTimed the guys to let them know I was coming back, and we discussed how best to put it...

Recently, the Akron Roundtable of Ohio invited me to give a presentation on the issue of election integrity as part of a recurring series it calls “Point/Counterpoint.” As I told the audience, the sponsors of the Roundtable, which includes the Kiwanis Club, the Greater Akron Chamber, and the Akron Beacon Journal, were to be applauded for upholding the great American tradition of having civil, even vigorous discussions on important issues from individuals with differing points of view, a tradition that has virtually disappeared in our communities and college campuses. The progressive, radical left, however, has no interest in upholding this...

Her only hope for full recovery is finding a perfect donor through a national system, and the Be the Match registry has stepped in to help lead donor registration drives, including one in Santa Monica on Saturday. “It takes about five minutes of a person’s time. They fill out some information on their phone … and a swab kit will be mailed to them,” said Chris Cheng with Be the Match. Chen said for patients like Hsu, their only chance of beating this diagnosis and surviving is with the help of the public, as there’s only about a 47% chance...

Journalist Lara Logan appeared on the Cowboy Logic podcast and proceeded in an epic rant to expose Ukrainian connections involving those such as Sen. Mitt Romney’s son, retired Colonel Alexander Vindman, the country’s alleged ties to the occult, and its purported history involving the Nazis. The wild ride highlighted her brutally honest and frank opinions concerning Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. She didn’t hold back and made one controversial statement after another, tearing into globalists and politicians alike during her rant. Logan began by saying that “no one wants the people of Ukraine to suffer.” Having said that, she then...

A 35-year-old woman who was found stabbed dead in her Leonia garden apartment was killed by an abuser from whom she'd repeatedly sought protection, her father said. Police responding to a 911 call found the body of Alicia A. Arnone, 35, in her Grand Avenue apartment around 10 a.m. Saturday, March 26, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.

Alaska’s Division of Elections will not verify the authenticity of voter signatures on the ballots cast in the upcoming June 11 special statewide primary to replace Rep. Don Young. “There is no statutory authority to verify signatures, but voters will have to provide witness signatures,” a March 25 email from Alaska’s Division of Elections stated. Since this will be the first time Alaska has ever conducted a statewide mail-in election, concerns have been raised about how the state will ensure that voters are who they claim to be. Nationally, the most common way of verifying mail-in ballots is to have...

SIX “safeguarding principles” have been published by the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives, designed to protect people who are rejected by their religious communities because of their sexuality or gender identity. The principles were published on Tuesday evening, at the end of a two-day conference in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, hosted by the commission, which was launched in late 2020 (News, 18 December 2020). The conference was attended by more than 150 religious leaders, academics, and lay leaders “from a range of faith backgrounds and 30 countries”, a statement said. These included the Primate of Canada, Dr...

A woman was stabbed to death early Saturday in Leonia, NJ, in what police said was a domestic violence incident. Alicia Arnone, 35, was found with a fatal stab wound in a garden apartment at 147 Grand Ave., near the Leonia Tennis Club, after someone called 911, according to a spokeswoman for the Bergen County Prosecutor’s office. Police sources told the Daily Voice they were searching for a Bergen County man with a 20-year criminal history involving assaults, threats, harassment and violating restraining orders in connection with the murder.

Pope Francis said on Thursday that women can help the world change from a logic of power, domination, and war, to one of service and care. Reflecting on the war in Ukraine and how to end it, the pope said that “the real answer is not more weapons, more sanctions.” He decried states’ spending on weapons as “insanity,” in the March 24 speech to women from the Centro Femminile Italiane (Italian Women’s Center). “The real answer, as I said, is not more weapons, more sanctions, more political-military alliances, but a different approach, a different way of governing the now globalized...

Land grab of 500-year-old monastery may be real motive for shutdownPERUGIA, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - Nuns at an ancient monastery are facing deportation after Italy's top cardinal is ordering the closure of the convent for noncompliance with the country's draconian COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The five nuns are being punished for refusing to get jabbed, revealed Mother Catherine of the convent of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria in Perugia after meeting with Cdl. Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference. "It is true. I can confirm that this is the only explanation they gave me at the end of the apostolic visit," Mother...

Salt Lake City, UT - Police have released security and bodycam video of a bizarre attack on a Salt Lake City police officer inside the terminal at Salt Lake City International Airport (video below). The incident occurred at about 8:40 a.m. on March 12 as two officers were doing a foot patrol on the lower level of the airport concourse in baggage claim, KUTV reported. Surveillance video showed the two officers walking along and the suspect - later identified as 31-year-old John Baydo of Tacoma, Washington - approaching them from behind. The video showed Baydo set down his backpack near...

The former public school teacher and principal has been pushed out of her education policy roleNEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams fired a recently appointed education advisor after the New York Daily News reported her views on homosexuality. Mayor Adams named Kathlyn Barrett-Layne on Tuesday to the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), along with eight other appointees. PEP is the governing body for the city’s education department. His administration asked her to resign hours after the announcement. The Daily News took credit for getting her removed from the board after it reported on several books...

Russian troops arrived in the town of Makariv just four days after Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This week, Ukrainian authorities claimed to have retaken the town, 65km west of Kyiv, in a daring counter-attack that sent Russian forces into retreat. Andriy Nebytov, the Kyiv chief of police, posted a video on Facebook showing him dressed in full combat gear, visiting the damaged and seemingly deserted town. In one scene he picks up what looks like a crumpled Ukrainian flag. “As long as our flag lives,” he later said in a statement, “our army lives.” The next...