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He makes it within 5 miles of Platt and his wife and suddenly comes under artillery fire. He is forced to abort the rescue. Stern tries again and again. Finally, one morning at 4 o'clock, Platt gets a text message from him. "Be ready to leave in 20 minutes." Under the cover of darkness, Platt, his wife and two of their six cats take logging trails through a national forest out of their suburb. They make it out. "The whole two, three weeks we were stuck, artillery, mortar fire, it was falling all around us," Platt told NPR after crossing...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday received an unwelcomed surprise in Iowa when a bird appeared to poop on his suit as he delivered his speech on inflation and the state of the American economy. According to a viral video on social media, Mr Biden was unveiling plans to trim gas prices and “putting rural America at the centre of our efforts to build a future that's made in America” when a white substance fell on his jacket - right above his American flag pin. “It's about being made in America,” the US President said moments prior to the poop...

Pressure was mounting on Germany to up its game over the war in Ukraine on Tuesday as Kyiv snubbed the country's president and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was accused of a weak response to the crisis. On a visit to Poland, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted he had offered to visit Ukraine with other EU leaders, but Kyiv had told him he was not welcome right now. "I was prepared to do this, but apparently, and I must take note of this, this was not wanted in Kyiv," Steinmeier told reporters. Steinmeier, a former foreign minister, has faced growing criticism since Russia...

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Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, 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. "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love...

The nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) now promises it will refrain from funding midterm elections in the fall. However, CTCL also announced on Monday its “nonpartisan collaborative” to “help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.” CTCL benefitted from approximately $350 million in donations from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, helping the 2020 Biden win in critical cities across the nation. Much of the money was sent to democrat strongholds in swing states, distributed in the form of grants. In the end, however,...

A Saudi Arabia television show has mocked Joe Biden and his VP Kamala Harris in a Saturday Night Live style skit by poking fun at the president’s mental fitness as he falls asleep at the podium and confuses certain countries. See video at link.

You just can’t make this stuff up. In Biden’s America a creepy Vindman twin will oversee the court-martial of an American soldier who refused to comply with COVID-19 testing and masking requirements. The Defender reports: An Army lieutenant in Maryland is facing a court-martial for his refusal to comply with COVID-19 testing and masking requirements. The case, United States v 1LT Mark C. Bashaw, will be heard on April 28 – 29 at the Army Public Health Center (APHC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The defendant, 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw, is being charged under Article 92: Failure to Obey an Order....

"And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus." "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which...

On this date in 1652, Joan Peterson was hanged at Tyburn for witchcraft. Joan is a long time in the ground, and her dying refusal to be cowed by the officious prelate ordained to badger her into self-incrimination would alone stand her in very worthy stead in these pages. Even the hangman got annoyed when Joan, at the gallows, was by the Ordinary nine on ten times earnestly pressed to confesse something against the said Mrs. Levingstone: Whereupon the Executioner told the Ordinary, he might be ashamed to trouble a dying woman so much, to which he replyed, he was...

NBC News recently compared several polls to find huge shifts from Democrats to Republicans in 2022 midterm voter preferences. The big exception to these shifts across many demographics was college-educated women, who in NBC’s aggregation showed even stronger support for Democrats now than ahead of the last midterm election. Here’s the key graphic, which zoomed around social media Sunday, and below that the NBC segment. In trying to understand what might account for this, it’s important to note what we don’t know about these numbers. The two publicly available 2022 NBC polling releases that presumably went into NBC’s aggregation here...

Puerto Rican Imam Ben Shaban Praises Perpetrator Of Tel Aviv Terrorist Attack: This Was A Man Who Was Worth 1,000 Men; He Single-Handedly Made Tel Aviv Stand Still; Men Like This Will Liberate Palestine, Restore The Muslims' Honor #9495 | 02:11 Source: The Internet - "Imam Shaban on YouTube" In a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on April 8, 2022, Palestinian-Puerto Rican imam Ben Shaban praised Raad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who killed three Israelis and injured several others in a shooting in a Tel Aviv bar the previous day. Citing a hadith from the Prophet Muhammad,...

Tucker takes the Dems/Fake News/Big Tech apart over their clearly well organized, coordinated, panic induced, moronic, hysterical attacks on Elon Musk, over his possible take over and liberation of Twitter. There is the usual bile from the deranged “Joy” Reid who didn't take long to start screaming “racist” at Musk, even as she brought in a certifiably insane black guest who screeched, “Musk is missing the Apartheid regime in South Africa (where he comes from) and wants to bring Apartheid to America” , to the abnormal Brian Stelter on CNN moaning about non existent Tweets from Musk against the dreaded...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republican voters on Tuesday to not take victory for granted in the upcoming midterm elections. Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said that although the political environment heavily favored the GOP this cycle, it was still possible to “screw this up” by nominating flawed candidates. “We’ve had some experience with that in the past,” Mr. McConnell said at an event hosted by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. “In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election.”...

Here's a peek into what life was like before the internet, away from the stresses of the modern world, a world revolving around weather and family. Join me as we meet Ivan--a charismatic Old-Order Amish man--who loves life and has volumes of uplifting wisdom to share. (click link for long video)

University of Buffalo student Therese Purcell joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the incident.

A court in Texas has ordered Pfizer to disclose details relating to its COVID vaccine and latest documents show shocking new numbers relating to vaccine injuries. One America’s Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion has more from Washington.

Author and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette discusses her background, the African-American vote and the state of Democrat-occupied communities.

"THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN HISTORY Here’s a woman stuffing the ballot box in broad daylight in Gwinnett County, Georgia in the November 2020 Election" realLizUSA Twitter "This is what stuffing the ballot box looks like" realLizUSA Twitter "These are felony election law violations caught on camera And law enforcement is doing nothing about it" realLizUSA Twitter

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend’s mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release. Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records. Those count as nonviolent offenses under California law