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The West has gone through many eras — the so-called Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Age and the Post-Modern. The present era is the Age of the Absurd. In terms of the absurdities the cultural elites believe, and have convinced masses of people to believe, there has never been a time like today. Here is a list of the most ridiculous that immediately come to mind. No. 1: Men give birth. Heading the list has to be the radical redefinition — indeed, denial of — sex and gender, leading to such reality-defying statements...

We are in a very dangerous moment, as Democrat politicians are looking at the conflict in Ukraine for political salvation. This is no way to conduct brinksmanship with a nuclear power. We are in a very dangerous moment, as Democrat politicians are looking at the conflict in Ukraine for political salvation. In the face of disastrous polling on Biden’s presidency and the direction of the country under Democrats, there is one shining issue qwhere they think they see an opportunity. Via Politico’s Playbook: — The latest WaPo/ABC News poll on the U.S. response to Russia’s war in Ukraine has some...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) believes the Pentagon knows more than what they’re saying following the latest secret briefings on UFOs. “There’s an arrogance in government at that level that we cannot handle what’s going on out there,” Burchett said Monday as a guest of News Nation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert.” “It’s a bogus cover-up. It doesn’t fit and it’s about power and control,” he continued. Burchett has joined lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seeking to apply pressure on members of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees after disappointment in their latest data collection efforts. *snip* “I...

I first met Tucker Carlson in 2008 at the Vanity Fair after party for the White House Correspondents Dinner. It was held at the apartment of Christopher Hitchens, who was a friend and nice enough to lower the qualifications for entry to let me and my date into the exclusive private party. The only person that night nicer than Tucker was the cast of The Wire, especially Jamie Hector, who played violent drug dealer Marlo Stanfield. Little did I know I was hanging out with a horrible white supremacist. What’s funny about the idea of this is how absurd everyone...

“‘For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?’” (Matthew 5:46–47). These words of Jesus were perhaps the most devastating and offensive ones the religious leaders had ever heard. The Lord bluntly stripped away their hypocrisy to reveal that their love was nothing more than the ordinary self-centered love common among the despised tax collectors and Gentiles. Tax collectors were dishonest, traitorous extortioners; Gentiles were considered...

General Trevor Cadieu (Trevor John Cadieu), captured by Russian troops while trying to escape from the cellars of Azovstal, was the commander of the Canadian Ground Forces, APA reports citing Mailbd. Seven months ago, he was appointed to the post of commander of the Canadian Army, but before the inauguration, he was involved in a sex scandal. In the harassment that occurred back in 1994, he was accused by a former colleague.

Jankowicz wears many leftist hats, and is wrong in all of them. Within the space of a week, Nina Jankowicz has gone from being an unknown to a media wunderkind, featured in countless media accounts. But it’s fair to say the coverage has been less than fawning. Referring to her Disinformation Governance Board, to which she had been appointed to head, Jankowicz claimed in a tweet that “one of the key reasons the Board was established, is to maintain the Dept's committment [sic] to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties.” (And why the Orwellian name, Disinformation Governance...

Don’t let liberals shame you over the education war. They will try to present themselves as the defenders of education, all that is right and just about the misunderstood purpose of education. In reality, they are seeking to utilize education as a medium for their political propaganda. Nothing is safe. Calling them out, protecting your children, and taking a battering ram to the rotten core of education is necessary for all patriots if we are to save our country and our children. The rot in higher education is well-known. (I say this as a graduate of Yale.) The rot emerging...

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I am an assertive driver. Not aggressive, because that word is too aggressive. But I am decisive with speed. Still, if I’m attempting to merge and someone lets me in, I will roll down my window and wave to them. If it’s raining, I will just have a wet hand. I pray before meals. Not every meal. But meals with meat. I don’t ride city buses anymore, but when I did, I wouldn’t just give up my seat for women, elderly people and those who appear to have a physical disability, I wouldn’t even sit if the bus was packed...

There can be little doubt that the shocking, unprecedented leak of a draft opinion of the Supreme Court Monday night broke new barriers. Yet in all the handwringing on social media since, the only question worth asking is “why was it done?” The consensus feeling is that a staffer of Justice Sonia Sotomayor is likely responsible. Yet it’s worth asking, “why would they do it?” Put yourself in their shoes momentarily. This person is likely between 20-30 years old. They barely have any memory of 9/11. They’ve grown up at the dinner table with a feminist aunt who was always...

According to an exclusive story on Politico, the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade when ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson in June. An alleged draft of the majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito and leaked to Politico, states that, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” because of which, “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.” Indeed, the opinion continues, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” According to Politico, which linked the full text of the opinion in its article, “A person...

Would like to make this "chat" thread one where FREEPers post their observations on how your LOCAL tv stations and news radio and news papers are covering the SCOTUS story. Where are you, and what are they doing? Is it fair and balanced?

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 18Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “‘Come out of her, my people,’[b] so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; 5 for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. 6 Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double portion from her own cup. 7 Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury...

After revelation that SCOTUS is set to overturn Roe v. Wade Protesters gathered Monday night outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in response to a draft opinion which reveals the Court's intention to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the case, and opinions are known to change from the drafting process to the final published ruling Pro-choice demonstrators could be heard chanting 'abortion is healthcare' loudly and seen holding signs as the crowd grew Court police installed metal barricades in front of the stone building's steps on Monday evening...

If the leaked Supreme Court opinion is accurate, and stands as written (or with minor changes), it will be a MAJOR victory for conservatism. The RULING OLIGARCHY has vociferously worked to deny ANY conservative victories. They will bend over backwards to deny conservative victories. But we got one past the goalie. We elected Donald Trump, and as a result, got THREE Supreme Court justices. As conservatives, we had to see Sandra Day O'Connor (Reagan appointee), Anthony Kennedy (Reagan appointee) and David Souter (Bush appointee) basically affirm Roe vs Wade in the 1992 Casey decision. As conservatives, we had to see...

Setting the stage for the DHS announcement of the Biden Administration’s Disinformation Governance Board recently, at a Stanford University Cyber Policy Center symposium entitled, “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm,” deceptive mind-control specialist Barack Obama emerged from behind his Joe Biden mask to deliver the keynote speech. According to the anonymous author of the 2009 Department of Homeland Security treatise on “right-wing extremism,” government needs to help companies better “…recognize the often-dangerous relationship between social media, nationalism [and] domestic hate groups” like pro-lifers, ex-military, Second Amendment supporters, Christians, and America-First patriots. Well aware that the voice of the...

Frustrated conservatives wanting to push the Republican-controlled Indiana Legislature further to the right are trying to unseat several GOP lawmakers in Tuesday’s primary. Roughly two dozen so-called liberty candidates are in Republican legislative races across the state, with their targets including several top-ranking members of the GOP-dominated House. Those challengers argue the Legislature hasn’t been aggressive enough in attempting to ban abortion, enhancing gun rights and overturning COVID-19 restrictions that were ordered by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb. Republican legislative leaders argue the “no compromise” stances adopted by many challengers aren’t practical and tout the state’s low taxes and unemployment and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has sparked a diplomatic scandal with an anti-Semitic outburst that underlines the absurdity of Russia’s relentless “Nazi Ukraine” propaganda claims. Lavrov’s diatribe came during a May 1 interview with Italian TV show Zona Bianca as he attempted to defend Russia’s insistent portrayal of Ukraine as a “Nazi” state despite the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is himself Jewish. “So what if Zelenskyy is Jewish? The fact does negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine,” Russia’s top diplomat stated. In an apparent bid to bolster his argument, Lavrov claimed that “Hitler also had Jewish blood” before...

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