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In the closing monologue from a recent episode of his HBO talk show, Bill Maher cataloged a series of social conditions that he suggested were hampering stand-up comedy and imperiling free speech: cancel culture, a perceived increase of sensitivity on college campuses, and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. Near the end of his remarks, Maher invoked the comedian George Carlin, a personal hero whose iconoclastic spirit, he seemed to believe, could never thrive in such a thin-skinned and overly entitled era. “Oh, George,” he said, “it’s a good thing you’re dead.” Carlin, the cantankerous, longhaired sage who...

<p>The soldier, who was stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, was participating in a training exercise in Eagle River, Anchorage, with a small group of other soldiers, according to a news release. Officials at the base did not say if any other trainees had sustained injuries.</p>

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Influential Republicans in Washington and among the nationwide party elite are having a belated "oh s--t" moment over the previously unimaginable prospect that Kathy Barnette could win their party's nomination for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Why it matters: In Barnette, who's been soaring in the polls ahead of Tuesday's primary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would be dealing with a general election candidate who'd be an opposition researcher's dream — potentially endangering the GOP effort to take back the Senate.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) argued that President Joe Biden and the Biden administration “needed to do more earlier” to combat inflation. She added, “I think, on inflation, the president and the administration needed to do more earlier. That’s why I’ve been pushing for things like suspending the gas tax, making sure that they’re releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. We need to work to lower prescription drug costs and work on things like childcare costs. And I believe the president understands what’s at stake with the Alito draft opinion. And...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Delivering The Winner’s Cup! Soldiers of the 223rd Military Police Company escort the Winner’s Cup at the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY, May 8, 2022. The Kentucky National Guard escorts and protects the Winner’s Cup in addition to performing a rope detail to guide media and augmenting local law enforcement every year at the Derby. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Brett Hornback)Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have...

Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to Illinois to deliver remarks on inflation and food supply shortages. Biden addressed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 40th annual conference at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago after visiting a family farm in Kankakee, Illinois. Joe Biden began shouting out of blue (dementia) about food shortages caused by Democrat lockdowns during the Covid pandemic. Apparently Biden forgot there is also a food shortage happening under his administration. “Remember those long lines you’d see on the television – people lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food in...

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New surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back, providing a stark example of a potential war crime by Russian forces.

President Biden on Wednesday predicted Democrats can pick up three Senate seats in in the upcoming midterm elections, as the country reckons with the Supreme Court looking set to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I think we can pick up three Senate seats” and increase the Democratic majority in the House, Biden said at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser in Chicago. He argued that the Supreme Court’s leaked opinion on abortion rights, if held, could generate enthusiasm on the Democratic side in November, due to the on-the-ground consequences of such a decision.

Senate Democrats wanted to manufacture a political optic using the hot button issue of abortion. The senate pushed a bill for a massive expansion of abortion, far beyond Roe -v- Wade, to the floor. However, the bill needed 60 votes to pass cloture, end debate.Embarrassingly, and in a pure political stunt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer summoned Kamala Harris to the upper chamber in the event she was needed for a “tie-breaking” vote. However, cloture requires 60 votes, not 50, so the optics of Harris only highlighted the insufferable politics.The cloture vote failed 49-51, far short of the 60 votes...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) said that “By strong majorities, Americans think we should be focusing on inflation and the economy right now.” But “what the Republicans have been focusing on is taking away a fundamental right” to abortion.

Officials with the Orange County Fire Authority are currently fighting an approximately three acre brush fire in the Laguna Hills area. Sky2's Desmond Shaw was overhead as the fire burned multiple homes burning. Acreage of the fire has likely grown larger than the last report. Both OC Fire Authority crews and and Laguna Beach Fire Department are on the scene.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a 27-point lead in the Texas Attorney General Republican primary runoff election, according to a recent poll. Paxton is polling at 58 percent, compared to Texas land commissioner George P. Bush’s 31 percent.

A particularly annoying intellectual tic of certain leftist academics, area experts, and journalists, with regard to nations that fell to communism or have increasingly come under the baleful influence of communist states, is the proclivity of such individuals to indignantly proclaim that such nations were not and could not have been "lost" because they were "not ours to lose." This leftist objection to the use of the term "lost" (as in the "loss" of China) is a deceptive rhetorical device which falsely and maliciously implies that those using the term believed that the "lost" nation in question somehow "belonged" to...

One of Bill Clinton's former special advisors who helped cement his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has died at the age of 59, becoming the latest associate of the former President to die young. The father-of-two lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, and local law enforcement and the county coroner told DailyMail.com that they were not investigating the death and did not respond to it. Middleton had for decades run an air conditioning business in Little Rock but in the 1990s he was a special advisor to Clinton and finance director on his Presidential campaign. During that time Middleton admitted Epstein to...

People have been told to stay indoors in a national lockdown as North Korea declares a "grave national emergency".

The Navy has approved nearly 1,000 separations for sailors who have refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Navy now has 924 separations over the COVID-19 vaccine, an increase of 40 over the previous week. The majority of separations are active-duty sailors and 66 reservists. All received honorable characterization of service, according to the sea service's weekly COVID-19 update. There are also 22 sailors who were separated in their first 180 days of service. The Navy cannot currently separate sailors who have filed a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine due to a class-action lawsuit currently in the Middle District...

KYIV—This Wednesday, reports poured in that thousands of babies have been smuggling themselves into Ukraine dressed as Ukrainian soldiers. The refugee infants say they are seeking leftovers from the federal aid Biden has sent to the war-torn country. “Waah waah waaaaah!” Baby translators at the border were able to render one newborn’s helpless wails into English for reporters. “This baby says he's a battle-hardened Ukrainian commando and he wants some formula.” Other babies at the border concurred, with the oldest baby speaking for the group through a baby translator. “We trust our leaders to prioritize aid distribution well, as they...

Barron’s Barren Word?While the Catholic Left and Right are often at odds with one another, there are at least two areas of agreement among members of both camps. The first is outrage at the Church’s cover-up of sexual abuse cases. The second is criticism of Bishop Robert Barron and his Word on Fire ministry.A recent article from Chris Damian suggests that these two areas might be linked.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowBefore I delve any further into the discussion of alleged sexual misconduct committed by a Word on Fire employee, I must acknowledge that while I believe there is some truth...