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Joe Biden and others on the left believe increasing the inventory of houses Americans can afford requires putting more residences in already existing neighborhoods, including changing zoning laws to allow multiple units on single-family home lots. Biden also wants fewer people driving cars, which fits the leftist narrative that to achieve social justice and save the planet, people should live in dense, mixed-income neighborhoods, and use public transportation.

Franklin Graham has called on public officials to welcome people of all religions after Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford expressed his "regret" over the American evangelist's upcoming visit to Wales. Graham will be taking his free God Loves You Tour to Newport, south Wales, on Saturday. He has been branded a "known hate preacher" in recent weeks over his views on same-sex marriage and Islam. In the Senedd on Tuesday, Drakeford was quizzed by Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price on why the Welsh government was allowing the event to go ahead at Newport's International Convention Centre when it has a...

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"I strongly believe that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government..." He supports "tight background checks" for all gun sales and limiting sales of assault weapons to people in special circumstances, like gun range owners, or people who live in a "high risk location, like gang warfare."

Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman's rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, a witness said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said it was “within 40 minutes or so" from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer and when the SWAT-like Border Patrol team shot him. Law enforcement officials later said it was unclear if the gunman and the security officer...

Attorney General primary candidate George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and the nephew of former President George W. Bush (R), was rejected by Republican voters in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. On Tuesday, 68 percent of Republicans voted to re-elect Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been a fierce opponent of illegal immigration and the monopolistic business practices of giant tech corporations. Bush received 32 percent of votes cast, losing to Paxton in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. The only counties Bush won were Loving County, where fewer than...

If the ratifications are agreed to this week, the WHO would also be granted sole authority over what constitutes a pandemic. And, as we have seen over the past two years, just about anything qualifies as an ‘existential threat to public health’ including, but not limited to: misinformation, parents protesting at school boards, free speech, and – of course – racism. The fact that the WHO is on the cusp of unrestricted authority to decide these measures should terrify every American.What’s more, the changes also include plans for a mandatory and universal vaccine passport system that’s overseen by the WHO....

A man in China is stunned after being quoted a standard price for a haircut and then being told afterwards the price was 12 times higher. Baidu A hair salon in China is under investigation for telling a customer a hair perm and styling cost 398 yuan (S$83) but afterwards charged him 4,776 yuan under a bizarre system whereby they divided his scalp into 12 “sections” with each costing the quoted price for the service. The man, surnamed Liu, went to the Zhenxuan Hair Salon in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, eastern China, last week to have a hair perm and styling. A...

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With essential consumer goods like cooking oil becoming more expensive, Singaporeans like housewife Raihan (above) are feeling the pinch. Raihan Ibrahim, The Straits Times file Housewife Raihan Ibrahim feels the pinch whenever she shops for groceries near her five-room HDB flat in Bedok. Prices of groceries, lamented this 44-year-old to AsiaOne, has gone up markedly in the last few years, especially cooking oil and butter. So much so that Raihan came up with a savings hack of her own – by opting for frozen ingredients instead of the more expensive fresh ingredients to cope with rising food prices. Besides switching...

A transgender woman was wrongly accused of being the teenage gunman who opened fire on a Texas elementary school. Photographs of 20-year-old Sam, of Georgia, whose last name has been omitted for her own safety, have been shared on social media after someone on 4chan, an anonymous online forum, claimed she was shooter responsive for Tuesday's school massacre. 'Here's the shooter's Reddit,' the user posted on 4chan along with a link to Sam's personal Reddit account shortly after Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire on Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona, helped...

The philanthropist argues that the West must "mobilize all our resources" to defeat Putin-as the war is setting back urgent action against climate change. The invasion of Ukraine "may have been the beginning" of the Third World War, according to the philanthropist and financier George Soros. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he argues that even if this is outcome averted, the war has relegated the fight against climate change to second place-and we have "already fallen far behind". This damagw is on the verge on being irreversible-meaning that our civilization "may not survive". Such high stakes demand...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called for “total help” from other counties as Russian forces continue to advance in the eastern region of Ukraine amid Moscow’s ongoing invasion of the country. In an address, Zelensky stressed Ukraine’s need for aid from other countries, saying that Russian forces have significantly more equipment and soldiers than Ukraine in some places and adding that Moscow’s “desire to fight still remains.”

Mixed feelings abound after an older Florida woman said she shot and killed a man who had broken into her home. Virginia Morrison, 69, told outlets she was protecting herself and her partner after a stranger—later identified as Ezequiel Rosario-Torres, 38—entered her home on Sunday, said nothing, and refused to leave, even in the face of separate warning shots. “I have feelings. I have God in my life,” she told WOFL. “That’s my main thing: Wondering if God’s going to forgive me for taking a life. It bothers me.” But at least one member of Rosario-Torres’ family suggested he wanted...

Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times. Took 24 hours, give or take. And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Start Them Young! First Cavalry Troopers show a saddle to Meadows Elementary students during the school's annual career day, May 20, 2022 on Fort Hood, TX. The career day was conducted to provide the children of servicemembers exposure to a variety of career options for their future, including civilian, and army occupations. (Photo by Sgt. Broderick Hennington) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Who Will Win Among The Mascots? The...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that American parents are lying to their children by telling them they will be safe from mass shootings at school. Swalwell said, “The public is with us, and parents want us on offense. Look at Republicans, they go on offense on wildly unpopular issues like a woman’s right to choose, and they don’t care about public sentiment. They lean in on that. Instead, we are always, always apologizing about, well, we’re not trying to infringe on the 2nd Amendment. We’re not saying gun control. Why don’t we just have guns disciplined...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he and first lady Jill Biden would travel to Uvalde, Texas, after a mass shooting at an elementary school. Biden said his trip to the Uvalde community would “let them know that we have a sense, just a sense of their pain and hopefully bring some little comfort to the community in shock, and grief, and in trauma.”

O n the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to crack down on US Police. The Biden regime will review the use of force policies, restrict the flow of military surplus equipment and encourage limitations on no-knock warrants

AOC says she's itching to ditch her Tesla after spat with Elon: Progressive rep says she wants to buy electric car made at unionized factory after Musk told her to stop flirting with him on Twitter AOC said that she bought the electric Tesla Model 3 in order to get back and forward to DC during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic Following her recent banter with Elon Musk on Twitter, AOC says she wants to buy an American electric car that was built by union workers AOC is one of around 10 members of Congress who own Tesla...