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A 22 year-old rapper has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing six people at a July 4 parade in an affluent Chicago suburb. Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III was intercepted by cops in North Lake Forest, Chicago, after 7pm local time Monday evening when cops saw the silver Honda Fit he was last seen driving. Dramatic photographs from the scene show the suspected mass-murderer - who posted creepy clips about shooting massacres online - being pinned to the ground face-down by police. Cops say Crimo opened fire from a rooftop, into a crowd who at first confused the sound...

Congressman Edcel Lagman argues that absolute divorce is a decent interment of a long-dead marriage A Philippine lawmaker is taking a second shot at legalizing divorce in Asia's only Catholic-majority country. Albay lawmaker Edcel Lagman on July 3 re-filed a bill, dubbed the “Absolute Divorce Act,” to liberate “beleaguered and tormented wives” from “irretrievably dysfunctional marriages or inordinately abusive marital relations.” A previous bill was set aside by the Senate under former President Rodrigo Duterte after being approved by the Committee on Population and Family Relations in the House of Representatives as the coronavirus pandemic hit the country. The Philippines...

Concerning the high price of gasoline: on June 22, 2022, it was reported that Pres. Biden wants to suspend the federal gas tax (18 cents per gallon) for three months (between now and the mid-term elections). It looks like a plan to stop trying to force voters to buy electric vehicles until the election is over, but when the election is over, the taxes and push for electric vehicles will be restored. Senate Republicans will be pushed to cooperate, but if they don’t, it is a sure bet that they will be accused of supporting higher taxes, hurting the poor,...

Rep. Liz Cheney may not be ruling out a run for the White House, but voters from both sides won't want her after her actions as vice-chairman of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, Rep. Warren Davidson said on Newsmax Monday. "I think this whole hearing shows that Liz Cheney is willing to do literally anything to stop Donald Trump," the Ohio Republican said on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "I mean, she completely throws away a promising career. People were talking about her as a potential candidate for speaker of the House." But Trump "exposed her" as he did "so...

Tbilisi, July 4, Interfax - Police in Tbilisi have arrested 17 participants in a protest against staging LGBT events in the Georgian capital, the Georgian Interior Ministry told reporters on Saturday. The protestors were refusing to obey police orders, it said. The protest against the so-called LGBT Week was held in Tbilisi on Saturday. According to the Georgian media, the event involved members from the radical organization Alt-Info. The participants torched the European Union flag outside the building of the EU delegation in Tbilisi. They were holding Georgian flags and chanting "Long live Georgia!"The protestors told reporters that if the...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 1, 2022 / 16:38 pm A building on the grounds of a Catholic school in northern Ohio sustained an estimated $1 million in damage from a fire Thursday. An arson investigation is underway, authorities said. The fire, which started outside the building, caused heavy smoke and structural damage to the cafeteria and gymnasium of St. Anthony of Padua School in Lorain, a community on the coast of Lake Erie, Jeff Fenn, assistant chief at the Lorain Fire Department, told CNA Friday. Fenn estimated the damage at $1 million. He said the nearby parish church was not...

Independence Day no more: America is no longer independentIndependence Day no more: America is no longer independent Biden has sabotaged the American economy and surrendered decision making power to the IMF. Op-ed.Ezequiel Doiny Jul 4, 2022, 11:19 AM GMT+3The World Economic Forum's "Great Reset" (which Biden is implementing) is Neo Marxism packaged so that if you oppose it, you either labelled as someone who wants to destroy the environment or seen as a racist.Supporters of the World Economic Forum and sympathizers of the Fabian Society are using the façade of "Climate Change" to subvert democracies worlwide and impose a "Great...

The Pope said that 'the Church loses its pastoral nature' when Communion is denied to pro-abortion Catholic politicians and that 'it causes a political problem.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has broken his silence on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which grants states the power to outlaw abortion, saying that bishops must be “pastoral” with pro-abortion politicians. In a 90-minute interview with Reuters’ Vatican correspondent Philip Pullella, published Monday, the Pope said that while he respected the court’s decision to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling which imposed abortion on all 50 states, he cannot “speak...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Grand Forks Air Force Base, North DakotaGrand Forks Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in northeastern North Dakota, located north of Emerado and 16 miles west of Grand Forks. The host unit is the 319th Reconnaissance Wing (319 RW) assigned to the Air Combat Command (ACC) operating E/RQ-4B Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role.In June 2022, Grand Forks Air Force Base celebrated its selection as the future home of Space Development Agency’s first Ground Operations and Integration Center that will operate...

If you look hard enough, you can find white supremacy in anything. This is the lesson of critical race theory, which was developed in order to root out white supremacy from all of American society and culture.

WWII Veteran Breaks Down In Tears Over Destruction Of America As Wokeness Kills Military Recruitment.

President Trump on Monday responded to RINO Liz Cheney’s interview with ABC’s Jon Karl in which she suggested the January 6 Committee will recommend charges against Trump.Trump ripped Cheney in a July 4 post to his Truth Social page.“Warmongering and despicable human being Liz Cheney, who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history. Even the Dems didn’t know what she was talking about! Why doesn’t...

A person of interest connected to an attack where six people were gunned down six people and many others were injured during a shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago, has been captured following an hours-long manhunt.

Brittney Griner is speaking for herself for the first time in a long time as she's been detained in Russia pending a trial -- and her words are an emotional plea to President Biden. Excerpts of a letter sent to the White House this week on behalf of Griner were published Sunday, through reps for Griner, and it consists of bullet point thoughts she's expressing as she faces years behind bars for allegedly bringing hash cartridges into the country.

Man in custody after Highland Park parade mass shooting

Fireworks for the 4th. With sincere thanks to our Founding Fathers.

Geert Vanden Bossche summarizes his hypothesis on what the future may bring regarding the pandemic. He is working on a larger, more detailed paper that he plans to release soon. He lays out in some detail what each segment of the population(vaccinated vs unvaccinated may expect in the coming months and what to do to prepare..For the vaccinated, he recommends having antivirals and antibiotics on hand as well as access to a trusted Dr.

**SNIP** But with at least two more hearings on the horizon, Democratic lawmakers are unsure what action they should take next to try to stop Trump, a hugely popular Republican who has survived repeated scandals, including two impeachments, and is considered a top 2024 presidential contender despite the legal clouds surrounding him. Their options to lock him out of the Oval Office are unprecedented and fraught. They could try to impeach Trump for the third time and get the deadlocked Senate to convict him, which then would open the door to another simple majority vote as specified under the Constitution...

Washington, D.C. – The Bureau of Labor Statistics sent out another warning today, due to inflation. National Marijuana Day has been rescheduled. It will now be April 30th. “Supply chain issues, expanded money supply, and the lagging effect of COVID-19 has forced us to make this move,” the Department said. Marijuana enthusiasts were not in high spirits upon hearing the news. It put a damper on many who hoped that, with COVID-19 receding and loosening cannabis laws, 2022 would be the year of the hash bash. “This sucks! I want to be high, not my prices,” said customer Reid Stephens...

Behold the amazing powers of Donald Trump! He is not currently in the White House yet he somehow still has the power to ruin the Fourth of July holiday for liberals. One such liberal who is publicly moaning about Trump destroying Independence Day for him is CNN's White House reporter, Stephen Collinson.Collinson vociferously kvetched on Monday in "Americans divided over what US stands for on this July Fourth" that his holiday was ruined by "Trump's violent coup attempt."