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On a cloudless afternoon last week, Dan Tronchetti stood amid a field of leafy soybeans and struck a scarecrow pose. The 66-year-old farmer was trying to ward off what he considered an invader. While his wife, Susan, fixed her camera on him, Tronchetti, wearing a gray Carhartt T-shirt and a red mesh-back hat, held his arms out straight to either side to indicate where a developer wanted to route a pipeline through the 1,500 acres that his family farms in northwest Iowa. He hoped that illustrating just how close to his home the pipeline would run might catch a reporter’s...

Republicans who support former President Trump more than they support the GOP climbed to 41 percent in August, up 7 points from May when 34 percent said they supported Trump more than the party, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday. A slim majority of Republicans, or 50 percent, say they support the party more than they do Trump, the poll finds. But that’s down from 58 percent in May. The former president continues to wield immense influence over the Republican Party. He has heavily influenced the defeat of eight out of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach...

Polls have consistently shown that economic issues, such as cost of living, inflation, and rising prices, are at the top of Americans' minds when it comes to their priorities and what they're most concerned about as the fast-approaching November midterm elections loom closer. This has shown to be particularly bad for Democrats, as Republicans are regarded as the party most trusted on such issues. Such misfortune exists on top of how the president's party in power almost always loses seats in his first midterm election. The release of an NBC poll on Sunday news certainly raised some eyebrows, as it...

President Donald Trump has reshaped America’s political landscape. In doing so, he has swiftly toppled decades of political aristocracy in the United States and handed power back to the people. In August, Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk stated on Twitter that, “After 55 years, January 20th, 2023 will mark the first time since 1967 that no members of the Cheney, Clinton, McCain, or Bush family will hold elected or appointed office in the federal government of the United States of America.” Draining the Swamp Since President Trump left office in January 2021, he has thrown the full brunt of...

ord Motor Co. is cutting about 3,000 white-collar jobs as it attempts to lower costs and shift from internal combustion to electric vehicles. Leaders of the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker made the announcement Monday in a companywide email obtained by CBS News, saying that 2,000 full-time salaried workers would be let go along with another 1,000 contract workers. The cuts represent about 6% of the 31,000 full-time salaried work force in the U.S. and Canada. Ford's 56,000 union factory workers are not affected. Some workers also will lose jobs in India. Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley said in...

Founded in 1985 by Cuban exiles, Radio Mambí - named after Cuban guerrillas known as "mambises" who fought for independence from Spain - soon became an influential fixture of Miami's large community of Cuban exiles. The radio gave voice to the exiles' vocal opposition of Cuba's communist regime. Today, it is still, for many, the sound of Spanish-speaking Florida: A mix of chatter about modern-day Cuba interspersed, on a recent Friday, with calls from listeners opining about the state primary elections on 23 August - and laments about Democratic President Joe Biden's "socialist agenda". Its influence on the heavily Republican-leaning...

Some of fast food’s splashiest plant-based chicken rollouts have seriously impressed us in the past. First, there was the debut of Impossible Chicken Nuggets in 2021, a product that managed to capture the brothy flavor of real cooked poultry and deliver both crunch and chew without tasting springy or spongy. (Burger King tested these nuggets at various locations last fall.) Then, KFC released Beyond Fried Chicken in January 2022; these were essentially nuggets as well, and tasted “pretty spectacular,” according to our taste test. Both of these, however, were small-format chick’n products. The Impossible Original Chick’n Sandwich at Burger King...

The U.S. Air Force is getting serious about developing a so-called adaptive engine for its current and future fighter jets and is now putting the money where its mouth is. Five giants in the industry were recently awarded contracts worth a whopping $4.9 billion. General Electric, Pratt &Whitney, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grumman were awarded contracts worth around $975 million each for the prototype phase of the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion Program. Until now, only GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney were developing engines as part of the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) with the goal of eventually producing...

Many Freepers today were not around here when Bill Clinton was President, so many are clueless of the great discussions we had about the illegalities he was getting away with. Well, this article is a blast from the past by the late great Phyllis Schlafly. God rest her soul, she was a warrior who never gave an inch, and fought till she couldn't fight any more.The China Connection Is the Real Scandal by Phyllis Schlafly(August 15, 1924 - September 5, 2016) Now we know why the Democrats were so vicious in their attacks on Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Rep....

Catholic Church takes comfort in PM Lee's assurance of safeguarding marriage by not legalizing same-sex unions Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced that his country will amend a British colonial-era law to decriminalize gay sex but will not allow same-sex marriages, drawing mixed reactions from religious groups. In a televised speech on Aug. 21, PM Lee said the government will repeal Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code to decriminalize gay sex, noting that attitudes towards it have changed in the past 15 years since the state decided to keep the law that was not strictly enforced. “The government...

A Michigan judge has granted Gretchen Whitmer’s request to block the state’s abortion ban that protects the lives of unborn babies. Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham sided with the pro-abortion governor and granted her request for a preliminary injunction. His order means county prosecutors can’t enforce the 1931 abortion ban that went into effect following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Michigan Supreme Court has 6 months to determine whether the ban can ultimate be enforced so women and babies can be protected from abortions. Abortions will be legal in Michigan until the Whitmer lawsuit or...

Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman handily defeated Republican Wyoming At-Large Representative Liz Cheney in the GOP primary by an initial margin of roughly 66%-29% on Tuesday. Cheney is one of Donald Trump’s strongest Republican critics in Congress and previously served in a leadership position within the House Republican Conference. Turnout was astronomical for a midterm primary, totaling ~90% of Trump’s votes in the 2020 presidential general election and slotting in at nearly a 50% increase from the 2018 primary. Hageman’s victory was relatively uniform throughout the state, only losing Teton County (a haven for skiing and tourism) and Albany County (home...

Analysts from different news outlets and other organizations have predicted that the Republican Party could regain the majority in the House of Representatives by a wide margin after being in the minority for only two election cycles. Fox News recently released its “Power Rankings” with only 11 weeks until the election, which predicted that Republicans are poised to take the House majority by anywhere from two to 30 seats — a total of 220 to 248 seats for the Republicans depending on how accurate the projection is and where Republicans fall within the projected range

PORTLAND, Oregon — On warm nights, Father Paulinus Mangesho sleeps in a back room, lest stray bullets pierce the rectory walls. Immaculate Heart Church, one of the most historic houses of worship in Portland, stands tall and graceful on what has become the city’s most dangerous block. The sidewalks are an open-air market for crack cocaine, prostitution and settling scores. Gunfire has left pock marks on Immaculate Heart’s soaring steeple. The church is across from Dawson Park, home to diurnal picnickers and nocturnal ne’er-do-wells. Since the pandemic, those in the drug trade have spilled boldly across the street, setting up...

A couple of years ago I disconnected from Direct TV. I really miss caller ID coming up on the TV to identify a caller. I now use a laptop to feed my HDMI jack my video's. The laptop has a modem on Com 3 that is capable of caller ID. I haven't been able to find a software solution for the laptop to display a number so I can sit in my Lazyboy and see if I want to get up to answer the phone. I've downloaded a couple of programs that say they work, but I'm unable to make...

The Russian Orthodox Church proposes adopting special international acts to sustain traditional values in the modern world, including the protection of the family as the union of a man and a woman. This position on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church has been expressed by the Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family, Maternity and Childhood Protection Rev. Fr. Fedor Lukianov, speaking at the forum "Army-2022.""We have universal traditional values that unite us and today especially need protection. New challenges facing humanity dictate the need to initiate international acts that respond to threats and risks. International organizations which our nation...

Secretary of Transportation and former Democratic Party presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg traveled to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s annual fundraiser with Democrats at a winery in Napa Valley, California, according to NBC News. Last year, Pelosi’s fundraiser made headlines because Democrats were sipping wine while Americans were dying in Afghanistan during the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from that country, leaving the Taliban in charge.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Tobyhanna Army Depot, PennsylvaniaTobyhanna Army Depot (previously known as Tobyhanna Signal Depot), is tasked to provide logistical support for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Systems for the United States Department of Defense. The depot was established on February 1, 1953 and is located in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, near Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. As the largest industrial employer in Northeastern, PA, their capabilities include support for sustainment, overhaul and repair, fabrication and manufacturing, engineering design and development, systems integration, technology insertion, modification, and global field support. Tobyhanna Army Depot also...

When you cross the Rubicon, there is no going back. Democrats are getting very close to that fateful moment. Their dream to indict Donald Trump has turned into determination, putting them on a collision course with history. No president has ever been prosecuted after leaving office ... it would tear America apart. Yet day by day, the evidence shows Dems have liberated themselves from such concerns and are resolved that this time will be different. The number and fervor of their army of prosecutors reveal a contagious fever, and it often appears they are competing to be the first to...

WITH all of the last days' economic, political, and military convergences. With all of the prophetic signs flooding our newspapers and newsfeeds on an hourly basis. With the impending collapse of Western Civilization being a mere cataclysm away from happening. With everything prophetic happening everywhere, all at once going on, the one nagging question that keeps rolling around in the back of my brain is, who is going to take care of my dogs when we go up? Seriously. I think about this. I'm not a dog person, and yet we have eight. I guess you can say my wife...