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Through the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is formally investigating the “A Drag Queen Christmas” event that took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Monday, December, 26th. The Floridian first reported that the traveling drag queen show that took place at the Broward Center for Performing Arts Center appears to have exposed minor children to simulated sexual acts. In response to the event, The Floridian has obtained Gov. DeSantis’s official Executive address on the issue, where the Governor's office state's that the DPBR is looking at all “video footage and photographs from the event,”...

A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors. Thirty-three states plus the District of Columbia have rules on their books against the so-called corporate practice of medicine. But over the years, critics say, companies have successfully sidestepped bans on owning medical practices by buying or establishing local staffing groups that are nominally owned by doctors and restricting the physicians’ authority so they have no direct control. These laws and regulations, which started appearing nearly a...

A man was arrested on hate crime charges after, police said, a TikTok video showed him hurling homophobic and racist remarks at a Korean American man and woman dining at a California In-N-Out Burger. Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, of Denver, was taken into custody Monday by San Ramon police and booked at the Martinez Detention Facility on two counts of committing a hate crime, police said in a news release. The arrest stems from an incident on Christmas Eve at an In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon. Arine Kim and her friend Elliot Ha were recording a TikTok video of Ha's...

A 500-foot-wide asteroid called 2010 XC15 will pass by Earth on December 27. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and NASA want to examine the 2010 XC15 space rock to test their preparation against Apophis. This dangerous asteroid might hit our planet in 2029. The researchers will use the HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) array to shoot 9.6 megahertz radio waves at the 2010 XC15 asteroid. HAARP is a government-funded research program that generally studies the ionosphere (part of Earth’s atmosphere at 50 to 400 miles above the surface). However, this will be the first time it...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

'Tis the season of endless "best of" lists. Newspapers, magazines, and social media sites have been flooded with their cultural critics' views of 2022's ten best books, plays, restaurants, "hatemongers," and, of course, movies. A glance at these lists, particularly the "ten best films," suggests how utterly out of touch some of the nation's most prominent film critics are with what Americans want to watch. Consider the recommendations of my former employer, The New York Times. Though critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott have written some incisive, powerful reviews this year, their "ten best" recommendations were mystifying. But perhaps even...

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the government will hold Southwest Airlines accountable as they canceled thousands of flights over a system meltdown. Buttigieg said, “I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. They indicated a number of issues that they’re having with systems, legacy systems for managing their schedule and where their crews are, but the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of...

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A teenage hockey player died on Christmas Day after suffering a stroke in early December. The St. Paul Capitols Hockey Association said that Cormick Scanlan “passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family” adding that “Our strength is with the Scanlans and all who loved Cormick.” A GoFundMe created by a Cretin-Derham Hall student and teacher states that Cormick suffered a stroke on Dec. 6 and it was then discovered that he had a rare condition called moyamoya disease. The St. Paul hockey community paid respects to the Scanlan family during a moment of silent prayer before a game on...

In Chiles v. Salazar, (D CO, Dec. 19, 2022), a Colorado federal district court rejected constitutional challenges to Colorado's ban on mental health professionals engaging in conversion therapy for minors who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or gender non-conforming. In a suit brought by a licensed counselor, the court found no violation of plaintiff's free speech rights because the Minor Therapy Conversion Law regulates professional conduct rather than speech. Any speech that is affected is incidental to the professional conduct. The court also found no violation of plaintiff's free exercise rights, saying in part: According to Ms. Chiles, the...

The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating an alleged hack of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX that resulted in the theft of $372 million from the firm just after it filed for bankruptcy.New FTX CEO John J. Ray III previously stated that the firm had witnessed "unauthorized access" to its assets, prompting the DOJ inquiry, according to the Washington Examiner. The DOJ has thus far been able to freeze only a small portion of the stolen digital assets.Ray has been a vocal critic of the company's prior management, telling Congress that the company was utterly devoid of meaningful oversight and risk-assessment...

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testified before the House select committee investigating the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that he had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, contradicting the nation's former top diplomat."Do you recall talking to Secretary Pompeo in General Milley's presence about the 25th Amendment?" the committee asked him, per the Washington Examiner. The line of inquiry became public when the committee released the transcripts of 34 of its interviews earlier this month."I mean, I do recall speaking to Secretary Pompeo about the 25th Amendment," was Mnuchin's reply. "I...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) deleted a tweet responding to the "Twitter Files" after CEO Elon Musk said he was pointing users to "misleading data" about COVID. Lieu deleted his tweet Monday in response to reporter David Zweig's Twitter Files revelations showing how the social media platform censored factually accurate COVID information that conflicted with the federal government."The tweet you cite is in fact misleading. People of all ages at high risk from covid generally benefit from vaccines. Prior natural immunity may last only a few months. COVID appears to be a leading cause of death for children," Lieu tweeted with...

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Kid was having such fun - I loved it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIsR8MCcBw

“In December 1944,” begins Sim Kessel’s Holocaust memoir, “I was hanged at Auschwitz.” He was twenty-five years old and had been caught attempting to escape. Sim Kessel (called “Sam” in some accounts), a French Jew who boxed professionally, had been at Auschwitz for two years — a staggering period of time where the normal lifespan of a prisoner was at most three months — and had already escaped the gas chambers on two occasions. The first time, he was in the infirmary recuperating from a severe beating and torture at the hands of the SS (one of his fingers had...

Dec. 27 (UPI) -- In response to Western price caps on Russian oil, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday banned the export of oil to the United States and other Group of Seven and European Union nations. The ban, which applies to all Russian oil and petroleum products, will go into effect Feb. 1 and be enforced until July 1. According to the Kremlin, oil exports to the affected Western nations can still occur, but only if Putin grants it in a special order. This month, Western nations imposed a price cap on Russian oil that prevents the price from rising...

Serious holes have been poked in the world’s response to the pandemic, with Sweden emerging atop a telling list of nations least affected by Covid-19. In a list of countries studied by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Scandinavian nation ranked lowest for overall cumulative excess deaths from 2020-22 at 6.8 per cent, compared to Australia (18 per cent), the UK (24.5 per cent) and the US (54.1 per cent). The results are even more poignant considering Sweden was one of the few developed nations that opted against widespread lockdowns. As governments scrambled to make the idea of...

Indianapolis residents saw a bizarre sight on Christmas and it had nothing to do with Santa or his reindeer. Quite the opposite as the Indianapolis Fire Department revealed a 33 year old woman drove down an embankment and then started driving on a frozen canal. This appears to have gone on for a while as the department said she “continued north on the canal until she came to the dead end at 10th Street, where she turned around [and] headed south.” Her luck eventually ran out as the vehicle broke through the ice and plunged into the water. The fire...