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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider okayed the use of the band’s music by gun control groups who are organizing a push to ban “assault weapons.” On Tuesday, Snider gave the okay in response to a Twitter user who is organizing the gun control push: He also gave the okay to a Twitter user who wants to use the song in conjunction with a Moms Demand Action gun control push: These tweets come one day after transgender shooter Aubrey Hale killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville. In other tweets, Snider noted that he keeps a .45 caliber pistol by...

On Tuesday, one day after the horrific massacre of 6 Christians including three young children at a Christian school in Nashville, Democrat Rep. Kathleen Clark took to the House floor. Rep. Clark proceeded to tear into Republicans “politicians and preachers” and “right-wing extremists” for their cruelty to trans people. Republicans in several states have passed laws banning the transitioning of children. This infuriates the left. They think parents have the right to rip out the sex organs of their children at any age. It is a ghoulish practice. Of course, Clark forgot to mention that her violent trans son was...

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson did everyone a favor today by sending the warning about The Restrict Act, also known as Senate Bill 686 [SB686 HERE], also known as the bipartisan bill to empower the executive branch to shut down TikTok. {Direct Rumble Link} The Restrict Act, has very little to do with TikTok and everything to do with the United States government controlling online content. If you read the bill what you quickly discover is that congress is giving the Commerce Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the power to shut down internet content they...

The 5th Circuit noted that such orders can be issued without any credible evidence of a threat to others.The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a recent decision in which an appeals court concluded that the federal ban on gun possession by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders violates the Second Amendment. In a petition filed this month, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar portrays that law as a commonsensical precaution that is "consistent with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation"—the constitutional test that the Court established last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v....

At the trial of "Proud Boys" in connection with January 6th an FBI informant testified for the defense today. The informant says he knew of no plan to enter the US Capitol that day and his message to an FBI handler on January 6th stated: "The crowd did as herd mentality. Not organized"... An Israeli airstrike tonight in the Damascus area of Syria... French trade union leaders will meet France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne next Wednesday... Nicaraguan officials in Moscow today discussing military cooperation with Russia... The Press Secretary for Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs resigning after a social media posting...

Update from Ukraine | Big boom in Crimea again | Ukraine has success in Bakhmut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_zdFWwaWps ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 398 – Summary March 28, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-398-summary/

Former President Donald Trump has expanded his lead in the Republican primary race, while President Joe Biden continues to face uncertainty among Democratic primary voters, according to the latest Fox News national survey. Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. The survey, released Wednesday, finds Trump has doubled his lead since February and is up by 30 points over Ron DeSantis (54%-24%). Last month, he was up by 15 (43%-28%). No one else hits double digits. Mike Pence comes in third with 6%, Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley receive 3%...

The United Nations (UN) passed a landmark resolution on Wednesday that urges the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to outline nations’ legal obligations related to curbing climate change disasters and their impacts on vulnerable communities. The resolution — which was co-sponsored by some 132 countries — was adopted by consensus. Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau called it “a win for climate justice of epic proportions.” […] The resolution calls on the ICJ to lay out nations’ obligations for protecting Earth’s climate, and the legal consequences they face if they don’t. The court’s opinion would be non-binding, but Vanuatu and supporters...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 31-year-old Oregon man has been arrested and charged after authorities said he chased pedestrians in downtown Portland with a stolen forklift. The man was described as driving "erratically and chasing pedestrians."

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion 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 5:14

Regards to all you crusty, dusty, Vietnam Vets.

Connecticut is one step closer to exonerating the victims of the state's witch trials of the 17th century. Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz joined advocates and historians for a panel discussion Wednesday on the importance of this resolution. Top Stories This comes after the state Judiciary Committee voted to advance a bill that would acknowledge the innocence of 34 residents who were convicted of witchcraft. Panelists say exoneration represents the state's remorse for past injustices, especially to women. "The Connecticut witch trials are not a story of witchcraft. They are a story of something much more sinister, a deep-rooted misogyny that has...

Local govt officials, accompanied by security staff, stormed an 'illegal chapel' when a service was in progressA diocese in Vietnam has strongly protested against government authorities for breaking up a Mass held in a house. In an official letter to Kon Tum provincial and Ngoc Hoi district officials in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, Kontum diocese strongly condemned what it called the “heinous offense against the sanctity of the Mass.” “Their actions are deeply distressing and hurting our brothers and sisters from the subparish, as well as all priests and laypeople in the diocese and other places," Father Peter Le Van Hung,...

WASHINGTON — In a striking apparent Freudian slip, President Biden told Greek Orthodox leader “Father Alex” Karloutsos Wednesday that “I’m gonna ruin your reputation by talking” at a White House event. The 80-year-old president made the bizarre remark to Karloutsos, vicar general of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, at a celebration of Greek independence also attended by actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson. Karloutsos, 77, reportedly attended an infamous April 16, 2015, dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano with then-VP Biden, his son Hunter Biden and international business associates from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Kerry County Council enforcement officers are to be equipped with sound monitors to test the sound levels of street singers, under new bylaws adopted by councilors this morning in Killarney. They will also decide on the quality of the music under the terms of the bylaws. The regulations had been out for public consultation and just two submissions had been received, both from An Garda Síochána. Gardaí had asked the council what “mechanism” would be in place to measure sound levels, especially where businesses and residents complained. They also wanted to know who would keep track of the two-hour limit...

ILLINOIS – The Knox County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that the human remains discovered in a storage unit in west central Illinois last fall belong to Richard R. Young, the former police chief of Maquon, a village located approximately 150 miles southwest of Chicago. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, DNA from the decomposed remains was taken and compared to samples from Young’s relatives to confirm the identity. Marcy Oglesby, a 50-year-old resident of Maquon, has been charged with first-degree murder and concealing the death of a person in connection with the case. She has pleaded not...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Clericalization led to the separation of the clergy from the faithful in the church’s liturgy celebrated before the Second Vatican Council, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household. In his Lenten reflection March 24, the cardinal told Pope Francis and officials of the Roman Curia gathered in the Vatican audience hall that Vatican II’s reform of the Mass was a return from “a relatively recent past to a more ancient and original one.” Through descriptions of the Mass from St. Justin in the second century and St. Hippolytus in the third century, he said,...

On March 23, Pope Francis received participants in a conference organized by the Alphonsian Academy (Alphonsianum), two months after he raised the institute of moral theology to the dignity of a pontifical institute. Delivering his address in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace (photographs), the Pope thanked the Alphonsianum—named after St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist order and doctor of the Church—for the “formative service that you offer to the Church in the field of moral theology” as its 75th anniversary approaches. “The Second Vatican Council affirms that moral theology, nourished by Sacred Scripture, must help the faithful...

Pope Francis was reportedly experiencing heart and breathing problems after his general audience on Wednesday.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has been admitted today to Rome’s Gemelli hospital for “previously scheduled tests,” as news outlets now report that his scheduled has been cleared for the upcoming days after he experienced heart problems prior to arriving at the hospital. In a brief statement issued to the press March 29, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni stated that “The Holy Father has been at Gemelli since this afternoon for some previously scheduled checkups.” The Pontiff had conducted his regular general audience in the morning,...