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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political operation has started calling Republican members of the Florida congressional delegation to consolidate support after four members publicly backed Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential bid. Sources with four of the six members contacted by DeSantis' team shared the outreach with NBC News; each requested anonymity to confirm the calls. As Trump continues to lead in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination, DeSantis is trying to stop defections in his own backyard ahead of his expected run. DeSantis has no endorsements from the state delegation. The efforts started after Trump picked up the backing of...

Earlier this week we found out that Biden was in on the unprecedented, unnecessary and unlawful raid on President Trump’s iconic home Mar-a-Lago. Now we know that Biden was totally behind the raid because he had to remove President Trump’s executive privilege so the raid could occur. Only Biden could do that. Right after the illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago, Attorney Mike Davis went on FOX News. He pointed out that the raid was unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful. President Trump had the Presidential Records Act that allowed him to take whatever documents he wanted, classified or not, with him to Mar-a-Lago...

A transgender activist made an argument for all children to be put on puberty blockers until they can make an informed decision on their gender. “If children can't consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?” YouTuber Zinnia Jones, also known as Lauren McNamara, tweeted this month.

Top law enforcement officials from Riverside County, as well as the district attorney from a nearby county, held a press conference Wednesday where they leveled strong criticism against the perceived revolving door of justice in the state. Pointing to a rise in crime, officials said offenders are released from jail too frequently. In the city of Riverside alone, police said commercial burglaries are up 31% compared to this time last year. Hestrin and Bianco said current laws are enabling habitual offenders. Under AB 109, which went into effect in 2011, individuals convicted of crimes that would previously have sent them...

The more state-run media call Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a crackpot and a lunatic and an “anti-vaccine quack,” the more I’m thinking I like this guy. Bobby Jr. is coming to Boston next week to formally announce his candidacy for the 2024 Democrat nomination for president. At age 69, he’s the youngster on the Democrat side, after incumbent president Dementia Joe Biden (80) and spiritual nut Marianne Williamson (71 in July). It tells you something about modern politics that for most of his dissipated life, despite the most appalling sorts of behavior – hard drugs, booze, philandering to the max...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called out Canada's Prairie premiers on Wednesday for "trying to elevate fears that have absolutely no grounding in truth" over what the federal government's intentions are around provincial resource rights. He also accused them of not taking the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) seriously. The prime minister's remarks come on the heels of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson issuing a joint statement on Tuesday calling on Trudeau to set the record straight about whether the federal government was "considering stripping resource rights away...

Chicago police are investigating three armored truck robberies that occurred just hours apart Wednesday

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Now THIS Is A Stockpile! Chad Bugley, 66th Logistic Readiness Squadron materials examiner, inspects mobility gear stored in a warehouse at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA, Jan. 4, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Maki) 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. Shhhh…We’re Doing Amphibious Stuff!NORFOLK, VA (March 10, 2022) - Sailors pilot a Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Craft (CRRC) during welldeck operations aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD...

Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week that he wonders if the recent spate of mass shootings, such as at a Nashville school last month and at a Louisville bank on Monday are results from the work of Big Pharma. Speaking on Monday on his podcast “Firebrand,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican suggested that easy access to mind-altering drugs are making both society more dangerous and drugmakers more wealthy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars that the US allocated for the purchase of fuel, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. In his blog, Hersh writes – The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zalensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port...

t was not one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most prominent roles, but is proving to be disproportionately controversial. The Hollywood star and former California governor filmed himself filling in a troublesome pothole near his Los Angeles home, proffering it as an act of civic responsibility by an exasperated resident. But he was then told by the authorities it wasn’t officially a pothole at all. According to city officials, the “giant pothole” Schwarzenegger and a friend packed with quick-drying cement and topped with sand was actually an essential service trench for work being performed by a utility company in the Brentwood neighborhood....

SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap)--North Korea fired an intermediate-range or longer ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea's military said, following its continued refusal to answer what used to be daily cross-border calls. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch in the vicinity of Pyongyang at 7:23 a.m. It did not elaborate pending further analysis...

Jim Crow Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee, led by Senator Dick Durbin, are out for the scalp of uppity black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Seething for decades about the uppity black getting a Supreme Court Justice position, Senator Durbin launched his attack on the justice after consulting with failed Supreme Court Justice nominee AG Meritless Garland. Garland noted that his FBI maintains a lot of files on uppity blacks following the precedent of the late J Edgar Hoover, which could contain some actionable material. Garland noted that uppity black Thomas took a lot of plush expensive vacations with...

Florida has executed a 56-year-old man known as the 'Ninja Killer', who shot dead a visiting New Jersey couple in 1989 and robbed their winter home for Christmas presents. Louis Bernard Gaskin confessed to the crime, which he committed wearing all-black ninja clothing. 'The guilt was always there,' Gaskin said. 'The devil had more of a hold than God did. I knew that I was wrong. I wasn't insane.' Jurors voted 8-4 in 1990 to recommend the death sentence, which the judge accepted. Florida law now requires a unanimous jury vote for capital punishment. Gaskin woke up at 4:45am on...

As former President Donald Trump ramps up his 2024 presidential campaign, new polling reveals that while more than half of Americans believe he intentionally did something illegal after his indictment, many believe it was politically motivated. Trump was arraigned Tuesday in New York City on charges stemming from alleged 2016 hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, making him the first former president in American history to be criminally charged. A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 48% of Americans think Trump should suspend his presidential campaign following the indictment, up 5 points from last week. The survey...

Approximately 18,000 cows were killed, and one person was critically injured, in an explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle on Monday. The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with Fox News Digital that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt. Very few cows in the holding area survived, officials told local outlet KFDA.

Can We Call Ourselves “Traditional Catholics”?Painting: “A Mass Scene” by José Miralles Darmanin (1851–1900).Some people object to the phrase “traditional Catholic,” as if it were redundant: Aren’t Catholics by definition adherents of Catholic tradition—and thus, any Roman Catholic has as much right to be called “traditional” as he has to be called “Roman”?How sweet it would be if this were true. Alas, it is far from being the case.Let’s take up the charge of redundancy first. “Roman Catholic Christian” may seem like a triple redundancy, yet it is useful precisely because there are Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Christians, as well...

Republican election denier expelled from Arizona house Liz Harris exits following 46-13 vote, after she invited to hearing conspiracy theorist who accused election officials of bribery The fight for democracy is supported by guardian.org About this content Rachel Leingang Wed 12 Apr 2023 15.53 EDT Liz Harris, an election-denying Republican lawmaker in the Arizona house of representatives, was expelled by her colleagues on Wednesday after she invited to a committee hearing a conspiracy theorist who accused elected officials of unproven corruption and bribery. Republican and Democratic representatives joined together to expel Harris with a 46-13 vote. An expulsion requires a...

Passers-by reported the group of “young adult males” acting strangely around noon at Stonycroft Beck, Newlands area of the Lake District National Park, roughly 75 miles north of Liverpool. Two of the men — including the party’s driver — became ill after ingesting the mind-bending psychedelic fungi, the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said. The rescuers staged a delicate operation to convince the men to let them guide them to safety at the bottom of the mountain before it got dark.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is heading to D.C. next week, marking a rare return to the nation’s capital as he ramps up for an expected run for president. The governor is set to meet with Republican members of Congress and conservative leaders for an event dubbed as a “meet and greet policy discussion.” It will be held on April 18. DeSantis is expected to be joined by a group that includes Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, Illinois Rep. Darin LaHood, and Rep. Randy Feenstra, who hails from the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa. According to a copy of the invitation, other...