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“For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended me from campus, forced me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required me to waive my right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report me to state bar associations.” That’s how William Spruance sums up what he faced at Georgetown Law School in 2021 after he asked a few simple questions critical of the school’s Covid policies, which at the time included mandatory vaccines, masks — and outlawing students from sipping from bottled water in classrooms. Spruance had also been “identified as non-compliant” for “letting the mask fall beneath [his] nose,” according to a...

NBC News has retracted a major investigative story that accused a slaughterhouse cleaning company of illegally employing a 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, after evidence emerged showing the worker is actually 21 years old and lied about his age to get over the border. NBC Nightly News on April 12 aired an emotional interview with "Pedro," an alleged underage worker at slaughterhouse cleaning company PSSI—noting in the segment that companies are legally barred from hiring minors for those positions because of the danger of the work. Pedro said in an interview with NBC's Julia Ainsley that he worked the night shift in...

I'm starting a YouTube channel to take you beyond the "what" of the news cycle and into the "so what" and "now what" -- why a specific piece of news actually matters to you and what to look for next.

I feel like Paul Revere for patriots. Except I’m shouting, “The elections are being stolen…the elections are being stolen.” I grew up on the mean streets of New York. I am very familiar with bait and switch. Walking the streets of New York City, I saw three-card-monte conmen setting up shop on sidewalks every day. Their goal was to distract you from picking the right card…and to separate you from your money. We all just witnessed a bait and switch in the news headlines earlier this week. This is three-card-monte on STEROIDS. Fox News settled with Dominion over claims of...

On this date in 1831, pirate Charles Gibbs hanged on Ellis Island. This Rhode Island native followed his father’s trade in buccaneering and made an adventurously brutal life on the waves during the early 19th century’s brief piracy recrudescence. Neither Gibbs himself nor subsequent writers fascinated by him shrank from embellishing his career, according to Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Life and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs. Awaiting the gallows, Gibbs floated the story that he had first gone to sea under the Stars and Stripes during the War of 1812; that this turned out to be a...

A far-left delegate in the U.S. Congress has threatened one of the leading “Twitter Files” journalists with jail time over an alleged mistake in his reporting. Just The News reports that Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.), the congressional delegate from the Virgin Islands who has become a darling of the far-Left in recent months, wrote a letter to former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi over a typo in his reporting. The error involves Taibbi’s use of the acronym CISA, which he used in reference to the Center for Internet Freedom (CIS); CISA is the official acronym for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Recently, I was on vacation in Budapest, Hungary, taking one of those bus trips of the city. Our guide was a young lady, probably mid-20's, who spoke excellent English but had always lived in Budapest. We drove by a major university and she said that a college education was free in Hungary. When we drove past a large city bus stop, she quickly pointed out that it, too, was free. Finally, we drove past a large hospital where I was told that medical care was free. Curious, I asked her what her income tax rate was and she relied that...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 2 The Boy Jesus at the Temple 41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him,...

The latest incident to befall the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was an embarrassingly public one, and one that left the brand-new USS Cleveland (LCS-31) damaged in the process of being launched, in front of around 3,000 people, including members of the media. The Navy has now issued a statement providing more details of the collision between the Cleveland — which is the last of the 16-strong Freedom class — and a tugboat involved during the warship’s recent christening. "No personnel injuries occurred, but there was limited damage” to the Cleveland, the Navy said, of the April 14...

Mouthing what seemed at first to be consonant with the American way, the Left was able to work across decades and to such effect that we hardly knew what hit us or how this great U.S. of A. became so changed and nearly lost. That they hate is us clear. But why do they hate us? And why are they so crazy? It’s their religion. While based on Christianity, what they have is bent and twisted. Let us compare their “version” to the real one. The Great Commandment of the New Testament, taken from the Old, is “Thou shalt love...

WARNING: SB 5599 Legislation to Legalize Kidnapping and Mutilating Childrenhttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/19/washington-bill-hide-children-seeking-gender-trans/ The idea that parents who don’t support their child’s gender transition need to be pushed aside is gaining steam in Democratic-led state legislatures, starting with Washington. A bill on the desk of Gov. Jay Inslee (which he has signed), a Democrat, would allow youth shelters and host homes to conceal from parents the whereabouts of runaway children who request or receive “protected health care services,” including abortions, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. State Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, said Wednesday that the measure has been the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology 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.“If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will...

Mao's Legacy By John Horvat II The book China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower is a chronicle of China’s rise to world power. Award-winning Dutch author Frank Dikötter is a China expert who bases his research on access to government documents and what he witnessed. His story is compelling because he has no agenda beyond trying to explain what he observed. Four decades after Mao Zedong’s death, the communist nation went from the 126th largest economy to the second. Western optimists credit a growing market economy and free trade for this transformation. However, the author challenges the “economic...

On April 19, 2023, at 11:25 a.m., the Nebraska Legislature passed LB 77, the Constitutional Carry bill which Senator Tom Brewer has been diligently working to pass for years. The bill has to be signed by Nebraska Governor (R) Jim Pillen to become law. Governor Pillen has promised he will sign the bill.LB77 incorporates a number of features to make Constitutional Carry in Nebraska a reality. One provision has been a sticking point in getting the bill passed. The bill strengthens the Nebraska preemption statute and eliminates the Omaha and Lincoln requirements to register handguns in those cities. From the...

There’s a reason why Tom Hanks and Viola Davis drop by Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” set. The stars are hawking a product, be it a new film or streaming series. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement that’s worked for decades on late-night TV and elsewhere. The stars provide appealing guests who share stories for the viewers’ amusement. Those appearances, in turn, offer “free” promotion for their respective projects. Now, “Gutfeld!” is helping push product in a very big way. Fox News’ late-night alternative is at or near the top of the late-night ratings heap. Host Greg Gutfeld tells the jokes his...

As it becomes increasingly obvious that homeschoolers do significantly better than victims of government “education” on every academic metric, apologists for the public-school system often fall back on their “socialization” mantra. But under its true definition, “socialization” is hardly something to be desired. And under the commonly held understanding of socialization — gaining certain desirable social skills — the data show clearly that home-educated children outperform public school students on every key indicator. Before examining the issue of “socialization,” it helps to define the term itself. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it is “the process whereby an individual learns to adjust...

Michelle Obama says the world tends to “glamorize marriage,” while the reality is that matrimony “is hard.” “We’ve been married for 30 years,” Obama said of former President Obama during a Thursday interview with Gayle King on “CBS Mornings.” “If I fell out with him for 10 [years,] and we had a great 20 years, I’d take those odds anytime,” the former first lady said in response to a question from King about remarks she made last year that for a decade during their relationship, she “couldn’t stand” her husband. “We glamorize marriage,” Obama, 59, said. “In this day and...

Two Just Stop Oil protesters who scaled a bridge on the Dartford Crossing, forcing police to close it to traffic, have been sentenced to more than two and a half years each for causing a public nuisance. Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 between Essex and Kent across the River Thames, in October last year. The police closed the bridge to traffic, causing gridlock. Trowland was sentenced to three years in prison, while Decker received two years and seven months. Spokespeople from...

Vast numbers of Chinese citizens are illegally crossing our border with Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol is able to apprehend some of them, but thanks to the Biden administration once they are processed most of them are given “notices to appear” and are then freely released into our communities.

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that he violated anti-discrimination laws by refusing to create a cake celebrating a gender transition. Phillips and his attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a petition on Thursday with the state’s highest court. In January, the state Court of Appeals ruled in favor of attorney Autumn Scardina, who requested from Phillips a blue and pink birthday cake to celebrate transitioning from male to female. Scardina’s request was made in 2018 on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear...