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Biden administration considers middle-age pro-life mothers to be potential domestic terrorists because they oppose killing unborn babies in abortions. The documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security include information about a proposed “Choose Your Own Adventure” training program that portrays a “middle-aged pro-life” mother as a “radicalization suspect” who should be watched out for. Reed D. Rubinstein, senior counselor at America First Legal, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, described the contents as “alarming.” He said it appears the security department is not just investigating suspicious unattended suitcases at the airport anymore; now, it’s...

Mother's Day is one of the busiest days for the American restaurant industry. It also has a reputation among waiters and restaurant staff as one of the most grueling days on the calendar. "Every server knows that working on Mother's Day is hell. In fact, if I die and go to hell, I completely expect it to be Mother's Day. 365 days a year," wrote Darron Cardosa, in his book "The Bitchy Waiter: I'm Really Good at Pretending to Care." What's so bad about it? From big groups that show up in waves ("most of us are here!"), to food-fussy...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 7 Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son 11 Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12 As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” 14 Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the...

The chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted that Ukrainian forces have counter-attacked Russian positions around Bakhmut - as the warlord mocked Kremlin defence minister Sergei Shoigu. 'The situation on the flanks is shaping up according to the worst predicted scenario,' Prigozhin said, signalling fresh misery for Putin's troops. 'Those territories, which were taken with the blood and lives of our comrades-in-arms for many months, every day, by tens or hundreds of metres are now being thrown almost without a fight by those [Russian army soldiers] who are supposed to hold our flanks.' Prigozhin then directly addressed...

Joe Biden's HUD is coming to make the suburbs more 'fair.' As we sit comfortably in our homes, having dinner with our families, crime rates are going up all around us. That is to say that criminals are no longer relegated to the inner cities; they've evolved to suburbs and rural areas as they seek new and more vulnerable targets. The Biden administration is fostering the decline of those outer areas by using the Housing and Urban Development agency to force suburbs to accept high-density "affordable housing." For several decades, one of the major dreams of the middle class has...

EXCERPTS: This report—the first in a two-part series—is an attempt to identify and disentangle factors that shape the observable trends in asylum decisions before the Immigration Courts. It is based upon an analysis of hundreds of thousands of detailed Immigration Court records covering the last two decades obtained from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Both affirmative and defensive asylum applications in the Immigration Courts are included in the data and in this report. Most asylum applications today are considered defensive applications and filed in response to the Department of...

This time last year the latest trend in computing became impossible to ignore: huge slabs of silicon with hundreds of billions of transistors – the inevitable consequence of another set of workarounds that kept Moore's Law from oblivion. But slumping PC sales suggest we don't need these monster computers – and not just because of a sales shadow cast by COVID. In the first half of 2022, corporate computing looked pretty much the same as it had for the last decade: basic office apps, team communication apps, and, for the creative class, a few rich media tools. Sure, gamers would...

...Here’s a sample of some of the most interesting essays, which have been edited for clarity and length: ... People fly off the handle so fast now, always ready to argue or fight. In the past when two people would have an argument or a physical altercation, people might have tried to step in and try to calm everyone down. Now everybody just reaches for their phone to make sure they can post it. ... The following Wednesday, I taught my last class at Rutger...For me, there is no such thing as a “post-COVID” world. I continue to “mask up”...

CNN’s prime-time broadcast of a raucous town hall with Donald Trump propelled a tsunami of criticism from inside and outside the network Thursday — and renewed questions about how the news media will handle the challenge of covering the serial falsehoods of the Republican Party’s leading candidate going into the 2024 election. The former president repeatedly dodged or sneered at questions from CNN’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins, during the live, 70-minute forum at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. He doubled down on false claims that “a rigged election” led to his 2020 ouster and referred to writer...

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American Greatness is launching a polling project in the early presidential primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The polls will be released at a rate of one per week. This week’s poll is was conducted in Florida with a focus on the Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis dynamic.Former President Donald Trump leads rival Ron DeSantis in the latter’s state of Florida by eight points, an exclusive poll reveals. Forty-two percent say they’ll back Trump compared to 34 percent who support DeSantis. Among voters favorable to both Trump and DeSantis, Trump’s lead stretches to a 19 points and the...

It's not just local news. If the left breaks Tennessee, it'll be emboldened to break all the other red states. The battle for the soul of America has been going on for a while, but up to now, it hasn't been waged openly or directly. It has mostly involved lying politicians and media, hidden election manipulation, clandestine censorship by corrupt government agencies — things like that. The tactics are about to change. The events of the last few weeks have drawn national attention to Tennessee, providing the left with the opportunity it needed to begin attacking red states openly and...

As the border crisis explodes, one thing’s grown crystal-clear, despite the lying Bidenites’ efforts to obfuscate: Their only priority is to admit every illegal migrant they can. The latest surrender: The administration is just letting everyone go in areas where holding facilities are overcrowded (how many aren’t, we wonder?), with a stern note telling them to report to some ICE office within a couple of months or maybe file an asylum claim by mail. These “mass releases” began before the end of Title 42 removed the last real restraint. They’re calling it “parole,” since “catch and release” doesn’t sound good...

Former President Donald Trump said during his CNN town hall event Wednesday that he would likely pardon a “large portion” of those serving prison sentences for the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot if elected president.Wayne Beyer, a retired attorney from New Hampshire, asked Trump, “Will you pardon, then, January 6 rioters who were convicted of federal offenses?”“I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them probably they got out of control,” Trump said.He then shifted focus to the militant progressive left, asserting “nothing” is done to Antifa radicals...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday Evening May 9, 1863. By a flag of truce to-day we learn of the death of Col. VAN HOUGHTEN, who was wounded in the leg at the battle of Salem Heights on Monday evening, and taken prisoner. He was a brave man. This afternoon, Gen. BARKSDALE, Commander at Fredericksburgh, accompanied by several other officers, came down to the bank above the Lacey House, and held an interview with our authorities. Arrangements have been made for the bringing over of our wounded to this side, and they are arriving rapidly. In the morning several Surgeons,...

Treasury Secretary Janet “The Evil Hobbit” Yellen is a Statist. She can only think of an all powerful central government calling the shots since the private sector and individual liberties are something to be eliminated. So, it is not surprising that Yellen is pushing for Congress to raise the debt ceiling without conditions. Even Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is saying that Biden is ‘Hypocritical’ On Debt-Limit Demands’. Back in Mordor on The Potomac, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy postponed a meeting on the debt ceiling set for Friday. People familiar with the talks said the postponement was...

The IDF attacked targets of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said, “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets targeted Ali Ghali, the commander of the rocket launching force of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, who was in a hideout apartment in Khan Yunis.” Reports were received regarding two additional Islamic Jihad terrorist organization operatives who stayed with him in the hideout apartment who were also targeted. Ghali was entrusted with the instruction and the launching of rocket fire toward Israel, including the recent barrage of rockets...

These three arguments are simple, but they are strong. The true economic, social, and political cost of the measures proposed by governments (in the West only) to destroy their nations' businesses and jobs and to impoverish every household is becoming ever more visible. At last, therefore, a few brave souls in the scientific and academic communities are beginning to question what I shall call — with more than a little justification — the Communist Party line on climate change. Three devastating equations have emerged, each of which calls fundamentally into question the imagined (and imaginary) basis for the economic hara-kiri...

The Rossi booth at this year’s NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, 2023, had a new product this correspondent had been hoping to see. It is the RB 22 Compact, a bolt action .22LR with a 10-shot magazine, 16 1/2 inch barrel, with muzzle threaded to 1/2×28, and a composite stock. It is sized to be child friendly, has very good fiber optic Rossi open sights, and is grooved for mounting optics. Rossi RB 22 Compact .22LR RifleIt weighs (unloaded) 3 lbs, 4 ounces. It comes, as seen, in a variety of colors, with one magazine. The overall length is 31...

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