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It is one of the cruelest ironies in American politics that Barry Goldwater, who treated everyone — whether white, black, red or brown — with the same respect should be consigned to the ash heap of history as a racist. These cruel charges deeply hurt Goldwater. He was half-Jewish and as a private citizen and U.S. senator had fought discrimination time and again. He led the way in desegregating the Arizona Air National Guard in 1946, two years before President Truman desegregated the armed forces. He was an early member of the Phoenix chapters of the NAACP and the Urban...

A TikTok clip of a man in a dress welcoming small children into a Disneyland boutique full of princess costumes has gone viral on social media.

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Nine teenagers have been arrested over the savage beating of three Marines on a California beach over Memorial Day Weekend. Orange County officials said four boys and one girl were charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Tuesday and held at juvenile hall. And another four minors were charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, CBS News reported. The Marines were brutally attacked along San Clemente beach, just south of Los Angeles, by a group of up to 40 teenagers at 10pm on Friday after the service members confronted them about setting off fireworks. The incident was caught on video...

The mother of the woman shot and killed by Capitol Police on during the January 6 riot was arrested on Tuesday night following a violent confrontation with a protester outside the Washington DC prison where the rioters are being held. Micki Witthoeft's daughter Ashli Babbitt died inside the Capitol, and her mother has since become a passionate defender of those trying to overthrow the 2020 election. Witthoeft, 58, was part of a group of right-wing protesters who marched on Monday to the prison where many of the rioters are being held. She scuffled with a counter-protester, and on Tuesday was...

Just a few weeks after Special Counsel John Durham revealed significant failures to investigate allegations against Hillary Clinton’s family charity, a U.S. Tax Court judge has once again breathed new life into a years-long whistleblower case alleging IRS improprieties involving the controversial Clinton Foundation. U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson has already once before denied an IRS request to dismiss the whistleblower case, first brought in 2017. And three years ago, he ordered the tax agency to reveal whether it criminally investigated the foundation, citing a mysterious "gap" in its records. The IRS filed a new motion to dismiss, and...

Hollywood great Clint Eastwood, who was born this date in 1930, is a softly-spoken icon of modern Western masculinity. Here are some of his wonderful words: “Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.” “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” "They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.” “Man becomes his most creative during war.” “There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.” God Bless Clint Eastwood

The latest Census figures show that there were 5,149,139 people in the State on Census night, which took place in April last year. That is an 8% increase on April 2016 figures. The Census population of 2022 summary results also show the average age of the population increased from 37.4 in 2016 to 38.8 in 2022, compared with 36.1 in 2011. The number of people with dual Irish citizenship was 170,597, which represents a 63% increase from 2016. There was a drop from 87% to 83% in the proportion of people who reported their health was good or very good...

A male Disneyland employee dressed as a 'Fairy Godmother's apprentice' has caused outrage and led to calls for the entertainment resort to be boycotted. Footage of the worker, who has a mustache, wearing a blue and purple dress as he welcomes a young girl at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Anaheim, California has gone viral. It was posted by Kournti Farber, a mother of three, who was documenting her family's trip to Disneyland and she praised the workers for providing her daughter with an unforgettable experience. But critics have hit out at Disney for allowing a male to wear a...

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.

At least 153 people who were arrested since El Salvador instituted emergency powers have died in state custody, according to a report by a human rights group. The special powers were introduced in March 2022 to battle powerful street gangs based in El Salvador in the President Nayib Bukele's 'war on gangs'. None of those who died, which included four women with the rest being men, had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest, according to the report by Central American human rights group Cristosal. The report by the NGO said that...

Good morning defenders of freedom! More details on the drone attack on Moscow.

When Governor Murphy and the New Jersey Democrats rushed a flurry of gun laws through the legislature last June of 2022, one of the laws rammed through was under the guise of banning guns with no serial numbers.This law banned millions of rifles, shotguns, handguns, hunting guns, target shooting guns, military surplus guns, and virtually ALL muzzleloaders, black powder guns, antique guns, air guns and BB guns.There are NO exceptions and there is NO grandfathering. This was the largest gun ban ever passed in the history of the United States. The law bans ALL firearms with a “…firearm frame or...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against an MS-13 gang member who had recently been released from prison on parole, charged with murdering an Uber Eats driver in a case that police have called “demonic.”

Girl snips off woman's hair in China salon, mum has to pay over $2,000 in compensation A woman in China recently visited the salon for a new hairdo but ended up with choppy tresses. Her 'hairdresser'? A six-year-old girl who swiped a pair of scissors and snipped off the woman's hair. According to media reports, the girl's mother was getting her hair done in the same salon on May 16, and the child was spotted walking around the premises. While no one was looking, the girl picked up a pair of scissors from the drawer, walked over to a customer...

PORTSMOUTH (AP) — A Portsmouth man was arrested Tuesday on murder and gun charges in the February killing of a New Jersey councilwoman who was found fatally shot in her SUV outside her home, prosecutors said. Middlesex County, New Jersey, prosecutor Yolanda Cicconne said in a press conference that 28-year-old Rashid Ali Bynum, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was arrested outside a home in Chesapeake, Virginia, on first-degree murder and two second-degree handgun charges in the death of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.

Please note: this article was pulled down offline from Forbes. I will let you draw your own conclusions as to why. Factually, there was no justification for it. This list could be closer to 50 but let’s just stick to a handful of them. I literally live in this business every day, and I’m just so confused. 1. In a world that is apparently getting both warmer and colder because of global warming, how is it that we can increasingly rely on non-dispatchable (i.e., intermittent, usually unavailable), weather-dependent electricity from wind and solar plants to displace, not just supplement, dispatchable...

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a key member the House Freedom Caucus (HFC), indicated Tuesday that if Republicans do not stop the debt deal in committee he would consider ousting Kevin McCarthy from leadership as House speaker. In an interview with Glenn Beck on "BlazeTV" Tuesday morning, Roy called the debt limit deal that McCarthy, R-Calif., struck over the weekend with the White House a "betrayal of the power-sharing arrangement that we put in place" – that is to say, the promises McCarthy made to the HFC to give him the votes needed to secure him the speakership after a 15-voting-round...

In the small print detailing the end of the debt ceiling melodrama which, as we explained, is a farce as it boosts inflation-adjusted spending contrary to Republican promises, there was some actual news: the great student loan boondoggle is about to come to a screeching halt, after a three year "emergency pause" which redirected tens of billions in dollars away from mandatory student loan repayment to other forms of discretionary spending.According to Goldman, the agreement announced on Saturday between uniparty leaders Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy titled hilariously the “Fiscal Responsibility Act”, prohibits the Biden Administration from extending the pause...

CBO says that Deal would expand a welfare program. Fox News Digital asked Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., for her reaction to the CBO update as the congresswoman was leaving a closed-door conference meeting. She replied sarcastically, "Yay debt." The simple answer is the CBO got it wrong," House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said at a late night press conference.