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My grandfather, who was born when Charles Dickens was still alive and writing, left me his books, including copies of David Copperfield, Bleak House and Barnaby Rudge, which is good because at no point in either grade school or high school did Dickens appear on any reading list. Dickens was – and still is – one of the most famous novelists ever, but like Mark Twain and Tolstoy, I have no sense whatever that he's being read. Back at the end of World War Two, when David Lean was a young director presented with Dickens' Great Expectations as his next...

Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton was reinstated to office Saturday after the state Senate voted to acquit him on all 16 articles of impeachment that had been voted against him by the House of Representatives. "Today the truth prevailed," Paxton wrote in a release shared on X, the platform previously called Twitter. "The truth could not be buried by mudslinging politicians or their powerful benefactors. I've said many times: Seek the truth! And that is what was accomplished." Paxton faced 16 articles of impeachment that alleged he used his power and office to help donor-investor Nate Paul work through...

More public opinion polling this week much of it focused on Marine Le Pen creating a full picture of her positives and negatives... French cabinet ministers met Friday to discuss the migrant flood that reached the Italian island of Lampedusa this week. 7000 in two days. A shorter video clip from today's protest in Paris. Yellow Vests worn by most of the group that sang as they marched drums also present. One carboard sign displayed by a protester reads: "Tout augmente la misere aussi Dehors Macron" linking President Emmanuel Macron to the notion that: "Everything increases the misery"... In rural...

19 minutes on 1 man's 1991 effort to drag government BACK to Constitutional principles and what it cost him. That battle rages on as you read this! Don't let the time scare you. It is MAINLY AUDIO. Some crude language from the U.S. Attorney at 7:58. Share if you dare!

Update from Ukraine | A new Attack operation on the south | Kadyrov could be in coma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zpvDWopHCg The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 13th September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-567-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

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.

Jumpin’ ju-ju bones, this is either a coincidence… or… yikes!... The potential assassin who was stopped by RFK Jr security has been identified. His name is Adrian Paul Aispuro (44). {link} Keep in mind the incident happened on Thursday Sept 14, and the potential assassin had a U.S. Marshals badge. One day earlier, Sept 13th, Mexican Cartel Leader El Chapo’s wife was released from federal prison. “We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) today, September 13, 2023.” {link} INTO THE RABBIT HOLE – Now, I’m not saying they are related,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jann Wenner, who co-founded Rolling Stone magazine and also was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as disparaging toward Black and female musicians. “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner’s comments were published in a New York Times interview. Wenner created a firestorm doing publicity for his new book “The Masters,” which features interviews with musicians Bob...

Plus, Rick Rubin on how Cash "looked at me like I was insane" Remembering The Man In Black's stunning Nine Inch Nails cover 20 years to the day after his deathIt's 20 years to the day since we lost The Man In Black. The country star was one of the genre's defining stars throughout an uncompromising career that spanned half a century. "Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me" But for many (at the time) younger music fans, it was the Man In Black's remorselessly...

Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert issued an apology after she and a male companion were escorted out of a Denver theater's production of the "Beetlejuice" musical for causing a disturbance on Sunday.

Ovidio Guzman, a son of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was extradited to the United States on Friday to face fentanyl trafficking charges, in a boost for the Biden administration's push to curb the spread of the deadly opioid. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Ovidio Guzman's extradition was the latest step in American efforts to attack "every aspect" of the drug trafficking operations run by the Sinaloa Cartel long associated with the Guzman family. "I am also grateful to our Mexican government counterparts for this extradition," Garland said in a statement. "The Justice Department will continue...

He skipped out on President Biden’s inauguration — but former president Donald Trump claimed in an interview that he “took a lot of time” to write his successor a “nice note.” In an interview airing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump dished on the one piece of White House transition tradition he chose to uphold. “I left him a note,” he told host Kristen Welker. “I think it was very — it was a nice note. I took a lot of time in thinking about it.” “I’d love him to do a great job, even if it was very...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has threatened to tax Canadian grocers in a bid to lower grocery costs for families nationwide. "Large grocery chains are making record profits," he claimed Thursday. "Those profits should not be made on the backs of people struggling to feed their families." While at the Liberal caucus retreat in London, Ontario, Trudeau demanded that grocers devise a plan to stabilize prices by Thanksgiving. Otherwise, tax measures may be on the way for Loblaw, Metro, Empire, Walmart and Costco. Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said the feds would also engage with other actors in the food industry. "We're...

In a bold move, a Texas Representative has called for Congress to ban the Democratic Party, citing its historical support of slavery, racism, and the Ku Klux Klan. The representative argues that the party's past actions are incompatible with the principles of equality and justice. This demand has sparked a heated debate among lawmakers, with supporters applauding the call for accountability.

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave her two cents on Hunter Biden’s recent indictment on MSNBC on Friday. “I mean, first and foremost, the politics of this are a little hard to predict, but right now you have the president’s son, somebody he loves deeply, somebody who has very publicly struggled with drug addiction, now facing these charges,” Psaki said on “Morning Joe.”

The already frosty relationship between President Biden and his attorney general, Merrick Garland, is now in a deep freeze. Respect and admiration among White House aides for Garland, a longtime federal appeals-court judge chosen to underscore the independence of the Justice Department, has shifted for some into resignation and distrust. [Snip] Some Biden aides have said they see Garland’s handling of the inquiries into the Biden family as driven less by a dispassionate pursuit of justice than by a punctilious desire to give the appearance that sensitive investigations are walled off from political pressure, people familiar with the matter say....

I'm asking for prayers for my Mom, who is having some severe circulatory issues in her leg, is going to lose a toe and possibly her foot. It isn't diabetes, but a genetic vascular problem. I know this works, because the prayers for my Dad get credit in him recovering from a shattered pelvis. He's recovered, and back on his feet and getting around without a cane or walker (at 92). All things are possible with The Lord.

In Texas, the Uber driver who killed Garrett Foster for pointing a gun at him at a BLM protest during the Summer of Floyd got 25 years in prison. If Garrett Foster had lived, he might have been compensated for his services. These people were PAID to riot by the liberal establishment. The Proud Boys, of course, have been getting anywhere from 18 years to 22 years in prison for shaking a fence, breaking a window or in Enrique Tarrio’s case being in custody and not even in DC on January 6. “The rule of law” isn’t a thing anymore....

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