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From Wikipedia Cartel Land is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Matthew Heineman about the Mexican Drug War, especially vigilante groups fighting Mexican drug cartels. The film focuses on Tim "Nailer" Foley, the leader of Arizona Border Recon, and Dr. José Mireles, a Michoacán-based physician who leads the Autodefensas. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2016.

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Former President Donald Trump has laid out the conditions under which he would be willing to assume the House speaker position. (snip) "I have been asked to speak as a unifier because I have so many friends in Congress," Trump told the outlet. "If they don't get the vote, they have asked me if I would consider taking the speakership until they get somebody longer term, because I am running for president." "They have asked me if I would take it for a short period of time for the party, until they come to a conclusion—I'm not doing it because...

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. Celebrating Columbus Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. They saw the works of the LORD,...

Full Letter by Cardinal Zen to Cardinals and Bishops on the Synod - How can Synodality be a "constitutive element of the Church" when it is clearly a novelty? The following letter was sent by His Eminence Cardinal Zen, Emeritus of Hong Kong, to Cardinals and Bishops all over the world. A recipient was kind enough to share this historic document with us.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Libs of TikTok’s latest repeat offender. Hopkins Public School District in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was featured on LoTT in early 2023 because a “Health Mentor” within the district offered students chest binders and LGBTQ counseling without parental consent. (Go read about it- it’s seriously disturbing!) Another concerned parent from the same district reached out to us regarding an LGBTQ field trip being offered to students at Hopkins West Junior High School. Ms. Sami Peterson, a 7th-grade science teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance advisor (whatever that is) sent a flyer to parents offering to...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a presidential campaign event in Tampa on Thursday to tout his “law and order” agenda. Jeff Patterson reports.

Controversial Arizona pastor Steven Anderson, the noted firebrand from the 300-member Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, has an adult son who has gone astray- and we mean really, really astray. Anderson, who is known for his rigorous Independent Fundamentalist Baptist theology, hatred of Calvinism, a famous clip about men pisseth-ing on walls, and open glee at the thought of homosexuals being frogmarched and killed in the streets, has twelve children, with his oldest being 22-year-old Isaac Anderson. We’ve known for a while that he’s been a troubled soul, but a recent article by the Friendly Atheist demonstrates how...

This video was made in collaboration with Academy of Ideas. They create videos explaining the ideas of history's great thinkers in order to help supply the world with more knowledge, to empower the individual, and to promote freedom. Please check out their youtube channel for more brilliant content. In this video we are going to explore the most dangerous of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of...

Masters of the Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated follow-up series to Band of Brothers and The Pacific, finally has a launch date. Check out a series of first look photos below. The first two episodes of the nine-episode limited series will premiere on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 26th. A new episode will then air every Friday through March 15th. Masters of the Air pulls from Donald L. Miller’s biography Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, telling the story of the enlisted men of the US Eighth Air Force...

Six South Dakota baseball players aged 17 to 19 have been charged in connection with the rape of two minors - with one of their victims identified as a male. Lincoln Bates, 18, Hudson Haley, 18, Carter Miller, 18, Landon Waddell, 19, Peyton Mandel, 17, and Karter Sibson, 17 are all accused of the sex assaults while participating in a tournament between June 1 and 4. All six are charged with second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape. Haley faces an extra rape charge for a second victim, while Waddell was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting...

Idumea, most striking of the shaped-note/Sacred Harp hymnsAnd am I born to die? To lay this body down! And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought; The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot! Soon as from earth I go, What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my portion be! Waked by the trumpet sound, I from my grave shall rise; And see the Judge with glory crowned, And see the flaming skies!

France will begin withdrawing its troops from coup-hit Niger this week after President Emmanuel Macron said last month he refused to be "held hostage" by the putchists and was ending military cooperation with the West African country. The decision to pull 1,500 troops from Niger leaves a gaping hole in Western efforts to counter a decade-long Islamist insurgency. It also deals a huge blow to French influence in the Sahel and could allow Russia to expand its sway over the region's vast, insecure scrublands. In a statement on Thursday, the French Armed Forces Ministry said the troops would return to...

Below is my column in The Messenger on Hunter Biden’s curious new defense in the federal gun case: he had a moment of sobriety just before he signed his gun form. It appears that the defense is lifting Hunter’s blackout dates on his long addiction defense. Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 2018, form by denying that he was a drug user. His counsel is expected to continue to insist that the form was accurate because Hunter had...

No matter what one thinks of Rep. Kevin McCarthy's ouster as Speaker of the House, there's been at least one positive development. That would be multiple Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, getting kicked out of their prestigious hideaway offices within the Capitol Building. As RedState reported, Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry immediately evicted Pelosi after the motion to vacate was passed. It wasn't long until the wailing and gnashing of teeth commenced. MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell joined that chorus, decrying the supposed breach of tradition. ...If you've ever seen an interview conducted by Mitchell with Pelosi, you'll understand the level of affection...

NFL legend Dick Butkus has reportedly died on Thursday at the age of 80. Emergency crews arrived at Butkus’ home in Malibu around 12.51pm, where he was pronounced dead at the scene.

NFL legend Dick Butkus has died at the age of 80, according to TMZ News. Paramedics responded to a medical emergency at Butkus's Malibu residency at 12.51pm Thursday, according to the outlet. The former linebacker was reportedly declared dead at the scene. The report claims that Butkus was found unresponsive when someone went to check on him at the property.

An endorsement from Kevin McCarthy was supposed to be a blessing for Republicans in competitive primaries next year. But now primary challengers see it as a liability. McCarthy’s ouster from the speakership is a sudden opening for primary contestants who have already gone on the attack against the frontrunners who earned his endorsement. “Voters don’t want a McCarthy Republican,” Joe Earley, who is running against a McCarthy-endorsed candidate in West Virginia, said in a statement to POLITICO. “They want a true conservative, and this situation has exposed how poor a job that McCarthy has done and that my opponent has...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is betting his campaign on an all-or-nothing bid in Iowa, as he is moving a third of his campaign staff to the Hawkeye state while he has around $5 million in available primary funds in his war chest, according to a New York Times report. The move marks a pivotal moment for DeSantis, as Iowa is the first Republican-voting state in the nation, and its caucus next January represents one of only a few opportunities to reverse narratives surrounding his campaign, given his collapse in the polls since the spring.During that time, frontrunner former President Donald...

Former President Trump told Fox News Digital that he would accept a short-term role as speaker of the House of Representatives to serve as a "unifier" for the Republican Party until lawmakers reach a decision on who should take on the post.Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was removed as speaker of the House Tuesday after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced a measure against him known as a motion to vacate, accusing him of breaking promises he made to win the speaker's gavel in January."I have been asked to speak as a unifier because I have so many friends in Congress," Trump...