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When you killed my family, I forgave you. When you killed my people, I forgave you. But when you killed my idealism, I had no forgiveness left.To non-Jewish friends who have reached out, thank you. It is simply the human thing to do. To friends who dare justify what has happened, you are not friends. You are nothing but Nazi supporters dressed up in leftist intellectual language. To the Palestinians: you have lost all moral authority to claim victimhood. I will never advocate for you again. To my family, friends in Israel, and Jews around the world hurting right now,...

Joe Biden on Friday evening made a mysterious trip to his Delaware home for a few hours and the White House refuses to say why. Earlier Friday a reporter asked White House spox Olivia Dalton: “What’s the reason for the president’s trip to Delaware this afternoon?” “The president is making a brief stop at home,” Oliva Dalton told reporters aboard an Air Force One gaggle on Friday. Biden spent a few hours in Philly speaking to a crowd at the Tioga Marine Terminal. After spending a couple of hours in Philly, Joe Biden arrived to New Castle, Delaware at 4:55...

NASCAR has reinstated Noah Gragson after a suspension lasting just over a month, making him eligible to return to racing activities. NASCAR announced the news Tuesday with its weekly penalty report. A spokesperson said that “Noah Gragson has completed diversity and inclusion training” with partners at RISE (Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality), an alliance across major sports leagues that promotes diversity and equality through sports. Gragson was suspended by Legacy Motor Club and indefinitely suspended by NASCAR on August 5 for liking a racially insensitive social media post. On August 10, Legacy MC announced that Gragson had requested a...

ROCHESTER, N.H. – Nikki Haley is having a great fall. The former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as ambassador to the United Nations in then-President Donald Trump's administration has been on the rise in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. While Trump remains the commanding front-runner in the GOP race,Haley has seen her poll numbers rise nationally and in the crucial early voting states, thanks in part to two well-regarded performances in the first two Republican presidential debates. "We can feel the momentum on the ground," Haley said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital...

SFT Safety Alert: This is a State Fair Emergency Order. @dallaspd is investigating a shooting at the State Fair. The park is being evacuated. Please avoid the area. pic.twitter.com/WiWRPhy8Hb— State Fair of Texas (@StateFairOfTX) October 15, 2023

NORFOLK — “I see him!” exclaimed 8-year-old Penelope Holbert, vigorously waving. Her father, Petty Officer 1st Class Drew Holbert waved back from a platform at the stern of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Holbert, an aviation structural mechanic, was one of 5,000 sailors who deployed Saturday aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — the flagship of the Ike carrier strike group. It has long been scheduled to deploy this week to the Mediterranean. [Snip] The Eisenhower is expected to be deployed for about six months. [Snip] The Virginia Beach strike fighter squadrons known as Gunslingers, Fighting Swordsmen, Rampagers and Wildcats...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian publicly warned Israel of an attack by Lebanon based Hezbollah that would cause a “huge earthquake” in response to Israel’s attacks on Hamas controlled Gaza after Hamas slaughtered over 1,300 Israelis and kidnapped 150 last Saturday in a surprise attack. Amir-Abdollahian also privately warned Israel via the UN that Iran would intervene if Israel invades Gaza, according to Axios. Amir-Abdollahian made his threats while on a diplomatic visit in Beirut, Lebanon on Saturday where he met with Hamas and Palestinian leaders and (separately) UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland. Excerpt...

Joe Biden wished George Floyd a Happy 50th birthday on Saturday. Joe Biden is pandering to the black community as his approval among black voters is down a whopping 17 points since his first year of presidency. “George Floyd’s memory reminds us that there is more work to do to redeem the soul of America. Let us recommit to changing hearts and minds while enacting policies and laws that ensure our nation lives up to its founding idea: that we’re all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.” Biden said. George Floyd died in spring 2020...

(Exerpt from) Israel urges civilians in northern Gaza to go South Michael Holmes talks with IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. ["The problem with the aid that goes in intended for Palestinians is taken by Hamas..."] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/world/2023/10/14/exp-israel-view-gaza-civilians-conricus-intv-101412aseg2-cnni-world.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/14/exp-israel-view-gaza-civilians-conricus-intv-101412aseg2-cnni-world.cnn

I can’t help it. Life really has been imitating “The Holy Grail” for the past couple of days. Suddenly, aggressive, radically pro-Palestinian protestors are scrambling like ki-niggets to run away, discarding their menacing faux-face garb and vicious anti-Israel rhetoric as they scurry off like rats. I am sure there are more than one pair of soiled drawers that now need laundering at the thought of jeopardizing, oh, say…that prized SIX FIGURE JOB offer in one’s pocket.... The blithering excuse-making and blatant prevarication is so patently ridiculous, it begs the question on its own – why would anyone hire these people?…Famed...

Hipster anti-Semitism is still anti-SemitismThe news is mind-bogglingly dire this week, and it’s just too much to digest. Way too many people are revealing themselves to be anti-Semites, along with the anti-Semites we knew about already. The more evidence we see of Hamas’ butchery, the louder the Jew-haters get.So I’m trying to focus on the free-speech aspect of all this. Right now is one of the times when the rock-ribbed Republican on one side of my brain is at war with the hippy-dippy libertarian on the other side, so I hope you’ll indulge me as I work this out.A lot...

After being swept by the Diamondbacks in humiliating fashion, the Los Angeles Dodgers were left wondering if perhaps they ought to have spent more time practicing baseball and less time honoring Satanic nuns dressed in drag.

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.

Friends, this is the state of American media today. Let’s delve into the audacity, the downright insensitivity displayed on a live broadcast by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, reflecting a shocking perspective we witness from the liberal left in the United States, a matter that is demanding our scrutiny tonight.

The three-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner also starred in the original 'Days of Wine and Roses' and in 'Children of a Lesser God.'Piper Laurie, the three-time Oscar-nominated actress known for her performances in The Hustler and Carrie and for her outlandish two-character, two-gender turn on the original Twin Peaks, died Saturday morning in Los Angeles. She was 91. Laurie had not been well for some time, her rep, Marion Rosenberg, told The Hollywood Reporter. An Emmy winner who was nominated nine times during her career, Laurie spent three years as a child in a sanatorium, broke free from her...

Ukraine’s counteroffensive is not going according to plan, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Kyiv Main Intelligence Directorate, acknowledged in an October 12 interview with the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper. The spy chief admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were not merely behind schedule but had totally “fallen out of it” after various things did not go as “smoothly” as the Kyiv regime had hoped. Budanov did not provide more details as to what “falling out of schedule” meant, maintaining that everyone should “draw their own conclusion.” Notably, Budanov had claimed in an interview with the same outlet in February that Kyiv...

A video showing a California police officer dragging a woman from her car and punching her to the ground after an alleged burglary has gone viral on social media. The shocking footage shows the end of a car chase after a business near the Gateway Plaza Shopping Center was burglarized on Friday, the Vallejo Police Department told KRON4. Police allege that the suspect was driving recklessly and crashed into a truck in the area of Auto Mall Pkwy and Admiral Callaghan Lane. The suspect, wearing jeans and a white sweater, then resisted arrest and tried to escape, according to police....

I’ve been debating whether to discuss this topic, since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is triggering for many people, but I do have something important to share, given my experience in the IDF (the Israeli army). For those who don’t know, I, like any 18-year-old in Israel, was recruited to the IDF. During my service, I spent a total of about a year guarding the border with Gaza inside a tank. A few months were spent in the exact spot Gilad Shalit’s tank was attacked, the tank members were killed and he was kidnapped and held hostage for years by Hamas. Now...

Jacinda Ardern was a progressive favorite on the world stage who led New Zealand for about five years. She resigned earlier this year saying she didn’t have the energy to face the voters another time. Her decision to step down left her Labour party in the hands of Chris Hipkins. But New Zealand has been dealing with high inflation and today voters demanded a change.After an election campaign of fits and starts, in which neither major party appeared to offer much solace to a weary nation, voters in New Zealand on Saturday ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern...

This month, the sudden appearance of Special Counsel Robert Hur caused as much of a stir as Bigfoot suddenly appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue. Unlike his counterpart, Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has been aggressively prosecuting former president Donald Trump, Hur has virtually disappeared since his appointment to investigate President Joe Biden. Hur surfaced to interview Biden over his possession of classified documents, including some that go back to his time as a U.S. senator. I have referred to Hur as a “neutron prosecutor” — a special counsel with no possible charge, under Justice Department policy barring the indictment of a...