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So, Chris tells Jamie, “I just couldn’t cast a vote for someone who supports abortion.” And Jamie says, “You know, Chris, abortion’s not the only voting issue. Other things matter to elections and politics too. Seems kind of narrow-minded for you to fixate on just that one.” Have you ever heard a conversation like this? Have you ever had a conversation like this? Have you ever met someone like Chris or Jamie? Have you ever felt like Chris? Like Jamie? Is abortion an election issue? No and Yes. No, abortion is never just an election issue. But yes, abortion is...

An industry group says the Biden administration’s new staffing regulations for long-term care facilities are unrealistic. The mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Plus, nursing homes must have a registered nurse onsite at all times. Research by SeniorLiving.org shows 82%, or nearly 12,000 facilities in the U.S., will need to hire staff or face being shut down. Spokesperson Corie Wagner said Illinois is home to the fifth highest number of understaffed nursing homes in the country. “If we were...

My abortion journey began early in the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and was punctuated by four pregnancies that I decided to terminate. As we wait for the Supreme Court to decide on the fate of mifepristone, I’m reflecting on how medication abortion access has been instrumental in expanding reproductive health-care options for countless people like myself. Mifepristone restrictions not only jeopardize our ability to have the types of abortions we want and need, but also perpetuate barriers to health-care access, particularly for marginalized communities. I discovered my first pregnancy in March 2020 as a 19-year-old college sophomore in Ohio. I...

Veteran top Democratic consultant James Carville says he wishes President Biden wasn’t running for re-election and worries that disenchanted young party voters will sit out the November election because of it. “It isn’t the choice I was crazy about,” admitted Carville, who played a major role in getting former President Clinton first elected in 1992, on 77 WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” on Sunday. “I thought that President Biden should not run for re-election,” the political guru said. “But he did — it’s him and Trump — and that’s where I am.” Carville argued that the Democrats have a deep...

Earlier this year, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood after an expose’ video showed officials discussing how they take teen girls out of state for secret abortions. As LifeNews previously reported, Project Veritas conducted an investigation just before Christmas this past year in which a journalist entered a Kansas City, Mo. clinic asking how to get an abortion for a 13-year-old. The male reporter was met with certainty and confidence from the staff that although the procedure is illegal in Missouri, the minor could be sent to Kansas for the procedure, and no one would...

Melinda French Gates, billionaire and ex-wife of tech giant Bill Gates, has pledged $200 million to a number of pro-abortion organisations, at least five of which explicitly spend money funding abortions or lobbying Governments to repeal legislation that protects the unborn from abortion, making her one of the biggest individual donors to pro-abortion organisations in the world. Writing in the New York Times last month, Gates announced she would be giving $1 billion (£782.4m) over the next two years “for people and organizations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United...

Joe Biden’s new executive order for asylum seekers is a total scam. Joe Biden last Tuesday held a fake border security press conference on his new asylum ‘restrictions’ from the East Room. More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have invaded the US on Biden’s watch. Joe Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to destroy the border. Now he’s acting like the savior with his new ‘asylum restrictions’ – only asylum is STILL AVAILABLE to thousands of illegal aliens every single day released into the US. According to The New...

It was ALWAYS the PELOSI INSURRECTION. New footage was released on Monday from the House Oversight Committee of Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for the January 6, 2021, protests and rioting at the US Capitol. Nancy Pelosi: “I take responsibility.” WATCH BELOW:

Murder and kidnapping charges against a woman accused of carjacking and then crashing a car with a passenger inside were dropped, in part because the medical examiner has not ruled on the manner of the passenger’s death, prosecutors said. The judge ordered the suspect, 22-year-old Kayla Kenisha Brown, of Southeast D.C., remain held without bond on a charge of unarmed carjacking. Leslie Marie Gaines’ daughter left her mother in a Mazda SUV at MedStar Washington Hospital Center for a moment Monday afternoon to get her a wheelchair, police said. At the time, Brown was with her family at the hospital...

Pelosi declared in video shot by daughter 'I take responsibility' for Jan. 6 security failuresHouse Republicans said the footage undercut three years of Democrat-led narrative that Jan. 6 and its failures were the sole responsibility of former President Donald Trump and his followers.Moments after being whisked away from the U.S. Capitol after it was breached on Jan. 6, 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was captured on videotape declaring "I take responsibility" for failing to have a better security plan for the complex that fateful day, according to footage released Monday by House GOP investigators.“We have responsibility, Terri," Pelosi is heard...

You have to see this to believe it. She knifed a three year old to death, and critically wounded the mother. Click here to see it. She's smirking. She's PROUD of her actions. The reason she should be in prison is to protect HER from US. But I suspect General Population will take care of her. They hate inmates who hurt children. https://x.com/i/status/1800263085560873136

Hamas welcomed, but did not accept, a United Nations Security Council resolution that passed Monday, introduced by the U.S., outlining the plan President Joe Biden presented last month for a ceasefire and hostage exchange. The resolution mirrored Biden’s proposals, which he falsely described as Israel’s proposals, though the U.S. later admitted that they were “virtually identical” to Hamas’s proposals. The resolution does not call on Hamas to disarm and requires Israel to withdraw all forces from Gaza before all of the hostages are released, meaning that it lets Hamas keep them, potentially indefinitely. Hamas welcomed the resolution but did not...

As former President Donald Trump looks to the U.S. Supreme Court for answers on his claims of presidential immunity, a Republican group has launched an ad campaign in opposition. Republicans for the Rule of Law launched a $2 million TV ad campaign featuring conservatives arguing that the Supreme Court should reject the former president's immunity claim. Supreme Court justices are considering a case involving Trump and whether presidents have immunity from criminal prosecutions. Trump's team argued that the president must have immunity for a functioning democracy to flourish, while the attorney for the federal government argued that presidents don't enjoy...

Grand Island Police responded to a local pizzeria following a dispute between an angry customer and an employee Sunday morning. At around 12:15 a.m., officers responded to Domino’s, 624 N. Webb Road, in reference to an assault. Capt. Dean Elliott said when officers arrived on the scene, they determined a customer – a Minnesota man – was upset his order was wrong and issued a refund. However, he said the customer engaged in a mutual fight with a Domino’s employee. Elliott said officers later talked to both parties who did not wish to pursue charges.

By starving tumors of glucose, researchers may have found an innovative way of selectively killing cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.A team of researchers at Ben-Gurion University has unveiled a novel approach to treating brain cancer by targeting the survival mechanisms of tumor cells under glucose starvation. Their findings, published May 14 in Nature Communications, suggest that accelerating the metabolic processes of tumor cells during glucose starvation could cause them to quickly exhaust their energy supplies and die. Research head Prof. Barak Rotblat, along with co-lead researcher Gabriel Leprivier of the Institute of Neuropathology at University Hospital Düsseldorf, discovered that...

In Episode 2 of Straight Down the Middle, I take a look at whether the decision to charge and try Donald Trump for these crimes was "selective prosecution" on the part of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. I also tackle the issue of jury unanimity and whether the jury needed to find a unanimous verdict and what "unanimous" really meant here and how it was applied.

Freepers did an OUTSTANDING job in Q1 when Free Republic had to collect almost $20,000 in TEN DAYS to make the budget! Many donated even though it 'hurt' and some FReepers even donated TWICE to get us across the finish line - we couldn't have made it without that kind of loyalty and generosity. Amazing. I thank God for blessing us with FR, Jim and Chris, and the FReepers who get the job done.Looking at Q3, I see FReepers have donateted $48,703 (THANKS TO EAGER FREEPERS!). Ihe sooner FReepers pile on the remaining donations, the more likely we will reduce/avoid...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) was involved in a car accident over the weekend, rear-ending another driver, and went to the hospital “out of an abundance of caution,” a spokesperson confirmed to The Post. The Senator was with his wife Gisele at the time of the accident on Sunday. “On Sunday morning, John and Gisele were involved in a car accident with another driver. Out of an abundance of caution, they were evaluated at a local hospital. Snip “According to a preliminary investigation, a Chevrolet Traverse and a Chevrolet Impala were both traveling west on I-70 when for unknown reasons, the...

Small businesses are citing the highest levels of uncertainty since the COVID-19 pandemic, a concerning economic indicator. The National Federation of Independent Businesses released the survey of small businesses, which found that small business uncertainty spiked last month. NFIB keeps an “Uncertainty Index” which spiked 9 percentage points last month, hitting the highest level since November of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and businesses were shutting down across the country. “The small business sector is responsible for the production of over 40% of GDP and employment, a crucial portion of the economy,” NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg said...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments in his bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution against him. The development is unusual in that appellate cases are typically decided by the court's review of written legal briefs. “We believe oral argument will assist the court by highlighting and clarifying the reasons why the case should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct,” Trump attorney Seve Sadow said, according to the Washington Examiner.