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Leave it to the French to make things interesting. Two weeks ago, it appeared that the right would win. Today, God only knows what happens next. This is how the AP describes the situation in France: Election results show French voters have chosen to give a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in pivotal legislative elections, keeping the far right away from power. Yet no party won an outright majority, putting France in an uncertain, unprecedented situation. Unprecedented situation is a diplomatic way of describing a mess. In other words, no one has the magic 289 to claim a...

Business mogul Elon Musk has warned that Democrats are planning to steal more federal elections by allowing people who are not U.S. citizens to vote.

A Kansas judge has allowed pro-abortion groups to expand an existing lawsuit to include a challenge to a new pro-life law that took effect on Monday. According to Kansas Public Radio, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Great Plains said the Kansas health department “has stated that it will not enforce this intrusive law for now.” HB 2749 requires that medical facilities and doctors report to the Secretary of Health and Environment the reasons why each abortion is committed at their facility. Women would be given a survey list of 18 possible reasons for their abortion and the responses would be...

Baguettes, croissants, the Eiffel Tower, a “welfare system to die for,” vin et fromage à l'infini -- cliches are built on degrees of truth, but you can't live on them forever. There is no substitute for reality, and the French need a taste of it. Intoxicated by years of domestic and foreign policy success, Kierkegaard’s angst now grips the French elite; France under their tutelage is not faring well. And the person in the Elysee Palace? The French president is displaying his insecurity for all to see -- he is desperate to regain his image and what has been lost...

One of the hallmarks of a totalitarian government, either established or nascent, is the propensity of its denizens to rat one another out. For example, I learned during a church mission trip to Cambodia that members of the Khmer Rouge often found themselves incarcerated in the very cells they used to guard because someone accused them of treason, wrong-think, or some other crime. For another excellent example, read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s unnerving account in "The Gulag Archipelago" of the man who was unguarded enough to be the first person to stop clapping after one of Stalin's speeches.

Pro-lifer Cal Zastrow has been sentenced to six months in prison over his participation in a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility March 2021. Zastrow was sentenced by Judge Aleta Trauger on Wednesday in federal court in Nashville. Trauger sentenced him to six months in prison and three years of supervised release. She did not impose a fine on him. He must self report to prison by October 1. When given a chance to speak, Zastrow spoke of his Christian faith and how it drove him to advocate for unborn babies. He said he tried to live his life...

French criminal prosecutors today opened an investigation into ‘illegal financing’ by Marine Le Pen and her far-Right National Rally party. It followed them being beaten into third place in parliamentary elections held over the weekend. Judicial sources in Paris on Tuesday confirmed that the new criminal enquiry related to Ms Le Pen’s attempt to become President of France in 2022.

The surprise victory of the New Popular Front (NFP) in France's elections has set alarm bells ringing for the nation's wealthy as the hard-left alliance plans to roll out an eye-watering 90% income tax on high earners. Even before the election took place, financial advisers reported a huge influx of enquiries off the back of Emmanuel Macron's decision to call a snap election, with well-off French citizens considering a move to more fiscally favourable territories such as Italy, the historic tax haven of Switzerland, and Spain. But the victory of the NFP over Macron's centrists and the hard-right National Rally...

A fundraiser and organizer of wealthy Democrats is dishing on why Joe Biden won't drop out of the 2024 election. Dmitri Mehlhorn, who organizes wealthy Biden boosters like LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman, made noise last week when he said that either a 'dead' or 'comatose' Biden would be better than replacing him on the ticket with Kamala Harris. Mehlhorn said in an interview Monday that Biden is still determined to run and win in 2024, that the polls saying the president is losing are wrong and what motivates him to stay in the race.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, deepening ties between the two nations as Western leaders gathered at a NATO summit in Washington and Russia stepped up attacks in Ukraine with deadly missile strikes. While leaders — including President Joe Biden and Britain's newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer — prepared to mark 75 years of the world’s biggest security organization, and reassure Ukraine of NATO's support, Putin and Modi were pictured viewing an exhibition of nuclear technology in space. Modi earlier Tuesday lay a wreath at a war memorial near the Kremlin during...

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Barack Obama is busy behind the scenes laying the groundwork to thrust his wife Michelle Obama into the presidential race in place of the ailing and failing Joe Biden, according to multiple Democrat party insiders…

Florida Satanists are volunteering to fill school counselor roles after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a law allowing religious chaplains into public schools amid staffing shortages. “Nothing in the text of the bill serves to exclude us, and no credible interpretation of the First Amendment could. Should a school district now choose to have chaplains, they should expect Satanists to participate as well,” Lucien Greaves, cofounder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, said in a statement... Back when DeSantis signed the bill in April, he described Satanism as “not a religion” and said its members would not be allowed to...

"It was happening every hour on the hour." Thirteen senior citizens reported being brutally attacked and robbed in just one week in one East Bay community. But one witness says, the number is much higher.

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. Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven....

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are rallying around President Biden as scores of lawmakers in the party privately — and publicly — question his viability at the top of the ticket after his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta last month. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday both amplified previous statements of support for Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, despite the backlash from the debate. “I made clear the day after the debate publicly that I support President Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “My position...

PCO says it will review its background check processThe Privy Council Office (PCO) says it did not search the aliases Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, used to make controversial social media posts. A spokesperson for the PCO said in a statement to CBC News on Monday that "an administrative oversight resulted in the aliases not being searched by PCO." In June, Dattani was named the CHRC's chief commissioner, making him the first Muslim or racialized person to head the organization. Shortly after his historic appointment, national Jewish organizations cited what they described as antisemitic...

Researchers have found a potential link between putative retinal gliosis and Alzheimer's disease. The study demonstrates that putative retinal gliosis could be a sign of Alzheimer's disease-related neuroinflammation, an inflammatory response within the brain or spinal cord. Putative retinal gliosis refers to changes in the retina caused by activation of glial cells, which are support cells that become activated when there is damage or disease in the retina. In this study, Edmund Arthur, O.D., Ph.D. found that presumed neuroinflammation was larger in the retina of preclinical Alzheimer's disease patients compared to similarly aged controls, like from postmortem tissues and animal...