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The Commissars of California are so concerned about enforcing political uniformity that they are denying the military's right to launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base using SpaceX rockets. Why? Elon Musk owns Twitter/X, and he is a supporter of Donald Trump. The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the Air Force’s plan to give SpaceX permission to launch up to 50 rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.Some members of the commission complained about Elon Musk and his political statements. pic.twitter.com/rbdGWUYA1F— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_4_Trump) October 12, 2024When the Biden administration dropped Starlink from its rural broadband...

News reports indicate Planned Parenthood is consolidating its facilities in Missouri. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and its regional affiliate Planned Parenthood Great Plains is responsible for its facilities in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Now that Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have generally prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother, the organization has opened a new abortion facility in southeast Kansas, and it intends to close its facility in Joplin, Missouri — just north of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The St. Louis Business Journal reports the Joplin facility will close January 1. Planned Parenthood also intends...

In a move that should surprise no one considering that the Biden-Harris regime has treated the Border Patrol like dirt, the National Border Patrol Council announced Sunday at a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona, that they were throwing their support behind Donald Trump. Union president Paul Perez minced no words as he eviscerated Kamala Harris for her utter failure to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country:If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she...

The bad news keeps piling up for Kamala Harris. Riding a wave of astroturfed enthusiasm in August, there was some thought the vice president could build a comfortable lead against Donald Trump. That hope is now a distant memory, and the latest polling data is an outright disaster for Harris. For the entire cycle, her best poll has been ABC News/Ipsos, which has consistently shown her with around a six-point lead against Trump. That margin is now down to two points. ALSO SEE: Trump Jumps Four Points in Yahoo/YouGov Poll Since Vance-Walz Debate#NEW NATIONAL poll🔵 Harris: 50% (+2)🔴 Trump: 48%Last...

The MCCL State Victory Fund has launched a digital ad campaign spotlighting the reality of vulnerable newborns and Minnesota’s extreme policies that threaten them. The ads call out specific incumbent state lawmakers for their votes to repeal a requirement that born-alive infants receive medically appropriate care that could save their lives. “As our ad campaign shows, abortion survivors are real people,” said Cathy Blaeser of the MCCL Victory Fund. “But DFL lawmakers voted to put newborns who survive abortion or who have disabilities in jeopardy—to allow these babies to be set aside to die. We’re going to make Minnesotans aware...

The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed suit against the Detroit, Michigan Election Commission in August, arguing that they violated the law by hiring over seven times more Democratic poll workers than Republicans for the 2024 election.Michigan is a swing state, and its 15 electoral votes are critical to the presidential race, so every vote counts. RealClearPolitics shows an extremely tight contest, with Trump currently up by a mere point nine.The RNC announced in an email Friday that they have prevailed in the matter:The RNC, Michigan GOP, and chairs of Wayne County Republican committee have secured a major victory for election...

The findings reportedly identified Hezbollah's main source of income as coming from the Lebanese banking institution Al-Qard al-Hasan. Hezbollah has been allegedly faced with severe financial difficulties as a result of Israeli military actions that have targeted their funding sources, according to an exclusive Voice of America report. According to the Friday VOA report, the findings of the Lebanese terror group’s financial struggles came after speaking to US and Lebanon-based researchers, along with alleged US Treasury Department reports.

Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, announced the launch of a $2 million digital ad campaign calling out Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats for prioritizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy at the expense of women and children’s lives. The ads will reach a total of 2.6 million persuadable voters in Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio – part of the groups’ larger campaign, including efforts on the ground, to reach 10 million persuadable and low-turnout voters in the 2024 cycle. SUPPORT LIFENEWS! To help us fight Kamala Harris’ abortion...

Democrats Recent attempts to burnish Kamala's image have failed big time!Kamala Harris and the Democrats have no platform and no message. Her campaign is scrambling to find some traction, but the only thing Democrats want to talk about is abortion and Trump is Hitler. The panic sets in It's so satisfying to watch the Democratic Party in a complete panic, but that's what happens when they sully America and attempt to install a Marxist who received zero votes into the White House while claiming they're saving democracy.Two months ago -- even a month ago -- Democrats were feeling bullish about...

Corrected Media @correctedmedia @UNRWA = Hamas: Quote: Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000: Oct 11: The UN wants this video to be removed from the internet, because it caught Hamas-UNRWA employee firing a guided missile from a UN school in Gaza.

A nurse from Georgia allegedly stole jewelry from hospital patients she had been entrusted to take care of. Stephanie Phillips-Siwiec, 54, is accused of stealing valuables on at least two occasions and, at one point, using hand sanitizer to forcefully remove the rings from the fingers of a dementia patient who only realized hours later. Phillips-Siwiec faces charges of abuse, neglect or exploitation of the elderly, three counts of robbery and aggravated battery. Charging documents seen by Fox 5 allege how the nurse was working the overnight shift at Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center north of Atlanta. The theft took...

For generations, the youth vote has trended Democratic, but now there seems to be a shift to the right for young men increasingly supporting Donald Trump. NBC News' Shaquille Brewster went tailgating before an Atlanta Falcons game to talk with young male voters in this key battleground state.

Sleepy Eye, Minnesota — Carrying a Beretta shotgun, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz trekked through tall straw-like grass for three hours on Saturday for opening day of the state's pheasant hunting season, but didn't get one shot off despite his efforts. "There's good days and there's great days pheasant hunting," Walz said when the day wrapped up. Scott Rall, a friend of the governor who he often hunts with, made the sole kill on Saturday. Recovering the body of the birds was a top priority in the instructions given to the hunting party, but no one was able to find the...

Do any FReepers have experience with cell phone extenders such as the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network Extender ASK-SFE116? This is not a repeater, instead, it works through and existing Ethernet Connection to your computer / the Web, and functions like a little "mini-tower" in your home. I did find this useful vid: https://www.verizon.com/support/verizon-lte-network-extender-setup-video/ However, I've not found much info. regarding range. My guess is that it is similar to a typical Wi-Fi router. Unfortunately these "extenders" do not connect via a Wi-Fi router.) It also appears activation can be a problem if buying a used unit, as evidently the...

Cindy Miller wasn’t sure where to begin the cleanup this weekend at her home in Englewood, Fla. Hurricane Milton had drenched her home and dumped debris everywhere. Much of it was not even hers. A sofa, doors and shoes littered the backyard, along with detritus that remained from Hurricane Helene, the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in nearly two decades.“You work all your life to live in paradise and a hurricane comes and kicks you right in the butt,” said Ms. Miller, 70, who retired to Florida 15 years ago.Around 700 miles north, in the rugged, craggy version...

Company documents indicate BYD Americas president Ke Li is a Chinese national with 'right of abode' in US.. Vice President Kamala Harris's billion-dollar Clean School Bus program provided funding to Chinese EV manufacturer BYD Company's subsidiary in the United States, according to federal filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Months later, the subsidiary's top executive, a Chinese national, wired $50,000 in support of what is now Harris's presidential campaign. BYD Americas was selected in late 2022 to receive $395,000 under the administration's Clean School Bus program, which was spearheaded by Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, EPA documents show....

The reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year is taking a slightly different approach to her offseason than most of her peers. ... Clark — the standout rookie who almost single-handedly turned around the historically moribund Indiana Fever franchise this past season — will compete in The Annika pro-am come November. ... the penultimate event of the LPGA Tour, and it will take place in Belleair, Florida. As the name of the event suggests, the tournament is hosted by legendary Swedish female golfer, Annika Sörenstam. ... But it won’t just be her skill on the links that Clark will test out...

California officials have been working for months on a plan to “Trump proof” the state’s leading edge environmental and climate policies, in the event that former President Donald J. Trump returns to White House and follows through on his promise to gut them.Whether California succeeds could affect more than a dozen other states that follow its emissions rules, and could have global impact because the state’s market muscle compels auto makers and other companies to conform to California standards.The strategy now being crafted in Sacramento includes lawsuits designed to reach wide-ranging settlements with industries that generate greenhouse gases, and new...

In the final weeks of the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump are staking their chances on two radically different theories of how to win: one tried-and-true, the other untested in modern presidential campaigns. Ms. Harris’s team is running an expansive version of the type of field operation that has dominated politics for decades, deploying flotillas of paid staff members to organize and turn out every vote they can find. Mr. Trump’s campaign is going after a smaller universe of less frequent voters while relying on well-funded but inexperienced outside groups to reach a...

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Elders at First Bible Church of Tuscaloosa recently placed the church's head pastor Bob "Jimbo" James on leave after he gave a sermon without incorporating even one single college football analogy.According to congregants at First Bible, congregants became concerned when Pastor Jimbo began to approach the 30-minute mark of his sermon without having mentioned the comeback over South Carolina, Coach DeBoer, or even saying "Roll Tide.""Things were getting a bit edgy," said Marty Travis, a member of First Bible Church and Crimson Tide alumnus. "He had such an easy opportunity to say how the inseparable operations of...