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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) 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...

"Think globally, act locally." Remember those bumper stickers that used to be so popular with your lefty friends and neighbors? To me, seeing one was always a tell that the owner of that car — whatever happened to "property is theft," bub? — might as well fly the hammer and sickle, whether they knew it or not. They had drunk deep of the strawberry Kool-Aid, blindly repeating a mantra that any Soviet commissar would have instantly recognized. Spasibo for your attention to this matter, Comrade. The international communist revolution was made possible by local action, which is exactly why you...

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," George Orwell famously noted, but he neglected to say that for some, the struggle isn't so much constant as it is ignored. Enter, stage left: CNN's Fareed Zakaria, finally noticing what conservatives have known for years. I was unaware that Zakaria was still on CNN, or that he anchored his own weekly show called Fareed Zakaria GPS. So you'll have to forgive me for also being unaware that he opens GPS with a segment called "My Take." Going by CNN's weekend viewership ratings, which rank right up...

"How do we squash the prejudice against female presidential nominees, which has always been with us, but became even worse after Kamala Harris got whomped by Donald Trump?" Asks Gail Collins in a column with a title that asks a different question, "Where, oh Where, Will the First Female President Come From?"Maybe it would be better to ask this other question, my question: When will we ever get to evaluate a female presidential candidate as just another presidential candidate? We've been nudged too many times to pick the woman because she is a woman. It makes people wary. I mean,...

Remember back in 2022 when Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking to a gathering of CAIR and referred to 9/11 as the day that "some people did something"? Now, a woman whom New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, whose father's second cousin was afraid to wear a hijab on the subway because of that something, has endorsed for the New York State Assembly a woman who describes 9/11 as "a terror attack that a couple people did." We wonder 1) how old she was on September 11, 2001, and 2) what university she graduated from, because she hits all the talking...

Polls now show a clear majority saying unvetted foreign nationals should never be behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler. Despite those worries, Bozorov was living and working freely in the U.S. His CDL was issued in Pennsylvania under Gov. Josh Shapiro, and the Biden administration granted him work authorization in January 2024.

Guests have frequented an Audrey Hepburn-themed restaurant chain in the eastern city of Suzhou since 2014. Now, Hepburn’s son has won a lawsuit against the restaurant for its unauthorized use of his mother’s likeness. On Friday, a Suzhou court publicly released its decision affirming a lower court ruling in favor of Luca Dotti, one of two sons of late British actress Audrey Hepburn, in a rare move by a Chinese court recognizing the personality rights of deceased celebrities and their families. Operating under the name “Angel’s Hepburn Time Restaurant,” the business featured Hepburn’s face and name on its signage, website,...

She then called both @TPUSA and the chapter racists. Video credit: @Emmamote22 (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Oh, you want to know what fascism means? Because I'll tell you. Do you guys want to know? Yeah. So you have a situation here where you want to go into classrooms and you want to tell the faculty that they're not allowed to speak the truth about the history of this country. You want them to be, what's the word for slaves now? Volunteer. Involuntary employees. Or involuntary workers. We can't even say slavery. That's ridiculous. We're not...

https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-mayor-reminds-everyone-to-get-their-christmas-shoplifting-done-earlySAN FRANCISCO, CA — With Christmas just around the corner, San Francisco encouraged residents to get their shoplifting done early this year. "Hard to believe the looting season is already upon us!" said a spokesperson for city council. "We are encouraging all residents to begin shoplifting for Christmas before everything, including the stores themselves, are shuttered and gone!" Though typically last-minute shoplifters, local couple Jared and Stacey Adams said they would be committing grand larceny much earlier this year. "I waited until Christmas Eve last year and every store in the city had been cleared out and turned into safe...

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🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller just accused Congressional Democrats of demanding INSURRECTION, after they asked members of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Community to rise up against Donald Trump This is unbelievable. "We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship." MILLLER: "Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection." (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin. Senator Mark Kelly. Representative Chris DiLuzio. Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander. Representative Chrissy Houlihan. Congressman Jason...

Which came first, the chicken conversation or the frustrated farmer? A Florida man allegedly opened fire at a trio of twentysomethings outside of a bar earlier this month during an argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay. Peter Riera, 44, called 911 on Nov. 4 and said he had been robbed and was being chased by two men and a woman at Harper’s Pub in Port Saint Lucie, according to Port Saint Lucie cops. The trio — identifed in the police docs as Brandon Pace, 23; his girlfriend, Kayla Damiana, 26; and Tyler McHargue, 23 — told responding...

A person of interest was taken into custody after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire while riding a busy Chicago Transit Authority train in the city's popular Loop, police said. Police did not offer additional information on the person of interest, but noted an investigation into the case "remains ongoing." The 26-year-old was riding a Blue Line train just before 9:30 p.m. Monday when police said she got into an argument with a man believed to be about 45 years old. The man ultimately poured liquid on the woman and ignited it, setting her on fire, authorities said. The...

As many as 25 areas across the UK could be hit by power cuts due to a 15-hour snowstorm coming today (Tuesday, November 18). Households are being warned of potential disruption from an Arctic blast, affecting travel and power supplies in various parts of Scotland, while a separate ice warning has been issued for the north of England. The Met Office has issued a 15-hour yellow weather warning for snow, starting at 3am on Tuesday, November 18 and continuing through to 6pm, impacting seven areas in Scotland. Meanwhile, in England, a yellow weather warning for ice could also bring snow...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.” Andre McKechnie, 54, serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for the salty, sticky, brown byproduct of brewing beer to the Supreme Court of Victoria, according to documents released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Fresh off their staggering electoral losses this month, Republicans are urging President Donald Trump to start hitting the campaign trail for them next year with control of Congress on the line. And in a sign of their rising anxiety over Democrats’ renewed enthusiasm, the requests for rallies have started rolling in. Wisconsin GOP Chair Brian Schimming said Trump’s team is “certainly aware” he wants to see the president visit the purple state next year, where he won by his thinnest margin in 2024 and his party is defending two competitive House seats and trying to win statewide races. Schimming plans...

quick show notes: Don't you just love it as an Australian citizen being told that your rights as an Australian citizen to wear whatever you want to wear in a public swimming pool or a public setting is actually going to be taken over by Muslim women because they feel offended at what they're seeing or more than that they want to actually be respectful of Ramadan. So you as an Australian citizen being here long before these people have been here, you have to actually abide by their standards and be respectful to the Muslims.

"I'm Senator Elissa Slotkin."

Today’s Republican Party is big on manliness and masculine virtues. The MAGA right in particular is forever obsessing over who is the biggest, the strongest, the most fearless among them.This is why, watching President Trump’s fight to keep a lid on the Epstein files, I have been struck, delighted even, that among the vanishingly few Republican lawmakers with the courage to defy him have been three fire-breathing congresswomen: Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.Love ’em or hate ’em, these House troublemakers bucked their party leadership, stared down their president and made...

Inside Tehran’s newest metro station, Iranians who can be imprisoned for owning bibles will soon walk past a plaque that declares, “the message of Jesus Christ was the salvation of humans from darkness, ignorance, corruption, depravity and discrimination.”Elsewhere in the Maryam-e Moqaddas station, or Holy Mary station, a relief of Christ walking on water decorates a vestibule, and his mother Mary is depicted, larger than life, praying among flowers. Estimates of Iran’s Christian population varies widely but a 2020 survey from the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) reported 1.5 percent of respondents identified as Christian. That...