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After being told their preborn baby had a rare congenital condition, a Tampa, Florida couple made the decision to carry their child to birth and donate her organs in the hopes of saving the lives of others. Key Takeaways: * At their 14 week ultrasound appointment Catherine Mornhineway and Andrew Ford were told their preborn baby had anencephaly, a rare condition in which the baby’s skull does not grow, leaving the brain exposed to the amniotic fluid. * The couple decided not to abort their baby and to deliver her with the intention of donating her organs to help others...

Oscar winner attacks Bari Weiss after silence over real journalistic crimesGeorge Clooney isn’t a journalist, but he plays one on screen (and on stage).If only that were the only time Clooney looked away while the press behaved oh, so badly.Breitbart News’ John Nolte has a running list of journalistic malpractice, one that has grown larger over the last 12 months. Some may quibble with an entry or two. Taken as a whole, it’s a shocking indictment of an industry that continues to self-implode. ... Here’s just part of that ever-growing list:Trump “Destroying” White House Hoax Photo of Starving Gaza Baby...

My liberal dad just sent me the following text: “Without any emotions give me your view on Trump today. It's to have an idea of his standing today” IS THERE A QUICK LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT I MAY QUICKLY SEND HIM BACK? I need to be thorough. Thank you, Freepers, and a Happy New Year to all! 🎉

Henry's children wrote letters describing their father's enjoyment of writing Carrier Addresses for local newspapers. The 1819 Carrier's Address was found in the Adriance Library in Henry's hometown and identified by Henry's granddaughter as being by Henry. He writes of the Erie Canal and of the events in America and abroad, closing with the always present request for a tip for the hardworking postboy.

A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out her Washington home amid a national spotlight on Somali owned fraud schemes. Daycare centers are under intense scrutiny across the country after a massive Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota was unveiled. After independent journalist Nick Shirley shared footage of an apparently empty Minneapolis daycare with a misspelled name sign, the federal government froze all child care payments to the state on Tuesday. The FBI is also investigating the fraud, and Director Kash Patel said he believes Minnesota is 'just the tip of a very...

Applied to Jewish life, this model illuminates the Mamdani divide. The younger, Park Slope cohort embodies the individualizing moral style. Their Judaism is ethical universalism — a faith of empathy, repair, and inclusion. To them, Jewish history teaches solidarity with the marginalized, not tribal defense. Their political commitments — tenant rights, climate action, anti-racism, and Palestinian solidarity — feel like moral extensions of their Jewish conscience. Supporting Mamdani, in this light, is not an act of betrayal but an act of consistency. The Upper East Side cohort, by contrast, lives in the binding moral register. Their Judaism centers on loyalty...

Minn. Somali-run day care bizarrely reports all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in stole “important documents” as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding billion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services. Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building’s office sometime on Tuesday. He said the alleged prowler stole “important documentation” including children’s enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.

By Dr. John BergsmaJanuary 1 is the Solemnity (Holy Day) of Mary, Mother of God. To call Mary the “Mother of God” must not be understood as a claim for Mary’s motherhood of divinity itself, but in the sense that Mary was mother of Jesus, who is truly God. The Council of Ephesus in 431—long before the schisms with the Eastern churches and other non-Catholic Christians—proclaimed “Mother of God” a theologically correct title for Mary. So far from being a cause of division, the common confession of Mary as “Mother of God” should unite all Christians, and distinguish Christian orthodoxy...

A common leftist canard, promoted by activists, foundations, Democrat politicians, Catholic bishops, Episcopalian bishops, and other open-borders advocates, holds that illegal aliens commit way fewer crimes than ordinary Americans.It's sugar-coated garbage, and not just because we look around and confront the evidence of our own eyes, or consider the incentive an open border offers to criminals who can't get into the states otherwise.Writing at the New York Post, John Lott has come up with a doozy of a report showing how data are skewed to conceal the fact that illegals commit at least three times the crime of ordinary Americans...

COBOL turned 66 this year and is still in use today. Major retail and commercial banks continue to run core account processing, ATM networks, credit card clearing, and batch end-of-day settlement. On top of that, many payment networks, stock exchanges, and clearinghouses rely on COBOL for high‑volume, high‑reliability batch and online transaction processing on mainframes. Which reminds me, mainframes are still alive and well too. Banking, insurance, governments, inventory management – all the same places you'll find COBOL, you'll find mainframes as well.None of that is as sexy as the latest AI program or the newest cloud-native computing release, but...

Move over, Tim Walz, because Joe Biden looks to be giving you a run for your money when it comes to fraud. In the final year of the Biden administration, federal officials sprayed billions of taxpayer dollars meant to keep struggling families in their homes around the country like confetti, sending a shocking slice of that money to dead people, ineligible non-citizens, and tenants collecting more than the law allows. “A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to ‘questionable’ rental assistance recipients during the final year of the...

Tampa, Florida, is not simply experiencing immigration. It is being actively marketed abroad as an Islamic settlement hub, and newly uncovered Arabic-language footage shows exactly how.In promotional videos circulated to Arab and Muslim audiences overseas, Tampa is presented not as an American city to integrate into, but as a destination where incoming families can immediately plug into a fully Islamic parallel infrastructure—mosques, schools, markets, healthcare navigation, and social services—without meaningful interaction with broader American civic life.The footage is covert by design. Delivered entirely in Arabic and aimed at foreign audiences, it operates outside public scrutiny while providing step-by-step instruction on...

Ben Shapiro’s war on Tucker Carlson risks turning conservatism inward—smearing populist concerns as extremism instead of confronting the economic failures driving millions to revolt.Just as a “country without borders is not a country,” so it is that “the conservative movement also requires borders.” This was the general message delivered by conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro in a December 17 speech at the Heritage Foundation and again the next day in a speech at Turning Point USA’s Amerifest conference.Shapiro’s other main point was more specific: Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson is no conservative and must forthwith be expelled from the conservative...

A woman was seen running along the street covered in blood amid a crowbar rampage in a hospital waiting room that left five people injured. A 20-year-old Afghan man allegedly launched the attack after he was refused an appointment, and was arrested at the scene at Newton Community Hospital in Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside. The 'shaking' woman reportedly ran from the hospital into a local shop just after midday and begged staff to summon police. Sugedaran Shanmugaraja, who was working at Best One, opposite the hospital, told the Liverpool Echo: 'She had a lot of blood at the back of her head...

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told CNBC he's launching an investigation into state-level fraud after he endorsed a wealth tax...Khanna's support of a tax on billionaires set off a firestorm among the tech elite in his Silicon Valley district...The proposed levy in California still needs to obtain enough signatures to qualify for placement on the November ballot.

When Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, he will represent a range of demographics the city has not seen before in top leadership: South Asian, millennial, Muslim. But for New York’s hundreds of thousands of Muslim residents who have taken pride in seeing one of their own rise to the mayoralty, his inauguration will bring another special first, rooted in tradition and piety. During both of his swearing-in ceremonies, he will put his hand on the Quran, Islam’s holiest book, making him the first mayor in New York City to do so.

A brave little girl jumped out of a second-floor window and begged strangers to save her from abuse, investigators say, but she was sent back home and murdered within months. Rebekah Baptiste, ten, was found unresponsive on a highway in Holbrook, Arizona, on July 27 after allegedly being abused and neglected for years. Her father, Richard Baptiste, 32, and his girlfriend Anicia Woods, 29, were subsequently arrested and charged with first–degree murder, aggravated assault, child abuse and kidnapping.

As Tucker Carlson, the worthy recipient of StopAntisemitism’s 2025 “Antisemite of the Year” award, sucks up public attention, I want to recognize the non-Jews whose words and actions this year defended Jews and Israel.President Donald Trump has to be at the top of the list. While Carlson earned his award by demonizing the Jewish state, Trump will be honored with the “Israel Award” for his steadfast defense of Israel and its people. Trump learned he was the recipient of Israel’s highest honor during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Mar-a-Lago this week, in a phone call with Education Minister Yoav...

It's not just Minnesota. Or just daycares. The deepest government honeypot is blue-state Medicaid. And nowhere does corruption run deeper than in New York State, where everyone wants a piece of a $120 billion honeypot. -- snip -- A few weeks ago, I received an email with the subject line, "Healthcare and the $2,100 Taxi Ride." The email began: "I have a friend who drives a taxi in XXX NY. He estimates that 80% of the cab fares are paid for by Medicaid… "Yesterday, he made a round tripper from XXX to Boston where a child had a two-hour appointment...

Harvard professor torches Ivy League school over woke anti-white, anti-male culture in blistering essay A professor who spent 40 years teaching at Harvard University torched the Ivy League institution over its “exclusion of white males” in a searing essay announcing his retirement. In the piece titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard,” history professor James Hankins said his decision to retire “was not a sudden one” and was made back in 2021 after two volatile years on campus, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and George Floyd riots — the latter of which he said dramatically changed the school’s graduate admissions process....