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A Michaels arts and crafts store is facing accusations of political discrimination after an employee reportedly refused to frame a photograph of President Donald Trump, patriotic artwork and even a newspaper commemorating the historic Apollo moon landing. The confrontation, captured on video and shared on social media, has sparked questions about whether the national retailer allows employees to reject custom framing orders based on political content. . @MichaelsStores refused to custom frame three things for me: my favorite image of President @realDonaldTrump, a @McNaughtonArt piece, and an original moon landing newspaper. Apparently "custom framing" now means the clerk approves your...

The Hells Angels motorcycle club, which the FBI classifies as a “transnational violent outlaw motorcycle gang,” is publicly denying any affiliation with a Southern California man who was convicted on child pornography charges and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last month. The group responded to a press release issued by the Fontana Police Department on Oct. 23, which states that 42-year-old Ryan Van De Car, “a member of the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,” was found guilty of producing and distributing child pornography in California. A statement sent to KTLA by attorney Gary Wenkle Smith, who represents...

Anti-Semitism is always the final destination of the trash demagogue. It’s the hole card that gets laid down when everything else has failed. That has certainly turned out to be the case with Abdul Muhammed El-Sayed. He has, of course, been circling around it throughout his campaign, beginning with his dalliance with Hasan Piker, arguably the lead voice of left-wing anti-Semitism for this decade. But now, with a single week left in his campaign for the Senate, he has settled into it with a vengeance. No longer is it possible for El-Sayed to totter atop the fence emitting dog-whistles in...

“Back to the Future” star Christopher Lloyd was addicted to cocaine and alcohol for many years, he divulges in his new memoir.The 88-year-old actor recalls in “In My Own Time: A Memoir,” published Tuesday, that he did his first “snort” of cocaine outside a comedy club in Los Angeles during the ’70s.At the time, Lloyd went out to the car of a woman he had just met and “did a couple of lines.”He writes, “That was all it took. I was hooked almost immediately. I loved it, and that was where my cocaine abuse began.”

“This is a segregated event,” former Illinois state rep says. “If you're LGBTQIA++ and you're BIPOC, fine, you can come in. All others, it's closed to. I mean, that's pretty alarming.” ==================================================================== (The Center Square) - Aplanned race-restricted event at a public park in Geneva is raising questions about anti-discrimination policies, with former Illinois state representative and Breakthrough Ideas CEO Jeanne Ives urging local officials to examine whether such gatherings comply with the law after an LGBTQ organization postponed a bonfire advertised for "Black, Indigenous and people of color." The event, organized by Belong Fox Valley and described as a...

---SNIP--- Officials said Destino Jean-Louis was arrested Friday morning in North Philadelphia by U.S. Marshals on an alleged visa overstay. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office subsequently charged Jean-Louis with murder and other offenses while he was in federal custody, authorities stated. Officials said the operation was carried out rapidly to take Jean-Louis into custody before he had an opportunity to leave the country

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/27/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 65[a]For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.1 Praise awaits[b] you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. 2 You who answer prayer, to you all people will come. 3 When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave[c] our transgressions. 4 Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple. 5 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the...

Gavin Newsom has confirmed, on undercover footage, where he believes the Democratic Party is headed, and his answer is worse than you think. According to footage from Townhall, an undercover reporter, pretending to be a young voter, asked how the party plans to move forward. She claimed the younger generation does not want the left to put another Kamala Harris at the forefront. Rather, they want the DSA, and they want it now. UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! "The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for...

In Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI) now-famous interview on Fox News, where she warned young conservatives away from politics, we see the liberal bubble in action. Or is it the color revolution to dump Trump? Or just a girl graduate of the CIA Color Revolution School fluffing her feathers? I am shocked, shocked, how many prominent national women did their turn in the CIA or a CIA-adjacent NGO. It’s not just Slotkin. There’s Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA). Avril Haines served as Deputy Director of the CIA, but I guess that doesn’t really count as spy service. Then there is NPR CEO...

Conservative leader Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours. The order was issued by the wicked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes argues that there is a risk that Flavio Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution. Lula and Moraes want to jail Flavio with his father Jair Bolsonaro - There crime was daring to oppose them in an election and forcing the communists to make an obvious steal. This is sickening! It took less than 24 hours following the very controversial election that allowed Lula to keep polling...

Florida Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon stunned viewers during a recent interview when she was asked a straightforward question about whether Cuba is a dictatorship. Somehow, she couldn't answer. Instead of offering a clear response, the challenger to Republican Sen. Ashley Moody responded with all the energy of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She of "I'm not a biologist" fame. "Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?" she was asked in an interview with CBS News. "You know, that is what people have told me," she replied. "I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have...

I used to watch the Super Bowls for two reasons no matter who is playing: the commercials and the halftime shows. Having the commercials release on YouTube a few days before the game has ended that particular anticipation for the most part. I can't stave off the temptation. Especially for the spots of upcoming movies even if those films are ten whole months out. That leaves the halftime show. A spectacle that has long entertained folks regardless of the competing teams. But let's face it: the halftime shows of the past several years have been too bereft of real engaging...

(2009) We now have the first member of Congress who has called on controversial "Safe Schools" Education Official Kevin Jennings to resign. ... --- Congressman Steve King issued the following statement today: “Kevin Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in a presidential administration. Despite serving as the ‘safe schools’ czar, Jennings has demonstrated a willingness to look the other way on sexual abuse. His life’s work has been the promotion of homosexuality, even in elementary schools,.. --- The Family Research Council is out with more on Jennings: FRC has uncovered a series of op-eds that show...

Europe resents its dependence on American military power while criticizing Washington’s foreign policy, exposing the hypocrisy, insecurity, and economic decline undermining its global influence. Nearly every week, another psychodrama arises between the United States and its NATO partners. Europeans blame the Trump administration for the usual things—a lack of cordiality and bombastic threats. But two truths, rarely spoken, characterize all these spats. One is hypocrisy; the other is insecurity. Take Trump’s recent demand that Ukraine cease attacks on Russian diesel refineries. Given the midterms and the critical issue of fuel prices, it was understandable that Trump might request an energy...

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3:16). Scripture is a manual of divine truth. This month we've considered many benefits of Scripture. Second Timothy 3:16 lists four more that will be the focus of our studies as we draw this month to a close: teaching truth, reproving sin and error, correcting behavior, and training in righteousness. We've touched on each of those to some extent in our past studies, but they warrant additional discussion from this verse, which is Scripture's most concise statement on its own...

Washington — A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed the Justice Department's effort to force California election officials to set aside thousands of ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by alleged noncitizens. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that it lacked jurisdiction over the appeal and granted a motion by the top elections official from Los Angeles County to dismiss the effort. The federal government, Judges Mark Bennett and Gabriel Sanchez said, failed to allow a federal district court "adequate opportunity" to consider its request for temporary relief....

Please join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 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.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Murotech Ohio agrees to $3 million settlement over PPP loan allegations A St. Marys automotive parts manufacturer has agreed to pay more than $3 million to resolve federal allegations involving Paycheck Protection Program loans and loan forgiveness. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio said Murotech Ohio Corporation agreed to pay $3,039,615. More than $1 million of the settlement will be restitution to the federal government. Prosecutors alleged Murotech provided inaccurate employee totals when applying for two PPP loans. The company’s first application, submitted in May 2020, certified that it had fewer than 500 employees. A second...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., posted a serene lakeside video Friday set to a Somali hip-hop song whose lyrics boast of enemies scattering and being "crushed," days after federal agents searched her Washington home as part of a criminal investigation. "Less scrolling, more strolling. Enjoying our beautiful Minnesota lakes," the embattled congresswoman wrote on X in a post made at the end of last week. She attached a video of herself and her husband, Tim Mynett, walking on a dock over a lake with vibrant fall foliage in the background. The pair posed, smiled and appeared to chat as they serenely...

Far-left insurgent group’s "energy, desire, demand for bold change" is "going to be dominant." California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave unvarnished thoughts to an undercover journalist about the future of the Democrat Party recently, and believes the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is “going to be the dominant” force, spotlighting the fissure in the party that is only going to grow heading into the 2028 presidential election. “I am a younger voter, and a lot of us, we want to see the Democrat Party move forward,” the person in the video obtained exclusively by Townhall said to Newsom. “You know, we...