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RIP Donald. Thank you, you were awesome and an 80's icon. Star of our childhood. "NERDS!" America! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xVcMgF-fHV0 Sadly we lost Robert Carradine in February.

Last December, a Georgia woman sustained severe burns to her face, neck, and scalp after a stranger emerged from the bushes at a Forsyth park and doused her in acid. According to law enforcement, a black male approached the victim, Ashley Wasielewski, while she was walking around Forsyth Park and hurled acid at her. The suspect, who is still at large, approached the victim from behind and poured the liquid chemical on her. Wasielewski suffered third-degree burns and received treatment at Memorial Hospital in Augusta. According to police, the attacker was not known to the victim. “I walk around this...

nside the gilded clubhouse of Mar-a-Lago, there is a scatter of Donald Trump iconography that blurs the line between myth and memorabilia. A gold statuette depicts the President with fists raised in triumph, evoking his defiant pose after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa. Nearby stands a hulking “Lifetime Achievement” trophy designating him as “The Greatest Historical President of All Time,” bestowed by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences. A painting titled The Visionary casts Trump as a sunlit Adonis in tennis whites. On a recent afternoon, I’m waiting in this wood-paneled room, known as the Library Bar, when a...

"Reason I'm Gone" from the Walter Trout DVD Documentary of the recording of Relentless in concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, NL. With almost 20 tracks and special footage, this DVD is a must have for any guitar lover and fan of Walter Trout. This is a 10 min sample of this wonderful 165 minute full-length and high quality DVD. At the link

Colin Jost and Travis Kelce bonded over their high-profile relationships with Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift, respectively. The SNL star shared he is more "approachable" than his wife, who people fan over constantly. "I'm probably approached more because she's less approachable... Because I'm on TV ... I'm in their living room, so they're just like, 'Hey what's up man, how's it going?'" "She's actually almost so famous that they don't believe it a lot of times," he said of passersby. "We've been traveling and we've been standing at the passport check and the person's looking at her passport and he'll...

If you paid me to ruin a movie, I still couldn’t have done it this masterfully

After Mike Lee defeated Bob Bennett in Utah in 2010 and then Richard Lugar was defeated in 2012, Mitch McConnell was pissed. He thereafter ensured that EVERY Republican incumbent, no matter how awful, was to be protected from removal by fellow Republican. McConnell and the NRSC would choose which Republicans sat in the Senate, not the infernal people. Republican senators could either leave the Senate on their own, or be defeated by a Democrat. Those were the ONLY two options. For fourteen years, in cycle after cycle, not a single Republican incumbent has been defeated in a primary. This month...

President Trump downplayed the effect redistricting will have on the midterm elections and said the outcome of the Iran war will be a bigger factor. “It helps. I mean, I don’t know [if it will be the] difference,” Trump said of how new congressional districts in several states will impact Republicans in November. “I think a bigger difference would be if I win quickly [in Iran], as opposed to after [the elections], but again, I’m not going to let the election determine what’s going to happen with respect to Iran, because they cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he told Fox...

The US Supreme Court on Friday denied Virginia Democrats' bid to restore the illegally gerrymandered congressional map. Chief Justice Roberts deferred the case to the full court. The high court, in an unsigned order, denied the application for a stay and kept the current map in place. "The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied," the Supreme Court said in its response. Last month, the Virginia Supreme Court denied a request from the Democrat Attorney General to pause a lower court order blocking the gerrymander referendum. Virginia voters previously passed...

New York City and Chicago voters made the most injudicious decisions possible electing Zohran Mamdani and Brandon Johnson to be their mayors. Both democratic socialists are inept yet destructive, unserious yet dangerous, demagogues who spew venom and traffic in incendiary divisive rhetoric. Their deranged policies will bankrupt their cities, financially, morally and culturally. Will Los Angeles voters do the same? Actually, they already have. The question is, will they repeat their mistake and reelect Karen Bass? The current mayor is a Fidelista and a member of the Venceremos Brigade, a Cuban “enterprise that had a goal of encouraging the health...

Guest post by Isaac Thomas President Trump is set to launch a massive $1.7 billion compensation fund aimed at helping Americans who were targeted by the Biden Regime's weaponized Department of Justice. According to a report from ABC News, the fund would compensate individuals who were politically targeted during the Biden years, including many January 6 defendants, conservative activists, and other Trump allies caught in what critics have called one of the largest political persecutions in modern American history. The move is already sending shockwaves through Washington. For years, conservatives have argued that the Biden DOJ operated with a two-tiered...

Letter from King Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin The seven Jerusalem-Amarna Letters (EA 285–291) tell us about the local ruler ‘Abdi-Ḫeba, “Servant of Ḫebat,” a Hurrian goddess, and his struggles to keep control of this city.[1] Similarities in the language, orthography, formulae, paleography, and the scribal marks in these letters suggest that they were the work of a single scribe, who was not trained in Canaan. Petrographic analysis, conducted after Moran’s work on this scribe, showed that the clay of letters 286–290 was made from local materials around Jerusalem. Yet two letters...

The hunt for the next James Bond has officially kicked off. Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned, with the studio enlisting the help of Nina Gold to find the man with the suaveness and danger necessary to replace Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s super-spy. “The search for the next James Bond is underway,” Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement. “While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time...

According to a report from the Daily Mail, several Christian leaders who attended confidential briefings on impending UFO revelations are sounding alarms that the released materials could align with end-times warnings in Scripture. Pastor Joseph Zupetz and evangelist Tony Merkel were among a small group of faith influencers invited to a private gathering in a remote mountainous Airbnb in Tennessee in February. There, former military personnel and investigators into non-human intelligence shared details about upcoming government disclosures of UAPs, reverse-engineered craft, and encounters with otherworldly entities.

The stretch between Svalbard and the North Cape of mainland Norway constitutes the Bear Gap, which is the Arctic Circle analogue to the better-known Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap.4 Svalbard’s proximity to the Kola Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya—home to Russia’s Northern Fleet and its nuclear weapons test site, respectively—further helps explain Moscow’s enduring interest in Svalbard. The archipelago’s importance is likely to grow as maritime trade increases in the Arctic. The Pentagon’s 2024 Arctic Strategy notes, “Reduction in sea ice due to climate change means chokepoints such as the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and the Barents Sea north of Norway are...

The 2025 article marks a significant evolution. It adapts Maoist strategy as a framework for far-seas operations, showing how a weaker force might offset U.S. advantages through asymmetric means. In doing so, it envisions not only countering intervention in a Taiwan conflict, but also protecting China’s global maritime interests. The application of Mao’s doctrine at sea signals ambitions well beyond regional defense—toward a PLAN capable of contesting influence across the world’s oceans.Once in place, these seemingly civilian platforms, operating in coordination with military forces, would be poised to exploit U.S. vulnerabilities in wartime. They would target critical nodes and weak...

It became more complex in 2025 to own and operate an internationally trading commercial ship. The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2025 Review of Maritime Transport forecasted inhibited growth in global shipping, increased sailing distances, and elevated costs. Changing trade conditions led to frequent operational adjustments and fine-tuning of shipping routes. Geopolitical tensions and uncertain terms of trade punctured the rationale for interconnected markets advocated for by Ricardian economic logic and neoclassical economic theory. Global insurer Allianz remarked in its 2025 Safety and Shipping Review that the “volatile and complex operating environment” may alter even the long-term trend...

Explanation: Comet R3 PanSTARRS might be best remembered as an Orion comet. A key reason is because Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) was near its most spectacular -- in terms of tail visibility -- when passing in front of the iconic constellation. Although rare, other bright comets, too, have ventured across Orion, including Lovejoy in 2015, Hale-Bopp in 1997, and the Great Comet of 1264. Best visible in long duration exposures, the featured image was captured last week from the Craigieburn Mountain Range in New Zealand. Visible in the deep background image are the Orion Nebula, Barnard's Loop, and through R3's...

I've been a FReeper since 1997. I'm also one of the tech guys for The Gateway Pundit and other websites. As a way to support both sites, I created a Free Republic share button for TGP. FR doesn't appear to have a logo, so I styled the share button after this site's favicon. You can see it by clicking to an article; it's to the right of the Linked In share button: So ... is this cool, a subtle way to remind TGP readers of the value and relevance of FR and to make sharing posts on FR a bit...

From October 2022 to February 2025, the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center released more than a thousand deportable illegal immigrants onto the streets in direct defiance of over 1,150 immigration detainers lodged with local officials, according to ICE records obtained by the CIS. In terms of noncompliance, the CIS reported that Fairfax County, over that period, outpaced many other uncooperative facilities of much larger U.S. cities, including San Francisco County Jail at No. 9 with 462 declined detainers, Minnesota's Hennepin County Jail at No. 11 with 363, and New York City’s Rikers Island at No. 16 with 237.