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Ask someone who investigates foodborne illness for a living what they won't put on their plate, and the list is shorter—and stranger—than you'd expect. It's not that these experts live in fear. Most will tell you that all food carries some risk, and the real skill is deciding which risks are worth taking. Frank Yiannas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s former deputy commissioner for food policy and response, says he doesn't think of foods as simply "good" or "bad." Instead, "I approach everything with what I would say is a quantitative risk assessment," he says. "I'm calculated." Still, after...

A Venezuelan man allegedly in the United States illegally is in jail after being charged in the death of an elderly Florida woman by backing over her with an SUV in a grocery store parking lot. On May 17, Deborah Murphy, an 82-year-old grandmother, was walking back to her car on a crosswalk outside a Publix in Panama City Beach when she was struck by a Toyota 4Runner, according to court records. She was pushed to the ground by the SUV, but the vehicle continued backing up, "running over Ms. Murphy," according to an arrest affidavit submitted by the Florida...

*Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution, “The Congress shall have Power …To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases over such District* *A new amendment could be added to the Constitution to make D.C. a state. This would require Congress to propose an amendment and three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures to ratify it.*

My topic today is: Why we’re not getting enough sleep. That was not originally going to be my topic. Originally my topic was going to be explosive diarrhea, which I apologize for even mentioning, but it has been in the news a LOT. Explosive diarrhea is everywhere. You can’t escape it! (By “it,” I mean the topic of explosive diarrhea.) Let’s say you’re interested in reading about federal legislation, so you go to the website of The Hill, a respected publication covering Congress, expecting to read about congressional matters such as bills and hearings. Here’s one of the headlines that...

I am asking your help. I will only see this movie if I am convinced that it's worth my three hours of time and money. THEREFORE, I am relying on my fellow Free Republic friends, WHO HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE, to give me their unabridged opinion. 1. 1 to 4 stars, how many stars would you give the movie? 2. Do you recommend the movie? Yes or No? 3. Any comments.

I don't create new conversations often, but this got mi ire up. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vbUf82L7RNA Two ladies going full-blast TDS over driver wearing a Trump hat.

In 2026, America is like a tinpot tyranny, where our politicians’ votes are being controlled by threats from communists and Islamists. One need not read much in the contemporary media to be treated to the idea that political violence is an exclusively right-wing phenomenon. Why, leftist organizations like Antifa are merely ideas, not violent anarchists, as Joe Biden told us. Black Lives Matter, socialists, communists, Islamists—they’re all just benign, legitimate political movements. It’s those MAGA maniacs, those soccer moms and Normal Americans who are too busy working every day to protest, loot and burn that are the real threat of...

Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews The black man who committed wire fraud and aggravated identity theft to solicit donations from MAGA supporters using the identity of Shiloh Hendrix has been identified as Jamell Lewis of Indianapolis, Indiana. https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2081114798796795938

It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is “for the kids,” history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms. The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage. Because leftists’ true intentions—total state control and the systematic dismantling of individual liberty—are entirely unpalatable to the average citizen, they must cloak their radical agendas in the warm blanket of public safety. We are seeing this exact misdirection play out today...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. NYCs Mayor calls for the arrest of Netanyahu.

That’s because socialism follows an inevitable trajectory. The real question is whether America can reject socialism before a bitter end comes our way. As J.R. Dunn noted in his July 17th Members Weekly Newsletter (you should subscribe!) in an article titled “Targeting the Socialists,” America’s socialist and socialist-adjacent movements have emerged in four major waves since 1920. Today, we appear to be entering the fifth. Let’s get one thing out of the way first: you say socialists, I say communists. Why? Because socialism has repeatedly demonstrated that it cannot sustain itself economically. Faced with one failure after another, socialist governments...

New financial reports released this week revealed the depth of the D.N.C.’s financial hole. The party is $2 million in debt, while the Republican National Committee has $128.5 million in cash on hand.

After 13 days of bombing Iran, on Friday we took a break. If we were dealing with rational opponents, the war in Iran would be over now, but we are dealing with fanatics and a situation where the monsters are fighting each other, and no one seems sufficiently in charge to enter into a meaningful surrender. In the meantime, we can turn to domestic matters, and to my mind, the situation at the Smithsonian Museum warrants our attention. It seems that we are paying super-woke people to denigrate our history and culture, and because of the way in which the...

The Democratic Socialists of America are plotting a radical takeover of NYC public schools, with comrades admitting they want to mold a new generation of baby Bolsheviks, The Post has learned. Maureen Fadem — yet another nutty professor working for a CUNY school — called for kids to be educated in a “democratic socialist frame” and to be taught the Godfathers of Communism Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, despite their writing inspiring some of the most murderous dictators in history, from Stalin to Mao. “We need to overhaul the curriculum in a class consciousness frame. . . . The curriculum...

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was dealt a major legal blow Friday after a federal judge gutted key state laws providing in-state tuition, financial aid and scholarships to illegal immigrants, marking another win for the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration agenda. US District Judge Stephen McGlynn, a Trump appointee serving in the Southern District of Illinois, sided with the Justice Department, ruling that Illinois’ in-state tuition policies, the RISE Act and the Illinois DREAM Act are “unconstitutional and invalid” as they apply to illegal immigrants. The ruling permanently prevents Illinois from enforcing the laws, although McGlynn delayed the order from taking effect...

**SNIP** Now another person with close ties to Swalwell appears to be using his campaign account like a personal slush fund. That's Adam Gray, who was co-chair of Swalwell's failed gubernatorial campaign. Gray, who was once a member of the California Assembly, had a reputation in the state legislature for taking charter flights and staying at luxury resorts. When he was elected to Congress, he reportedly kept living large, running up campaign expenses for limousine services, Uber rides, and more than $16,000 on Major League Baseball (MLB) tickets. FEC documents show that Gray's campaign spent more than $5,000 on limousine...

🚨 HOLY CRAP. This guy just went BERSERK on national television against Mayor Mamdani "This guy is a TERRORIST. That's the bottom line. I'LL SAY IT. You don't wanna say it, I'll say it! He's a terrorist He's a jihadist. He hates the Jewish people. He hates America. He hates the Italian people. He hates the Irish people. He hates the German people." "Those two people st*bbed the other day in New York City — that blood is on HIS HANDS." "Unless you're Muslim, Mayor Mamdani has no use for you! He is a horrible person and maybe has perpetrated...

A biologically male “transgender woman” was arrested last week in Laguna Beach, Calif., suspected of killing his mother after neighbors say the pair got into a heated exchange.Police found Angela Caprioli, 61, dead at her residence on Monday, and arrested her son Safford Wolfson, 36, on Thursday on suspicion of murder. Police did not disclose details of the slaying.A neighbor told CBS Los Angeles Wolfson moved in about six months ago, and that he’d seen caretakers frequenting the home. The same neighbor also told The California Post that he’d seen the pair in a heated argument just prior to the...

I was only a year old when the UK's deadliest terror attack shocked the world. In December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 on the ground. I was a teenager by the time Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001 and, when he later died, I thought that was largely the end of the story. It wasn't. The case still rumbles on and, later this year, a man suspected of making the bomb which blew up the plane, Abu...