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Melinda French Gates, billionaire and ex-wife of tech giant Bill Gates, has pledged $200 million to a number of pro-abortion organisations, at least five of which explicitly spend money funding abortions or lobbying Governments to repeal legislation that protects the unborn from abortion, making her one of the biggest individual donors to pro-abortion organisations in the world. Writing in the New York Times last month, Gates announced she would be giving $1 billion (£782.4m) over the next two years “for people and organizations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United...

Pauls Valley, Okla. (KOKH) — Garvin County deputies say a woman and her friend were arrested for allegedly framing her husband with child porn. Investigators say the woman was mad at her estranged husband, took 900 screenshots of naked children with his phone, and went to the police. Documents show last month, Lacey Husks asked her friend Angel Moore to help with a revenge plot against her soon-to-be ex-husband, Brandon Husks. "This is kind of a crazy deal because there is a plot against a man over custody of children," Garvin County Sheriff Jim Mullett said. Mullett says Husks was...

When she’s not the target of kidnapping plots hatched by FBI operatives, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is burying COVID death counts. Yes, she took a page from Andrew Cuomo’s playbook on the number of COVID deaths from nursing homes. Now, the undercount is not as high as Cuomo’s but it’s significant. It could be between 30-40 percent. At a minimum, Michigan’s nursing home deaths are 30 percent higher than the initial total. I would say that’s an impeachable offense (via Fox News): Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration undercounted the COVID-19 deaths in the state's long-term care facilities by 30%, according...

United States women's national team forward Megan Rapinoe said the semifinal defeat to Canada in the Olympic Games on Monday is a "bitter one to swallow." The USWNT fell 1-0 through Jessie Fleming's second-half penalty and will miss out on the chance to win a gold medal. - Women's Olympics soccer bracket and fixtures "It's terrible. We just didn't have it today," Rapinoe said after the match. "Just too many errors from us again. I felt like the space was there for us to play and we just couldn't get into it, too many touches or, you know, an errant...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday announced that people would be required to mask up inside even if they are vaccinated beginning on Saturday. But just hours before the mandate, photos surfaced of Bowser officiating a wedding and partying with guests without wearing a mask. The Washington Examiner posted the photos on social media that showed Bowser posing with guests, including comedian Dave Chappelle.

The 35-year-old actress took to Instagram to share a snap of herself cradling her daughter with a lengthy caption about wanting to have a child under her own conditions. She captioned the snap to her 3.9million followers: 'I’m so excited to share this news with you. Four years ago, I decided I wanted to have a child. I wanted to do it on my own terms.' She also revealed that she has named the child Oonagh Paige Heard as the child was born on April 8, 2021. The name Oonagh (also spelled Una and Oona) is pronounced oo-nuh. It is...

As White House officially touts "Biden-Harris Administration," America must ask: "Is Kamala Harris ready or fit to be commander-in-chief?" I do not believe 80 million people voted for Joe Biden as President. However, I know for a fact nobody voted for Kamala Harris to be president. Even Democratic voters in the primaries had scant interest in her being president. In fact, the more time she spent campaigning the less Democratic voters liked her.Not even Democrats in her home state of California backed preferred her as vice-president. Neither did some of Joe Biden’s closest and most trusted advisors and friends. According...

Valerie Jarrett says she plans on staying in the White House until the end of President Barack Obama’s term. In an interview with The New York Times Magazine published Friday, the president’s senior adviser discussed politics and policy and made clear that she wants to stick around until Jan. 20, 2017. “Oh, my goodness, I intend to stay until the lights go off,” Jarrett said. “Why would I miss a single second of this?” Asked whether she ever gets surprised at people describing her influence over Obama in terms similar to those used to describe Vice President Dick Cheney’s in...

Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an “abysmal bastard,” a “monstrosity,” a “cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta­physical mediocrity,” a “pickpocket of concepts,” and a “God-damn, beaten mystic.” (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.) These insults and more can be found in her marginal notes on a copy of Lewis’ Abolition of Man, as printed in Ayn Rand’s Marginalia: Her critical comments on the writings of over 20 authors, edited by Robert Mayhew. Excerpts appear below, with Lewis’ writing (complete with Rand’s highlighting and underlining) on the left and...

Now obviously I can't speak for every male, but I feel qualified to speak in general terms. This is aimed at the married woman, but is applicable to the woman that is involved in a long term relationship. Learn these things and you might get your relationship to last. Ignore them at your peril. 1. He is not your zit. Stop picking at him. Women love to pick at zits. They'll sneak up on you while you're shaving and start squeezing. It's an annoying habit they can't break. They also do this emotionally and intellectually. This is done when they...

Virgie Arthur, the mother of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, has filed a libel lawsuit against a Houston TV station, CBS Studios Inc. and the late model's former companion, Howard K. Stern. The suit alleges that Stern arranged for Smith to appear in an Entertainment Tonight interview where the model stated that Arthur was complicit in Smith's childhood physical and sexual abuse. The lawsuit says the program aired on KPRC Channel 2 in Houston on Feb. 14, a week after Smith died at the age of 39. CBS Studios produces the program, which is broadcast locally on KPRC, an...

This is a special thread for any FReepers or Hillary suck up true believers who want nothing to do with the civil case Paul v Clinton. On this thread is your opportunity to rant and rave and claim that Peter Paul is a bad guy and nothing will ever happen to Hillary. Ann Lewis and Mandy Grunwald, this would be a good place for you. Joe Conason, you who have absolute lip lock on the posteriors of Bill and Hillary, this is a good place for you. Have at it.

MIDI - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO NICE He didn't have to be so nice He gave a million bucks in kind Then Hillary turned cold as ice And told him to kiss her behind She was so grateful for the big affair Hollywood sycophants had all been there...they were there He didn't have to be so nice The Spago lunch was wonderful He should have listened to advice That Hillary was slinging bull She was so gateful for the big affair Hollywood sycophants had all been there...they were there He didn't have to be so nice The...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

MIDI - SEND IN THE CLOWNS I start to speak...but then I shriek I hear them shout "Four more years!"...and so I freak They sent their goons We're the elite...bow when you greet When I'm first lady my life will be complete They sent their goons...GOP goons They have no right...to be in sight I have big money and I will prevail in this fight I am prepared to say "Shove it" all day and all night They sent their goons...GOP goons Don't mess with me...in a Wendy's I'l throw at you this food that they call "Chili" They...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For weeks, the rumor mills have been working overtime to claim that Oscar winner Meryl Streep based her portrayal of the Machiavellian mom in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" on Hillary Clinton. The rumors are not even remotely true, Streep told reporters over the weekend. But the actress added that she was imitating a person that no one has yet guessed. Streep plays a U.S. senator intent on seeing her son become president, assuming the villainous role played by Angela Lansbury in the original 1962 political thriller. The remake from Paramount Pictures is slated to...

July 9, 2004 -- Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush last night at a Radio City gala that raised $7.5 million for the newly minted Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards. Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she'd refused to let Team Kerry clear her material. "I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on because we're...

When Cayce Mell was a child she came home one day to find her mother in tears looking through photographs of Korean dog markets, the places where dogs are slaughtered, hung in trees and sold for food. The photos horrified Mell so much that she set out with the pictures in hand and canvassed the neighborhood for donations to stop the practice. She collected 78 cents and immediately sent it off with a note to a then fledging organization. A couple weeks later, Mell received a return note thanking her for her donation, saying it would be put to good...

A little while ago Sean Hannity played a clip of Hillary!'s speech today at the American Constitution Society shindig in Washington, DC; and if I may take just a moment to be catty - she looked like absolute Hell. The clip that Hannity played was typical of the old Hillary! style: arrogant, angry and filled with the standard partisan left-wing talking points.I checked C-SPAN's schedule and they will broadcast her speech yet again - tonight at 12:17am (eastern time). They already showed it LIVE this afternoon at 12:45pm, again at 5:09pm, and again(!) at 8pm. Although it may require multiple...

Episodes 1-20 can be found here: #20 - Childish Behavior at the President's Historic Speech #21 - Why Cops and Firemen Hate Hillary #22 - The Wind Up, Here Comes the Pitch #23 - Psssssst…Hey, Can You Watch My Husband? #24 - Witches Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Race-Baiting Stones #25 - Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (Healthcare) #26 - Madison Dies, Hillary Lies, What a Surprise (Part 1) #27 - Madison Dies, Hillary Lies, What a Surprise #28 - Semper Fido #29 - Filegate; Who Hired Craig Livingstone? NOTE: the survival of our Republic is threatened by two...