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There are different public opinions on COVID 19 or Coronavirus. Some people are panicking and others are taking the necessary steps but are calm and observe the situation. Well, we have another type of people who are using the viral media nature of the virus to get views online. Wuhan Corona Virus (COVID19) is a legitimate health concern, and it is no cause for panic or irrational hysteria, it’s not a type of stuff that people should use to get views online. A social media “influencer” has launched the “coronavirus challenge,” which involves licking a toilet seat in a plane....

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday slammed Washington for refusing to share intelligence with Russia on Syria, and accusing it of muddled thinking. "I believe some of our partners simply have mush for brains," Putin said, expressing some of his strongest criticism yet of Washington's handling of the Syrian crisis. Late last month Moscow launched a bombing campaign in Syria, saying it needed to target Islamic State jihadists before they cross into Russia, which has a large Muslim population. But Washington and its allies slammed Russia's intervention in the conflict, saying Moscow was also targeting Western-backed moderate rebels "Now, we often...

Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party. Now 17, Krohn — who went on to write a book, “Defining Conservatism,” that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett — still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, he’s not a conservative anymore. “I think it was naive,” Krohn now...

Daily Gut: Ashton Kutcher Blames Republicans For Oil Spill Posted By Greg Gutfeld You know what I do when I’m confused about an issue? I turn to Ashton Kutcher. And whatever he says – the opposite is true. (see :53 – 1:10 [1]) Leave it to Ashton to use catastrophe as a club to beat Republicans with – although the last time I checked Obama favors drilling – and most of America agrees. Except of course those shallow, stupid celebs who think their private jets fly on pixie farts. But hey, if it hadn’t been for greenies, this whole mess...

This winter, class struggle is in the air. On January 30, the janitors of Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) local 26, many of them immigrants, voted to authorize a strike, in a meeting in which 'Yes' was chanted in every language spoken on these streets As students at Macalester, we support the SEIU janitors and by all those who resist injustice, in the workplace and elsewhere. We condemn the managements' tactics, which included attempting to divide workers along ethnic lines, and we reject any corporate control over the lives of working class peoples. The problems faced by the workers of...

High-flying John Travolta is in an uproar over an airport near his $8 million home in Florida. Travolta contends he was lied to(!) by owners of the Greystone Airport near Ocala, Fla., because they didn't want him to land his Boeing 707 there. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the new Mrs. Edna Turnblad claims that Greystone owners James and Christine Garemore falsely told Travolta that they couldn't accommodate his jumbo jet. It's so tough owning your own plane! Travolta says he used to use the Greystone airport all the time, but in 2006, the Garemore's changed the airport's master record...

Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift says that Democrats shouldn't fear nominating Hillary Clinton as their presidential standard bearer in 2008, claiming that Republicans were just as nervous about Ronald Reagan's White House bid in 1980. "I was trying to think, who in my lifetime has been such a dominant frontrunner and yet people had been nervous about his electability - and I came up with Ronald Reagan," Clift told the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" on Sunday. The Newsweek scribe noted that Reagan "was the oldest person, at that time, to try to contest for the presidency as a frontrunner."...

I am trying to organize a protest of the new Deomcratic government after Kerry wins the Presidency and the Democrats take back the House and Senate. Does any of my fellow freepers have suggestions for a time and place to conduct this protest? Thanks.

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SPOKANE, Wash. -- For the first time in more than four decades, a shipment of dry peas from Washington state has been shipped to Cuba. "Today is a historic day. For the first time in 42 years, we will be shipping dry green peas grown in Washington ... to the largest market in the Western hemisphere," Tim D. McGreevy, executive director of the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council, said Monday at a tour of Spokane Seed Co., one of three area companies involved in the sale. The 5,000 metric ton...