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What began as a fairly straightforward U.S. policy of arming the Ukrainians with defensive weapons against Russian aggression has now expanded into a dangerous and rapid escalation. We now have embarked on the inevitable slippery slope of mission creep and where we will end up will probably not be where we had intended. If history has taught us anything, it is that before engaging in an armed conflict, we must have a clearly defined end state and the strategy (the ends, way, and means) of achieving it. Right now, we have neither. The New York Times on Wednesday published an...

Forty or fifty years ago, my friend Wendy dragged me to an abortion debate, an event populated mostly by women. The debate began in an orderly manner and then devolved into chaos. Simplifying for concision, the dialogue proceeded something like this: Pro-abortion woman: "It's my body" Pro-life woman: "It's not your body that dies in the abortion." Pro-abortion woman: "It's my choice." Pro-life woman: "You made your choice when you got pregnant!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's my privacy." Pro-life woman: "The same privacy as bank-robbers!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's just a clump of cells." Pro-life woman: "It's alive!" Pro-abortion woman: "It's not...

Billionaire and free-speech warrior Elon Musk skewered the mindset of Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) leader Nina Jankowicz for suggesting a group of elites should be able to “add context” to other users’ tweets. Remember when nobility were knights in shining armor? Now the nobles just want to nag your tweets. A Twitter user shared a video in which DGB head Jankowicz suggested that “verified” Twitter users she deems “legit” can place “context” over users’ tweets: “So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter, the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets."...

Video Transcript: "The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It." Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened? May 14, 2022 After Joe Biden announced his extraordinary request for $33 billion more for the war in Ukraine — on top of the $14 billion the U.S. has already spent just ten weeks into this war — congressional leaders of both parties immediately decided the amount was insufficient. They arbitrarily increased the amount by $7 billion to a total of $40 billion, then fast-tracked the bill for immediate approval....

If you’re a prepper living in the city, you need to have an emergency preparedness plan before SHTF so you can bug in or bug out as needed. If you’re not sure where to start, learn about the six principles of survival and prepare a bug-out bag. (h/t to SurvivalCache.com) Wilderness survival skills like fire starting, hunting, building a shelter and water purification techniques are all valuable skills, but you need to adapt if you want to survive in the city when SHTF. When planning for an urban disaster scenario, you should also focus on situational awareness, personal protection, planning...

Surveillance footage shows the horrifying moment a monkey snatched a toddler and dragged her away as the little girl was playing on her scooter. The innocent child was left with scratches across her face after she was rescued from the monkey in China’s Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday.

A Florida bride and a wedding caterer were apprehended after several wedding guests were served food laced with drugs, according to deputies. The victims began feeling sick and high after eating the drug-laced food.

There was a fine gentleman that used to have spots in the Rush show during commercial breaks back in the day. It was "the other side of the story" Who was he, am not finding anything on the interweb, not claiming to be the best at this. Thanks to my fellow Freepers and be Blessed! PS: Had to have a web link to post, so why not go with the best.

Alana Thompson aka “Honey Boo Boo” and her boyfriend Dralin Carswell are still going strong despite being criticized over their 4-year age gap.

A Florida woman strangled her two kids to death this week and called police to come and get them saying she doesn’t want them anymore, according to a report. The 41-year-old mom, Odette Joaossaint, called 911 multiple times before police officers arrived at her Miami home for a welfare check Tuesday night

A Tennessee interracial bride and groom are facing backlash on social media after a controversial clip from their wedding shows the seemingly white bride escorting the groom, an apparent black man, into their reception on a dog leash.

A pregnant Pennsylvania woman is afraid her unborn daughter is going to have an attitude just like her after the baby girl flipped her off while in the womb.The ensuing footage shows the baby squirming around her mom’s womb before clearly flashing the camera a middle finger. The unborn child then makes amends for her rude gesture and gives viewers a two-finger peace sign.

Teachers and administrators at New Jersey’s Pearl R. Miller Middle School forced students to watch a video about a transgender man’s hormone treatment without notifying the students’ parents. The video, “Ten Years on Testosterone,” was part of a social studies class and detailed the transition of an LGBTQ activist. The garden State will put in place “updated” health standards this September, guidelines that were approved by the governor-appointed New Jersey Board of Education in 2020. The new “standards” mandate teaching second-graders about genitalia, reproduction, and “gender expression.” Fifth-graders will be required to define masturbation. Eighth-graders will have to define gender...

New advertising campaign will launch between now and Easter Sunday ! Please commit to Like, Share, Comment and support the BINGE Watching LIVE events with comments and sharing. The Chosen will live feed all 16 episodes that comprise Season 1 and 2 at the rate of 2 episodes per day

Black Lives Matter has used nearly $6 million donation money to purchase a fancy Southern California home, according to a report on Monday. Three BLM leaders, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah, were videotaped outside of the “secretly bought” swanky home last June while celebrating the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, according to the NY magazine’s report.

Rewind to this article about Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico aka the richest man in the world for many years and stockholder in the NY Times. Joe Biden, Carlos Slim Helu - Bing images This is the man who lost 8 BILLION dollars in the stock market the morning Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. Slim was also a big donor to the Clinton Foundation. (see below) TTC has seen too much of Helu, who is many more times the billionaire that Soros is, to not believe he's in the middle of the open border and SO much more bad policy...

Actor Will Smith was filmed partying on Monday morning at the Vanity Fair Oscars event in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA after he slapped stand-up comedian Chris Rock during the live award show. In the video shared by Variety editors Marc Malkin and Ramin Setoodeh on Twitter, Smith, 53, with wife J ada Pinkett, 50, nearby, joyfully sang along as the DJ played his songs “Gettin Jiggy With It” and”Miami.”

The Virginia man who was apprehended and charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 2021 fatal stabbing of Michael Fadely in his Leesburg home believed he was stabbing Satan, in an attempt to save the world, his attorney said.

A Texas mother was fatally shot on Tuesday at a Killeen cemetery while visiting her recently deceased son’s grave to drop flowers for his first birthday in heaven, the woman’s husband told police. The 52-year-old mother, Yolanda N’Gaojia, was shot and killed around 5 in the evening at the Calvary Baptist Church Garden of Memories Cemetery in Killeen. A second victim was also injured in the shooting but was said to be in stable condition, according to the police.

An Arizona man has been honored by the Phoenix Sheriff’s Office for restraining a man who was assaulting a teenage girl in downtown Phoenix last month. On Feb. 11, a teenage girl was out to meet with her boyfriend downtown near Roosevelt Street when a man approached and grabbed her from behind, a surveillance video shared by the Phoenix PD showed. That’s when bystander Josh Jones leaped to the girl’s defense by taking the suspect down and sitting on him until deputies arrived.