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AP: Federal officials worried Ghislaine Maxwell might "take her own life"

I was alerted a few hours ago, and I was surprised that now, looking through FR posts, no one has posted.Our beloved Patriot has passed on.

I am not opposed to an individual choosing to wear or not wear a mask (there are legitimate arguments and concerns on both sides of the issue) or a business choosing to require or not require them. I am opposed to overreaching “mandates” from unelected bureaucrats who think they should dictate to people and businesses how they live and operate. This is a democracy not a dictatorship. The government answers to you, not the other way around. As such, in these unprecedented times of government abuse of power, I encourage you to make the decisions you feel are appropriate for...

The drive to make Washington, D.C., a state has been a favorite of some Democrats for years. Why wouldn't it be? If enacted, a new state, formed from deepest-blue D.C., would create two new Democratic senators and one new Democratic member of the House. For a Democrat, what's not to like? But while there have been lots of D.C. statehood bills over the years, the issue has been voted on only once before. In 1993, it failed badly in the House, losing 277 to 153. Back then, moderate Democrats put their judgment before partisan interest, splitting on whether statehood was...

...The Seattle Police Department moved into the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" zone early Wednesday morning.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed the historic bill that takes the 126-year-old state flag out of law, immediately removing official status for the banner that has been a source of division for generations.

In Romans 8:18-25, Paul writes that all creation is groaning for a glory that will be revealed. He urges people to put their hope in what is not yet seen because hope in things seen is not true hope. When Paul writes about the glory that is to be revealed, he is writing about the apocalypse, which means a revelation. The things unseen will become seen. Every day moves us closer to that revealing. We do not know the day, but we get closer each day, and all of creation groans for it. When we first become aware as children,...

With an average total audience of four million viewers, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson finished the week of June 8 through June 14 as the most-watched host in all of cable news, despite the decision by some advertisers to abandon his program over comments Carlson made about the Black Lives Matter movement. Tucker Carlson Tonight finished ahead of FNC’s usual first-place finisher, Hannity, which ended the week in second place with 3.9 million viewers, followed by The Ingraham Angle (3.5 million total viewers) according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen. Last week, Carlson drew criticism for remarks he made about...

Top California lawmakers on Tuesday ordered the removal of a marble sculpture depicting explorer Christopher Columbus and his patron, Queen Isabella, from the Capitol Rotunda. The statue has been in the Capitol for more than a century. Top lawmakers called for its removal a day after a statue showing white settler John Sutter was taken down in front of the Sacramento hospital that bears his name.“Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing historical figure given the deadly impact his arrival in this hemisphere had on indigenous populations. The continued presence of this statue in California’s Capitol, where it has been since...

Mary Trump, niece of President Donald Trump, is set to publish a book this summer with “harrowing and salacious” stories about her uncle, sources familiar with the project told the Daily Beast—becoming the first Trump family member to openly speak out against the President. In forthcoming book Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump’s deceased brother Fred Trump Jr., will reportedly reveal her role as a source in the New York Times’ 2018 investigation of Trump’s wealth origins and tax dodges, according to the Daily Beast. The book is set to publish on August 11,...

The radical leftist movement that has toppled statues across America has gained a major ally in our nation’s capital. In a Wednesday letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there are 11 statues currently standing in the U.S. Capitol Building that she wants removed. “Currently,” Pelosi wrote, “11 statues representing Confederate soldiers and officials are on display as part of the National Statuary Hall collection in the United State Capitol.

HR 836 which ends the Governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration was amended and passed the Senate. We just passed it again in the House with a bipartisan 121-81 vote! When the resolution is printed in the PA Bulletin this Friday, the emergency declaration will be terminated along with all the guidance and orders.

Democrats love photo ops. That can be said about all politicians, but Democrats in particular are keen to get involved in symbolism and fanfare whenever possible. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a master of producing photogenic moments for the press to fawn over, but her latest attempt to virtue signal in response to George Floyd’s murder appears to include a major misstep that would be comical if it weren’t so sad. The Kente cloth stoles she and her fellow Democrats wore during their eight-minute kneeling ceremony (socially distanced, of course) have an ironic history as it pertains to...

“The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday, including the Minnesotan who died in police custody among her list of “names of martyrdom.” At a press conference introducing Democrats’ “Justice in Policing Act,” Pelosi said that she and her colleagues knelt for more than eight minutes on Monday because Floyd’s death was “a continuation of some horror” that has been long-present in America:

https://youtu.be/79HMS5ee0bg This is a pretty good hook up...i say Leo wins with the T.K.O....

King Arthur Flour gets on the BLM band wagon and donates $200,000 to far left radical Southern Poverty Law Center. And $200,000 to 'Equal Justice Initiative' Going the way of Penzeys spices we see...

Full title: Anoka Co. Sheriff has 'no appetite' to help Minneapolis if it abolishes police department[Sherrif] Stuart added the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office joined Minneapolis “in disgust over the way in which George Floyd lost his life,” but warned that nixing the police department could dampen further relations. “If they choose to eliminate their police department through defunding operations without a realistic plan, they must also choose to live with the consequences of their decisions. We are one of many agencies who have no appetite for going back to their city to restore order again;

2:00 presser.

A lily-white ticket like Clinton-Kaine just won't cut it this time. And James Clyburn will demand an African American on the ticket. So the white women are out. Kamala Harris is possible but unlikely. She fizzled in the primaries and prosecuted African Americans for drug crimes. Stacy Abrams is a tubby joke (Nancy Pelosi says it's ok to call people fat) Muriel Bowser is all the rage (pun intended) and is right now a Black Lives Matter hero. Biden/Bowser Delaware and DC The second smallest state in the union and a 67 square-mile city that wants to be a state....

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told a group of black supporters on Thursday night that most Americans were good people who think the nation can be improved, while also declaring that “there are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people.” Mr. Biden offered his estimate during remarks in which he spoke about the importance of a president setting a positive example for the nation on racial issues. He accused President Trump of dividing the country while pledging that, as president, he would not.