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A Texas father-son duo are charged with murder after a dispute with a neighbor over a mattress turned deadly, shocking video shot by the deceased man’s wife appears to show. Warning – Graphic Footage: Viewer discretion strongly advised In video of the Sept. 1 incident released Wednesday, Kara Box captured her husband Aaron Howard arguing over trash in their Abilene alleyway with next-door neighbors John Miller, 67, and his son Michael Miller, 31. “We had thrown out a twin mattress in a dumpster in our alley a few days before the shooting,” Box commented on the video, according to The...

CNN’s Brian Karem pushed the lie Thursday that President Trump is somehow responsible for the mass murder of five people at a newspaper office in Maryland in June.

As we all know, planning and preparation are key to a successful holiday dinner with family; most especially with family members we know take a rather “different” view of politics than we do. And because nothing makes for a more joyous holiday meal, rich in the warm glow of satisfaction, and easing the digestion like kicking the snot out of pontificating liberal family members, I submit to you my fellow FReepers, a rhetorical gift: my formula for a joyous Christmas dinner. It goes something like this: The guy you hate has made a whole bunch of public promises that, at...

Since the publication of Time‘s recent cover story “The Transgender Tipping Point,” there has been a spate of conservative op-eds in retort, including ones featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal, and online on conservative websites such as The Federalist. The attacks follow a predictable set of talking points that rely on the reader having no scientific knowledge of the issue. However, when examined from a perspective of peer-reviewed medical consensus and law, these talking points fail utterly.

THE GREATEST GIFT Human history has basically been the struggle for freedom.  And it has been a struggle against two things: 1.  Natural elements or "limitations" (such as starvation, thirst, disease, famine, cold, heat, predators, etc.) and 2.  Other humans. The natural elements that limit human freedom have been fought against (and largely won) with advances in technology, agriculture, economics, and science.  We've eliminated starvation and thirst through agricultural technology, cured diseases through medicine, and though we have yet to unlock the secrets of immortality, the majority of people today do not spend their time searching for a clean water...

Connecticut residents waited in long lines on Thursday to register their firearms and high-capacity magazines before the state’s new gun laws go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. WFSB-TV reports that a “long-line of people” stood outside the Public Safety Building in Middletown, Conn., all day to register semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. Several residents were upset with the “unconstitutional” requirement, while at least one person didn’t appear to mind. “I understand why they’re doing it, but I don’t think it’s constitutional,” resident Scott Boccio told WFSB-TV as he was registering his guns. Charles Gillette, who was registering magazines, told...

Everyone is talking about the new Pope Francis, former Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and there’s indeed lots of reasons to be excited about it. This is a man that just a few days ago, would take a bus and then walk into some of the worst shanty towns in South America, on his own. Even cops have to organize so as to enter by the dozens in these places, even hundreds when trying to arrest someone hiding there. He would visit them, baptize children there, help organize soup kitchens and spend time with some of the poorest, most needy people...

​This post contains graphic language. Discretion is advised. – If you thought the Lena Dunham ad comparing voting to sexual intercourse with the president was crass, you might want to skip this story. Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore and Moveon.org have teamed up to make an ad — titled “Greatest Generation” — that actually includes the phrase “cock punch” and features a woman old enough to be many peoples’ great grandmother promising to “burn this motherf**ker down.” The ad is allegedly centered around the issue of voter fraud, but really is focused on the idea that a victory by Mitt Romney...

I'm about at my wits end. I've been trying to remember enough of the circumstances I'm about to relate to create a citable talking point. Sometime back in the mid 90s, Chris Matthews and Rush Limbaugh were on friendly terms; if I remember correctly, the last time Matthews called into Limbaugh's program, Rush shamed Matthews into utter silence when Rush noted Matthews was getting high profile exposure for his criticism of a conservative figure for the exact same thing he defended his old boss, Tip O'Neill. At the time, I was struck by the fact that Rush didn't make more...

“Break into my house and I kill you” said Argentine radio host and actor Angel “Baby” Etchecopar. Last night as Argentina usually forces you to do, he had to put his life where his mouth was. Etchecopar and his son where involved in a shooting last night. The attack was pretty typical and there are some lessons to be learned. It started with a common enough mistake, one that you may be able to get away with in less dangerous places but not Argentina: Last night his 24 year old son Federico was talking with his girlfriend in his car....

One Iraqi immigrant living in St. Louis, Missouri might have learned the hard way what happens to Muslims who publicly support Israel and the Jewish people, when he allegedly suffered a heinous attack in August — where, in addition to being stabbed and held at gunpoint, assailants carved a Star of David into his back. Alaa Alsaegh, a writer whose Arabic language poem, “Tears at the Heart of the Holocaust,” was featured on Nonie Darwish’s website, ArabsForIsrael.com, reported the incident to local authorities and was later taken to a hospital where his wounds were photographed. The Egyptian-born Darwish is a...

I would like to hereby formally announce and commission the "Never Make It To Akbar" Club. I, and those who will volunteer to join me, do solemnly swear and commit to never allow anyone who publicly shouts "ALLAH..." to make it to the phrase "AKBAR," in prelude to a terrorist incident. So help me, God.

Here's a hypothetical for FReepers to bat around. With the ubiquity of backpacks these days, what is the feasability and advisability of carrying one of the many high capacity, short barreled rifles as a concealed weapon. For our purposes, assume NFA compliance and fees are no object.

"the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute"-- Maureen Dowd, the New York Times Maureen Dowd's statement is Marxist. No, she did not advocate revolution by the proletariat. She did not say that we ought to have a Communist state. But her famous remark that someone in a particular class of victims has "absolute" moral authority is derived from "folk Marxism," as will be explained below. In my previous essay, I talked about the process by which the views of important thinkers become distilled into folk beliefs. I argued that it is these folk beliefs...

Can anyone advise me on the extent to which Muslims will go to blend into their their local surroundings? Cultural distinctives are sometimes hard to distinguish from suspicious activities. The activities at one home in my neighbourhood strike me as extremely peculiar. The neighbourhood is comprised entirely of single family suburban homes, yet in over a year, I have not seen a single female or child associated with this home. What I have seen is numerous twenty-something to fourty-something middle-eastern males: anywhere between two and twenty of them. (online real estate tax records show ownership to a person with a...