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  • Democrat Pollster Warns RFK's Support Will Crumble When They 'Learn His Real Views'

    05/11/2024 8:59:02 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind
    Townhall ^ | 05/11/2024 | Sarah Arnold
    A top Democrat pollster is warning that 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support among Republicans will crumble when they begin to see through his cracks. Kennedy has seen some support from the Republican Party primarily due to his right-leaning views such as being pro-parental rights and an anti-vaxxer. However, Mark Penn is warning to look beyond the surface of the Independent candidate. “I think that it will drop in half if Republicans learn the views, right now they don’t know these things,” Penn told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “And there’s a group of Republicans that don’t like...
  • Here's What Happened When Pro-Hamas Activists Tried to Block Traffic in Florida

    05/11/2024 8:55:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind
    Townhall ^ | 05/11/2024 | Matt Vespa
    Pro-Hamas activists need to nix blocking traffic for their shenanigans when they’re in Florida. The police in the Sunshine State won’t stand for it. Today, some pro-terrorist clowns tried to block traffic on a major highway outside of Disney World. Specifically, it was the Central Florida Queers for Palestine who wanted to create mayhem on the roads. Luckily, this stunt only lasted 11 minutes before police arrested them. CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO NEW: The “Queers For Palestine” protesters who blocked the highway exit to Disney World in Orlando, FL, have been arrested by Florida Highway Patrol. I’m...
  • Hundreds of students join pro-Palestine protest at UC Berkeley graduation ceremony

    05/11/2024 6:45:11 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 13 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 11, 2024 | Sam Mauhay-Moore
    UC Berkeley's Saturday morning graduation ceremony was punctuated by the chanting of hundreds of pro-Palestine student protesters whose demonstration caused the event to be paused and delayed several times.
  • Hundreds of anti-Israel protestors in NYC shut down Manhattan Bridge

    05/11/2024 5:00:15 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Nypost ^ | 05/11/2024 | Rich Calder
    Hundreds of anti-Israel protestors took over the Manhattan Bridge Saturday night, initially blowing off cops who tried to set up set up barricades to block their paths. Demonstrators blocked vehicles on the bridge’s upper level, stalling traffic, according to images posted on X. The demonstrators initially gathered near Brooklyn’s Barclays Center before heading northwest onto the bridge and into Manhattan, according to reports.
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Mother's Day 2024! ~ 12 May 2024

    05/11/2024 4:59:54 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 24 replies
    Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Happy Mother's Day 2024!! ~ Proverbs 31:10-31 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.12 She will do him good and no evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants'; ship; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat...
  • Joe Biden: Ceasefire in War with Israel ‘Up to Hamas’

    05/11/2024 4:32:14 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2024 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL
    While speaking at a fundraiser in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, President Joe Biden said there could be a ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas if the U.S.-designated Islamic terror group “would release” the remaining hostages. “There would be a ceasefire tomorrow if Hamas would release the hostages, the women and the elderly and the wounded,” Biden said. “As I’ve said, it’s up to Hamas–if they wanted to do it, we could end it tomorrow.”
  • Sicko who lassoed woman around neck, raped her on NYC street showed eerie precision, source says: ‘He’s done this before’

    05/11/2024 1:48:42 PM PDT · by thegagline · 39 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 05/11/2024 | Tina Moore, Joe Marino
    The man arrested in the horrific caught-on-camera attack in which a woman was lassoed with a belt from behind, dragged unconscious and raped acted with an eerie precision, according to a police source. “I definitely think he’s done it before,” said a Bronx detective, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t cleared to talk to the news media. “It was too clean. Normally, the first time out they make huge mistakes. This was no mistake. This guy was precise.” Kashaan Parks was arrested Saturday and charged with walking up behind the victim — then tossing a belt around her...
  • World Health Organization Is Making a Massive Power Grab—and Biden Is Enabling It | Opinion

    05/11/2024 1:33:13 PM PDT · by bitt · 26 replies
    NEWSWEEK ^ | 5/8/2024 | GORDON CHANG
    he World Health Organization wants the power to run the world. In three weeks, it will make its bid for global control. The World Health Assembly, the 194-member body governing that organization, convenes in Geneva at the end of May. The main agenda items will be the amendment of the International Health Regulations and the signing of what is now called the "WHO Pandemic Agreement." Together, the amendments and agreement would give WHO, as the worldwide health body is known, sweeping powers before and during pandemics to dictate actions of national governments. The current version of the agreement, dated April...
  • Robberies surge 5.6 percent in NYC in last month with a 350 percent increase in Central Park: ‘Free for all’

    05/11/2024 12:51:26 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Nypost ^ | 05/11/2024 | Tina Moore
    Robberies in New York City are surging, police data show. While most major crimes are down, including shootings and murders, robberies shot up 5.6% so far in 2024 over the same period in 2023 — to 5,522 from 5,228 as of May 5. Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, pointed out that robberies have a low arrest rate — with only about 25% of cases solved because victims typically don’t know their attackers.
  • Bishop Accuses Biden of Mocking Catholicism With Pro-Abortion Message

    05/11/2024 12:38:15 PM PDT · by lightman · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 11 May A.D. 2024 | Sarah Arnold
    A staunch bishop criticized President Joe Biden for calling himself a “devout” Catholic while at the same time spreading his pro-abortion message. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois accused Biden of “making a mockery of our Catholic faith” after he made the Sign of the Cross while promoting abortion. In a video titled “Biden Mocks Our Catholic Faith,” the bishop noted several times when the president has acted against his faith in a sacrilegious manner to promote something evil. Biden made the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally in Florida while lambasting fellow Catholic Gov....
  • DOJ Seeking 40-Year Sentence for Man Convicted of Bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with Hammer

    05/11/2024 12:15:23 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 58 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2024 | A
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a 40-year prison sentence for David DePape, the man convicted of attacking now-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband in October 2022. Federal prosecutors said Friday that the sentence would “reflect the nature and circumstances of the offense,” USA Today reported on Saturday. When the initial incident happened at the Pelosi residence in San Francisco, California, police were dispatched to the scene and later said DePape attacked Pelosi’s husband, Paul, with a hammer, Breitbart News noted.
  • Maher: NYT Is Just a Democratic Party Instrument

    05/11/2024 11:49:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2024 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn arguing that the paper shouldn’t be an instrument for the Biden campaign and only write negative stories about Republicans while writing solely positive stories about Biden by stating that this is what the paper does now. Maher said, “Now that I’m doing interviews…the big question that people are asking me, I see every interviewer ask the same question, which is like, you make fun of the left a lot more than you used to. Yes, I do, because they’re goofier and...
  • Cardin: Israel military aid should continue, though war conduct report ‘raised concerns’

    05/11/2024 11:20:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05/11/2024 | FILIP TIMOTIJA
    Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, said military aid to Israel should continue, through the war conduct report released by the State Department on Friday “raised concerns.” Cardin’s remarks on transferring military aid to Israel are different than that of the White House, as President Biden withheld sending over some bombs to the U.S. ally last week and said earlier this week the U.S. would stop supplying weapons like artillery shells and bombs if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) goes forward with a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah, the city in the south of the Gaza...
  • Wasserman Schultz: Biden’s ‘Ironclad’ for Israel, He Had ‘Imprecision’ That Risks Strengthening Hamas

    05/11/2024 10:48:33 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2024 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) stated that President Joe Biden “has been ironclad” in his support of Israel but “what I think we have here is a problem of imprecision in the communication from the President.” And that the Biden administration should raise its concerns with Israel privately “because it leaves room for misunderstandings. And look, leaving the impression of possible daylight emboldens Hamas, risks emboldening Hamas, risks the possibility or even likelihood of it being less likely that we can get our hostages home, particularly our American hostages.”
  • Big cuts, no new taxes: Gov. Newsom’s plan to fix California’s budget deficit

    05/11/2024 10:40:58 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 20 replies
    Cal Matters ^ | May 10, 2024 | ALEXEI KOSEFF
    Gavin Newsom proposes a mix of spending cuts and using reserves to balance the state budget. He says that core services will be largely untouched, but some existing programs would be affected.
  • Anti-Hamas activist arrested after waving banana during London protest

    05/11/2024 10:07:30 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 31 replies
    The Telegraph (via Yahoo) ^ | May 10, 2024 | Patrick Sawer
    A prominent anti-Hamas activist was arrested for racism after eating a banana during a pro-Palestine protest. Niyak Ghorbani was accused of making a racist gesture with the banana while standing with counter protesters in central London last Saturday. The 38-year-old Iranian dissident, who has become a familiar figure for holding a “Hamas Are Terrorists” banner at counter protests, denies he was being racist and insists he was simply eating the fruit. He was referencing recent events on American campuses in which bananas were used to taunt pro-Palestinian protesters. Mr Gohrbani was handcuffed and led away by five officers after pro-Palestine...
  • Chicago: 13-Year-Old Girl Shot While Allegedly Stealing Car

    05/11/2024 9:57:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    Chicago police say a 13-year-old girl was shot by a car owner Tuesday morning while allegedly trying to steal the car. Police updated information on the incident, saying that the owner shot at the 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy who was allegedly with her, according to ABC 7. A bullet hit the girl “in the right side of her body” and she was taken to the hospital, where she was “in stable condition.”
  • Shunned for centuries, Vodou grows powerful as Haitians seek solace from unrelenting gang violence

    05/11/2024 9:20:05 AM PDT · by Salman · 32 replies
    AP site ^ | May 9, 2024 | DÁNICA COTO
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown bottles, twirling in unison as they sing in Haitian Creole: “We don’t care if they hate us, because they can’t bury us.” Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted. Increasingly, they seek solace and protection from violent gangs that have killed, raped and kidnapped thousands in recent years....
  • Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row

    05/11/2024 7:49:10 AM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    College Fix ^ | MAY 10, 2024 | BENJAMIN ROTHOVE
    Meanwhile, fewer than one in 10 are openly conservative, analysis finds Nearly three in four recipients of this year’s prestigious, federally funded Truman Scholarship have clear ties to Democratic politicians or progressive causes, a College Fix analysis found. Approximately 43 of the 60 students have worked for Democratic politicians, advocated for progressive causes, or identify as left-leaning — continuing an annual trend exposed in past Fix analyses. In contrast, only five scholars have worked for Republican politicians, advocated for conservative causes, or identify as right-leaning. The College Fix determined this information based on provided biographies, LinkedIn profiles, and email inquiries....
  • Anti-Israel activists behind Columbia University protests trained in Cuba for years

    05/11/2024 7:23:51 AM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    ADN America ^ | May 7, 2024 | Gelet Martínez Fragela
    Some of the anti-Israel protests taking place at U.S. college campuses, including the recent demonstrations at Columbia University, have been supported by organizations that traveled to communist Cuba to receive resistance training, an ADN investigation has uncovered. ADN’s investigation coincides with a recent Sunday report published by the New York Post that revealed a radical NYC based organization known as The People’s Forum familiarized anti-Israel activists with Black Lives Matter protest techniques just hours before they stormed Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, and that the group was incited by Manolo De Los Santos–a radical activist organizer with deep ties to...