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The Montana House has been having a debate over the banning of the gender transitioning of minor children, or “gender-affirming” care, as the Orwellian people like to term the mutilation of children. Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr — who is transgender — attacked colleagues claiming that if her colleagues supported the bill, they would have “blood on their hands.” That violated the rules of decorum for attacking colleagues. After Zephyr’s remarks, Republican Speaker Matt Regier demanded that Zephyr apologize before being allowed to speak again in the chamber. “Not only has my colleague violated decorum, but has broken the trust given...

Its happening here in the USA the arrest of a mother who asked questions when confronted by police enforcing de facto martial law related to the coronavirus.... The price of oil today with the West Texas Intermediate price at 14.23 a barrel by 530 pm Eastern US time..... The meat supply in the United States being impacted by the coronavirus. The US Department of Agriculture reporting beef production down 20 percent for this month compared to April of last year..... Another example of a food processing facility affected by coronavirus is in Alabama where at least 75 cases have been...

Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries” are “antagonizing the entire world” and that Egypt “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.” Egypt’s Christians began Holy Week celebrations by being blown up today. Two Coptic Christian Orthodox churches packed with worshippers for Palm Sunday mass were attacked by Islamic suicide bombers; a total of 44 were killed and 126 wounded or mutilated. Horrific scenes of carnage—limbs and blood splattered on altars and pews—are being reported from both churches....

BREAKING: At least 28 people were killed and dozens of others were injured after coordinated explosions rocked the Brussels airport and subway system Tuesday morning. The attacks came four days after the main suspect in the November Paris attacks was arrested in Brussels. After his arrest, Salah Abdeslam told authorities he had created a new network and was planning new attacks. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday's attacks.

Draw your weapons. That's what Sheriff Joe Arpaio is urging nearly a quarter-million Arizona gun owners to do to fight terrorism and mass shooters. On Tuesday, the so-called "Toughest Sheriff in America" said he cannot guarantee the public's safety and called on them to take matters into their own hands if necessary.

A suspected terrorist who MI5 believe is a would-be suicide bomber was found repeatedly near the Olympic Games venue. The alleged al-Qaeda militant was caught crossing through the Olympic Park five times, breaking a ban imposed by the Home Secretary, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. The 24 year-old has previously tried to get to Afghanistan, allegedly for terrorist training, and is suspected of fighting for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, which has been responsible for thousands of deaths, including those of Western aid workers. He is accused of trying to recruit other Britons to its cause. A Home Office...

After more than three decades in United States prisons — a term punctuated by a brief escape and recapture — a 62-year-old Croatian independence fighter was returned to his native country on Thursday, having served his time for a 1976 hijacking and a bombing that killed a police officer. The fighter, Zvonko Busic, led a group that planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal that later exploded, killing a city police officer, Brian J. Murray. Mr. Busic left the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., boarded a plane in Chicago and touched down in Zagreb about 2:20 p.m. on...

First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly--ostensibly--in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants:(Tigerhawk has more shots.)It all seems so...so familiar, doesn't it? Didn't we go through this same routine, the same scripted jihad theatrics, barely sixth months ago over the Mohammed cartoons? From February:The truth about Muslim outrage over Qana is that it's not really about the tragic deaths at Qana--just...

Yesterday Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief appeared on my program to explain his paper's decision to assist terrorists in eluding capture. Today the paper's editor, Dean Baquet, publishes this defense: "Why we ran the story": MANY READERS have been sharply critical of our decision to publish an article Friday on the U.S. Treasury Department's program to secretly monitor worldwide money transfers in an effort to track terrorist financing. They have sent me sincere and powerful expressions of their disappointment in our newspaper, and they deserve an equally thoughtful and honest response. The deception begins here. How many readers? Why...

From: United American Committee Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:37 AM Subject: Protest/Vigil this Friday Protest/Vigil regarding the two tortured and slaughtered American soldiers. Please forward to anyone in Southern California. The following is an announcement regarding a protest/vigil this Friday in the Los Angeles area organized by a new organization called the Sons of Washington which is NOT affiliated with the UAC. It is not an event sponsored or endorsed by the United American Committee but may be of interested to many of our members: > From the Sons of Washington: It has come to light now the manner...

1999 Document: Chemical Platoons Applied Training In Chemical Laboratory to Detect Nerve Agents, VX Agents, Mustard Gas Document BIAP 2003-003543 talks about the training of the Iraqi Chemical Platoon in Al Qadisya Air base. It contains training programs of 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1999. In the Chemical training program of the year 1999, page 153 of the document, there is section concerning the “Field Chemical Laboratory”, and in this section listed the both “Theoretical Training Schedule” and “The Practical (Applied) Training Schedule” to Detection of Nerve Gas Agent, VX agent, Sulfuric Mustard Agent, and Agent that contains Cyanide. Pages 101,...

Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush. The proposal this week by Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, to censure Mr. Bush over his domestic eavesdropping program cheered the left. But it also dovetailed with conservatives' plans to harness such attacks to their own ends. With the Republican base demoralized by continued growth in government spending, undiminished violence in Iraq and intramural disputes over immigration, some conservative leaders had already begun rallying their supporters...

Prime minister-designate Stephen Harper is suggesting Canada will not recognize the new Palestinian Hamas government. Harper, who is to be sworn in Feb. 6, suggested today that his Conservative government won't accept Hamas as long as it continues to support terrorism and call for the destruction of Israel. Asked about the issue during his first news conference since winning Monday's election, Harper said he supports Israel. And he added: "For a nation to be truly democratic, that nation must renounce terrorism." Hamas is already banned from operating in Canada because of its support for terrorism. The group won a surprise...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2005 – Taliban leader Qari Amadullah was killed during heavy fighting near the city of Wazikwa in eastern Afghanistan Aug. 9, U.S. forces confirmed today. Amadullah was believed to have commanded up to 50 Taliban fighters in the region and was thought to be in possession of a number of weapon systems to include rockets and rocket propelled grenades. "Killing this individual will significantly disrupt Taliban operations in the region," said Army Brig. Gen James G. Champion, deputy commander of Combined Joint Task Force 76. "We hope that with his death, Amadullah's forces are able...

I am simply cross-posting a message I just put up on strategypage.com. The story behind the message is, there is a good guy named Sentinnel28a who slammed me pretty good and I lost track of the thread, but then found it and responded. You can see his thread in quotes, all broken up, inside my post. Hello everyone, especially badray and his buddy whose freeper name I forget. By the way, I am plain "stratego" on strategypage.com, but that was taken here so I added the "fr", free republic. Here's the thread: Glad I found this thread. Been meaning to...

July 10th, 2004 The logic of weakness June 30th, 2004 The Democrats and the Left seem hell-bent to topple President Bush at any cost. Ted Kennedy says, boiled down to its essence, that Abu Ghraib prison is now under new US management that equaled that of Saddam. The last I heard, the prisoners are still alive and eating permitted food. Who knows what happened to the prisoners under Saddam? Thus, the Democrats and the Left have attacked the war unwisely -- a replay of Vietnam. During the peak of the Democratic campaign, Howard Dean said the US should pull out...

<p>WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice isn't the only one with a lot riding on her appearance Thursday before the Sept. 11 commission.</p> <p>If panel members appear politically motivated in their questioning of the national security adviser, it could raise questions about their credibility — and the findings in their final report this summer.</p>

Lahore, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami and MMA acting president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has strongly condemned the fresh arrests of nuclear scientists and termed it worst kind of victimization of national heroes to please the Bush administration. In a statement, Qazi Hussain Ahmad called the arrests humiliation and harassment of national heroes on the behest of Washington. He said, those scientists toiled day and night to make national defense unconquerable but the manner in which they were picked up in the darkness of the night and mentally tortured in the name of ‘de-briefing’ bowed the heads of all patriotic citizens with shame. The...

<p>WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Maritime authorities worldwide are increasingly anxious about terrorist attacks on ports and ships. Anxiety has been heightened by recent press reports about al-Qaida merchantmen, but intelligence is vague, with estimates of al-Qaida's "fleet" varying from 15 to as many as 300 ships of all shapes and size.</p>

We Are At War; Are We Prepared For It? SELF ^ | 9/13/2001 | MHGinTN Posted on 09/13/2001 12:44 PM EDT by MHGinTN I'm hesitant to post a thread when the load on the server is so severe, but there are good Freepers going off half-cocked. I'm still too angry to post comments 'off the top of my head', and I see a few others are also. Here are a few thoughts to ponder. We are at war with a subtle, determined, devious enemy. There is a fair likelihood that Osama bin Laden didn't mastermind this attack alone, that it...