Author: Freedom Watch

State Department contradicts Biden’s remarks that there may be a ‘kill list’ provided to Taliban By Andrew Miller Fox News August 28, 2021 State Department spokesperson Ned Price seemingly contradicted President Biden’s acknowledgment that the United States may have provided the Taliban with a list of names of Americans and allies in order to usher them to the airport. “The idea that we are providing names or personally identifiable information to the Taliban in a way that exposes anyone to additional risk, that is simply wrong, simply wrong,” Price said in response to a question about reports that…

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California recall candidate Larry Elder under police investigation following 2015 domestic violence accusation that his campaign denies By Kyung Lah and Stella Chan CNN August 27, 2021 (CNN)The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating domestic violence accusations against California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder — allegations he has denied. “The department was made aware of domestic violence accusations against Larry Elder,” an LAPD spokesperson told CNN, but they said additional details on the allegations would not be made public “due to the confidential nature of domestic violence investigations.” The police said in a statement to CNN that nothing…

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Judge Orders Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Over Election Lawsuit By Alan Feuer New York Times August 26, 2021 A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday night ordered sanctions to be levied against nine pro-Trump lawyers, including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, ruling that a lawsuit laden with conspiracy theories that they filed last year challenging the validity of the presidential election was “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.” In her decision, Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court in Detroit ordered the lawyers to be referred to the local legal authorities in…

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Israeli rabbis send letter to Vatican expressing concern over papal remarks Times of Israel August 25, 2021 Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, the chair of the Chief Rabbinate’s Commission for Dialogue with the Holy See, has expressed concern over recent remarks by Pope Francis about Jewish law, Reuters report. According to the report, Arusi sent a letter to the Vatican requesting clarification of comments the pope made to a general audience earlier this month. On August 11, Francis spoke at the Vatican about the first five books of the Bible, known in Hebrew as the Torah. The pope referenced the…

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Analysis: Why Biden will end the final mission in Afghanistan in just 7 days By Analysis by Stephen Collinson CNN August 25, 2021 (CNN)The instincts that drove President Joe Biden’s decision to end the US presence in Afghanistan by August 31 were revealed by what he talked about before he announced it to the American people. In a televised statement billed as an update on a remarkable airlift that has now saved more than 87,900 people, Biden celebrated the latest House votes on his $3.5 trillion jobs, social spending, family leave and health care blueprint. “We are a…

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Grand Forks Herald August 25, 2021 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

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Journal of the American Revolution August 25, 2021 The scribe of the Declaration of Independence—and perhaps the first man to read it in public—was born on March 28, 1736 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. His family moved to Philadelphia eight years later. At the age of thirteen, Timothy Matlack began an apprenticeship under a prosperous Quaker merchant named John Reynell. Looking forward to a bright future, Matlack enthusiastically signed his contract with characteristic looping flourishes. But then disaster struck his family. His father, Timothy Sr., was a brewer who fell into debt, and the court ordered the seizure of his…

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