Free Republic

As the Obama administration this week named another warship after a politician, a new report is circulating in Congress that shows that nearly 200 Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients have never been awarded such an honor, contrary to naval guidelines and tradition. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who has named several ships after Democrats and liberal activists not connected to the military, was in Detroit on Monday to announce that an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be named the USS Carl M. Levin. The Michigan Democrat served 31 years in the Senate and chaired the Senate Armed Services...

President Barack Obama is making sure that his administration spends its last days in power by piling on more rules and regulations on private industry, and Republicans have failed to push back. That’s the message from publisher Steve Forbes in a magazine editorial published on its website. “The Obama Administration has let it be known that the White House and the regulatory agencies will be issuing a blizzard of new rules and decrees in the waning months of his miserable regime,” Forbes writes. “These will affect overtime, unionization, the environment and finance, among other areas, thereby hobbling enterprise even more.”...

If Donald Trump's 2016 run for President has done anything, it has awakened many people in America to the fact that the free country they thought they lived in is really a socialist dictatorship. Today, our government in Washington is made up of only one political socialist establishment that masquerades as being both Republican and Democrat with a common goal of world and domestic domination. In the US today, we are no longer represented by our elected officials, but dictated to by appointed administrators. This country has not had a fair election since the hanging chad controversy in the Bush/Gore...

CNSNews.com) – As the Obama administration institutes a “surge” aimed at meeting its goal – currently way off-target – of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, the Associated Press has cited an official at the U.S. Embassy in Amman as saying that the time taken to process each admission is being cut to three months. “While the resettlement process usually takes 18 to 24 months, under the surge operation this will be reduced to three months, [regional refugee coordinator Gina] Kassem said,” the AP reported Wednesday. With the fiscal year now more than half over, the number of Syrian...

When Missouri parents Tiffany and Anthony Swearengin saw their children weren’t making progress in school, they followed the lead of millions of American families: They notified the school, took their kids out of class and started homeschooling. Then the Swearengins received a letter from Rose Pursell, the chief deputy juvenile officer in the Douglas County, Missouri, court system, notifying them “to appear before the Truancy Court of 44th Judicial Circuit, at the Juvenile Court Center.” The letter threatens the parents with the “above named juvenile be[ing] placed in the legal custody of the Missouri Children’s Division.” But no such court...

Providing yet another searing example of the ridiculousness of his tenure in the Oval Office, a new report outlines how President Barack Obama’s executive orders to “eliminate red tape” in government burdened taxpayers and businesses with billions in new regulatory costs. In 2011 and 2012, the president signed executive orders instructing federal agencies to “modify, streamline, expand, or repeal” existing regulations to lighten the massive regulatory burden on the American economy. Using its 2+2=5 accounting, the Obama administration has claimed that the president’s actions have created $28 billion in savings since 2011. Independent reviews, however, tell a far different story....

Following the release of the synced video from the aerial footage provided by the Department of Justice and the phone video from Shauna Cox, it became even clearer that LaVoy Finicum was murdered in cold blood and that though he was killed by Oregon State Police, at least one FBI agent took two shots at him as he exited the vehicle with his hands raised. Now that the video has been released, Ammon Bundy's attorney has come out and exposed the lies of the FBI saying, "We weren't given the full truth at that initial FBI press conference after the...

Victoria Sharp, 18, joined her Kansas family to sing at the Oregon wildlife refuge occupation She was in the vehicle with the occupier who was shot to death Sharp has gone on to be the focus of many patriot movement videos and broadcasts. (Watch Victoria's Video At Link) The pastor of the Auburn, Kan, church the Sharp family once attended speaks of Victoria, now a champion of the patriot and militia movements. In one of dozens of YouTube videos posted this past month featuring teenager Victoria Sharp, who is from these parts, she flashes a wide smile when an online...

If you've got a gun and you receive Social Security, you are now being targeted by the Obama administration. In the latest stealth effort by the Communist administration, the Social Security Administration is wanting to list the names of those who receive Social Security benefits to the National Instant Check System (NICS) as "prohibited persons." This would effectively ban them from being able to purchase a gun and would target those who already own guns. It would also be a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment's due process clause. The LA Times has the story: The push is intended to...

ATHERTON, Calif. -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that "strange things" can happen in politics when voters are scared and that the angst people are feeling across the country is finding voice in both the Republican and Democratic parties. "We have to listen to that," Obama said at a Democratic Party fundraiser at the San Francisco-area home of supporter and venture capitalist Steve Westly. Obama commented two days after billionaire businessman Donald Trump rode that wave of voter anger at traditional politicians to a commanding win in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did the same in...

(Watch videos at link) For all those people who believe everything the one-sided, agenda-driven mainstream media has reported on this issue, please take a look at reality. The Oregon patriot militia takeover of the wildlife refuge began after ranchers were unfairly RE-sentenced under terrorism statutes for controlled burning of vegetation on federal land. Less than two weeks after the Hammonds were resentenced to five years -- that's sentenced twice for the same instance of the same "crime" they already did time for, just under different statutes -- the Bureau of Land Management was filmed setting uncontrolled, unmonitored fires to land...

It's all happening so fast, it's hard to keep up with all the b.s. coming out of the president and his White House in his last year. In case you missed it, Obama just proposed raising the gas tax to what would amount to 136%. By proposing a $10 per barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the U.S., Obama wants to add a 25 cent gas tax on every gallon of gas you purchase at the pump. He wants to use it to pay for his green transportation initiatives. Considering federal gas tax is 18.4 cents...

The Obama administration is obsessed with race and sex. Many know about the administration's scheme to collect information on the racial composition of American communities in an effort to force neighborhoods to "diversify." Now the government is applying the same philosophy to businesses in order to "equalize" wages. It's an effort, critics point out, that will make it harder for white men to find jobs. Writes the New York Post's Betsy McCaughey: Claiming women aren't getting paid enough, President Obama wants to make it easier to accuse employers of gender discrimination and hit them with class-action lawsuits. A new regulation...

Following a signing ceremony on February 4 in New Zealand, the Obama administration is calling on the GOP-controlled Congress to hurry up and approve the massive "free-trade" regime known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Despite fierce opposition and the ongoing presidential primaries, Obama's Trade Representative, Michael Froman, said he was confident that Republican lawmakers would comply with the White House's demand in the months ahead, warning of "economic consequences" if Congress did not make haste. At this point, though, approval appears to be far from certain. Dubbed "Obamatrade" by critics, the deeply controversial treaty has opponents up in arms...

Obama just lost another one of his top advisers. His legislative affairs director has stepped down, creating challenges to passing the president's agenda in his final year in the White House, according to The Hill. Chief of Obama's legislative affairs operation, Katie Beirne Fallon is leaving after two years on the job. Fallon, a former aide to Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), was instrumental in helping Obama score victories in trade, budget and Iran nuclear deal agreements last year. Obama called Fallon a "close adviser" and a "good friend," in a statement on Friday. "Republicans and Democrats...

If there is one thing that Americans can agree on these days, it is the fact that most of us don't like the government. CBS News has just released an article entitled "Americans hate the U.S. government more than ever", and an average of recent surveys calculated by Real Clear Politics found that 63 percent of all Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction and only 28 percent of all Americans believe that the country is heading in the right direction. In just a few days the first real ballots of the 2016 election will be cast...

The entire system has been revealed for the sham it really is since the start of the New Year. Stock markets are crashing, the global economy has stalled, and the powers that be appear to have lost control. As Andy Hoffman of Miles Franklin notes in his most recent interview with Future Money Trends, the only thing they are able to manipulate now are a few markets that include the Dow Jones and the gold and silver trade. 2011 is when the, let's call them, The Powers That Be realized they were losing... they were three years into their post-2008...

John Kerry said Monday that "the world is safer today" because of the Iran nuclear deal. Details of how loud and long the mullahs laughed have not been released. In reality, the world is more threatened than ever by an aggressive and assertive Iran, confident and swaggering after besting Kerry at the negotiating table. As the International Atomic Energy Agency certified Iran's compliance with the stipulations of the nuclear deal and the U.S. and EU ended sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the head of Iran's armed forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, was not in a conciliatory mood. After Iran seized...

If internationalists were to get their way fully with the world and future historians write their analysis from a globalist perspective of the defunct American nation, they will probably say simply that our collapse was brought about by our own incompetence - that we were our own worst enemy. Yes, they would treat America as a cliché. They will of course leave out the destructive influences and engineered disasters of elitists, that would just complicate the narrative. My hope is that we do not prove these future historians correct, and that they won't have an opportunity to exist. My work...

Outgoing U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan used his final speech to make a case for gun control. Speaking at a Chicago Catholic church on Wednesday, Duncan said that Washington's failure to implement new gun restrictions represented the "greatest frustration" of his political career. "We have to get guns out of the wrong people's hands," said Duncan. "We have to make sure our babies our safe." Duncan's attempt to link street violence to dropout rates is not an unthinkable stretch, but there's no evidence that federal gun control would do anything to change the landscape. In fact, by delivering this speech...