Free Republic

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Sunday that 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden "is now officially dead and buried" after the president went to Capitol Hill in an attempt to break an impasse among Democrats on a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a massive social spending package. “It's the death of 2020 Joe Biden. When he went to the Hill, 2020 Joe Biden is now officially dead and buried,” Christie said on ABC’s “This Week.” “The guy who ran against the progressives, ran against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, ran to be a uniter in this country, ran...

President Donald J. Trump killed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) once and for all on Monday, signing an executive order officially withdrawing from the trade deal negotiations. It came as a part of series of three separate executive actions that President Trump took on Monday. “The first is a withdrawal of the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership,” White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said, explaining the first executive action President Trump was taking in the list of three. The other two were one freezing hiring of all federal employees except in the military, and one that restores...

I’ve been warning of this for well over two years. My primary warnings were: 1) That 2008 was just a warm-up 2) That the REAL Crisis had yet to unfold 3) That the REAL Crisis would make 2008 look like a picnic Well, the period I’ve been warning of is now here. What’s happening right now is not just a market crash, bear market, deflation, or any other item related to just one asset class. Instead, this is a collapse of the entire US monetary and political system and the mentality of spending one’s way to wealth. For 80+ years,...

Israel's decision to recognize Ben Yosef Livnat as a victim of terrorism means that the state has officially recognized the Palestinian Authority police force as a hostile organization, Dov Kalmanovitch said Friday in an interview with Arutz Sheva. Kalmanovitch, who heads the Zochrim organization for victims of terrorism, explained that according to Israeli law, a victim of terrorism is someone who was hurt or killed during an attack carried out “by a hostile organization, or someone sent on behalf of such an organization.” Livnat was shot and killed by PA police as he and friends left Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef)...

After 84 years, General Motors officially says goodbye forever today to Pontiac. No more Bonnevilles. No more Firebird Trans Ams. No more GTOs.

PHOENIX, Nov. 3, 2006 – In grand fashion, “Packages From Home” welcomed dignitaries and guests to the grand opening of its new digs on the Phoenix Memorial Hospital campus yesterday. Jordan Leigh (left) performs “Soldier I Thank You,” her tribute to the troops, Nov. 2 in Phoenix during the grand opening of a new facility for “Packages From Home,” a nonprofit group that supports the troops. Leigh lost her brother in the global war on terrorism. Her mother, Terri Schall, (center), and Margy Bons, a public information officer for Packages From Home, look on. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley  '(Click...

DIYALA PROVINCE, Iraq, June 23, 2006 – Charged with providing security at the Multinational Force Iraq Temporary Interview and Protection Facility here that houses nearly 200 protected people and refugees, the First Guard Company from Kazanluk, Bulgaria, received the personal congratulations of its nation's ambassador to Iraq at a formal ceremony here yesterday. Bulgarian Ambassador to Iraq Valeri Ratchev speaks to Bulgarian and American soldiers, June 22. The ambassador was on hand to witness the First Guard Company's completion-of-training ceremony. The Bulgarians are responsible for security of the Multinational Force Iraq Temporary Interview and Protection Facility in Iraq's Diyala...

LAS MARTINAS, Cuba -- Thirty minutes before Jose Contreras throws the first pitch Saturday in Game 1 of the World Series, his older brother Humberto plans to ride a horse to a friend's wooden shack, where he will listen to the game clandestinely on a short-wave radio. There, with the radio resting on a bed, a cigar in his mouth and a bottle of rum nearby, Humberto Contreras will hear the call of each pitch and picture his brother on the mound challenging Houston Astros hitters at U.S. Cellular Field. "I'm always nervous, but I'm sure he's going to do...

CHEYENNE - The Peacekeeper nuclear missile, credited by some with helping with the demise of the Soviet Union and winning the Cold War, is to be officially deactivated. F.E. Warren Air Force Base here oversaw the only squadron of 50 Peacekeepers deployed in the United States. Each 71-foot-tall, 8-foot-diameter missile, deployed in the 1980s, carried 10 warheads. Almost 15 years after the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, the last Peacekeeper, also known as the MX, has been removed from its hardened silo. A ceremony was scheduled Monday at F.E. Warren to mark the deactivation of the...

Warm Weather Causing Allergies Provided by: The Associated Press Last Modified: 1/6/2005 4:52:05 PM ATLANTA (AP) -- The recent unusual warm spell in the South has brought people out in shorts and tee-shirts in January. It’s also brought about another warm-weather phenomenon -— allergies. Atlanta doctors and pharmacists are reporting an upsurge in sniffles, sneezes and coughs. This year, they’re from allergies, not winter colds. Pharmacists have been faced with restocking shelves with allergy medicines such as Claritin. Even herbal remedies have been hot sellers off the shelves. Doctor Keith Phillips, of Emory University, says it’s mold — not pollen...

The Major League Baseball club scheduled to play next season in Washington was officially renamed the Nationals this afternoon, as District Mayor Anthony A. Williams joined club officials and a lunchtime crowd of a few hundred onlookers at Union Station in unveiling the team's new logo. "Baseball is about our way of life," Williams told the crowd. "It's about community. It's about opportunity. And now, with the Nationals, it's about our nation's capital, Washington, D.C." Though Major League Baseball owners last week delayed a vote on whether to officially approve the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington, and despite...

Beginning Thursday, California state government will not be subject to a hiring freeze for the first time in nearly three years. The Schwarzenegger administration is not extending the state's longtime hiring freeze after it expires July 1. Instead, state agency heads will be able to decide on their own how to pare spending, according to the governor's budget. On paper, the change signifies an abrupt end to what has been a sweeping policy for much of the state's ongoing budget crisis. But in reality, officials said, the ranks of state workers are not likely to swell anytime soon because money...