Free Republic

VIDEO I had been intending to make a cast iron pan pizza for a long time but kept putting it off for what might seem like an incredibly silly reason. Namely I never made dough before and for some weird reason I had a fear of working with yeast because it is a type of bacteria. Well, after I worked with the yeast and the dough, I saw just how absurd that fear was and also how easy it is to prepare dough for pan pizza. With that out of the way, the rest was easy. The great thing...

On August 19, the definition of a company in America changed. The Business Roundtable, a U.S. lobbying group that represents nearly 200 companies, issued a statement proclaiming that the “purpose” of a business in 2019 was no longer to look out merely for shareholders. It was to protect the interests of all “stakeholders”—employees, partners, suppliers, communities, the environment, the very world itself. The group’s lofty statement seemed to reorient the role of a public company from the maximization of profit to the maximization of goodness.’Twas a lovely sentiment. And it lasted about 50 days. This week, the news dunked all...

Do you remember two years ago when Iraq was going to fight the Kurds in a different part of Syria. Many people wanted us to fight with the Kurds against Iraq, who we just fought for. I said no, and the Kurds left the fight, twice. Now the same thing is happening with Turkey...... .....The Kurds and Turkey have been fighting for many years. Turkey considers the PKK the worst terrorists of all. Others may want to come in and fight for one side or the other. Let them! We are monitoring the situation closely. Endless Wars! Dealing with @LindseyGrahamSC...

“Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded” (Proverbs 13:13).

ROME - After more than a year-long legal battle over the burial location of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s remains, on Friday the nation’s famed ‘Valley of the Fallen’ was officially closed ahead of the exhumation of the former general’s body. The Oct. 11 closure of the Valley took place a day ahead of Spain’s national day, Día de la Hispanidad, and the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, Spain’s national patroness, both of which are celebrated on Oct. 12. Built upon Franco’s orders in the mid-20th century, the Valley of the Fallen is now a monument to some 34,000...

I actually believe it does take a village to raise a child. But it sure as hell doesn’t take my village for you to test your self-driving car. No, I’m still not over Uber testing its self-driving technology in Tempe, Arizona in March of 2018. With the so-called safety driver behind the wheel as the car ferried itself around the city, a woman crossing the street with, not on, her bicycle was killed. The vehicle never even slowed. “Uber had disabled Volvo’s automatic emergency braking system in order to ‘reduce potential for erratic vehicle behavior,’” according to The Verge. The...

MOSCOW, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Moscow is not blaming U.S. President Donald Trump for failing to improve U.S.-Russian relations, a pledge he had made during his election campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Arab broadcasters. "We know that, including during his previous election campaign, he spoke in favour of a normalisation (of U.S.-Russia relations), but unfortunately it has not happened yet," Putin told Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia and RT Arabic. "But we have no claims because we see what's going on in U.S. domestic politics," he said, according to a transcript published on the Kremlin's...

Full title: "UPDATE: Louisiana Governor Primary Results Thread: John Bel Edwards -VS- Abraham/Rispone Challenge" Excerpt: President Trump rallied last night in Louisiana to support a challenge to incumbent Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards. The goal is to hold JBE under 50% and force a run-off against a republican challenger. * * * UPDATE: Mission Accomplished. John Bel Edwards has been held under 50% and will face Republican businessman “Eddie” Rispone in a run-off to decide the governors race.

AN FRANCISCO — It was a problem that California had come to dread. Weather models were signaling extreme winds and dry conditions from one end of the state to the other. The risk of wildfires was high. Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant utility whose power lines and transformers have been blamed for a series of disastrous wildfires in recent years, was determined to prevent another one. Just before last weekend, the company informed state officials that it might shut off power to a large area of Northern California, potentially leaving millions of people in the dark — something no...

HOUSTON — There are no ghosts here for Gleyber Torres. The 22-year-old had not even had his first major league at-bat when the Yankees came here in 2017 and lost every game of the American League Championship Series in this ballpark. But the Yankees’ second baseman certainly chased away any demons that were lingering here for his teammates. Torres drove in five runs and Masahiro Tanaka threw six scoreless, one-hit dominant innings as the Yankees shut out the Astros 7-0 in Game 1 of the ALCS at Minute Maid Park.

Donald Trump may be the only candidate in U.S. history who could shrink the size of the federal government simply by swearing in as commander in chief. A poll of federal employees conducted by Government Business Council Jan. 20-26 found that a Trump victory may result in roughly 25 percent of the government's workforce quitting.

Elizabeth Warren has a moving story about being fired from a teaching job because she was pregnant, a story that perfectly complements her political narrative that she is the tribune and champion of those who have been treated unfairly by the powerful. Joe Biden has a moving — and horrifying — story about his wife and daughter being killed by a drunk driver, a story that similarly could not have been designed more perfectly to bolster his political image as a man who can be counted on to soldier on in the face of adversity. Of course, neither story is...

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is reportedly stepping down from the board of a Chinese company and will not to engage in any foreign work if his father is elected president in 2020. “Hunter always understood that his father would be guided, entirely and unequivocally, by established U.S. policy, regardless of its effects on Hunter’s professional interests,” his lawyer, George Mesires, said in a statement, according to Bloomberg. “He never anticipated the barrage of false charges against both him and his father by the President of the United States.” “Under a Biden Administration, Hunter will readily comply...

“This is not decay,” Barr said. “This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values.” The attorney general said numerous measures of social decline are rising as religion recedes from public life, citing higher instances of drug addiction, mental illness, and suicide. Those outcomes are not random, but the fruit of a dedicated campaign against orthodox religious belief, Barr added.

Newsweek reporter Rosie McCall offered a conspiracy theory as to how a 16-year-old environmental activist somehow failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year: “Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by Committee Run by Norway, One of the World's Biggest Oil and Natural Gas Exporters.” This new theory comes courtesy of a magazine fresh off breaking the news that opening tanning salons in urban neighborhoods were a plot to give gay men skin cancer, or something.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) 2 Samuel23 David’s Last Words 23 These are the last words of David: “The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse,     the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob,     the hero of Israel’s songs: 2 “The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me;     his word was on my tongue. 3 The God of Israel spoke,     the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over people in righteousness,     when he rules in the fear of God, 4 he is like the light...

Chris Kelley a Minneapolis police officer running against Ilhan Omar: “She’s traveling the world. She’s fighting the president. She’s not doing anything in the district. And, I can say firsthand, the homelessness, the opioid problems, and other issues aren’t improving.” “Ilhan Omar is an absentee landlord; residents aren’t happy,” continued Kelley. 2020 is “going to be a totally different animal,” continued Chris Kelley, “you’re going to have a lot of people coming out, and I think we have an excellent chance of coming out on top.” Kelly tweeted that the actions of the two Democrats are putting officers in danger...

Designated terrorist group CAIR is foaming at the mouth over President Trump’s anti-Somali Muslim remarks at his packed-to-the-rafters rally in Minnesota last Thursday OCTOBER 12, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM Or should I say ‘Minnesotastan?’ For the next week, the fake news media will be swarming with representatives of CAIR, whining about how Trump’s speech has endangered the lives of all the Somali freeloaders in Minnesota and their radical Somali Congressmuslim- Ilhan Omar. Star Tribune Somali Muslims in Minneapolis roared with rage while watching President Donald Trump on TV as he spoke at a campaign rally Thursday in their town. (Hee Hee)...

As Matt Kirwan walks through Maryland’s Blackwater National Refuge, his rubber boots begin to squish. With each step the land beneath him turns from dry ground to increasingly soggy mud. The trees around him go from tall and full of leaves or needles to short, bare and pale white. Partway out, ankle deep in water, Kirwan stops. “At this point we’ve transitioned from being in the forest, to actually being in a full-fledged marsh,” explains the Virginia Institute of Marine Science ecologist. “This ground is now too salty and too wet to support living trees.” Kirwan is standing in the...

Islamic State torturer who wants to return to UK refuses to apologize for beheading of aid worker OCT 12, 2019 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Kotey claims that his interpretation of Islam has changed, but this refusal to apologize suggests otherwise, and leaves the strong impression that he is still committed to the jihad. “‘Will you apologise for the murder of David Haines?’: ITV News confronts ISIS ‘Beatles’ over death of British aid worker,” ITV News, October 11, 2019: The two surviving British members of the ISIS terror cell dubbed “The Beatles” have been confronted by ITV News about what...