Free Republic

Sanders has spent his entire career advocating for a class-based perspective on American politics, one that argues against the elites and powerful corporations and, in his view, in defense of the interests of the working and middle class voters. Ever since he shifted during the 2016 election to accommodate the perspective of a rising woke racial tide, it’s been as ill-fitting as most of his suits. There is a big gap between the interests and priorities of the union hall voter and the interests of supporters of the squad – who failed utterly to deliver for Bernie, particularly Rashida Tlaib,...

Just ten days ago, life on Italy's streets was as vibrant as ever. The cafés were filled to capacity with elegantly dressed Italians and tourists, and the looming Coronavirus threat was dismissed as "just another flu." Today, the country is under a complete lockdown. The death rate in some Italian provinces is currently at a shocking 8 percent among those infected, and it has become obvious that the Coronavirus threat is living up to the hype. Italy is finally taking the pandemic seriously and beginning to emulate the crackdown on public life that has managed to suppress the transmission rate in China and South...

Tuesday, March 10, was declared “National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day” by pro-abortion activists and they were out in force on social media. In some areas, #CelebrateAbortionProviders trended on Twitter, a sad testament to the power of the culture of death in America. Here’s a sample of the tweets from pro-aborts celebrating abortionists. Planned Parenthood explained the reason for the day while calling abortionists "heroes." Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL, used the Justice League to represent abortionists as real "live" superheroes. Fancying these monsters as heroes and superheroes was a common theme for the day. Abortionists have more in common with...

Hollywood icon and abortion activist Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was found guilty of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape. Weinstein, who is connected with Planned Parenthood and top pro-abortion politicians like Hillary Clinton, was charged with five sex crimes, including rape and predatory sexual assault. The jury released its decision last month and found him not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, which could have netted him a life decision. But the Hollywood mogul faced up to 25 years in prison on the other charges on which he was...

Yes, any preventable death is bad, but I have never seen so much hype over a viral pandemic as this in my 60 years since arriving in United States. Since it started circulating in the spring of 2009, H1N1 has infected about 100 million Americans, killing about 75,000 and sending 936,000 to the hospital, the CDC estimates. https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/11/h1n1-swine-flu-10-years-later/ It will be a long time before Covid-19 will kill 75,000 Americans, if at all. But I do not recall the hype in 2009 about H1N1. But it was Obama administration in charge, so media had no reason to freakout. CDC estimates*...

For the record, country legend Charlie Daniels thinks the DNC’s not doing themselves — or Joe Biden — too many favors by pushing Biden as their nominee: Is the DNC so evil they’re willing to elect a man to the most pressurized job on earth who can’t even remember what state he’s in? A man who obviously has blank spots in his thought patterns? This man can’t lead the free world and you bunch of power mad perverts know it!

The left has a thing for taking babies hostage. A perfect example of the “give us socialism or we’ll kill the kids” genre was recently published in The Guardian titled “The hardest decision of my life: to end a pregnancy because I had no paid leave.” This sort of story is irresistible to left-wing Christians such as Elizabeth Bruenig of The New York Times, whose tweet about the article is now deleted. It allows them to declare that the real way to end abortion is to make abortion unnecessary, and the only way to do that is by establishing a...

American investors are bankrolling China’s plan to drive the U.S. military from the Indo-Pacific region and risking their own retirement funds in the process. “Why are we sending American capital to a country and supporting a defense industry that's popping out a couple destroyers and frigates a month and threatening to have total overmatch against us in the Pacific?” White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said "I don't see why we should be underwriting the Chinese defense industry.” O’Brien singled out the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest retirement fund in the country, for a special warning that...

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is in federal custody in Alexandria, Va., is recovering after attempting to take her own life Wednesday, Manning’s legal team said in a statement. Andy Stepanian, a publicist for Manning, said Wednesday that Manning was hospitalized after the event and is currently recovering. “Ms. Manning is still scheduled to appear on Friday for a previously-calendared hearing, at which Judge Anthony Trenga will rule on a motion to terminate the civil contempt sanctions stemming from her May, 2019 refusal to give testimony before a grand jury investigating the publication of her 2010 disclosures,” Stepanian said in a...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

If it’s not green, it’s not millennial--and that’s a big problem for a company like Uber, or Lyft. Millennials love ride-sharing, but they don’t appreciate the CO2 footprint that comes with it. The immediate problem for Uber is this: The next-generation of ride-sharing is already here--born out of massive millennial demand. It’s green through and through, and it’s set to command some serious market share. Millennials are driving a new mega-trend: impact-investing. Facedrive, the first ride-sharing company that lets you plant a tree while you drive, and choose exactly what kind of footprint you want to leave behind, is leading...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state of emergency and a public health emergency on Wednesday as the number of people in the district who tested positive for COVID-19 rose to 10. “We’re not in a vacuum," Bowser said in a news conference. "Our country is experiencing this, and our world is experiencing this." The declaration allows the district to request federal funds to address the public health crisis further and gives the mayor the ability to order quarantines 'without the approval of a court'. Nearly 125,000 people have tested positive for the virus around the world, killing at least...

Hunter Biden and the former stripper suing him for child support reached a settlement Wednesday — shortly after an Arkansas judge scrapped his request to delay a court appearance over the coronavirus outbreak. Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer dismissed Biden’s claims that it was “unsafe” for him to travel and that appearing for a scheduled deposition this week could put his pregnant wife at risk for the illness. “[Biden] can come by plane, train, or automobile but life and work will and should continue in our communities and courts,” Meyer wrote in a ruling late Tuesday. “No health...

Some 150,000 illegal immigrants from 72 nations with cases of the coronavirus have been apprehended or deemed inadmissible from entering the United States since November, raising the ongoing border crisis to a potential public health threat, according to officials. New figures provided to Secrets show that over half of the nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants apprehended or deemed “inadmissible” this fiscal year came from nations with cases of the coronavirus, including China, Italy, Iran, and South Korea. 328 Chinese immigrants had been seized illegally crossing the border since the virus outbreak began in China. So far, 150,958 immigrants from 72 nations...

...Contrary to Navarro-Cárdenas's claim, there is no comparison between the two statements. Biden used obscenities to insult a voter to his face. Trump's situation was different. In a private conversation, he stated an unfortunate truth, which is that, if you're rich and powerful, women let you take liberties (and note, please, that he didn't say he took those liberties). The two events are not the same, and Navarro-Cárdenas looks foolish claiming they are...

ROME — The number of people in Italy cured of COVID-19 passed the 1,000-mark on Tuesday evening as the country ended its first day of lockdown. The latest data reported by Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore show that 8,514 people are currently infected with coronavirus in Italy, while 631 have died from the disease and 1,004 who were infected have since recovered. Some 10,149 are reported to have been infected in the country in all.

Joe's Handlers Rush Him into the Car (a la Grandpa Simpson)

Charlie, a female Komodo dragon at the Chattanooga Zoo in Tennessee, has proved to be the ultimate independent lady after successfully giving birth to three hatchlings without a male partner.Charlie, a female Komodo dragon at the Chattanooga Zoo in Tennessee, has proved to be the ultimate independent lady after successfully giving birth to three hatchlings without a male partner. Even though Charlie and a potential mate named Kadal were placed together in hopes of breeding, the first-time mother produced the three brothers, named Onyx, Jasper, and Flint. She was able to do this on her own through a phenomenon called...

No one should flaunt safety by refusing to take precautions to avoid contracting the coronavirus, but there is also no reason to be panicked about it. First of all, the virus seems to be targeting elderly patients the most as comparatively few people under 50 have been hit with the virus. Children have been especially passed over by this strain. So, for most people, simply washing hands frequently and avoiding large gatherings of people in public spaces is enough of a precaution to take over the next month or so. The virus is nothing to ignore, for certain. But it...

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention is taking heat for sitting down for a feel-good discussion with a controversial Muslim scholar and failing to criticize Sharia and defend Jews. JD Greear shared the stage last week with Omar Suleiman at North Carolina State University as part of an interfaith dialogue presented by The Veritas Forum, which brings faith-based thinkers in front of college students. Even before their first words were spoken, the two guests brought their own controversies: Greear has been accused by some Southern Baptists for overseeing a leftward drift of the world’s largest denomination. Suleiman, meanwhile, has...