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As the Trump era draws to a close and not a single journalist has been jailed or probed in leak investigations, like Team Obama probed reporters and its leakers, some journalists can admit that furiously opposing President Donald Trump has been a pretty rewarding gig. McKay Coppins of The Atlantic -- a very partisan magazine -- penned an article headlined "The Resistance's Breakup With the Media Is At Hand." In a Twitter post about the article, he admitted, "In the Trump era, many Washington reporters became resistance heroes, showered with book deals, TV contacts, and Twitter followers." Journalists couldn't be...

I believe January 6, 2021 will be the day of reckoning. If a million patriots show for The Trump Rally in DC, AND if Mike Pense does the right thing, the country will be saved. But we must get the message out to the 75,000,000 plus people from all backgrounds who voted for Trump, and are seeing their votes disenfranchised. January 6, 2021 The Daily Cryptogram will be posted at around 9 AM EST. The first correct answer to the Cryptogram sent to my private reply, will get a $100 donation to Free Republic in their name. Second prize $75...

No matter what happens in 2021, we are not helpless for there are changes that Trump can make and changes that we can make to disarm the left. Once Trump is elected President in the House of Representatives, we need to focus on ways to reclaim America from the left. Even if Harris/Biden prevail, individual citizens still have the power to enact these approaches and make them effective. How have leftists had such success in pulling America down? They have captured all the powerful institutions that drive culture – education, the media, entertainment, religion, major metropolitan areas, the Imperial City...

Conservatives got an inkling of how bad 2020 would be before the year even started. On Dec. 30, 2019, Gertrude Himmelfarb died. She was just the first of many conservative luminaries to die over the next 12 months — and it is worth remembering each one and what they contributed to conservatism and our country. As conservatism enters its next chapter, without a slew of great ideas or clarity regarding its future direction, learning lessons from these heroes of the past can potentially be a first step in discerning the way forward into the future. Let’s start with Himmelfarb, an...

When someone who isn’t very bright to begin with starts losing it, the truth has a weird habit of leaking out. One of the things elderly people are famous for is losing their filter, that little auto-edit in the brain that stops them from saying inappropriate things. Many lose their filter because they just don’t care (and good for them). Others, though, lose it because nature has cruelly attacked their brain function. The problem is exceptionally bad when the person wasn’t too bright or too filtered to begin with. And that brings us to Joe Biden, who just announced that...

COOK FOREST, Pennsylvania -- It has just finished snowing here, and the forest looks magical, draped in white. It takes on a silvery blue shine under the blue sky that emerged after the storm finished leaving its mark. The silence is soon broken by the crunching of snowshoes off in the distance. Southwest of here, a handful of anglers fishing the drift of the Slippery Rock Creek breaks the silence of the surrounding forest. At Laurel Hill, it is the rustling of the leftover fall leaves, softened by age and weather, under the weight of hikers' boots. Along the High...

It's not just Muslims who immigrate to defeat their enemies. Socialists are doing it, too, this time in Georgia. With the 2020 election still up in the air, lawsuits being filed, and the results heading to the Supreme Court, there is another threat to the republic rearing its ugly head. The liberal media (I know, redundant) are now giving tips to other socialists on how to hack the election even more. Their plan involves actually moving to another state, specifically Georgia, in order to turn the Senate blue by voting for the two Democrats in the Georgia Senate runoff election!...

Was 2020 the worst year ever? The media keep saying that. We did have the pandemic, a bitter election, unemployment, riots and a soaring national debt. But wait, look at the good news, says historian Johan Norberg. His new book, "Open: The Story of Human Progress," points out how life keeps getting better, even if people just don't realize it. 2020 was "the best year in human history to face a pandemic," he says. Had the pandemic happened in 2005, "You wouldn't have the technology to create mRNA vaccines." "In 1990," he continues, "we wouldn't have a worldwide web. If...

The second dose of the coronavirus vaccines will be given later than originally planned, experts have said. The move is to ensure more people are given a first dose to help fight the UK's rising coronavirus infection rate, with the second dose administered up to three months later. Speaking at a briefing at Downing Street today, Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the Joint Committee of Vaccinations and Immunisations, said the "immediate urgency" was for the rapid rollout of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and to ensure high levels of uptake. "We recommend delivery of the first vaccine should be prioritised...

As the fouled days of 2020 wane into history, the air is filled with relief and anticipation for a better 2021. In some ways, the new year is guaranteed to be better by default, in that it should feature a pathway out of the current COVID nightmare. But from the virus to the election to the culture, 2020 has been a harsh teacher, showing us things that have long needed fixing. We can make 2021 and the ensuing years decidedly better if we grasp some hard-learned lessons and demand better of our leaders, our media and ourselves. We learned in...

My Beloved fellow FReepers, please lift up in prayer my dear parents, who are suffering so much with various disorders and illnesses. My Dad is in terrible pain with his neck vertebrae and has Parkinson Disease, and my precious Mom has lung problems and also suffers from Pseudomonas Aureas in her sinuses. She has lost an astounding amount of weight and is very weak, but she fights as a warrior each and every day and her faith in the Lord is one to be envied by all. My dear Dad is strong in his mind, such a blessing--always learning new...

MOJIANG, China - Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus. The area is of intense scientific interest because it may hold clues to the origins of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide. Yet for scientists and journalists, it has become a black hole of no information because of political sensitivity and secrecy. A bat research team visiting recently managed to take samples but had them confiscated, two people familiar with the matter said....

A recent NATO report broke new ground by fingering China as a military threat to Europe for the first time. At first glance, this would seem to indicate that Europe has been listening to Washington’s repeated warnings and has finally come around to the American point of view on the salience of “great power competition” that recognizes both Moscow and Beijing as dangers, with the latter perhaps constituting a more ominous threat. Next year, both the French and British navies are planning major naval exercises, together with the U.S. and Japan, in the Western Pacific, namely in maritime domains proximate...

In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation. These mayors most definitely use Orwell’s 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible. It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).

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Some pompous liberal is giving me grief for saying that the government originally said s short lockdown was necessary to get things under control and get life back to normal. Does anyone have links to articles where the experts made this promise? I can find more recent articles with a search but I am looking for articles that have been making the same promises since the pandemic began.

Thousands of voters were set to be removed from rolls A federal judge has ordered two counties in Georgia to reverse course on removing thousands of individuals from voter rolls ahead of the state's Jan. 5 Senate runoffs. POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing? The judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner — who is the sister of former Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams, a prominent ally of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden — issued the ruling Monday, concluding the counties relied on unverified change-of-address data to proceed with the action. "Defendants are enjoined from removing any...

In 1999 Colonel Qiao Liang and Colonel Wang Xiangsui wrote a book called Unrestricted Warfare. In this book, these officers, who were both active-duty officers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) discussed the lessons learned from the Gulf War action in 1990. The book was published by the PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House in Beijing, which suggests official approval by the PLA Command. *snip* The authors listed 15 types of new warfare to be used in order to avoid the standard military conflict. One of these new types of warfare is called New Terror Warfare (Xiangsui, 1999), where...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Dozens of Cubans protested at the U.S. border in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday night, demanding they be allowed to cross and claim asylum in the United States.U.S. authorities, including police in anti-riot gear, closed off the bridge that leads into El Paso, Texas, with a concrete barrier topped with barbed wire.A recording blared from a loudspeaker warning that any person who crossed could be arrested.Late into the evening, some 200 migrants who had walked right up to the barrier stayed put.Jonathan Castro, 25, said he has spent one year and eight...

The rejections of courts to hear President Donald Trump's campaign election challenges is denying him the right to due process, according to Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis on Newsmax TV. "They need to recognize that President Trump absolutely gets the same opportunities to argue his case that President George W. Bush did in 2000," Ellis told Tuesday's "Stinchfield," pointing to the landmark Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore. "And to treat him differently than every other sitting president in every other election is manifestly unfair according to due process and our Constitution." As the Trump campaign brings some final...