Free Republic

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says at his “urging” Comcast has delayed implementation of its 1.2TB Internet Usage cap on households, which includes overage charges for customers who go over the plan. Comcast originally sent emails to customers letting them know as of Jan. 1, 2021, the Xfinity Internet Data Usage plan would be capped at 1.2TB and beginning in March customers could see extra fees on their bill if they went over the plan. “As Pennsylvanians continue to navigate this pandemic, we know millions are relying on the internet for school and work more than...

Boris Johnson spent his entire adult life roleplaying as Winston Churchill, yet he’ll almost certainly go down as the next Anthony Eden: a gifted, ambitious politician who got exactly what he wanted but at the worst possible time. Poor BoJo. It was supposed to be so simple! All he had to do was finish off Brexit. Then he could spend the next 10 years holding court with his old journalist chums in a Fleet Street pub. He’d grab his crotch and shout, “Here’s an exclusive from Number 10, lads!” while a chorus of hacks from The Sun laughed themselves silly....

(Boston) Mayor Martin Walsh has placed new Police Commissioner Dennis White on leave after “disturbing” decades-old allegations of domestic violence surfaced less than three full days after he was sworn in. Walsh, in a statement Wednesday night after The Boston Globe unearthed allegations against White, first noted the abrupt departure of now-former Commissioner William Gross, saying the mayor made the decision “quickly” to pick Gross’s chief of staff White to step into the role. “In an attempt to create a smooth transition and honor former Commissioner Gross’s desire to spend time with his family, Dennis White was asked to quickly...

“Fake Woke” is making waves on iTunes.

The American public deserves the truth -- from its politicians and from any and all media. This should be a noncontroversial statement. But it is controversial, apparently. Not only are we not being told the truth; we are being prevented from hearing the truth told to us by anyone who has it -- or is actively seeking it. We are increasingly unable to even access information we could use to form our own independent assessments of what is true and what is not. This is appalling, and we must demand that it stop. Our national press has a long history...

Last month, millions of Americans watched as President Biden took the oath of office and, in a high-minded Inaugural Address, called for a new era of American unity. But plenty of other Americans weren’t paying attention to Mr. Biden’s speech. They were too busy watching YouTube videos alleging that the inauguration was a prerecorded hoax that had been filmed on a Hollywood soundstage. Or they were melting down in QAnon group chats, trying to figure out why former President Donald J. Trump wasn’t interrupting Mr. Biden’s speech to declare martial law and announce the mass arrest of satanic pedophiles. Or...

“‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!’” (Deuteronomy 6:4). There is only one true God. When God freed Israel to take her to the promised land, He said: “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20:3). Later Moses told the Israelites, “The Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him” (Deut. 4:35) and “The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!” (6:4). Israel was to believe in the one and only God. But Jesus claimed to be God. Is He God number two? Not at all. In Mark 12:29-30, Jesus...

Washington -- The fabulists who are covering President Joe Biden for the mainstream media have spoken. He has gotten off to a flawless start. His first week was unsurpassed even by Warren Gamaliel Harding back in the 1920s. Warren spent a considerable amount of time in bed during his first week and playing cards with his buddies at other times. Joe was more industrious. He signed executive orders, more than any president in recent years, though he also spent a lot of time in bed. You know, a guy gets fatigued. Pore over the newspapers. Sit down before the evening...

Your “application for unemployment benefits has been approved,” stated the letter from the Illinois unemployment bureau a few weeks back. That was perplexing, since I never applied and wasn’t unemployed. So I immediately told my (part-time) employer and the state unemployment agency. Turns out somebody had stolen my personal information – again. [Insert grimace emoji here.] Since this was the third time I’d been a victim of identity theft and fraud, I was steamed and wanted to know how thieves kept getting my information and conducted their grifting. If I knew where they got my information, maybe I could change...

In Chapter 5 of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the second is to rule directly; the third is to create “therein a state of the few which might keep it friendly to you.” The example Machiavelli gives of the last is the friendly government Sparta established in Athens upon defeating it after 27 years of war in 404 BCE. For the upper caste of an Athenian elite already contemptuous of democracy, the city’s defeat in the Peloponnesian War...

The House impeachment managers on Tuesday released a written brief of their case against former president Trump. The main charge the Democrats have against Trump in next week’s Stalinist show trial is that his use of inflammatory language is tantamount to a call for violence. It is beyond ironic and hypocritical then that in its brief that the House managers used extremely inflammatory language (highlights added) in its own arguments: "The only honorable path at that point was for President Trump to accept the results and concede his electoral defeat. Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into...

Watch Bannon’s War Room Thursday Morning Edition 10 AM Eastern.

Yesterday my daughter emailed me, again, asking why I didn't do something useful with my time. "Like sitting around the pool, drinking wine isn't a good thing?” I asked. Talking about my "doing something useful" seems to be her favorite topic of conversation. She is "only thinking of me," she said, and suggested, I go down to the Senior Center and hang out with the fellas. So, I did and when I got home, decided to play a prank on her. I sent her an email saying that I had joined the Senior Parachute Club. She replied, "Are you nuts?...

President Joe Biden’s coronavirus response team is considering mailing millions of masks to Americans to encourage mask-wearing as the coronavirus pandemic continues. A White House official told NBC News Biden’s coronavirus response team is evaluating the idea but no decision has been made or proposed to the president.

Last week, we covered the challenge President Joe Biden faces in his supposed quest to return to an era of "civility." Democrats never practiced civility. We listed only some of the race- and Nazi-based insults used for decades by Democrats against the very Republicans with whom they now seek "healing." Here are just a few more examples: Left-wing actor/singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who marched with close friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called President George W. Bush a racist. When asked whether the number and prominence of Blacks in the Bush administration perhaps suggested a lack of racism, Belafonte...

. ..THE SONG OF SONGS Part 1 THE TEXT, AUGMENTED Part 2 THE ART, 1 Part 3 THE ART, 2 Part 4 MORE "ART"—Chagall v. Tschirch SONG OF SONGS 1 - 8 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read SONG OF SONGS 1-8 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of the Song 9 5 0 B. C. . .1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby MARC CHAGALL, 1960 "Song of Songs I"...

A source familiar with Apple’s plans says the first Apple Car will be completely autonomous and could be used for delivery services and robotaxis.

"Team AOC" sent out an email Wednesday night asking supporters to report social media posts which include the revelation that Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not in the US Capitol Building during the January 6 riot, which she wasn't. The email called the posts "misleading information" though the information was based on fact. AOC calling people to report misinformation hmmmm pic.twitter.com/mVoglHpqdT— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) February 4, 2021 The email was sent in response to the hashtag #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett trending on Twitter after it was revealed that Ocasio-Cortez was not in the Capitol Building at the time of the pro-Trump riot...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Feb. 3. I have information which, though not official, leaves very little doubt on my mind that Fort Sumter has actually been reinforced, in spite of the vigilance of the Charleston volunteers. I think it will turn out that the steamer Brooklyn took some three hundred soldiers and ten or twelve officers to the entrance of Charleston harbor, and that in the night time they rowed in small boats, with muffled oars, past the batteries on Morris Island and Fort Moultrie, and are now inside of Fort Sumter. You may remember that the people of Charleston were greatly...

American workers filed 779,000 applications for unemployment benefits last week in the latest sign that the labor market is still in the throes of its coronavirus crisis. The newest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total for the COVID-19 pandemic to roughly 77.2 million — a number nearly twice as large as California’s population.