Free Republic

Vice President Kamala Harris's children's book Superheroes are Everywhere is being included in WELCOME PACKS for unaccompanied migrant children entering America at the Mexico border. Images taken at a California shelter for migrants this week show Harris' book sitting on a cot along with a backpack, some clothes and other basic supplies like body wash and toothpaste. These form the welcome kits for unaccompanied migrant children arriving the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, which has recently been converted to deal with an influx of illegal immigration. Migrant children found at the border without a parent will be temporarily housed...

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HYPOCRITE? I always chuckle a little when I must sit through someone's "sermon" on why he/she doesn't ever darken the door of a church. Invariably at the top of the list of reasons given for not attending is something about the church being so full of hypocrites. You know, those people who affect virtues and qualities they don't have ... religious fakes. The humor in this line of argument rests not so much in the fact that I never hear anything original, but rather in the facts surrounding the genesis of the word hypocrite....

The black-owned businesses near the intersection where George Floyd died last May are pleading for help after suffering from plummeting revenue and skyrocketing crime. Black-owned establishments near the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, which once thrived, have had to resort to a GoFundMe page after police have abandoned the area, which has since become “a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate,” according to the New York Post. “38th and Chicago, recently renamed George Floyd Square, has always been home to some of Minnesota’s most burgeoning Black businesses,” the GoFundMe page reads. “This intersection...

Joe Biden mumbled through remarks during a climate summit on Friday. Things got super awkward after Dementia Joe veered off script. At one point Joe Biden pointed at the leader of the Navajo Nation and demanded they give his wife back. Jill Biden visited the Navajo Nation on Friday and Joe Biden pointed at their delegation and demanded they let Jill come home. “Let my wife come home! She likes the Navajo Nation too much! She keeps being out there! She’s been out there for two days. She was out there before – I don’t know! You know what I...

At least 19 people died in a hospital fire in Baghdad Saturday night after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at the hospital told CNN. Officials are still trying to figure out how many were wounded in the explosion at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, but they say there are "many." Social media videos show a chaotic scene as firefighters scramble to put out the blaze and health workers try to help evacuate patients.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is asking the FBI to reassess their decision to classify the June 14, 2017 baseball field shooting outside of Washington as “suicide by cop” rather than a domestic terrorism case.Wenstrup was present when the Republican legislators were targeted by left-wing extremist James Hodgkinson, who fired over 100 rounds at them and other staff, severely injuring House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was hit on the hip and recovered after many surgeries.The letter, (pdf) which protests and asks for a reassessment, was addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray last week and made available to reporters on...

After 1:00 am on the 25th, an explosive eruption occurred at the Minamidake summit crater in Sakurajima, Kagoshima City, and it was confirmed that the pyroclastic flow flowed down about 1.8 km from the crater. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a new warning around the crater, maintaining eruption alert level 3 and calling for alerts to large volcanic bombs and pyroclastic flows within a range of approximately 2.4 km from the crater near the residential area.

A railroad conductor working at the Long Island Rail Road, a commuter train system in New York, found a bag containing two jewelry portfolios storing a total of 36 diamond ring settings worth about $100,000. Jonathan Yellowday made the discovery on Thursday after a jeweler riding the train left the valuable bag behind. Yellowday turned the bag full of jewelry over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, where the jeweler later retrieved his belongings. The jeweler realized he lost the valuable bag after arriving home.

Inflation is coming. Look no further than Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble sharing plans this week to raise prices to offset rising commodity costs. The costs of raw materials, ranging from lumber to resin, are surging, so companies are taking steps to protect profits. ING Chief International Economist James Knightley is forecasting consumer prices will continue to rise in the near term and could gain almost 4% by May, compared with the same time a year ago. The consumer price index, which tracks how much U.S. consumers pay for a basket of goods, rose 2.6% in March from the year-ago...

TIJUANA (Border Report) — COVID-19 cases in Mexican border cities such as Tijuana and Mexicali have continued on the upswing heading into the end of April and the beginning of May, indicating a third wave of contagions, as predicted, has begun to take shape. According to Baja California health officials, recent statistics show 16.5 out of every 100,000 residents now have the virus... According to Pérez Rico, the third COVID-19 wave in the state will intensify next week and into early May. The city of Tijuana has seen 3,566 COVID-19 related deaths since the start of the pandemic. Four people...

E-Waste CEO John Rollo recently had a job that is unusual for the head of a company that on paper is worth tens of millions of dollars: a patient transporter at a northern New Jersey hospital. Peter Coker Sr., a North Carolina businessman, is connected to both companies. Coker son Peter Jr. is chairman of the deli company, whose CEO is high school principal and wrestling coach Paul Morina. E-Waste’s stock, like that of deli owner Hometown International, has soared in the past year, also giving it market capitalization of more than $100 million earlier this month. This surge happened...

Alexei Navalny—Russia's most famous anti-corruption and pro-democracy campaigner—remains languishing in a penal colony east of Moscow, confined to the prison's hospital as his health deteriorates amid an ongoing hunger strike. International media coverage, sanctions and mass protests have failed to puncture the Kremlin's public indifference to the health of one of its most prominent critics. One doctor warned that Navalny could die at "any moment." But outside those prison walls, Moscow is still cracking down on his allies as they try to arrange fresh rallies. Some Navalny staff have gone into hiding, while others have been detained. Top aide Lyubov...

ransomnote: I'm frequently told that the Moderna Vaccines proved safe and effective in animal trials with monkeys. I'll explain why that's not true in post #1. Here's an article providing a description of the research.The mRNA vaccine co-developed by Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) protected both the upper and lower airways of non-human primates against SARS-CoV-2 infection.Rhesus macaques receiving low or high doses of mRNA-1273 vaccine (10 or 100 μg, two injections 4 weeks apart) were then challenged with the virus via both the nose and the lungs a month after the second injection....

Rising infection and hospitalization rates force Mexican border city to go into immediate lockdown. On Monday morning, El Paso city and county officials lauded vaccination efforts and spoke in hopeful terms about reaching herd immunity. Across the border a few hours later, Juarez announced a total shutdown of non-essential activities over the next two weekends due to a spike in COVID-19 cases and death and rising hospitalization rates. All non-essential businesses were to shut down at midnight Friday and reopen Monday at 6 a.m. The lockdown will again be effective on midnight April 30 through the morning of May 3....

Sly police are playing citizens around the country. Police departments around the country, primarily in large progressive metropolitan areas, are playing one up on their citizens. Police departments are only using their 3-5 year old or older police vehicles in the perpetual riot areas. Since they know the BLM and Antifa rioters will target their vehicles, they use the older ones to ensure that they will be destroyed. Some police departments have gone as far as to preposition them next to the stacks of bricks or Molotov cocktail stashes provided for the riots. Ordinarily those vehicles would not be replaced...

Former President George W. Bush told radio host Hugh Hewitt on April 22 that he is working with the Koch Network to help President Joe Biden pass an amnesty and cheap-labor bill through Congress. “We’ve got a coalition of like-minded people working this issue,” Bush told Never Trump Hewitt Thursday. Bush, whose poll rating dipped to 33 percent in 2008 after pushing amnesties in 2006 and 2007, continued: Now there hasn’t been interparty outreach, yet. But maybe it’s not quite ripe. My view is if the President is sincere about this, he ought to sit down with, you know, some...

The first day of an unprecedented recount of every ballot cast by Maricopa County voters during last year’s general election almost did not happen Friday. A court battle nearly stopped it. And, as the recount was starting, officials seemed to be figuring out rules and training on the fly. Later, the daily press briefings that were promised were placed on an indefinite hiatus. What was clear is that the 2.1 million ballots the Republican-controlled state Senate obtained through a subpoena are now fully in the custody of a Florida-based company called Cyber Ninjas. Rows of pallets piled high with boxes...

Religion Roundup: Encapsulated Events Signs of our time and prophesy in the news: — Biden proposal: Americans eat meat only once a month — Joe Biden on Friday pledged to cut the US’s carbon emissions at least 50% by 2030.Some of the climate requirements are going to mean big changes for Americans. Biden’s ambitious plan could mean Americans will be forced to cut 90% of red meat from their diets which equates to about one average-sized hamburger per month. - Biden: Americans cut meat by 90%Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: The Covid-19 pandemic is a fraud — Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, an American-trained...

Broward sheriff’s deputies are being told not to enforce Florida’s new anti-rioting law unless absolutely necessary. In those cases, they must run it up the chain of command before taking action...

The Republican senator Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, questioned the need for widespread Covid-19 vaccinations, saying in a radio interview “what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?” Johnson, who has no medical expertise or background, made the comments on Thursday during an interview with the conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna. Contrary to what medical experts advise, Johnson has said he doesn’t need to be vaccinated because he had Covid-19 in the fall. On Thursday, he went further, questioning why anyone would get vaccinated or worry about why others have not. Fear that Johnson & Johnson pause...