Free Republic

The Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in a hate attack in Midtown proclaimed from his jail cell that he would “do it again,” prosecutors said on Saturday. Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail in the Thursday attack, in which he is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches and punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him. “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I have no problem doing it again.” The attack was unprovoked,...

“Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee” (Proverbs 23:10-11).

The California state education panel is considering whether mathematics is inherently racist and rooted in white supremacy which is just another symptom of “woke madness,” according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. The education panel is set to review framework which argues current mathematic standards which focus on the existence of one correct answer perpetuates white supremacy and further disadvantages minorities. “This equity drive in mathematics is another symptom of woke madness,” Ms Panahi said. ...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday that his office will lead the prosecution of a former suburban police officer who is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright. Ellison said he is reviewing the case and the evidence against former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter, raising the prospect of bringing murder charges against her. Potter, who is white, fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old black motorist, on April 11.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wears the Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police unanimous vote of no-confidence as a 'badge of honor.' The controversial city leader defended herself after being blasted by union president John Catanzara. Lightfoot, who hit the headlines earlier this week for refusing to do one-on-one interviews with white journalists, said: 'Getting a vote of no confidence from that guy is a badge of honor, and I accept it,

Around 10:40 a.m. Saturday Beijing time, China’s first Mars rover officially drove down its landing platform ramp and began roaming the Red Planet, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. CNSA release another photograph (here’s the first) of the rover, called Zhurong, which touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, last Saturday. Landing on the Red Planet is dangerous – CNSA said last week it was “nine minutes of terror” as the lander descended toward the planet’s surface at a high rate of speed, and the thin atmosphere didn’t have...

Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings. Prosecutors also have filed additional criminal charges against the man, John Earle Sullivan, a self-described political activist who...

“That’s stupid; next question,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week told a reporter who’d asked him to respond to criticism that his $5.1 million book deal came on the backs of dead elderly New Yorkers. Is he losing it? [cut] All along, too, he has tried to blame the feds — falsely claiming the March order simply followed federal guidance (it didn’t: most states issued nothing like his order), rather than the pleas of the state hospital lobby, which has donated massively to his campaigns, and also falsely indicating that the coverup was an effort to avoid persecution by the Trump...

Our Springfield snollygosters are working tenaciously to provide Christian parents with a plethora of reasons to abandon government schools in Illinois. On Thursday afternoon (May 20th), the Illinois Senate took up and debated another “comprehensive” sex education bill (SB 818) that so-called “progressives” and their evil allies–Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Equality Illinois–are using to indoctrinate children starting in kindergarten.

Today, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Bostom, an academic medical researcher and associate professor of family medicine at Brown University, to discuss the immoral and unscientific use of the COVID-19 vaccines on children. Dr. Bostom explains how no cost-benefit analysis will favor the use of vaccines for children. He also criticizes the use of vaccines for those previously infected and offers a better way to monitor adverse reactions to the vaccine.

The people on the ground in Windham, New Hampshire, are doing an excellent job holding the election officials and auditors accountable to the people during this forensic ballot audit. The audit started because the tabulating machines (Dominion hardware and software) did not accurately count the votes from the physical ballots. During the first small audit (recount) it was discovered that Republican votes were undercounted and Democrat candidates were overcounted. This anomaly was discovered during a hand recount of the ballots as compared to the electronic tabulation results. After the first set of tabulation results were discovered to be inaccurate the...

Texas Senate on Saturday passed legislation that would ban schools from requiring staff to discuss or teach critical race theory. The legislation passed the state's lower chamber on May 11, but the state House will have to approve it again after changes were made in the state Senate, according to KXAN. Critical race theory holds that racism is systemic and has been present in institutions, including the law, the economy and schooling, since the nation's founding. "House Bill 3979 makes certain that critical race philosophies, including the 1619 founding myth, are removed from our school curriculums statewide. When parents send...

Biden’s Exploitation of Religion For him it’s only useful if turned into liberal propaganda.The Declaration of Independence says “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” On the campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden botched that line, saying, “All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.” His omission of God was telling. Unlike the Founding Fathers who spoke openly and often of God, Biden hesitates before mentioning him. In early May, he managed to issue...

Firing the activist Emily Wilder won't fix the wire service's bigger problems The Associated Press on Thursday announced it had parted ways with Emily Wilder, a cub reporter whose anti-Semitic tweets were the subject of a Washington Free Beacon report published two days earlier. Wilder's "cancellation" has become the latest cause célèbre of the navel-gazing Beltway media, who are using the incident to accuse the right in general, and the Free Beacon in particular, of supporting the "cancel culture" we typically decry. "Imagine being the world's largest news organization and caving to the Washington Free Beacon," tweeted the former AP...

Italy has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam with their song Zittie e Buoni. Måneskin singer Damiano David shouted "Rock and roll never dies" as the four-piece group collected their glass microphone trophy. It was another disappointing night for the UK, with James Newman's Embers scoring nil points. It is the fifth time the UK has come last, and the second time it has received nil points.

Welcome to the weekend, your host is here again as fingers of politicians remain firmly in the wind Joe Biden saying he loves Israel for the cameras and something else off them. Biden also trying to pretend he speaks for all Democrats on Israel.... Today's numbers in Israel 18 new positive tests with partial vaccination at 58.50 percent not moving upwards at all by the way and full vaccination at 54.98 percent... This week Russia'a Tass published a story with officiaks there seeing 'herd immunity' when vaccination reaches about 60 percent... "YoU-F-O" It was a Johnny Carson "Tonight Show" joke...

Former Pittsburgh Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez has been found guilty of 15 counts of sexual misconduct, including statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with minor, corruption of minors and indecent assault, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Mick Stellini. Vazquez was reportedly found not guilty of 10 charges of unlawful contact or communication with a minor. Vazquez still awaits charges in Florida for allegations involving the same girl. Once one of the most feared relievers in MLB, the 29-year-old Vazquez was arrested in Sept. 2019 on charges stemming from an alleged relationship with a girl that started when she was 13. MLB...

CDC looking into reports that a small number of teens and young adults vaccinated against the coronavirus that may have experienced heart problems Condition, known as myocarditis, results in an inflammation of the heart muscle which can occur following certain infections Problems have been occurring four days after the second dose has been given Dozens of cases have been reported to the agency in recent week It is not yet clear which vaccine might be responsible, Moderna or Pfizer The agency's vaccine safety group was sparse in details, saying only that there were 'relatively few' cases and levels were similar...

Gaetz: “It’s not just the political left, there is a corrupt coalition on the right, where too many Republicans are willing to be the shield for big business.” Clip...