Free Republic

In Genesis 15, God made a glorious agreement with Abraham. He instructed the patriarch to take a female heifer, a female goat and a ram and cut them all in two. Then Abraham was to take a turtledove and a pigeon and lay them on the ground, head-to-head. Abraham did as he was instructed, and as these creatures lay bleeding, vultures began to descend on the carcasses. What did Abraham do when the vultures came? Scripture says he chased them away. This was a sacred sacrifice that Abraham would not allow to be defiled or rendered unfit for his Holy...

Honestly Mara, this says much more about you than it does me: NYT, MSNBC’s Mara Gay: ‘Disturbing’ to see ‘dozens of American flags’ on trucks on Long IslandOk, so she’s on the editorial board of the New York Times, and this is America after all - she’s allowed her ignorant, incorrect opinions just like the next guy (unless you support President Trump).It turns out Mara is offended by Trump supporters, who she believes are all knuckle-dragging, flag waving white supremacists. “I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you...

Whom does Facebook trust to censor? A Ph.D. graduate from France. Really. The Frenchman, Emmanuel Vincent, started a group he calls "Climate Feedback." It does "a new kind of fact-checking." It sure is new. And wrong. I released a video in which some climate scientists argue that climate change is not a "crisis." They believe people can adjust to changing temperatures. Twenty-five million people watched the video. But now Facebook will not show it to you because Emmanuel Vincent suddenly called it "partially false." Vincent would not agree to an interview. Nor would most of his "reviewers." Only one, Patrick...

This time, it mixes it up with a little dose of BLM activism to help your child become woke. When last we caught up with it, Nickelodeon had reached out to the five- to eight-year-old set, the ones who watch Blue’s Clues & You, with a colorful video introducing them to homosexuality, so-called transgenderism, pansexualism, and other alternative sexual lifestyles, all to a bouncy tune sung by a tuneless cartoon drag queen. Since it’s still “Pride month,” Nickelodeon is back again, this time with the tuneless drag queen explaining all the symbolic meaning behind some of the colors in the...

Fourteen people were shot, one fatally, Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was fatally shot in Wentworth Gardens. He was near the sidewalk about 1 p.m. in the 3800 block of South Wells Street when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. The 27-year-old was struck in the head and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A 9-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet near his home in Back of the Yards on the South Side. The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. in the 5400 block of...

If the politicians, media, and tech tyrants hadn’t acted so aggressively to silence discussions about COVID, the last year could have turned out very differently. Yesterday, Steve Karp MD, presented the facts of COVID as we know them, right here on American Thinker. His list included all the mind-boggling contradictions we’ve been fed for the last 17 months. My immediate reaction (besides thinking it was a very complete list) was that, if we had been able to have open, uncensored, lively scientific and public debate from the start, we wouldn’t be in such a muddle at this point. Furthermore, most...

President Joe Biden will embark on his first overseas trip Wednesday morning, seeking to reaffirm the United States’ standing on the world stage with familiar allies, and portray himself as the leader of the free world. “He's been getting ready for 50 years. He has been on the world stage. He's known a number of these leaders for decades, including President Putin, and including a number of the leaders he'll see at NATO and he'll see at the G7. Now, this is an important opportunity for him to see them in person, and there's nothing like face-to-face engagement in diplomacy,”...

Virginia Tech has announced COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for all students attending the school this fall. Exemptions will be in place for medical reasons and “sincerely held religious beliefs.” In a statement, Virginia Tech says, “During the past two semesters, we weathered significant surges in COVID-19 cases in Blacksburg. We did this through robust testing, self-quarantine, masking, and physical distancing. We must do everything possible to avoid repeating the challenges of the last 14 months, and to ensure that students who cannot be vaccinated are able to participate in campus life and in-person learning. It is essential that every...

As investigators pursue evidence that the COVID-19 virus may have originated in a Chinese research laboratory, many voters doubt that Dr. Anthony Fauci has told the truth about American funding of such research. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Fauci has told the truth about U.S. government funding for so-called “gain-of-function” virus research. Forty-six percent (46%) of voters believe Fauci has not told the truth about U.S. funding of such research, and 15% are not sure. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul last week said newly released emails show Fauci was...

Those who are Anti Gun or Anti 2nd Amendment seem to have a lot to say about the subject. This is our Top 10 List of the best mistakes anti-second amendment mistakes. God, family, and guns YouTube

A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state's new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die by either the electric chair or firing squad. State Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman issued the decision to let the planned executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens proceed after their attorneys had argued in court that the men should not be executed while the lawsuit is pending. The two "have little likelihood of success on the merits of their claim," Newman wrote. The...

@RandPaul objects to United States Innovation And Competition Act Of 2021: "This bills adds over $250B to our debt... There's nothing conservative about this bill. The bill is nothing more than a big government response that will make our country weaker, not stronger." Video...

The president of the Palestinian Authority reportedly greenlit a payment of $42,000 to a terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death as part of the government’s policy of paying terrorists following the Biden administration’s $100 million aid package to the Gaza Strip. Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week reportedly sent a district governor of Ramallah, Laila Ghannam, to personally deliver the cash to the family of Muhannad Al-Halabi, who was part of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The payment came "on behalf of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to ‘complete the payment of the cost’ of their home,...

Two people who have risen to the top of American politics show their dislike for this country. America welcomed Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia’s destructive civil wars. It gave her a place to live, an education, and a chance to sit in the most powerful governing body in the world, the United States Congress. Meanwhile, Anthony Blinken, a man of seemingly limited talent and ability, is now Secretary of State, with vast power over America’s foreign policy. Both, however, don't seem too fond of America. Omar’s disdain for America is separate from her equally openly expressed anti-Semitism. The fact...

An undiscovered pituitary gland tumor has turned a woman into a giant at nearly seven feet tall - leaving her towering over her family and her husband. Aspiring model Elisane Silva, 26, from Salinopolis, Brazil, has been dubbed 'Brazil's Tallest Woman' due to her standing at six feet eight inches. She is the tallest member of her family and towers over her husband, Francinaldo Da Silva Carvalho, 31, who is just five-foot-four. 'Since I was 10 years old, I always noticed that there wasn't something quite right as I was the only one in my family and class that stood...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has quietly begun efforts to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, using an under-the-radar approach to minimize political blowback and to try to make at least some progress in resolving a long-standing legal and human rights morass before the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After initial plans for a more aggressive push to close the facility — including rebuffed attempts to recruit a special envoy to oversee the strategy — the White House changed course, sources said. The administration has opted to wait before it reaches out...

Maya Wiley, the progressive left's new poster child, is a mass of contradictions. Republicans call it hypocrisy. The 57-year-old lives in a $2.75million, 4,000-sq-ft house in Brooklyn. Her husband Harlan Mandel, 58, is CEO of a multimillion dollar investment fund. She wants to defund the police but she and her neighbors pay for private security for their wealthy area.

The government needs to drop this. Now. Federal prosecutors are saying the unrest on January 6 resulted in "approximately $1,495,326.55 damage to the United States Capitol." The figure was disclosed last week in a plea agreement with one of the January 6 defendants. What's notable about the $1.5 million is how remarkably small it is. The government can misplace that much on a National Science Foundation study of lizards walking on treadmills. In 2017, then–former vice president Joe Biden paid $2.7 million for his Delaware North Shore beach house, or $1.2 million less than estimated repairs to the Capitol from...

The Oxford student who tabled the motion to remove an 'unwelcoming' portrait of the Queen from Magdalen College's common room is a privately educated American post grad, it can be revealed today - as MPs lined up to condemn the move. Matthew Katzman, a lecturer in computer science and the son of a top lawyer from Maryland on the US east coast - where his family live in a £4million mansion - brought forward the measure to 'cancel' the Queen in his role as president of Magdalen's Middle Common Room (MCR), which is made up of graduates. The 25-year-old, who...

Dr. Fauci has a lot of explaining to do. Throughout the past 16 months of COVID, we have been told to follow the science. How has that worked out? We have heeded each word of the guru of science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Pied Piper of the Chinese coronavirus, who has graced magazine covers and spend more time being interviewed on cable news shows and emailing social media titans than researching the pandemic he has been managing. It turns out he has been leading the world down a pathway of deceit, deception, and ruin. Mask science doesn’t add up. Neither...