Free Republic

Meadow Walker, daughter of the late actor Paul Walker, married actor Louis Thornton-Allan earlier this month. Walker's "Fast & Furious" co-star, Vin Diesel, walked his longtime friend's daughter down the aisle. The couple married in the Dominican Republic and spoke to Vogue about their ceremony. "It was a very intimate celebration. "We were all barefoot, dancing in the sand. To finish the night, there was a wonderful display of fireworks, and we lit lanterns into the picturesque night sky." Walker's father died in a car crash in Southern California in 2013 at 40. He was in the passenger seat of...

This morning I was excited to read the news that Biden was planning to build a wall (finally) until I realized that the wall was going around his 2.7 million dollar beach house in Rehobeth, Delaware. According to the Cape Gazette: Now when Biden visits for a third time, a security fence will be finished or close to it. According to the website USAspending.gov , an online database of federal government spending, the Department of Homeland Security, with the Secret Service as the subagency, recently awarded a $455,000 contract to Rehoboth’s Turnstone Builders for purchase and installation of security fencing...

Will the Hispanic Right Turn Last? Noah Rudnick is the director of research at Cygnal, a Republican polling firm, and writes a blog about historical election trends. One of the surprises on Election Night 2020 was how much Donald Trump gained among Latino voters, especially in such regions as Miami-Dade County and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas that had long been Democratic strongholds. Later Pew polling of 2020 voters would show that Hispanic voters nationwide went from voting in 2016 for Hillary Clinton by a margin of 38 percentage points to voting in 2020 for Joe Biden by a...

A Republican congressman ended a floor speech on Thursday by saying, "Let's go, Brandon!" – elevating a clean version of a popular anti-Biden chant. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., took to the House floor on Thursday and blasted President Biden’s Build Back Better economic agenda as being unable to "pass a straight-face test." "Based on the false promise that he would unify America, President Biden got into the Oval Office," the congressman said. "And my friends on the other side of the aisle gained a razor-thin majority in the House and Senate." ("But you know, we know, we all know, everybody...

A federal judge has denied a restraining order on Thursday that would have blocked vaccine mandates for up to 125 city employees in South Carolina. Tom Fernandez and his firm Fernandez Law represented the plaintiffs, 100 of whom are first responders who filed a lawsuit against the cities of Charleston and North Charleston, Charleston County, and the St. Johns Fire District over the mandates. “They felt that it was nothing short of government coercion to get the vaccine,” Fernandez told The Epoch Times. “We filed a lawsuit in state court alleging their constitutional protections. They did not want the vaccine....

Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on a New Mexico film set Thursday, Oct. 21, killing the director of photography and wounding the director, according to local law enforcement officials. The incident occurred on the set of the Western film Rust, though it is unclear whether the actors were rehearsing or filming a scene. The circumstances of the incident are still under investigation, and no charges have been filed against the 63-year-old actor, according to local media reports.

The National School Boards Association issued an apology Friday night for a letter sent to the Biden administration which targeted some parents who are concerned about their child's school curriculum and said certain of their actions could be domestic terrorism. "As you all know, there has been extensive media and other attention recently around our letter to President Biden regarding threats and acts of violence against school board members," the NSBA wrote in a memo. "We wanted to write to you directly to address this matter." "On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter," the NSBA said,...

Today is the feast day of Neoplatonic philosopher and Christian theologian Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius), author of The Consolation of Philosophy, and according to tradition martyred in 524 or 525, or possibly 526, by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Well, maybe. We know roughly as much about why Boethius was killed as when or how. We do know that he came from a line of prominent Romans (including a couple of popes back there, depending on who you count as “pope”), was himself consul in 510, and his sons were rather astonishingly joint consuls in 522. At that time he...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Oct. 22. At the Cabinet meeting to-day, it was decided not to interfere for the present with Gen. FREMONT in his command. Judge DAVIS, of Illinois, was commissioned to take testimony in reference to contracts made in the Western Department, and all bills that he passes will be paid. The following paragraph appears in the Star of this evening: "A day or two since, Lieut. HARREL, commanding the Freeborn, was informed that the enemy were constructing more batteries on Mathias Point. Yesterday morning be sent his own vessel and the Island Belle down to watch the Point. Shortly...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has granted a request from wildlife advocacy groups and blocked Wisconsin’s fall wolf hunt two weeks before hunters were set to take to the woods. Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost issued a temporary injunction Friday halting the season, which was set to begin Nov. 6. The order comes as part of a lawsuit wildlife advocacy groups filed in August seeking to stop the hunt and invalidate a state law authorizing annual seasons. The groups sued after the Department of Natural Resources board brushed aside calls to cancel the fall season after hunters exceeded...

Priest who beat Gov. Newsom over church closures calls jab mandates for kids ‘criminal’ offense to parents’ rights'I think it’s very, very invasive and very harmful to the family’s rights and to the good of the children’s health.'LOS ANGELES, California (LifeSiteNews) – The California priest who successfully took Gov. Newsom to court over his “unconstitutional” church lockdowns has described the governor’s COVID-19 injection mandates for schoolchildren as a “criminal action against the rights of parents.” Father Trevor Burfitt of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) made the remark while speaking to LifeSiteNews’ Alejandro Rodriguez in his church, Our Lady...

A headline on Newsweek’s web site grabbed my attention in early May: “Wokeness Has Come for Adoption. It’s the Children Who Will Suffer.” This is a subject I know well: My wife and I have fostered three child refugees—from Zimbabwe, Guatemala, and Honduras respectively. These foster children are functionally adopted, and have become full-fledged members of our family. The article noted that a vice-president at Bethany Christian Services, the largest Christian adoption agency in the country, had told a reporter that allowing white families to adopt black children from the foster care system “can cause a lot of harm to...

Here’s what Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito looked like on some of their cross-country road trip stops. These photos might be the last ones Brian and Gabby have taken together during their final road trip stops.

Large migrant caravan has left Tapachula, Mexico for the US. The migrants, mostly from Central America, carry banners that read such as "We come in peace" and "Joe Biden is for everyone" (Politico MX)

[Catholic Caucus] Louisiana bishop defends Latin Mass, says restricting it would be ‘grossly negligent’Bishop Glen Provost of Lake Charles issued his official response to the Pope’s July motu proprio against the Latin Mass.LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Glen Provost of the Diocese of Lake Charles said it would be “grossly negligent if not callous” to impose any “restrictive law” on the Latin Mass.Pope Francis’ July 16 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes implemented sweeping restrictions on the celebration of the traditional liturgy, or Latin Mass, and declared the novus ordo to be “the unique expression of the lex orandi of the...

He recently uploaded a video on his channel, Munro Live, where he shares on his side of the story when it comes to the recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (the NTHSA) versus Tesla situation. In case you don’t know what that’s about, the NHTSA is about to get a new senior adviser for safety, Missy Cummings, who has voiced criticism against Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems in a paper she published in August. He makes an analogy to football, saying this situation is like saying to the leading team to back off in order for others to have...

“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.“ 1 Corinthians 6:18 I remember… years ago, when corruption had taken hold of my mind and body. I was working “graveyard” shift in a medical lab. Just about every morning I’d come home to my seedy apartment. I’d gotten into the habit of smoking weed through a bong (water pipe) in order to relax enough to go to sleep, and be able to sleep through the ever-loud country and Western music coming though the wall of...

Finally, our work, allegedly a fed contractor, has given us forms for the exemptions from the COVID jab. There is one question: Are there any reasonable accommodations of which you are aware that would enable you to perform your job duties on-site, if required, without posing a direct threat to the health or safety of the employee or others? If so,please specify the reasonable accommodation and why you believe it will be effective: I said I could * wear mask * social distance * stay inside my office with door closed * take zoom calls for meetings and not be...

Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are dominating Capitol Hill. Given the 50-50 split in the Senate, Democrats can't afford to lose a single vote on the budget reconciliation bill -- and Sinema and Manchin are using that leverage to force huge concessions from the Biden administration.

Production issues at two of the largest U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals threaten to reduce shipments just as an energy crisis hits Europe and Asia, where buyers are desperately trying to rebuild depleted inventories ahead of winter. Freeport LNG is experiencing a wax buildup in its pipelines due to impurities in the gas it receives, said people with direct knowledge who asked not to be identified. As a result, LNG shipments from the Texas export terminal will be reduced for the remainder of October through November, the people said. Freeport officials declined to comment. ... Meanwhile, a production unit...