Free Republic

On this date in 1769, five French Creoles were shot in New Orleans for a revolt the previous year against a Spanish takeover. This date’s story begins with the French King Louis XV getting his French clock cleaned in the French and Indian War. This conflict blew an ill wind all over Francophone North America, much of which was taken by the British. Result: a quarter-millennium later, this blog is in English. Even what France kept, she did not keep. In a secret pact, France ceded to wartime ally Spain “the country known as Louisiana, as well as New Orleans...

Our sad excuse of a president, Joe Biden, appeared in another gaffe filled town hall event Thursday night on CNN, his favorite network. The moderator, Anderson Cooper, tried mightily to assist Biden as often as possible, finishing his thoughts, and answering his softball questions. Luckily for Biden, mostly sympathetic Democrats asked the questions, and his supporters filled the audience and cheered his ludicrous answers. Even in this type of encouraging atmosphere, Biden’s performance was embarrassing. His worst moments came in response to a question about the border. One of the few Republicans in the audience, Megan Crawford, a law student...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a ridiculous Halloween costume guide that urges parents to avoid costumes “that perpetuate gender norms.”

This week on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed the U.S. Supreme Court as an “extremist court” that was “out of step with the American people.” Host Jonathan Capehart aired a clip of a Democratic Texas state representative lamenting that the Supreme Court was acting like abortion was “an issue that we need to vacillate over.”

This time of year, few things are as satisfying as a rich, hearty stew. We've got plenty of dishes to keep you going until spring, from paprika-scented Hungarian goulash and Tuscan bean, bread, and vegetable stew to meaty carne adovada and chicken stews that come together in just half an hour in the pressure cooker. Find them all in our collection of 15 stew recipes to fight off the winter. Beef All-American Beef Stew 20170212-stew-recipes-roundup-01.jpg J. Kenji López-Alt Our version of a classic American beef stew is made with mushrooms, onions, carrots, peas, potatoes, and beef chuck roll. We build...

William Aslaksen was arrested about 90 minutes after the incident, which occurred about 3:25 p.m. at the intersection of 10th Street West and Rancho Vista Boulevard, officials said. He was booked into the Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale station on suspicion of felony assault and was being held there Sunday in lieu of $50,000 bail, inmate records show. He is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Antelope Valley Municipal Court in Lancaster.

witter suspended the official account of an Indiana congressman Jim Banks after removing a post about a transgender Biden administration official that violated the social media company’s rules. Twitter’s action came after Republican Rep. Jim Banks commented on Dr. Rachel Levine becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer in the United States uniformed services. Banks tweeted about Levine on the same day she was sworn in as an admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. “The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” Banks tweeted Tuesday.

Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global technology supply chain and have been relentlessly targeting cloud service companies and others since summer. The group, which Microsoft calls Nobelium, has employed a new strategy to piggyback on the direct access that cloud service resellers have to their customers' IT systems, hoping to "more easily impersonate an organization's trusted technology partner to gain access to their downstream customers." Resellers act as intermediaries between software and hardware makers and product users. "Fortunately, we have discovered this campaign during its early stages, and we...

You may have seen this before, but it's worth viewing again. This was recorded in 1969...it was reality then, but now the socialist/communist movement has moved so far down the road we are on the verge of losing our Democracy. How prescient was that speaker, 52 years ago!!!

Emma Bonino not only is responsible for millions of abortions but she supports same-sex 'marriage,' transgenderism, and sex education. Bonino, a former abortionist once praised by Pope Francis as “a great Italian,” will appear in a Catholic church to present the pro-migrant campaign “ERO STRANIERO: La humanità che fa bene” (“I was a stranger: Humanity that does good”) As an abortion rights activist and an abortionist herself, Bonino is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of approximately six million Italian babies between 1968 and today. Bonino’s appearance in the Church of San Defendente, Ronco di Cassato, on July 26...

Dr. Jay Kolls and Derek Pociask, PhD, in front of a scanned image of a 50-year-old lung tissue slide that was key to solving a medical mystery. Credit: Rusty Costanza ================================================================================= When scientists were developing a vaccine against COVID-19, a key worry was the potential to cause disease enhancement. It's a complication that occurs when a vaccine does the opposite of what it's intended to do and instead makes someone more vulnerable when exposed to a pathogen. For COVID-19, the fear can be traced back to an infamous clinical trial in the 1960s for an experimental vaccine against respiratory syncytial...

Actress Melle Stewart Actress Melle Stewart is fighting for her life after she suffered a stroke after taking AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. The 40-year-old actress suffered a rare blood-clotting side effect following her AstraZenaca vaccine injection. Actress fighting for life after stroke caused by AstraZeneca vaccine’s blood-clotting side effect https://t.co/o84y5tRCaj — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) October 24, 2021 Stewart reportedly continues to be an advocate for the vaccination. The Daily Mail reported: An Australian actress was fighting for life in ICU after suffering a stroke caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine’s rare blood-clotting side effect. Melle Stewart, 40, received her first dose...

The unconstitutional assault by the Biden administration against parents of school-aged children in America is apparent and shameful. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent memorandum to the FBI attempts to bully and silence parents who are standing up to oppose what they believe is harmful curriculum; meanwhile, AG Garland is inexplicably unaware of the domestic terrorism occurring just a few blocks from his office where extreme environmentalist breached the Department of the Interior on October 14, 2021, causing multiple injuries. AG Garland’s opening paragraph of his memorandum to the director of the FBI on October 4, 2021, states, “In recent...

Oct 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court will soon have its first opportunity in more than a decade to redefine the scope of gun rights and to confront the link between the Second Amendment and slavery that it has previously overlooked.The justices next month will hear a challenge backed by the National Rifle Association to New York state’s restrictions on concealed handguns in public. The NRA and two gun owners are claiming the restrictions violate the Second Amendment, arguing that Americans have an unfettered right to carry guns in public for self-defense.~~~SNIP~~~ Indeed, the historical record shows that the...

Francis, Congar, and The Case of Archbishop LefebvreIn his October 9, 2021 address to open the Synod, Francis put the Church and world on notice that he intended to change the Church, invoking the pseudo-Catholic inspiration of Yves Congar: “Father Congar, of blessed memory, once said: ‘There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church.’ That is the challenge. For a ‘different Church,’ a Church open to the newness that God wants to suggest, let us with greater fervour and frequency invoke the Holy Spirit and humbly listen to him, journeying together as he, the...

The Gubernatorial Race in Virginia is happening at a very opportune time. It is forcing the covering of specific issues such as government overreach in education. This subject exposes a weakness in the Democrat policies that the Mainstream Media would just as soon ignore. Terry McAuliffe weighed-in about a parent’s role in the education process., and many think McAuliffe wishes he had never made the comment. He now owns it, and it may cost him this election and will have a ripple effect on the 2022 mid-terms. McAuliffe’s comment was not just a slip of the tongue. It was a...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called for Anthony Fauci to be fired over a “lack of judgment,” contending that President Biden’s chief medical adviser lied about research the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded in Wuhan, China. “He should be fired,” Paul told Mike Allen during an interview with “Axios on HBO” that aired Sunday. “The thing is, is just for lack of judgment of nothing else, and I, you know, he's probably never going to admit that he lied, he's going to continue to dissemble and try to work around the truth and massage the truth,” he added. Paul’s comments...

Two people who helped plan the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., ahead of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 say members of Congress and the White House helped plan the protest that turned violent. The two people spoke to Rolling Stone for a report published Sunday evening. Neither of the sources were identified, though Rolling Stone described one as a "rally organizer" and another as a "planner." Rolling Stone reported the two are also talking to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

This morning on Steve Bannon's War Room, his first guest was Darren Beatie from Revolver News, they have a story and videos up this morning talking about Ray Epps. The video shows Epps encouraging people to enter the capital and shows Epps in a private conversation with someone immediately before the first barricade was breached led by the person who was talking Epps. Ray Epps was supposedly the President of the Arizona Chapter of the Oath Keepers and has never been charge by the FBI with being involved in 1/6 even though he's been clearing identified deeply in 9/11.

Top American health officials who critics say misled Congress with claims regarding U.S.-funded virus research in China are pushing back after documents were released appearing to show that the United States did pay for gain-of-function research, contrary to the officials’ testimony. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent the documents last week to lawmakers. They show that the NIH funded research that increased the function of coronaviruses and MERS, experts said. Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads one of the institutes, told Congress earlier this year that the agency did not fund...