Free Republic

In a story published Nov. 16, about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, The Associated Press erroneously reported that prosecutors said he traveled from his home in Illinois to Wisconsin with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle. Rittenhouse testified that he picked up the weapon at the home of his friend’s stepfather in Wisconsin.

...the new study encompasses data from nearly 300 ancient individuals and focuses specifically on the Copper to Bronze Age transition...The genomic data reveals some of the processes underlying this genetic shift. While the bulk of the genome shows that Bronze Age individuals are a mix of local Iberian Chalcolithic ancestry and a smaller part of incoming ancestry from the European mainland, the paternally inherited Y chromosome lineages show a complete turnover, linked to the movement of steppe-related ancestry that is also visible in other parts of Europe..."We also found signals of ancestry that we traced to the central and eastern...

Only 21% of the people in Bangladesh have been “vaccinated.” The nation is one of the most densely populated in the world with approximately half the population of the United States crammed into an area smaller than Oregon. This means if everything we’re told about Covid science were true, they would be in major trouble because their vaccination levels are so low. Instead, they’re beating Covid with fewer new cases in a day than California sees in an hour. They are not the exception. There has been an eerie correlation between the spikes in Covid cases and percentage of the...

WASHINGTON — A Democratic plan to impose a fee on methane emissions from oil and gas wells has cleared a key hurdle, but it faces strong opposition from the oil and gas industry and criticism by centrist Sen. Joe Manchin. The proposed fee on methane — a powerful pollutant that contributes to global warming — was included in a huge social and environmental policy bill passed by House Democrats last Friday. Language approved by the House represents a compromise that would slap a rising fee on excess emissions at oil and gas facilities, reaching $1,500 per ton in 2025, along...

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Mark 8:36 I brought my tomato plants inside the house about a Month ago to allow the tomatoes that were still on the plants to mature instead of letting the plants die in the cold. A Month later one plant has mostly died, but there is still one the last tomato that is almost ready to harvest. As you can see, the other plant is still hanging in there and even has some new tomatoes growing.Now while the plants themselves are wilting...

"Do you miss President Trump and I?"

Milwaukee prosecutors are conducting an internal review into their own office’s decision to make an "inappropriately low" bail recommendation for Darrell Brooks Jr., the person of interest in nearby Waukesha after an SUV plowed through a Christmas parade. Brooks has multiple pending cases in Milwaukee County – including a 2020 case involving two counts of second-degree recklessly endangering and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a spokesperson for Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm. Bail was originally set at $10,000 and later reduced to $7,500, the district attorney’s office said. But due to a court scheduling conflict...

A compromised political elite is responding to a virus likely juiced up in a Chinese bioweapons lab by adopting scientifically unprecedented, Communist-style social controls. When Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called last year for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, China retaliated with tariffs. Domestically, a cohort of Beijing-friendly former ambassadors, foreign and defense ministers, and state premiers dutifully reminded the public that China’s status as Australia’s biggest trading partner makes antagonizing the regime a risky business. Beijing sycophants have recycled versions of this talking point for years, rationalizing China’s contempt for Western universal values, territorial aggrandizement, repression of...

All ny daughter (27) works for a local nursing home/assisted living facility. they are forcing the jab, but are offering "religious exemption" options. how has the FReeper community handled these situations? they gave her a form to complete, including a place for a pastor to sign off on it. Glancing at it, I can see a few illegal things, but law and order are dead in bidens america, so THAT is out of the discussion. How have you all handled it, thus far? thanks in advance for your responses.

The new normal? Bay Area is hit by THIRD consecutive day of looting as 50-strong hammer gang storms jewelry store after Macy's and Lululemon stores were hit: Thieves take advantage of woke 'misdemeanor' law The San Francisco Bay Area faced a third consecutive day of brazen shoplifting on Sunday A group of about 40 to 50 teenage looters wielding hammers smashed glass cases at a Hayward jewelry store and ran off with an unknown amount of goods at around 5.30pm Sunday The suspects also reportedly ran into other stores in the Southland Mall and walked away with clothes and shoes,...

Hourly power prices are set to surge on Tuesday evening as low wind levels mean more expensive coal-powered plants will need to be fired up. Power for the peak hour between 5pm and 6pm rose to £1,067 a megawatt-hour during the day-ahead auction for Tuesday. It’s the third time prices have jumped above £1,000 this month, with the latest peak seen last Monday. With wind power accounting for just 10pc of demand for the peak hour, output will need to be ramped up at more expensive thermal goal and gas power stations.

A Ford F-150 driver who flashed red and blue lights at another driver to make a traffic stop Thursday night not only wasn’t a law enforcement officer, but didn’t have a valid driver’s license. That’s according to Volusia County Sheriff’s Office and an off-duty sergeant. The Port Orange driver of that pickup truck, 54-year-old Joseph Mercier, insisted he didn’t try to pull anybody over. When asked by arresting deputies why he flashed the red and blue lights on his truck at another driver, Mercier said, “I don’t know, just being an idiot, but I never pulled anybody over.” As of...

Two years after 16 hockey players joined forces in Boston to become the first entirely transgender sports team in the United States, Team Trans — a growing group of novice to advanced players — reunited this past weekend at Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, Wisconsin, to take on the Madison Gay Hockey Association in a weekend friendship series. When the inaugural Team Trans first stepped off the ice and into the locker room two years ago, the players said they could tell that something was different. While many of them had played in LGBTQ leagues, they were often the only...

EXCLUSIVE – Former Vice President Mike Pence returns next month to New Hampshire, the state that for a century has held the first primary in the race for the White House. Pence will keynote a fundraising event for the New Hampshire Senate Republicans on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Word of the former vice president’s appearance at the gathering, which will take place in Manchester, New Hampshire, was shared first with Fox News on Sunday. Pence is also headlining a Heritage Action event against tax increases while in New Hampshire. The former vice president joined the Heritage Foundation, one of the oldest...

The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack told a federal appeals court on Monday that it urgently needs extensive records from former President Trump's White House, arguing that more time would hinder its probe. "Delay itself would inflict a serious constitutional injury on the Select Committee by interfering with its legislative duty. The Select Committee needs the documents now because they will shape the direction of the investigation," the panel's attorneys wrote in a filing with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. "For example, the documents could inform which witnesses to depose and what questions to ask...

You look at this story and you think, Oh, that’s a cute little gimmick and you move on. But wait. There’s actually more to it, and this pizzeria owner is actually a marketing and business management genius. As you know by now, there’s a massive supply chain issue underway, thanks to Joe Biden’s ineptitude,

(I chose the title because I’ve grown weary of titles that include “masks dropping.”) When the enemy shows you his motivations in broad daylight, you no longer need to analyze about them. This is especially the case when his deeds are a perfect match to his words. The media, in covering the long spell of urban rioting America has endured, insisted and persisted in treating it as the result of anger over “racism.” By their coverage it was all about cops shooting down innocent blacks. They presented both the triggering incidents and the riots themselves in a fashion engineered to...

What was supposed to be a joyful event turned deadly after an SUV plowed into the crowd during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.In a press conference Sunday, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said a driver sped through police barricades and drove into a crowd of parade marchers Sunday afternoon. At one point, an officer fired shots at the suspect’s vehicle in an attempt to stop it....“The city of Waukesha, the fire department and its partners transported a total of 11 adults and 12 pediatric patients to six area hospitals,” he stated. “We do not have any specifics on the...

Despite his acquittal, the left continues to smear Kyle Rittenhouse as a bloodthirsty, “Call of Duty”-playing white supremacist. But if you were in the city of Kenosha, as I was, when the riots erupted, you would know that Rittenhouse was hardly a rogue vigilante. He was one of many brave Kenoshan men who took up arms to protect their families, businesses, and beloved city when the government failed to. Indeed, despite desperate pleas for help, Gov. Tony Evers refused to deploy adequate numbers of national guardsmen to protect the city from rioters wielding guns and fire. After 24 hours of...

Scientists are investigating a newly detected strain of Covid-19, which is being being described as being more infectious than the Delta variant of the virus. The name of the new variant is called AY.4.2, and officials have subsequently classified it is a "variant under investigation". People who become infected with the new Covid-19 strain are less likely to display symptoms in comparison to other variants such as Delta, scientists have said.