Free Republic

Some Ring customers said that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out about the outage on social media. Many rely on a phone app to enter their homes, rather than a code that can also be used, with those that had forgotten the latter stuck outside their own homes as Ring doorbells went down. A source told DailyMail.com that the cause of the outbreak was a power failure in Virginia and not a malicious hacking. The nearly eight-hour outage also disrupted the company's shipping operations on Tuesday, threatening to create lasting logjams during the...

The large-scale drug trafficking operation of an infamous cartel just got busted in a mountain state some 1,400 miles from its Mexican headquarters and only one U.S. official, a local prosecutor, has dared to acknowledge the obvious; “This poison is coming over from our southern border unchecked,” said the elected prosecutor of Colorado’s largest district. “It will not stop coming over the border from Mexico into our communities until the federal government takes that porous border seriously.” His name is John Kellner, district attorney in the state’s 18th Judicial District which serves a population of about 1.3 million and covers...

China has warned countries who have announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics that they "will pay the price for their mistaken acts". The US, UK, Australia and Canada will not send government representatives to the Games because of concerns over China's human rights record. Chinese state media claimed on Wednesday that Beijing "never planned to invite US and Western politicians who hype the 'boycott' topic".

NYCHA — the New York City Housing Authority to local cognoscenti — has been one of my favorite topics over the years. For a sampling of prior posts see here, here, here and here. Multiple factors make NYCHA a core subject matter for this blog. First, it is one of the most prominent and largest examples in the U.S. of a major enterprise that operates on a very pure socialist model, with full public ownership of the assets and distribution of the “benefits” (deeply discounted housing units) on the basis of perceived “need.” Second, NYCHA has failed catastrophically, and for...

Education touches nearly every household in America either as taxpayers or parents, but few politicians have championed this issue accordingly. Following the results of the Virginia Gubernatorial race of 2021, however, any politician paying attention will see the value in making education a priority - like it is for their constituents, particularly women. Glenn Youngkin, now Governor-Elect of Virginia, understood the frustration of parents across the state and ran on a promise to return parents to authority and protect parental rights. This all came after his opponent, former governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe, said on the debate stage that parents...

As Jussie Smollett awaits his fate in a Chicago court, accused of staging a fake hate crime in January 2019, his once-promising career also hangs in the balance.

Hillary Clinton is a wife, mother, lawyer, senator, secretary of state, and perhaps the first front-runner to lose two presidential races. On December 9, she will share her experiences, teaching a MasterClass course on “the power of resilience”: Yet there are so many potentially useful and educational classes she could offer but won’t, such as: -How to Turn a $1,000 Investment into $100,000 in Less Than a Year. -Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Mass Communication as Deflection. -A colloquium on the history of carpetbagging. -Quid Pro $: Charitable “Foundation” as Cash Cow. -How to Do a Southern Accent. -“What Difference, at...

The War on Christmas is taking no prisoners in 2021. What was once a handful of angry extremists on the fringes wailing about the lack of celebrations for those who don’t follow Christianity has now morphed into a group of woke warriors wreaking havoc during the holiday, hoping to frighten those who commemorate the Son of God or even simply love shiny objects. As if we don’t have enough anxiety already with Omicron, a nationwide Santa shortage, looting, and defunding police, we can now add burning Christmas trees.

Alex Stovall is running as an America First conservative for Congress in Arizona. In reality, he’s a political grifter and Project Veritas has the proof in this new video dropping tonight. His twitter account went private right after the video was released

The effort to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant lost significant ground in Wednesday’s ballot count, with 50.3% of voters agreeing to remove her from office, compared to 53% of the votes counted on Tuesday. With Wednesday’s count, Sawant has narrowed the difference to only 246 votes, out of the 39,274 counted so far. She received 62% of the votes counted on Wednesday. King County Elections Chief of Staff Kendall Hodson said Wednesday the county estimates there are about 1,200 ballots left to be counted on Thursday and an additional 656 ballots with signature challenges that could be resolved and...

A secularist non-profit organization that strongly urges separation of church and state in America is taking issue with Wreaths Across America's nearly 30-year tradition of placing wreaths on thousands of military graves. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is calling out Wreaths Across America, telling the Colorado Springs Gazette that the organization's actions in placing wreaths on military gravesites around the country are "unconstitutional, an atrocity and a disgrace." "We have no problem if people reach out and want a wreath on their deceased veterans’ graves, but to put them everywhere, to blanket them without permission of the surviving families...

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the use of AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) antibody cocktail to prevent COVID-19 infections in individuals with weak immune systems or a history of severe side effects from coronavirus vaccines.

Should we ignore the costs of the "Build Back Better" bill and simply focus on the benefits? Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, the most constructive criticisms of the legislation reveal why the magical thinking behind this monstrously expensive spending package will not improve American society. In urging us to focus less on costs, economist Alan Blinder asserts: "The House bill includes several real winners. Do you oppose universal pre-K education? You shouldn't; it works. Are you against more-affordable child care? Not many Americans are. Do you think we should ignore global climate change? If so, think again." But these assertions...

WI HAS 4.5 MILLION RESIDENTS OVER THE AGE OF 18. THE WISCONSIN ELECTION COMMISSION HAS MORE THAN 7 MILLION VOTERS ON THE ROLL. WI VOTER ROLL HAS OVER 120,000 ACTIVE VOTERS WHO HAVE BEEN REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS. THE MARGIN OF VICTORY IS 20,000.

CHICAGO - The Chinatown neighborhood is reeling after a 71-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon near an elementary school. A small group gathered outside the Chinese Christian Union Church and then walked around the block to the scene of the unspeakable crime. "Pray for hope and healing for the victim, and his family and the children who were rocked and shaken by today," said Chris Javier, a member of the Chinese Christian Union Church. Police say Woom Sing Tse was walking on the sidewalk when he was shot.

Hillary will be playing Humpty Dumpty in today’s performanceToday’s Throwback Thursday is brought to you by the better half of the megalomaniacal Clinton Family Dynasty: With all due respect you old hag, STFU. Only an egomaniac would find a way to deliver a “victory” speech for an election she lost 5 years ago.Only a delusional fool would participate in such performance art. But at least we now know what she was doing instead of campaigning during the 2016 presidential campaign: she was busy crafting her ‘historical’ acceptance speech. She didn’t really need to campaign as the DOJ was busy working...

Whatever could have been done to save the United States has been done. Republicans have won a lot of elections over the past twenty years and still there are people like Mitch McConnell who sell out not just the Republicans, but the whole nation, giving into a completely weak and feckless Joe Biden. Why? Because, in his view, Republicans are getting too powerful. There are too many patriots (what they call Trumpers to minimize people who believe that the U.S. congress ought to focus on the American people FIRST) in the Republican Party and they need to be stopped. When...

WASHINGTON Sunday, Dec. 8. FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE AND FLINT HILL DESERTED. Scouts sent out from Gen. WADWORTH's Brigade Friday, returned to-day. They report that Flint Hill and also Fairfax Court-house are entirely deserted by the rebel pickets. They passed through and beyond the village of Fairfax before they met the pickets of the enemy. THE CAUCUS OF SATURDAY NIGHT. There has been no little curiosity excited among Republicans and Democrats, to-day, to know all about the caucus of Republican Members of Congress, held last night at the Capitol. The TIMES will have the only account of it. There is unquestionably a...

Gee, I wonder why? A major morning television show in the UK deleted a Twitter poll asking if vaccines should be made mandatory after the results showed that 89% of respondents oppose compulsory shots. Yes, really. Good Morning Britain, which often tries to set the news agenda, posted the poll which asked the public, “With Omicron cases doubling every two days, is it time to make vaccines mandatory?” The last screenshots Twitter users were able to obtain before the poll was wiped showed 89% oppose mandatory vaccinations, with just 11% in favor after a total of over 42,000 votes. ......

San Diego has a D.A. who's not like the others... In California's second-biggest city, San Diego, they've got a district attorney who thinks it's her job to prosecute criminals. According to the Washington Examiner: At least 10 self-identifying members of antifa in San Diego were charged with "violent criminal acts" relating to an incident earlier in 2021. The defendants "allegedly attempted to obstruct a rally for former President Donald Trump in San Diego on Jan. 9," the charges state. She's leveling jailtime charges against 10 antifa thugs after an unprovoked assault on Trump supporters who, videos show, were just standing...