Free Republic

With crisply starched fatigues, World War II veteran and 101st Airborne Division patches fixed on his uniform, paratrooper boots glistening, Private First Class (PFC) Vince Speranza marvels at the thrilling twist his life took in his mid-80s. Now 95, the veteran, retired history teacher, widower, father and grandfather, has a popular book called Nuts!: A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at Bastogne that he published at the age of 89. He has more friends on Facebook than he knows what to do with, and fame in Belgium that rivals Jean-Claude Van Damme’s. The freshly vaccinated American WWII GI and Illinois...

VIDEOI watched the sparsely attended "Moral Monday" rally in Washington, D.C. so you won't have to. And, believe me, you all owe me big time because watching all those leftwing demagogues felt like my lifeforce was being drained away just hearing them speak. As you can see they are all in on the Build Back Broke bill and are angry at Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema for maybe denying them their inflation energizer. Also they are dead set against all voter integrity bills including voter ID laws. Why would anybody be against that except for the desire to Cheat the...

More than 800,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. An estimated 163,000 could have been saved by vaccines. As the U.S. marks one year since the first shots of COVID-19 vaccine were rolled out last December, some 28% of adults still remain unvaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, as the country surpassed 800,000 confirmed deaths from the disease, an analysis by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates 163,000 deaths could have been prevented by vaccination since vaccines became widely available in June.

Late last week, on December 9, the FDA approved the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, “authorizing the use of a single booster dose for administration to individuals 16 and 17 years of age.” The booster is to be given at least 6 months after vaccination. Before we get to the data the FDA cited in the booster for kids aged 16-17, let’s go through the facts: COVID-19 is not a threat to teenagers aged 16-17. On October 25, we warned that the FDA was about to approve an experimental COVID-19 vaccine for children. It seemed unnecessary...

FR is funded solely by contributions made by the liberty loving patriots who love and use it. We are beholden to no political party. No advertisers, no outsiders, no sugar daddies, no corporate string pullers. Definitely no government subsidies or tax breaks. No 501c or other IRS non-profit status. This means no commercial ads. No annoying pop-ups. No ad tracking. No mail campaigns. No spam. No third-parties -- not even the IRS -- trying to control what we do or say. We are self-funded, fiercely independent and enjoy our freedom to speak plainly in the support of God, family, country,...

President Joe Biden sees everything going the way of the Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, ignoring rampant inflation, the crisis on the southern border, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to claim early victory on Tuesday night. Biden made his brave prediction during a ten-minute speech to 400 Democratic National Party (DNC) officials, senior staffers, labor leaders, and assorted dignitaries who gathered outdoors at the Washington Hotel for their annual Christmas party — which the president prioritized over visiting survivors of the Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre, who he has ignored for over three weeks.

Aggravated bees attack unfortunate honey seekers from all directions. The mad birds in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" mastered the tactic, attacking en masse residents of a small Northern California town in coordinated swarms. Ticked off bees are a fact, malign Hitchcockian birds a fiction, but both demonstrate aerial swarm attacks can be ferocious and effective. Which is why at least two dozen defense ministries on Earth are spending billions on defending against enemy swarm attacks and on conducting their own swarm offensive strikes. Several years ago, the Pentagon ordered its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to analyze and develop...

Rep. Jim Banks says it's unnecessary for Democrats to spend almost $40 billion to expand Medicare to cover more services when the program is currently headed toward insolvency ============================================================================ Turning the tables on Democrats who argue Republican opposition to Obamacare has denied Americans health care coverage, a key GOP lawmaker is warning that President Biden's Build Back Better Act would lead to roughly 2 million people losing their employer-based medical insurance. "Democrats have always sought to make as many people dependent on the federal government for health care as possible, while eliminating every other option that could drive down prices...

Gunfire in Philadelphia's Nicetown section injured one man and damaged offices belonging to Pennsylvania Senator Sharif Street and the NAACP. ---SNIP--- "Roughly half of our staff has lost loved ones, and almost the entire staff has lost close friends to gun violence," Street said. Street saw the bullet holes in the building and surveyed damage before leaving to Harrisburg for the next legislative session. He told Action News that he's pushing to tap into the billions of dollars of surplus state funding. "I estimate that if we did that statewide, we could address problems across the Commonwealth and push another...

More than 800,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus – another grim pandemic milestone reached Tuesday as the country remains on edge over the new Omicron variant. The mark coincides with the end of a year that began in the US with a COVID-19 death toll of about 350,000. Over the same period of time the country has also experienced a roller coaster of emotions as optimism reigned with the rollout of vaccines, but fear lingered with the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants. Many communities lifted mask mandates last spring when the number of cases dropped, only...

Kroger will no longer provide paid sick leave for unvaccinated workers who come down with COVID-19 unless local jurisdictions require them to do so. The company will also add a $50 monthly surcharge to company health plans for unvaccinated managers and non-union employees. The Cincinnati-based grocery chain is one of the largest employers in the United States with almost half a million full-time and part-time employees. Kroger has made a decision to tighten pandemic-related policies for its workers at a time when businesses across the country face uncertainty over federal vaccination mandates. In November, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0civ9U8Lp0 Fantastic interview yesterday — I have included highlight clips and the full enchilada McCullough, a practicing internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist, and chief medical advisor of Truth for Health Foundation, told Rogan that from the outset of the pandemic, there were a number of sinister ways doctors worldwide were restricted from prescribing hydroxychloroquine — even though the science shows it’s an effective early treatment for COVID patients. McCullough referred to hydroxychloroquine as “the leading drug worldwide to treat COVID-19.” He explained that early on in the pandemic the U.S. “had the right idea,” and stockpiled hydroxychloroquine — only later to...

Attorney Michael Curran, who represented hundreds of local businesses as they peacefully protested against the lockdown orders throughout the coronavirus pandemic, now says the new statewide indoor mask mandate is not being issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom. It is only a “requirement,” that does not cite “any particular authority,” said Curran.

OPJN XYFBUANFXN DOPD UB ZYL OPJN AYFN P TUDDTN DOUFC RNTT, ZYL XPF AY P VUCCNE DOUFC RNTT, DYY. —APJUA GDYENZ

The mayor of San Francisco on Tuesday announced even more initiatives aimed at curbing open drug use, brazen home break-ins and other criminal behavior that she says have made a mockery of the city's famed tolerance and compassion. Mayor London Breed said at a news conference attended by the police chief and other public safety personnel that she would introduce legislation to allow law enforcement real-time access to surveillance video in certain situations and to make it harder for people to sell stolen goods. She also announced emergency intervention to improve safety in the Tenderloin, one of the poorest and...

St. Joseph’s School at Ganj Basoda in Madhya Pradesh state was vandalized on December 6, despite school authorities seeking police protection. A Catholic school in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state was vandalized by a mob of some 500 Hindu extremists, despite school authorities requesting police protection prior to the attack. The incident occurred at around midday at St. Joseph’s School at Ganj Basoda, some 120 kilometers northeast of the state capital Bhopal. The attack took place while Class 12 students were sitting for the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE). School principal Brother Anthony Pynumkal told The Indian Express that...

Reported this morning on Good Morning America: Fauci stated that the original vaccines offer little benefit against the Omicron variant. But that the boosters provide a good defense. Aren't the boosters merely another dose of the original vaccine? It's little wonder that Fauci has little credibility. He first reported that masks offer little to no defense against viruses; now, he wants everyone to mask up? That's all I need to know about his advice.

U.S. senators need to forgo the posh Capitol dining rooms and go food shopping in the shoes of ordinary Americans. Shoppers are panicking at the meat counter, where beef prices are up more than 20%. Nearly everything in the basket costs more. Most pols are clueless about the pain inflation is causing. Retirees are the biggest victims. Inflation is decimating them. With interest rates near zero, retirees are watching the purchasing power of the money they have in the bank literally shrink. They're getting punished for their years of thrift, prudence and self-reliance. For the 65-and-up crowd, it's a double...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 1Zechariah’s Song 67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. 69 He has raised up a horn[c] of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he...

In a letter to the Department of Justice last year, an anonymous Democrat whistleblower accused fellow Democrats in Pima County, Arizona of adding approximately 35,000 votes to each of the Democrat candidates in the 2020 election. This information came out Monday, during an “ad hoc” hearing in Tucson, where Arizona State House and Senate members met to discuss election integrity issues in Pima County. During the hearing, experts provided evidence and testimony about the voting irregularities that allegedly took place during the election, including ballots from people not living where they voted, and inflated voter rolls across the Democrat-leaning county....