Free Republic

Due to party infighting, Democrats are now looking to push a vote on Joe Biden’s big-government socialism juggernaut, the Build Back Better Act, into next year. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had hoped to pass the bill before Christmas, but key holdouts like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) made it impossible to pass the bill through the evenly split Senate due to his concerns about the hefty price tag. Democrats now expect a vote won’t happen until January at the earliest. But that’s wishful thinking, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who says Biden’s $3 trillion plan is “dead forever.”...

"Fox News host Sean Hannity has fired back at Wyoming RINO Rep. Liz Cheney for reading out his text message during the public January 6 hearing. Hannity called for her emails and texts, and those of her family, to be made public. Hannity was responding to Cheney reading his private text to Mark Meadows on Jan 6 during a public hearing. “I’d like to see all Cheney family texts, emails, transcripts, phone calls, kissing Donald Trump’s a** to get a pardon for Scooter Libby—and what was the aftermath of that?” Hannity blasted. ..."

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller. (Photo internet reproduction) "People, who sit on the throne of their wealth" see an "opportunity to push their agenda," the cardinal said, naming Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, billionaire George Soros and Davos Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab among those behind the global control scheme. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A German cardinal has claimed that the coronavirus pandemic has been used by the likes of George Soros and Bill Gates to create a global “surveillance state.” Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, a high-ranking Vatican court judge, has said in an interview with Austria’s St. Boniface Institute last week...

After biological male transgender swimmer Lia Thomas dominated women’s events at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron earlier this month, athletes have expressed their frustrations at the fact that a man pretending to be a woman is setting records and overshadowing actual women in NCAA competitions.Last week here at PJ Media, my esteemed colleague Robert Spencer noted that Thomas’ fellow swimmers — the real women swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania — are secretly unhappy with their teammate.Behind the façade of joy and pride in Thomas’ accomplishments is growing discontent with the devaluation of women’s athletics that the...

Santa Claus is coming to town, but this year he just might find more naughty than nice! Check out what happened when I donned the jolly old elf’s red suit and asked the guys what gifts they want for Christmas in 2021! Seems like I wasn’t the only one playing dress-up! Watch now!

In a recent interview, billionaire Elon Musk stated that the most serious problem we face as a society is that not enough children are being born.I can't emphasize this enough. There are not enough people. And I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate. He's right. The statistics are grim: in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control reported that the U.S. birth rate is plummeting and is the lowest it has been since 1909. The 2020 Census data show that population growth is the slowest since 1930.Part of the population...

In a sane world, where facts and science held sway, it would all be over soon.The largely harmless omicron variant is absolutely unstoppable meaning that the more lethal delta variant has precious little time left to be a threat to anyone.The former, which I call the Variant of Freedom, disperses so rapidly that it makes delta look frozen in time. To the informed and educated mind, this is a glorious thing, indeed. But those blinded by fear and ignorance cannot see the marvelous miracle unfolding before our very eyes. The press has been loaded with doom-and-gloom stories about the omicron...

Muh shots!

The new “West Side Story” is, so far, a box-office flop. Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated remake of the landmark 1961 musical received rave reviews and has been called a masterpiece. Yet its first weekend theatrical release yielded only $10.5 million, which Variety called “a dismal result for a movie of its scale and scope.” --- It’s not woke, it’s wonderful. “America,” that most American of songs, so knowing but not jaded, is done differently from the original but better, more communally, and it’s just as joyous and comic. The Journal’s Joe Morgenstern used exactly the right word to describe this movie:...

SNIP “He is extremely verbally and emotionally abusive,” a Goldbergs employee told Deadline. In his VF interview, Garlin dismissed accusations of being verbally offensive by saying that he is just being “silly” as part of his shtick as a comedian. He did note his penchant for dropping the word “vagina” on the set. According to a source on the show, a camera assistant made a complaint to her department head about Garlin’s use of the word. After the actor found out, he reportedly put his hands around her and kept saying “vagina” in her face over and over again. Overall,...

...At this point, we have little understanding of the universe of endemic and potentially emerging coronaviruses. Though coronaviruses are distributed globally, the most important betacoronavirus hot spots are in southeast Asia and contiguous areas of southern and southwestern China. Preliminary identification and sequencing of bat and other mammal-adapted coronaviruses from this region reveal rapid evolution and enormous viral complexity. Numerous bat species transmit sarbecoviruses (SARS-like viruses including SARS-CoV-2) to one another and to numerous mammals, including humans, at a high rate. Generation of new genomes through mixed infection and homologous genetic recombination leads to substantial coronaviral genetic diversity, analogous to...

Bjorn explains the situation in Norway

Hillary Clinton weeps while reading her ‘would have been’ Presidential victory speech

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’ll make no-questions-asked mail voting a top priority in 2022 – even though voters rejected that proposal just last month. “I want New York State to be a leader, we have not been a leader in the past. We have made it too hard to vote…I believe that everyone should be able to vote by mail,” she told reporters in Albany Thursday. “I’ll be working with all my partners to come up with a very bold and ambitious plan to make sure New Yorkers have the right.” Voters rejected a constitutional amendment on the November election...

A federal judge in Manhattan overturned a roughly $4.5 billion settlement between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the Sackler family who own the drugmaker, a surprising decision that raises questions about the future of the company and its owners, who have been accused of fueling the nation’s opioid crisis. Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York ruled late Thursday that legal releases that would shield members of the Sackler family from civil opioid lawsuits are not permitted under the bankruptcy.

Photos displayed during Ms. Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial show her in an apparently happy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, her notorious former companion. Follow our live coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial on federal sex trafficking charges. The images could have come from the scrapbook of any relatively affluent couple: a graying man and slightly younger woman in casual, unrehearsed moments — standing on a wooden footbridge, astride a motorcycle, at a table with a drink. What sets them apart are the people they depict: Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in a federal jail cell in 2019 while he...

… Amtrak President Stephen Gardner told a House Transportation subcommittee that roughly 95% of its 17,000 employees have been fully vaccinated ahead of a Jan. 4 deadline. “We anticipate proactively needing to temporarily reduce some train frequencies across our network in January to avoid staffing-related cancellations, with our plan to fully restore all frequencies by March or as soon as we have qualified employees available,” he said. Gardner said in written testimony he expects the reductions to be in long-distance services “because of the relatively small crew bases at intermediate points along multi-day long-distance routes where conductors and engineers report...

Covid could be a man-made, genetically engineered virus, MPs have been told. Dr Alina Chan, a specialist in gene therapy and cell engineering at MIT and Harvard, made the claim as she said it is now 'more likely than not' that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab in China. She made the claims in evidence to the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee.

The sham January 6 Committee on Thursday subpoenaed retired Colonel Phil Waldron for records and testimony. Last November Rudy Giuliani’s first witness at the Arizona election hearing was information warfare officer Retired Army Colonel Phil Waldron. The Marxists on the J-6 panel are targeting Waldron because he worked with Trump’s lawyers and testified before state lawmakers on the rampant Democrat 2020 election fraud. “According to public reporting, you claim to have visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election, spoken to Mark Meadows “maybe 8 to 10 times” and briefed several members of Congress on election fraud theories,”...

A group of American senators has introduced legislation to provide additional military support to Ukraine, proposing to designate Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism” if Moscow aggressively strikes at its neighbor. Eight Republican party legislators submitted the bill on Wednesday, naming it the GUARD Act, which stands for Guaranteeing Ukraine’s Autonomy by Reinforcing its Defense. The proposed legislation includes a range of measures designed to support Kiev, including authorizing $450 million in foreign military financing in 2022 and promising to designate Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism” in the event of perceived aggression. According to John Barrasso (R-Wyoming),...