Free Republic

Fairfax County police confirmed Tuesday that Rick Saleeby, senior producer for CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, is under investigation by the department’s Child Exploitation Squad. Saleeby’s investigation comes after Project Veritas revealed video and text messages on December 15 that allegedly show him fantasizing about sex acts with his former fiancé’s underaged daughter. Project Veritas revealed Saleeby’s information two days after their initial report on December 17.

The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover. Various metrics illustrate the dwindling popularity of news content. Cable news networks were the main form of evening entertainment for millions of Americans last year. In 2021, weekday prime-time viewership dropped 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox News Channel and 25% at MSNBC, according to the Nielsen company. The decline was less steep but still significant at broadcast television evening newscasts: 12% at ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening...

Looks like dingy Harry just kicked the bucket and like Bob Dole, we will all have to see all the flags at half staff for a week. You ever think of how much time our flag is down for people corrupt people who spent their lives fleecing the American people to better themselves? I really wish people would say screw this half staff request. My flag is going to remain flying at the top with pride.

An Oregon man who trolled President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve by saying "Let's go Brandon" at the end of a NORAD Santa tracker call says the 2020 presidential election was "100% stolen." Jared Schmeck, a 35-year-old father of four in Central Point, Oregon, talked about the now-viral moment with Trump ally Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast on Monday. Schmeck told Bannon some media reports falsely claim he does not support former President Donald Trump. “Donald Trump is my president, and he should still be president right now. The election was 100% stolen. So, I just want to...

NOTE: All these have embedded links at site............ . . . . . . Read 600 predictions for 2022, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for. Fast forecasts for 2022 U.S. automakers agree to adopt crash-avoidance braking by 2022. 10% of the world's population will be wearing clothes connected to the Internet. ESA and NASA will try to divert an asteroid out of its orbit. Construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) begins...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will leave their Rehoboth beach house on Wednesday to head to their family home in Wilmington, Delaware, as they continue their vacation from the White House amid rising COVID cases throughout the country. The first couple slipped out for a walk on the beach Tuesday evening, taking their new German Shepherd puppy Commander with them.

There is no evidence currently that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to an increase in sportspeople collapsing or dying due to heart issues such as myocarditis.Numerous montage videos showing sports stars collapsing or suffering chest pains during matches are circulating on social media (here, here).One clip shared on Facebook (here) shows several incidents of football players collapsing on the pitch. It also includes news headlines about similar cases from around the world of sport, both professional and amateur.Another post (here) includes a link to a blog (here) which strongly suggests the incidents are related to COVID-19 vaccines.Reuters presented the posts to...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Dec. 28. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TRENT DIFFICULTY. The settlement of the Mason-Slidell case by the surrender of the prisoners to-day, is the universal theme of conversation in Washington. In army and Administration circles, the result gives great satisfaction. Government forbade the transmission of a single line on the subject by telegraph last night, although the entire correspondence was in the office of the National Intelligencer, set in type, to be published to-day. The reason assigned was that this was a more signified mode of giving expression to a National decision than the hot haste of the telegraph...

One of the world's best soccer players recently and inadvertently issued a frightening warning to the world, though neither he nor the world probably recognize it as such. Argentina's Sergio Aguero announced his retirement Dec. 15 after suffering a heart attack six weeks earlier during a game. While playing for FC Barcelona on Oct. 31, Aguero bent at the waist, experienced breathing problems, grabbed his lungs, lay on his back and received treatment from trainers before going to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with an irregular heartbeat. Aguero -- who played for Argentina in three World Cups and...

A certain Dr. Science was quite enthusiastic about Provasic, I mean, Remdesivir. This 9 minute video is worth watching. It takes place in the White House with President Trump in attendance.

Here is the full schedule for Wednesday’s bowl games with information on how to watch each game live. Wednesday, Dec. 29 Bowl Matchup Time (ET) Channel New Era Pinstripe Bowl Maryland vs. Virginia Tech 2:15 p.m. ESPN, fuboTV Cheez-It Bowl Clemson vs. Iowa State 5:45 p.m. ESPN, fuboTV Valero Alamo Bowl Oregon vs. Oklahoma 9:15 p.m. ESPN, fuboTV Maryland vs. Virginia TechMaryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa has had a big season, passing for the 12th-most passing yards among FBS players at 3,595 with 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. With the sophomore signal-caller at the helm, the Terrapins have averaged the 33rd-most...

ACalifornia woman is facing federal assault charges after attacking another passenger on a Delta Airlines flight on December 23rd, as reported by CNN. The incident took place on a flight from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia. The woman in question, 51-year-old Patricia Cornwall, was leaving the lavatory to return to her seat when she found the aisle blocked by a beverage cart while the flight attendants were serving drinks to other passengers. Cornwall asked the attendants to move so she could pass, with one of the attendants telling her to instead find an open seat until they were finished serving....

While Tariq Ramadan is still waiting for his trial in Paris, following the accusations of violent and repeated rape by four women, he appears to be holding up well. He’s still receiving, thanks to the Emir of Qatar, about half a million dollars a year; he and his wife have bought two luxury apartments in Paris; he continues to flog his books on Islam on the Internet. But he is no longer a member of the Oxford faculty. He has a pseudo-job — a sinecure – holding occasional classes at the Al-Khalifa University in Qatar. Ramadan is no longer...

India’s federal government has announced it will block foreign donations to a Christian missionary group founded by Mother Teresa amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the country. On Christmas Day, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs said they found “adverse inputs” when reviewing the Missionaries of Charity’s renewal application. As a result, the faith-based nonprofit no longer meets eligibility requirements under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act. Founded by the famed Roman Catholic nun in 1950 in Calcutta, the charity runs orphanages, schools for abandoned children as well as soup kitchens and other charitable operations. The organization is dedicated...

Bassem Eid is a Palestinian living in Israel who has had an extensive career as a human rights activist. His initial focus was on human rights violations committed by Israeli armed forces, but for many years he has broadened his research to include human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the Palestinian armed forces, on their own people. He founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in 1996, which closed in 2011, for lack of any cooperation from the Palestinian Authority. He now works as a political analyst for Israeli TV and radio. Bassem Eid is...

In a second coronavirus outbreak in less than a week, 55 fully vaccinated crew members and passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Odyssey of the Seas ship that set sail Saturday from Fort Lauderdale have contracted the pandemic disease, the cruise line confirmed late Wednesday. The ship was denied entry to the island nations of Curacao and Aruba. It will remain at sea until its planned return Dec. 26 to Fort Lauderdale, a Royal Caribbean spokesperson said. The ship had docked on Sunday at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas. The remaining two stops on the eight-day cruise were supposed...

Nostradamus prophecies credit him with foreseeing many important events. The seer asserted that the roots of the prediction that he published were based on judicial astrology which he explains is the astrology of judging or assessing the value of the event. He studied astrology along with a variety of occult sciences and put them together to make his predictions. Here are some of Nostradamus’ predictions for 2022: nostradamus 2022 1. The US Dollar Will Collapse According to Nostradamus predictions, in 2022, inflation will spiral out of control and the US dollar will collapse and gold, silver and bitcoin will be...

The Associated Press reported, "Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021." Given that AP's customers are the news media which pays for AP's services, one can hardly expect objectivity when AP reports on the media. The data in this report are grim. In the last 12 months, the Washington Post's online traffic is down 44%. The New York Times is down 34%. Prime-time viewership is down 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox, and 25% at MSNBC. Nightly news viewership is down 14% at NBC, and down 12% at both ABC and CBS. AP spun this as an...

If you’ve heard about Linux, you’ve probably heard terms like Fork, Derivative, and Flavor. They refer to different Linux distro types, so let’s learn more about them.These terms being used to distinguish one type of distribution from another and they are actually very helpful. In fact, they help you differentiate between how a particular Linux distribution will work from another one.If you don’t know what these terms means, don’t worry. In this article I’m going to break down this terms, explain what they mean and how you can use these terms to narrow down your options in picking the best...

The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @GMA.