Free Republic

The singer Joni Mitchell startled her friends by appearing at a Halloween party 40 years ago disguised as a black man in pimp-like garb. It would be unacceptable today but times were different then, her friends argue. Others disagree. Whichever view you take, her black alter ego was a reflection of her intense identification with black music, writes Kris Griffiths. It's Halloween 1976, and eminent session bassist Leland Sklar is throwing a fancy dress party at his Los Angeles home for fellow musicians and record industry types, including producer Peter Asher and drummer Russ Kunkel, who would later appear in...

Note: VIdeo Google software engineer-turned-whistleblower Zach Vorhies rips open the soft censorship practices disguised by the tech goliath behind its algorithms for producing search results. He’s risked his own personal safety to bring to light the search engine’s manipulative practices. Each day, over 3 billion searches are conducted using Google. How DO we know whether results are catering to, or directing us?

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— We’ve all seen cars with those “Baby On Board” stickers, but now a local woman has come out with a new version to bring awareness to carjackings that read: “Don’t Carjack me, Kids Inside.” Carjacking after carjacking is alarming to everyone in New Orleans especially parents like Gabriela Barnetzer, a mother of four kids. “It would be extremely terrifying. My brain has gone what would I do? Literally to get my kids in and out of their car seats takes me a long time and I can’t imagine having to do that in a carjacking situation with...

Former President Donald Trump used a rally speech in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday night to issue a warning to activist prosecutors who are continuing to pursue him in an attempt to discover unnamed crimes, more than a year after he left office.Trump recounted all of the various efforts to investigate him since before he took office, including the “Russia collusion” hoax and other investigations, all of which found nothing except for an ongoing claim about “fringe benefits” in his business.“This has been going on as long as you’ve known me. It will continue as long as I’m leading in the...

Documents obtained by Heritage Action revealed that Gwinnett County Public Schools, the largest public school district in the state of Georgia, admitted plans to teach both critical race theorist and Marxist thought to students enrolled in an AP Language and AP Research Combination Class. In an audit syllabus obtained by Heritage Action, the school district remarked that “Students will bridge the skills from AP Language to AP Research, analyzing the value of using different lenses in social criticism (Critical Race Theory, Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic) to aid their analysis across issues, and the class will discuss how these perspectives apply to...

Tax season officially began on Monday, Jan. 24. As you prepare to file your 2021 taxes, you’ll want to watch for two letters from the IRS to make sure you get the money you deserve. This year, the IRS is mailing two letters – Letter 6419 and Letter 6475 – to qualifying Americans. The first applies to the Child Tax Credit Payments. According to the IRS, Letter 6419 outlines the total amount of advance Child Tax Credit payments you received in 2021 and the number of qualifying children used to calculate the payments. You can see a sample Letter 6419...

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Ephesians 4:2 (King James Version) What kind of gummit would have you take a vaccine which does not stop the disease it was designed for or stop it from spreading? You may as well shoot chlorine into your arm if you are trying to keep from getting the Covid or its variances than take the Fauxi shot. It has been proven not to work as millions of vaxed people are coming down with all three diseases and is spreading like wildfire through them, yet America is still forced...

I thought of that episode the other day when I read of the dramatic collapse of a bridge in Pittsburgh just before Joe Biden was due to arrive to rally his troops for a further assault on American independence and prosperity. That wasn’t how the agenda was described, of course. No, it was supposed to be the “unofficial launch of a new strategy the President devised to shore up his political fortunes by changing how he spends his time.” In particular, we are told, Biden will be spending less time wrangling with Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D- Ariz.) and Joe Manchin...

There should be more films about John Dillinger. He was, for just over a year in the early years of the Great Depression, among the most famous men in America, and the public face of its "crime wave" to the rest of the world. For connoisseurs of American gangster history, it's richly ironic that Bonnie and Clyde – two pitiful small time crooks who preferred to rob small town grocery stores and funeral parlours – have become romantic, sexy, rebellious legends in the wake of Arthur Penn's 1967 movie, overshadowing Dillinger, an audacious bank robber whose fame and influence was...

If it's a crime to molest a child's body, it should be a mega-crime to mess with their mind.

Last week, tech entrepreneur, Shark Tank investor, and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban entered the billionaire class's competitive philanthropy race by launching an online healthcare marketplace offering generic drugs at affordable prices. But his new venture isn't a charity. The new digital pharmacy called Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) promises to sell medications for the cost of the drugs plus a 15 percent markup and a $3 dollar pharmacist fee. Shipping is an additional $5. At launch, the website is selling more than 100 medications, and while insurance is not accepted by the company, the pricing for many...

A state court in Pennsylvania on Friday struck down the state’s landmark election law as unconstitutional, dealing a temporary blow to voting access in one of the nation’s most critical battleground states. In a 3-to-2 decision, the state court sided with 14 Republican lawmakers who sued last year, arguing that the law was unconstitutional. Pennsylvania filed an appeal to its Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, triggering an automatic stay that keeps the law in place during the appeal process. The law, known as Act 77, was passed by the Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in...

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•Windows Act 1: SARAI ENTICES ABRAM TO ACT FOOLISHLY G E N E S I SCHAPTER 16:1-4 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maid-servant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” ABRAM AGREED TO WHAT SARAI SAID. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife....

After getting arrested for sexually molesting children is a good time to declare yourself transsexual — and make sure to do it in a jurisdiction run by liberals. Just ask James “Hannah” Tubbs: A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday ordered Hannah Tubbs, a transgender California woman, to serve two years in a juvenile facility after [he] pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2014. Two years in juvie is pretty mild for molesting a 10-year-old — especially when a guy gets to serve it in a female facility. Before doing so, the judge criticized far-left District Attorney...

State trooper who told off Inslee over vaccine mandate dies from COVID UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 29, 2022 By Craig Sailor Tacoma News Tribune A former Washington State Patrol trooper who told off Gov. Jay Inslee over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, resigned and then became a sought-after media figure, has died, according to the State Patrol. Trooper Robert LaMay’s death was announced Friday. He was 50. According to FOX News, KIRO News Radio, Newsweek and other media sources, LaMay died after contracting COVID-19. His former boss, State Patrol Chief John Batiste, said he was deeply saddened to hear of LaMay’s death...

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that over the last decade, 131 federal judges failed to recuse themselves in hundreds of cases that involved their own financial interests. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, in his year-end review of the federal judiciary, said the report’s findings indicate a “serious problem of inadequate ethics training,” especially for those judges who had numerous violations. The conflicts of interest primarily include judges hearing cases involving their or their families’ stock holdings, which ultimately tainted some 685 court cases. Given the rising concerns that the federal judiciary is becoming increasingly politicized,...

In his Prophecy Update on Jan. 16, 2022, Pastor Tom Hughes said, “All the bad news points to the coming good news.” The constant bombardment of prophecy-related bad news signifies that the Rapture, Tribulation Period, Second Coming, and Millennial Kingdom of God are coming, and in fact, getting close. Concerning Jesus, the prophet Isaiah said, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government...

In 1994, the Republicans articulated a clear vision for America and regained Congress for the first time in over 40 years. It’s time to repeat that process. “What are Republicans for?” asked Joe Biden at his recent press conference. It’s an important question, and it calls for a simple and clear answer. We Republicans need to write a New Contract With America, packed with ideas that will resonate with American voters in 2022. Here are some suggestions: 1. We will “Refund, Reform, and Respect the Police!” We will do whatever we can to end the crime wave devastating American neighborhoods....

I must begin with an apology if I have made an error in how/where I've posted this vanity as it is my first in 18 years as a lurker/intermittent poster. That being said, I fear that in roughly 10 hours from the time I "pen" this "letter" I shall bear witness to the last words I shall ever hear uttered from the lips of my father. I won't go into details about his condition, but I fear I may not have the strength to keep my composure when I visit him in the hospital (please no crass remarks about Covid/the...

Few exist in our nation who are better able — and inexplicably willing — than Keith Olbermanto afford us a portal through which we may view the mindset of your average left-wing digressive on the topic of what is necessary to heal America’s present cultural divide.Last week, Olberman publicly condemned Biden — and even called for his resignation — due to his Administration’s failure over the last year to defend the country from what he called — by way of incredible hyperbole — the “terrorists” who reside amongst us throughout this country, as exemplified by those who entered our nation’s...