Free Republic

President Joe Biden could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week, according to The Washington Post, in a bid to implement elements of his environmental agenda as climate legislation has stalled in Congress. Leading Biden administration officials are debating ways to advance the president’s agenda, and the president is prepared to announce a number of new initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reported the Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The internal discussions come after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told party leaders last week that he opposes the plans to advance this month’s...

Data experts from the Data Integrity Group identified material fraud in the 2020 Election in Georgia that would have given President Trump the lead in the state. However, this was ignored by Secretary of State Raffensperger who certified the state for Biden anyways. Looking back at a presentation to the Georgia Senate on December 30, 2020, a group of Data experts from the Data Integrity Group identified fraud that resulted in President Biden stealing the election in the state. The state ignored this fraud and certified the election anyways.Lynda McLaughlin from the Data Integrity Group, along with data scientists Justin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold move this morning to address the nation's financial woes, President Biden has officially called on the American economy to stop being bad. "Come on, economy!" said an impassioned President Biden. "Make everything cheaper! Give everyone more money! I hereby demand you stop being atrocious! Do it. Do it now!" Pundits immediately lauded President Biden's brilliant plan, with MSNBC heralding it as the most transformative economic initiative since the New Deal. "Biden simply asking the economy to be better is nothing short of genius," said Rachel Maddow. "Economists are out there playing checkers, and Joe...

The number of home sales in California in June dropped a staggering 21% year-over-year, a report from the California Association of Realtors revealed this week. Outside of the early pandemic downturn in 2020, that plunge is the biggest since 2008, during the nadir of the Great Recession. The Bay Area has seen a similar trend to the rest of the state, with home sales down a whopping 29% over past year. The cost of buying a home, however, hasn't yet dropped in San Francisco. Zillow data shows that the average cost of a single family home in the city in...

A Chicago man and three juveniles committed two robberies in about 30 minutes Saturday night near Wrigley Field, authorities said. But the real surprise during Cortez Savage’s bail hearing came from his defense attorney, who claimed that he graduated from Walter Payton College Prep and is studying accounting at Howard University. That didn’t sit well with Judge Barbara Dawkins. “This defendant is a graduate of one of the best high schools in this city and is currently attending one of the most prestigious historically Black colleges in this country,” Dawkins noted. She then ordered Savage to pay an $8,000 bail...

On MSNBC's Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, Rep. Pramila Jayapal talked about a man yelling outside her home who was arrested for threatening to kill her. So now, as Jason Rantz asserted, "She is now the beneficiary of the very systems she seeks to destroy." Capehart was "chilled," and Jayapal was "not OK" with the fact that the man has been released from jail pending further investigation. Capehart, predictably, never mentioned that Jayapal has been a critic of cash bail, has supported defunding the police, and told her supporters to "take to the streets" and "fight tooth and nail" for...

22 year old pizza delivery driver rushes in to burning house, saves four children, sustains serious injuries

Former President Donald Trump is not only going to run in 2024, but he is going to get the Republican nomination without a primary fight, according to political strategist Dick Morris on Newsmax.Morris is out with a new bestseller, "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," that asserts Trump will not only easily defeat any GOP challenger, but win back the presidency in 2024."The phrase is not 'likely,' the phrase is dead pipe certain: He's certain to run, and he is, I believe, certain to get the Republican nomination," Morris told Sunday's "Wake Up America." "I think he'll actually get it...

A cooling trend sparked by rising mortgage rates continued to chill Southern California’s housing market, with home prices and sales dropping at a time when they typically are on the rise. Home prices dipped from May to June for the first time since 2010. Sales fell from May levels for the first time since 2013. Despite the cool down, experts say a market crash still appears unlikely. “We’re still in what we call in the industry ‘a slight seller’s market,’ ” said Geoffrey Tackney, broker and co-owner of GMT Real Estate in Garden Grove. “We’re entering a neutral market, but...

Bears have mauled and eaten a wealthy couple and a pilot after their helicopter crashed in the Russian wilderness. The helicopter was flown by well-known Russian biathlete Igor Malinovsky, with business people Zoya Kaygorodova and Sergey Kolesnyak on board. On July 16, the helicopter lost communication due to bad weather, Euro Weekly News reported. The next day, the helicopter wreckage was discovered by rescuers in Kamchatka. Three hours later, remains of the trio were found near the Semyachkov Pass, just 13 kilometers from the Uzon volcano. It is believed the corpses were dragged away, mauled and eaten by wild bears...

Moving on does not mean Americans should forget the lessons of the 2020 election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on July 8 that the ballot drop boxes used in the 2020 election were illegal and harmed Wisconsin voters. Not surprisingly, the media has spun the opinion as a mere change of rules concerning future elections, ignoring the rebuke to the practice in prior elections. The New York Times wrote, “The 4-to-3 ruling by the court’s conservative majority will take effect in time for Wisconsin’s primary elections next month.” The case involved two memos authored by the Wisconsin Elections Commission which...

Strike two! Bill de Blasio dropped his bid to represent the left-leaning 10th Congressional District on Tuesday, admitting that “it’s not going work out.” “I’ve really listened carefully to people and it’s clear to me that when it comes to this congressional district, people are looking for another option. And I respect that,” the former mayor said in a video statement posted to Twitter. “Even though this is not going to work out, I hope you know how much I appreciate you and we’re gonna do a lot together to make this city better in the future.” De Blasio quit...

SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 12:46–50 Friends, in today’s Gospel, someone tells Jesus, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.” Jesus stretches his hand toward his disciples and says, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Family is wonderful. There is nothing in the world wrong with fostering the flourishing of your family. But over and again, the Bible places the goods of the world into question—even something as good as family relationships. Why? Because family isn’t...

Progressive Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and other Democratic members of Congress were arrested outside of the Supreme Court on Tuesday protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Ocasio-Cortez was seen walking escorted away by police with her hands crossed behind her back, as if she were in handcuffs, but she was not. At one point she uncrossed her hands and raised her fists to the other protesters. Other members seen being detained by officers include include Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., Jackie Speier, D-Calif., Sarah Jacobs, D-Calif., Katherine Clark, D-Mass., Andy Levin, D-Mich., Carolyn...

Aspace photographer has shared an image of a huge prominence on the surface of the sun that is speculated to be coming apart. Solar prominences are large, bright loops of plasma—electrically charged hydrogen and helium gas—that extend outwards from the surface of the sun. They can be truly massive in scale, sometimes tens of times larger than the Earth. While solar prominences can take just a day to form, they can be stable enough to persist for months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space while anchored to the sun's surface. Solar prominences can sometimes disintegrate or collapse altogether....

Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister, as another candidate was eliminated to leave three contenders in the race. Sunak garnered 118 votes, followed by former defence minister Penny Mordaunt on 92 and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on 86, with longshot candidate Kemi Badenoch trailing on 59 and therefore eliminated from the contest. The vote means that Britain will get either its first British Asian prime minister or the third female leader in the country's history. Sunak, whose resignation helped to topple outgoing leader Boris Johnson, fell...

Rep. Matt Gaetz, the firebrand House Republican from Florida, said as much in a July 1 exchange with Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Answering a Tweet from Gallego that said “Fact is if the Republicans take over the House in 2022 US support to Ukraine will come to a halt,” Gaetz replied, “Ruben is correct.”At a recent rally in Anchorage, Alaska, Trump riffed on the cost so far, misstating the amount spent.“Like with Ukraine, we put up $60 billion and Europe put up $5, 6 [billion]? OK?” he said, drawing boos from the crowd. (Through early July, Congress has authorized about...

The team started with a substance called 5,6,11,12-tetrachlorotetracene (with the formula C18H8Cl4) – a carbon-based molecule that looks like a row of four honeycomb cells flanked by four chlorine atoms hovering around like hungry bees. Sticking a thin layer of the material to a cold, salt-crusted piece of copper, the researchers drove the chlorine-bees away, leaving a handful of excitable carbon atoms holding onto unpaired electrons in a range of related structures. Two of those electrons in some of the structures happily reconnected with each other, reconfiguring the molecule's general honeycomb shape. The second pair were also keen to pair...

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is doing so poorly in Alaska that she is welcoming Democrats to help her with her campaign. Lisa Murkowski is a piece of work. The daughter of former Alaska governor and Senator Frank Murkowski, Lisa took over from her father in the early 2000s and has been in her seat ever since. Frank Murkowski was a senator starting in 1981 so there has been a Murkowski US senator from Alaska for 40 years. The conservative movement saw Lisa Murkowski’s true colors during the Trump Administration. Fellow RINO Mitch McConnell has pledged his support for crooked Murkowski...

The London Fire Brigade declares a major incident after a number of fires break out in areas around the capital A major blaze in the village of Wennington, in east London, has burned fields and set alight homes