Free Republic

Guests on "Real Time with Bill Maher" called for parents to ask middle school principals to effectively ban kids from having their phones Friday. “What we need to do as a starting move – this is something we all can do – is get the phones and social media the hell out of middle school,” NYU professor Jonathan Haidt said. “Let’s just protect middle school, OK?” Haidt called for requiring students to put their phones in a locker or Yonder pouch, and to not have access to them for the school day, and compared letting kids keep their smartphones to...

The head of a Chicago violence interruption group wants to make it illegal for people to wear ski masks outdoors in Chicago and across Illinois. “If a person is not going skiing anywhere here in Chicago, which we do not have any ski slopes in Chicago, it’s time to ban full-face ski masks,” Tio Hardiman, Executive Director for Violence Interrupters, said in a YouTube video Friday. “Today I’m coming to everybody with a special message … It’s time to ban full-face ski masks in Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois,” Hardiman said. “Too many crimes are being committed. Too...

Establishment House Republicans signaled Thursday they oppose impeaching President Joe Biden after reclaiming the majority.While conservative members of the House filed nine articles of impeachment against Biden since 2021, many establishment Republicans, now with more power in the majority, believe impeaching Biden is not a good idea.“We shouldn’t even be talking about that, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told Politico. Fitzpatrick recently won his election by about ten points over his Democrat challenger.“There’s so many problems we’ve got to deal with on the policy front … I don’t like the fact that that’s even being discussed,” Fitzpatrick whined.Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE),...

Pence in his interview with Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet the Press. Also, he didn't let Chuck pushing him to rail against Trump..

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that with former President Donald Trump caused the Republican Party to lose, so he will not win the presidential nomination in 2024. Host Jon Karl said, “The midterms, you had, I think I saw you had predicted that at least 15 seats were probably Republicans pickups. What happened?”

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that it was a “terrible mistake” owner Elon Musk‘s restored Donald Trump‘s access to Twitter. Anchor Jon Karl said, “I want to begin with the news that Donald Trump has been reinstated by Elon Musk on Twitter. Watching the January 6 committee hearings, Trump’s tweets were a big part of the story to be told. What do you think of him being back on Twitter?”

It is tragic how far The New York Times has fallen – basically just boring af far left brainwashing at this point. The boring part is truly unforgivable!

Wishcasting, liberal-media style . . . Far-left Tiffany Cross is gone from MSNBC. But liberal bias lives on in her vacated 10 am hour on Saturdays. Yasmin Vossoughian hosted the hour Saturday. And her villain of the day—aside from the former president whose name shall not be mentioned—was Elon Musk. And when it came to Musk, Vossoughian's expressed the wish was that Twitter would die. As Vossoughian put it: "I can't help but keep thinking, this is kind of the beginning of the end of Twitter."If Vossoughian were honest about it, she would have substituted "hoping" for "thinking." Get the...

VIDEOStrange that nobody seemed to pick up on the obvious. Namely that Sam the Scam Bankman-Fried was giving off such strong fraud vibes that they were actual vibes in the form of very visible vibrations of the arm and leg. If you are playing poker with Sam the Scam you would have absolutely no problem detecting his Tell that he is bluffing. Yet Sam the Scam somehow was able to bluff many celebrities despite the obvious fraud Tell.

HHS corrects stats on tripling of COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations, used to justify booster campaign for kids, after analyst calls out bad data. CNN still hasn't corrected false report. More than a year after the FDA added heart inflammation warnings to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — amid the second academic year of campus vaccine mandates on a demographic at higher risk of severe adverse events — vaccine makers are finally studying the long-term consequences of vaccine-induced myocarditis and pericarditis. Moderna already has two trials running, while Pfizer said its first trial will start "in the next couple months" and include up to...

Okay, first things first. CTH will not play the pretending game or structure the discussion of the special counsel appointment through the prism of MSM references. Instead, we will stick to the facts as they are presented, explain the events as they are factually reflected within the actual documents, and avoid the pretending constructs. DATA Links: (1) Merrick Garland DOJ Statement on Appointment of Special Counsel ~ (2) pdf of Legal Appointment ~ (3) Statement of Jack Smith upon Appointment ~ (4) Transcript of AG Merrick Garland Public Announcement. The overarching Lawfare framework has been transparently created by President Obama’s...

There’s an ages-old problem with republics: majoritarian tyranny. If the law is whatever the fifty percent plus one of the people or their reps determine, then the legislative body is little different in practice from the typical Florida Homeowners Association, and the nation should expect similar results. Thanks to the 17th Amendment, the Senate long ago abandoned its deliberative nature and adopted the passionate, popularly reflexive nature of the House. It is why party interests, rather than those of the nation, came to dominate congress. We see this regularly when Senator Schumer joins Speaker Pelosi in wild proposals that threaten...

Although most liberals are hailing Attorney General Merrick Garland for appointing Jack Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump, The Nation's Elie Mystal is furious. On MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber on Friday, Mystal raged that Trump should have faced a special counsel and been put on trial long before he could announce another run for president.Mystal believes that a special counsel investigation will result in yet more delay so they can't have the Trump trial and conviction that he so desperately desires prior to the next election. He raged against Garland's "self-serving, pearl-clutching press conference."

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN” ֎ Featuring 34 Paintings and 6 Windows ֎ J O H N CHAPTER 3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is demanding to see all communications between Democratic Party officials and the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, whose founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, is a prominent Democratic donor. "... [Y]ou must conduct a full conflict-of-interest review to ensure that Mr. Bankman-Fried’s status as a top donor to the Democratic Party did not insulate him from oversight and accountability," Hawley wrote in a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler and Commodity Commission Chairman Rostin Behman....

GAINESVILLE, Saturday, Nov. 15, 1862. At the date of this letter it will be seen that Gen. SIGEL's headquarters are still at this place, and not further South, as many loyal people north of this hope and believe. No person connected with the Eleventh Army Corps is responsible for this; that burden rests entirely upon persons remote from the command, and who doubtless have reasons of their own -- whether sufficient or not -- for it. Indeed, It was expected by all here that we should have continued in the advance and enter Warrenton -- a place which for weeks...

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate former president Donald Trump’s possession of classified information, was a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s infamous targeting of conservative non-profits, according to a 2014 report by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. On Oct. 8, 2010, Smith, then-Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section at the time, called a meeting with former IRS official Lois Lerner “to discuss how the IRS could assist in the criminal enforcement of campaign-finance laws against politically active nonprofits,” according to testimony from Richard Pilger, then director...

Very short video. Whoops is right.

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Happy Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe! This is the last Sunday of the Church year which means we focus on the final and glorious things to come! It also means that next Sunday is already the First Sunday of Advent. When we say Jesus is a king, we mean a few things. First, He is our Shepherd. As our Shepherd He desires to lead us personally as a loving father would. He wants to enter our lives personally, intimately and carefully, never imposing Himself but always offering Himself as our guide. The difficulty...

Pictures were colorized and enhanced using AI optimization software. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter. Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress. Our new music channel - Life in the Music: Classic Collections 2-hour videos of music from the 1600s-1900s https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24p... Audio has been restored...