Free Republic

An American citizen was murdered in a shooting attack in the north of the Dead Sea, the IDF continues to search for the terrorists The terrorists shot in three places, burned their car and fled. IDF and police forces set up roadblocks and checkpoints. Kobe Finkler, 27.2.23 Murdered in terrorist attacks in one month: US Ambassador to Israel Tom Neides confirmed this evening (Monday) that a 27-year-old American citizen was murdered in a shooting attack that happened this afternoon at the Nevo intersection on Route 90, north of the Dead Sea. A preliminary investigation in the field reveals that the...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Monday hosted a reception celebrating Black History Month in the East Room. The reception started out with Kamala Harris uncontrollably laughing. This woman is one heartbeat away from the presidency.

Chicago inmates have claimed they are being pressured to illegally vote in the city's mayoral election. The inmates, some who are accused of murder, argued guards at Cook County Jail were pushing them to vote - despite some being registered in a different jurisdiction. They claimed the guards were receiving orders from higher up and were 'just doing what I'm told' when confronted over the move. It comes amid fears of ballot harvesting as insiders claimed the jail was the 'ideal environment' due to no cameras or election observers. It also raised concerns it could propel Lori Lightfoot back into...

Indeed, as DeSantis moves toward a White House run, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 44-year-old Republican governor will manage his presidential aspirations in his own way, on his own timeline, with or without allies in national GOP leadership or relationships with the press. “DeSantis has, in his style and the actions he’s taken as governor, shown a willingness to fight the traditional powers that be, the establishment,” said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, an influential conservative group based in Washington. McIntosh described DeSantis’ style as “refreshing” and suggested the GOP is ready to move on...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Senate passed a bill Monday that would give $25,000 in tax credits to former residents who move back to the state to work. The Senate passed the bill unanimously and sent it to the House of Delegates. Those eligible for the tax credit had to live and work in West Virginia for at least 10 years or were born in the state. They had to live outside of the state for at least 10 consecutive years prior to 2023. Unused portions of the credit could be applied to future tax years. The credit would...

An estimated one in 49 New Brunswickers is currently infected with COVID-19, according to an infectious disease researcher and co-founder of COVID-19 Resources Canada. Tara Moriarty says another 13,000 to 18,000 people are expected to become infected this week, helping New Brunswick earn the worst rating in the country on the group's COVID-19 hazard index. "So people should be aware of that when they go into indoor spaces," Moriarty said. She encourages everyone to wear a mask in grocery stores and drugstores, since these are the places vulnerable people can't avoid going, and suggests postponing public events for a few...

Former President Donald Trump has never been in more serious — and fast-approaching — legal jeopardy. A Georgia grand jury has apparently already recommended Trump’s indictment in a 2020 election interference case. The Atlanta prosecutor handling that case told a judge that decisions on charging him and others are “imminent.” Special counsel Jack Smith, meanwhile, is showing none of the kid-glove deference to Trump that marked Attorney General Merrick Garland’s handling of the explosive cases. Moving at the legal equivalent of lightning speed, Smith is gathering evidence against the former president on two fronts: his taking a cache of classified...

On this date in 1925, the Serbian outlaw Jovan “Jovo” Stanisavljevic, better known by his nickname Caruga (Charuga), was hanged before a crowd of 3,000 in Osijek. Caruga was born to peasant stock within the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Hungarian Kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and at just the right age for service at arms when World War I came along to wreck that agglomeration. Caruga soon deserted the front lines on a false pass — but his unauthorized leave became permanent when he came across a Hungarian soldier paying court to the innkeeper’s daughter whom Caruga, too, desired....

***In the 1960s, city leaders demolished part of the Fillmore District, a neighborhood once known as the Harlem of the West, displacing 883 businesses and 20,000 people, most of them Black. Decades later, thousands of people remain displaced and the neighborhood has turned into a predominantly White enclave of multimillion-dollar homes. To compensate for that and other instances of racial discrimination, the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee recently recommended that qualifying Black residents receive $5 million each in reparations. ***The proposed reparations program is not a recompense for slavery, which was never legal in San Francisco, but instead, the...

An Australian news anchor struggled to keep a straight face while covering the results of Joe Biden’s recent physical, which gave him a clean bill of health. “President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” White House Physician Kevin O’Connor claimed. Well, Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi found O’Connor’s assessment so absurd she couldn’t contain her laughter as she contrasted O’Connor’s finding with clips of Biden’s verbal stumbles, gaffes, and other embarrassing hits. It’s nice...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis/Rupnik Case: The Good NewsFather Rupnik's excommunication for absolving a sexual accomplice in confession could only have been lifted by Francis or his delegate, Father Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo (EWTN.com, February 23).The Jesuit general has explained that the excommunication was lifted later that month "after he repented."Murray: “I doubt there is any repentance, because the Jesuits have also just revealed that Father Rupnik would not cooperate with this investigation.”15 women have made credible allegations against Rupnik. “We're talking about a priest who used his priestly authority over decades to inflict grave harm on innocent people who were...

Renowned political commentator and comedian/actor Ben Stein recently got into some hot water over his comments about Aunt Jemima. Stein released a video on social media speaking about eating breakfast for dinner while holding a bottle of pancake syrup. He expressed his grievance with the syrup brand removing the actual image of Aunt Jemima in favor of a white person or no person at all. Stein also said that she was a “large” African-American woman. The 30-second clip stirred a lot of controversies online, with many people referring to him as racist and insensitive. Other people say they agree with...

Ruslan kubay was surprised to receive a draft notice in late January. Registered as seriously disabled since childhood—Mr Kubay is missing both hands—he falls under a list of automatic exemptions from service. Even more surprising, however, was the reaction of officials at the local registration office in Drohobych, near Lviv. Far from admitting their error, they doubled down and declared him fit for service. Only a social-media post and subsequent national scandal reversed the decision. “I was disgusted by how easily our blind people can start seeing,” he wrote on Facebook. Mr Kubay’s case was an extreme, but far from...

The Tennessee legislature just took a major step forward in the culture war, fighting to protect the eyes and innocence of children by banning drag shows from occurring in front of kids. That bill, SB 0003, has now been passed by both the Tennessee House and Senate and is headed to the desk of Gov. Bill Lee. The bill’s summary provides that (emphasis ours):This bill creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an...

Credit card companies have a plan in place that will, to some degree, allow the tracking of gun and ammo sales. This was a move politicians pushed for, despite absolutely no one being able to actually show us how it will reduce mass shootings, violent crime, or anything else. This is simply the latest step the financial industry has taken to hurt the firearm industry. A lot of people are anything but keen on seeing something like this in place. In Florida, a bill will seek to implement a $10,000 fine on each instance of a company tracking the sales...

“Any war at the turning point of technological epochs ( and we are just in a state of such transition) is burdened by a lack of understanding of the principles of operation of new weapons and tactics of their use, as well as the overall strategy of the entire complex of military and political actions.” There’s been an increasing realization and acknowledgement from all sides, that the current conflict has shaken the foundations of a lot of doctrinal military theory, and the very understandings of how strategy and tactics are employed in a modern ISR-dense (C4ISR) and observation/integration/network-centric-dominated battlefield. This...

Hillary Clinton calls on aides of Putin to stop him:"They need to stop him. Whether or not this has turned into some physical or mental problems he either had or some way came down with we don't know but his behavior is dangerous."

Talk about a twofer: doubling down on disaster and getting what entrenched liberals outvoted the saner citizens for. When New York State’s Governor Kathy Hochul presented her budget on 1 Feb of this year, most of the attention was immediately captured by the pie-in-the-sky Green/renewable mandates it contained (previewed when I posted on her State of the State.) The proposals are so out of touch with the reality of NY state’s weather extremes, especially living anywhere outside the five boroughs of the city, that they’d be laughable if she and the Green lobby loons working them up weren’t deadly serious...

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States. This story also ran on The San Diego Union-Tribune. It can be republished for free. We want to hear about your experiences and, with your permission, may incorporate your story into our coverage. Please tell us what it has been like for you as you have sought and received care, including the good and...

The City of Frankfurt, Germany announced that a scheduled Roger Waters concert would be canceled. In their decision, the city council referred to the Pink Floyd rocker as "one of the world's most well-known antisemites." Waters was supposed to perform at the Festhalle concert hall in Frankfurt on May 28. The venue is not a privately held entity, as the city has a 60% share in the ownership. As such, the city council had the power to cancel Waters gig. The cancellation announcement cited Waters' boycott of Israel, his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa, his declaration of his...