Free Republic

With King Charles' Coronation just weeks away, the Palace is scrambling to secure big-name musicians to perform on the big day. According to reports from The Sun, the royal team is struggling to secure artists for His Majesty’s big Windsor Castle concert on May 6th, after three more acts have reportedly turned down the royal gig. Elton John, the Spice Girls and Harry Styles had all been invited to perform, but have had to turn down the offer due to conflicting tour schedules. A source tells The Sun, “Organisers are working against the clock to pull together an exciting line-up...

A network of bots have been busily singing the praises of former President Donald Trump while targeting his political rivals Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — as well as trolling critics like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to a report on Monday. The fake accounts — estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands — are behind popularizing the suggestion that DeSantis, 44, would be unable to defeat Trump, 76, for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination but would make a good running mate. They also attacked Haley, the former US ambassador to the United Nations in the...

Our crisis was not the next generation of foreign Hitlers and Stalins. It was not earthquakes, floods, or even pandemics. It was not endemic poverty and want. It was not a meager inheritance from past generations of incompetents. Nor was it a dearth of natural resources or bounty. Instead our catastrophe arose from our most highly educated, the wealthiest and most privileged in American history with the greatest sense of self-esteem and sanctimoniousness. Sometime around the millennium, they felt their genius could change human nature and bring an end to history—if only they had enough power to force hoi polloi...

The founding member and guitarist, who provided the seagull-like slide guitar leads to Skynyrd’s signature “Free Bird,” survived the band’s infamous 1977 plane crash. GARY ROSSINGTON, A founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd whose ethereal slide guitar helped make the Southern rock band’s song “Free Bird” an indelible anthem, died Sunday at the age of 71. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing...

As the University of Idaho community reels from the shocking slayings of four undergrad students in an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, this past November, school officials have already announced plans to tear the building down. “The owner of the King Street house offered to give the house to the university, which we accepted,” University of Idaho President Scott Green said last week. “The house will be demolished. This is a healing step and removes the physical structure where the crime that shook our community was committed.” Landlords almost always seek an address change in similar situations. But communities...

Dr Anthony Fauci commissioned and edited the report he cited to disprove the lab leak theory, House Republicans found Many media outlets then started to dismiss the lab leak theory, only to later suggest that it may be possible In January, a government watchdog agency blasted the NIH for failing to keep tabs on US-sponsored virus experiments in China ~~~ Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned a February 2020 paper to disprove the possibility that COVID originated in a lab — before publicizing the study at a White House news conference weeks later. Newly-released emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19...

Radio giant SiriusXM is slashing hundreds of jobs in what the company says is a cost cutting measure. In a note to SiriusXM employees on Monday, CEO Jennifer Witz said the company will cut eight percent of its workforce, amounting to some 450 jobs, after a recent review of the outlet’s business. “We are entering into a new phase for our Company. The investments we are making in the business this year, coupled with today’s uncertain economic environment, require us to think differently about how our organization is structured,” Witz said. The CEO said SiriusXM in recent months had identified...

Forty-fifth President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump, a legendary man known for shattering attendance records, overflowed the venue of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with a huge crowd of supporters on Saturday even including the former President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.Trump’s CPAC speech was held in the Potomac Ballroom of the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. The ballroom can hold 5,520 people seated. Trump’s audience was packed to the brim and there were even more people watching from outside of the ballroom.As of the night of Trump’s speech, over two million people have viewed Trump’s speech...

Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of assault weapons in the state. The Friday introduction of the bill came as Denver high school students marched on the Colorado Capitol building to protest gun violence after the death of a fellow student, The Colorado Sun reported. STATE WATCH — SPONSORED BY: VERIZON Colorado Democrats introduce bill to ban transfer of assault weapons in state BY JULIA MUELLER - 03/06/23 1:01 PM ET SHARE TWEET Associated Press/David Zalubowski Colorado State Capitol is viewed Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Colorado Democrats have...

Men suffering from an enlarged prostate can receive long-term relief from a minimally invasive procedure that partially blocks blood flow to the gland, new research reports. The procedure, called prostate artery embolization (PAE), dramatically improved urinary symptoms in patients without having any effect on erectile function, said senior researcher Dr. Shivank Bhatia, chair of interventional radiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. PAE also improved the overall health of the prostate, Bhatia added. "Medical imaging before and after the procedure showed a 32% reduction in size of the prostate gland at 12 months following the procedure," Bhatia...

Judge slaps election-denying Arizona Republican with new sanctions over 'bad faith' claims. In a new ruling, Maricopa County Judge Melissa Iyer Julian argued that the purported evidence presented in Finchem's own filings was enough for her to conclude that his efforts to overturn his loss were not made in good faith."Attached to Finchem’s Amended Statement was his own expert’s analysis of the alleged failure to count so-called “black box votes,'" wrote Judge Julian. "Finchem’s expert report identified 80,000 potentially 'missing votes.' Yet, Finchem lost the election he challenged by 120,208 votes. That margin was so significant that even if it...

You're not going to believe this footage from Aldo Buttazzoni."Last night, I attended 'pride night' at the LA Zoo, which included an all ages drag show. This event sold tickets not only to children, but to infants, under the age of two years old, and featured performers who show themselves online in bondage, stripping, and kink, smoking drugs, and holding bloody, decapitated heads. This is who the LA Zoo was inviting children and infants to see."

@CollinRugg BREAKING: CNN told their staff to not share COVID-19 “lab leak” theory due to it being a “Trump talking point.” Hey @elonmusk: When are you going to label CNN as State Affiliated Media? @elonmusk Replying to @CollinRugg Good point. If an organization portrays itself as balanced, but is not, it should be labeled to inform the public.

On January 20th, a week-and-a-half after Gov. JB Pritzker’s assault weapons ban went into effect, Gov. Pritzker was caught flat-footed when an Effingham County judge entered a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against his gun ban. It was a win that no one saw coming based on a novel theory by former Republican AG candidate Thomas DeVore that the gun ban violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Illinois Constitution. And since that early win, additional TROs have been secured across Illinois, with additional plaintiffs now joining the consolidated litigation in Effingham County that very soon will cover nearly 7000 Illinoisans,...

In December, in exclusive audio obtained by Illinois Review, it was reported that IL GOP chairman Don Tracy, during a meeting with conservative leaders in July, admits that the Richard Irvin campaign for governor was allowed to use the IL GOP Postage discount for mailers – a perk not afforded to other candidates in the race. Using the IL GOP postage discount can save a statewide campaign tens of thousands of dollars on mailers – an expensive, but necessary evil in politics. Tracy acknowledges use of the postage discount in the recording, but says the IL GOP was taking its...

Can the Pope Abolish the Traditional Latin Mass?Reports from various credible sources indicate that Pope Francis will soon issue a new document (most likely, an Apostolic Constitution) designed to close canonical loopholes and ensure that Traditionis Custodes is enforced to the letter by all diocesan bishops around the world — especially art. 3 § 2, which forbids the offering of the Traditional Latin Mass “in the parochial churches”.In addition to addressing other related matters (e.g., further restrictions on the traditional rites for the other sacraments, including ordination), the document may even go further than Traditionis Custodes and claim to abolish...

They haven't—at least so far—accused Donald Trump of "holding a gun to the head" of the GOP. But it's early days yet in the 2024 Republican primary. MSNBC's Morning Joe certainly headed in that direction today, with Jonathan Lemire claiming that Trump is attempting to "blackmail" the GOP into nominating him.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Now known as Charles Salvador and appearing with a shaven head, the 70-year-old is arguing that after nearly half a century in jail, most of it in solitary confinement, he is safe to be released.Undated handout file photo of Charles Bronson with his dog Della during some time out from prison in 1992. Bronson will face a public Parole Board hearing next year when he makes his latest bid for freedom. The Parole Board said it granted an application made by lawyers for Bronson ??? one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners ??? to request his latest case review is heard...

SNIP Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) is a rare category of death in children over the age of one, in which the cause remains unknown even after thorough investigation. SNIP Ms Wroath said the lack of research and awareness surrounding SUDC had created what appeared to be an "unsolvable mystery" around her daughter's death. "There is a stigma that comes with SUDC, weirdly, even though it's horrific and tragic, people don't know what it is," she said.

At least 35 people have been detained after demonstrators allegedly set fire to the construction site of an Atlanta public safety training facility that anti-police and environment activists dubbed "Cop City." A group of "agitators" left the nearby South River Music Festival around 5:30 p.m. and descended on the construction site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center "to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers," the Atlanta Police Department said in a statement.