Free Republic

A former IRS consultant was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for leaking tax information about “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals” to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty in October to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax return and return information after reaching a plea agreement with government prosecutors. The Justice Department did not name the news outlets or individuals whose tax information was disclosed, though the description and timeline of Littlejohn’s actions coincided with reporting in The New York Times and ProPublica about former President Trump’s tax returns. In his...

Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A dedicated Swiftie from Pakistan broke a Guinness World Record by correctly identifying 34 Taylor Swift songs from their lyrics in one minute. Bilal Ilyas Jhandir, 20, had to listen to the lyrics being read aloud by a man without any accompanying music to identify each song. The record attempt included Swift's 50 best-selling songs arranged in random order. He managed to identify 34 songs in one minute, breaking the record of 27 set by Dan Simpson in 2019. "I have been listening to Taylor Swift since my childhood. I am a die-hard fan of her,"...

The incident happened a day after India's Republic Day. Some of the most protected and guarded spaces in any country are its airports. But, a recent incident in Delhi proves that one can’t be too careful when it comes to airport security. The city’s airport recently saw a man wandering about close to moving aircraft before being apprehended by authorities. Man enters Delhi Airport’s airside In a major security breach, a man gained unauthorized access at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL). Delhi Airport is the country’s busiest airport, with constant aircraft movement. As such, a man casually walking...

James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, had all the makings of a great president. So why didn’t he become one? Louis Picone, author of The President Is Dead!, answers this tragic question.

Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers. If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today: Click here: to donate by Credit CardOr here: to donate by PayPalOr by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you.

A former IRS contractor who leaked a slew of confidential tax records filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of President Donald Trump, was sentenced Monday to the maximum of five years in prison. Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty last year to one count of unauthorized disclosure of income tax returns. Littlejohn, 38, admitted that he leaked Trump’s confidential tax information to the New York Times in 2019 and then replicated his work the next year, filtering the tax returns and financial data of thousands of wealthy Americans to ProPublica.

WAYCROSS, Ga. — Three Georgia soldiers have been identified as the three United States service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan near the border with Syria on Sunday. The Department of Defense has identified the soldiers as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah. All three were stationed at Fort Moore. The attack on Sunday killed two other service members along with Sanders and wounded at least 34 others. The Associated Press reported that of the wounded, most had cuts, bruises, brain injuries...

Toddler twin daughters, a husband and countless others are mourning the loss of a woman gone too soon.LayCee Barnett, 28, who had just learned she was expecting another child, felt what her husband Josh Barnett described as flu-like symptoms on Jan. 10. Days later, she got news that shook her world — and then immediately took her from it. "The Wednesday before the 15th, LayCee started getting sick, so we waited a couple of days with things not changing," Josh Barnett recalled. "Fevering started happening and then her legs got really weak, so we went to the Instacare,

The Jan. 25 episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” went viral after creating a divide among fans for a racially-charged rape episode. The episode features a white female rape victim that resisted testifying against her black attacker out of fear that he wouldn’t get a fair trial due to his race. The episode, called “Truth Embargo,” stars actress Romina D’Ugo in the role of the rape victim, Natalie, and the role of the rapist named Jay is played by actor Mykey Cooper, according to Fox News. Social media exploded after Natalie’s lesbian partner, played by actress Keeley...

A speeding driver with a suspended license caused a chain-reaction crash that killed a “darling” and ambitious 14-year-old boy around the corner from his Brooklyn home over the weekend, cops said. Teen Christian Antoine was crossing the street at the intersection of East 81st Street and Glenwood Road in Canarsie around 6:15 p.m. Saturday when reckless Mercedes driver Rayan K. Salmon, 45, allegedly crashed into him, police said. Salmon first struck the front left fender of another vehicle – which caused his ride to spin clockwise and hit the teen pedestrian, cops said.

Summary -Multiple donors have cut funds to UNRWA after accusations. -Israel says 190 agency staff belong to militant groups. -Some staff took part in Oct. 7 rampage - intelligence dossier. JERUSALEM/GENEVA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N. Palestinian aid agency includes allegations that some staff took part in abductions and killings during the Oct. 7 raid that sparked the Gaza war. The six-page dossier, seen by Reuters, alleges that some 190 UNRWA employees, including teachers, have doubled as Hamas or Islamic Jihad militants. It has names...

Leading Vatican theologian says Fiducia Supplicans is not part of the ‘authentic Magisterium’'Pope Francis should cancel Fiducia Supplicans and replace the prefect with a man of ‘sure, sound and pure doctrine,’ to use the Apostle’s words to Titus,” said Fr. Nicola Bux.The respected Vatican theologian Fr. Nicola Bux has said that Fiducia Supplicans (FS) “does not belong to the authentic Magisterium” and called on the document’s author, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, to resign. Monsignor Bux, a former consultant to the Congregation (now Dicastery) of the Doctrine of Faith and friend and collaborator of the late Pope Benedict XVI, made his comments...

Opinions welcoome. Is your Email inbox inundated daily (as is mine) with campaign fund raising Emails from Trump's campaign organization? If so, what it is your opinion of the style/pitch used in those Emails. I will reserve my opinion till commments quit being added.

A volunteer police officer told a Christian singer that she was 'not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds' - before sticking her tongue out at her. Gospel singer Harmonie London, 20, regularly performs worship music to passing shoppers on Oxford Street and has more than 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. But she was stopped by a Metropolitan Police special constable and told: 'No miss, you're not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds, by the way.' It is not entirely clear whether the officer was accusing Harmonie of breaking the law in the area, which is...

The Covid cover-up began in China. But in a way we make too big a deal of that. No one should be surprised that a totalitarian government run by the Chinese Communist Party would seek to cover up its responsibility for a worldwide pandemic. What was mind-jarring—and what we should focus our attention on—is the cover-up in our own country spearheaded by Dr. Anthony Fauci and his fellow public health bureaucrats. And they might have gotten away with their deception if a federal judge hadn’t ordered their emails released.In January 2020, Fauci was told that the Covid virus appeared “inconsistent...

More than a decade ago, somewhere in the pages of National Review Online and writing under the name of my alter-ego, David Kahane, I coined the term, the Cold Civil War, and amplified the subject in my book, Rules for Radical Conservatives. Despite all the evidence of the past several decades, you still have not grasped one simple fact: that, just about a century after the last one ended, we engaged in a great civil war, one that will determine the kind of country we and our descendants shall henceforth live in for at least the next hundred years —...

President Joe Biden will campaign against President Donald Trump’s economic policies in the 2024 cycle after ditching the so-called “Bidenomics” catchphrase due to its “ineffective” and “tone-deaf” nature. Biden’s plan to campaign on Trump’s economic policies is a recognition that Biden’s economy is a losing line of attack for his reelection campaign. “What we want the fight to be about is their record, and who you’re for and what you care about,” a person familiar with the internal messaging discussions told Politico on Monday. “The polling shows overwhelmingly that people think Biden cares about people like them and Trump does...

Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and persuasive comedy about nuclear war remains a hilarious act of provocationSixty years ago, Columbia Pictures released the first of two black-and-white movies with the exact same premise: what if American planes with hydrogen bombs were inadvertently ordered to drop their payload on targets in the Soviet Union, potentially triggering an all-out nuclear war that wipe out humanity? The Cuban missile crisis had pushed the superpowers to the brink of conflict less than two years earlier, and film-makers were unusually eager to face their cold war nightmares head on.~snip~On balance, Kubrick’s message is more persuasive. Dr Strangelove...

QUEENS, NY (TND) — A shocking arrest was made in an apparent homegrown terrorism case involving two brothers in Queens, New York. Authorities said an arsenal of homemade weapons and a "hit list" listing "cops, judges, politicians, celebrities" and “banker scum” were found when the suspected anarchists were arrested at their home. New York police arrested 39-year-old Andrew and 51-year-old Angelo Hatziagelis. On January 17, a search warrant was served at their Astoria apartment that the brothers shared with their mother and another brother.

The new CEO for National Public Radio (NPR) has become instant news over social media postings that she deleted before the recent announcement of her selection. Katherine Maher is the former CEO of Wikipedia and sought to remove controversial postings on subjects ranging from looters to Trump. Shannon Thaler at the New York Post reassembled Maher’s deleted postings including a 2018 declaration that “Donald Trump is a racist” and a variety of race-based commentary. That included a statement that appeared to excuse looting: She is also quoted for saying that “white silence is complicity.” She has described her own “hysteric...