Free Republic

Five Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas, and Biden has sent no troops to help them, but at the State of the Union address, he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza. The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2 months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential attack to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza. Nothing about this plan makes sense. The media has taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying parts of Gaza are starving. Vice President Kamala Harris...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to tap California attorney and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate, according to a report. Shanahan, a Democratic donor who was once married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, funded Kennedy’s pricey Super Bowl campaign commercial

It's true.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is replacing its chief executive officer in the wake of a disastrous bet on electric vehicles that the company began unwinding in recent months. Stephen Scherr, who ran Hertz for just over two years after three decades at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has decided to step down, the rental-car company said late Friday in a statement. It’s replacing him with Gil West, the former chief operating officer of General Motors Co.’s Cruise robotaxi unit. West also will join the board of directors on April 1, according to the statement, which confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report.

(Song opens in new window)Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her. When Malachi wore the collar of gold, Which he won from her proud invader, When her kings with standards of green unfurled Led the Red-Branch Knights to danger, Ere the emerald gem of the western world, was set in the crown of a stranger.On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining. Thus shall memory often in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the...

Dear Fellow FReepers, Can you please say a quick prayer for me? I'm one of those people that COVID wrecked early in 2020. It damaged my lungs, causing me to develop COPD. My second round of COVID shut down my digestive system for three weeks. A few months later, I developed novel seizures that interrupted the communication between my parasympathetic nervous system and the rest of my nervous system. I would collapse, go blind, become paralyzed, and my automatic breathing would cease. My husband described it as watching me die over and over. I would be vaguely aware that I...

A retired man who built the world’s largest-ever collection of empty potato chip wrappers says he’s finally reached the proverbial bottom of the bag — after pulling in an astonishing 24,000. Gary Key, of East Yorkshire, England, first embarked upon the thoroughly unusual pastime back in 2012 as a diversion after his partner Joanne was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Joanne eventually passed, but Key was determined to honor her memory by continuing to build the curious collection. Formerly employed by the University of Hull, Key, whose personal tastes run toward a nice, salty plain chip, estimated he collected nearly...

"It's as if I'm watching a troubled child" is how Captain Dennis Tajer describes flying a Boeing 737 Max. The head of the Allied Pilots Association, the pilots union for American Airlines, insists he would never board an aircraft if it were not safe. But he says he can no longer take the quality of the plane he's flying for granted. "I'm at an alert status that I've never had to be in on a Boeing airplane," he says. "Because I don't trust that they've followed the processes that have previously kept me safe on Boeing airplanes for over three...

Krista Durant says her family was unknowingly inhaling toxins in her home which resulted in her 8-year-old son being placed on a breathing machine. “As a mom, seeing your kid in that kind of condition is like a nightmare,” Durant said. Durant told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln she wrote letters for months to apartment management at the Silver Oak Apartments in Clarkson to do mold remediation after a water leak from a neighboring apartment caused water damage to her unit. “Not only is it a legal obligation of theirs to provide safe living conditions to their residents, it’s...

A Barrow County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of stabbing and killing his girlfriend. Ralph Junior Butler, 59 of Winder, was accused of the murder of Yoland Hammond, 50, in August 2023. The jury deliberated for just 30 minutes before finding him guilty of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and criminal trespass. Prosecutors say Butler hit another man and bashed his car window with a golf club and broke it. Moments later, he stabbed Hammond several times with the broken club. Butler claimed...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a man and woman had been sentenced for their parts in a conspiracy to import and sell fentanyl and methamphetamine from Mexico. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Alba Ordoñez-Ordoñez was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for “conspiring to transport and distribute fentanyl disguised as oxycodone pills and methamphetamine” in the Atlanta area. Jose Guadalupe Canizales-Rivera was sentenced for helping her with her methamphetamine operation, justice officials said. U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said the charges and evidence presented in court are from a...

A 17-year-old Texas high school student died days before his birthday after unknowingly taking a fentanyl-laced pill. Christopher Flores was a student at La Porte High School. On March 4, he was rushed to the hospital after he went to a friend’s house and unknowingly took a laced pill, KRIV reported. It was shared by Janeth Balleza on a GoFundMe page that Flores was in a coma ‘fighting with all his might.’ KRIV reported that he spent more than a week on life support before he was pronounced dead on Friday at 2:35 p.m. “It is with the heaviest of...

"The facts of this case are deplorable and sickening," police said. Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was found shot in the back of the head on Feb. 26 by the side of a road in a remote area in Birmingham, Alabama, hours after she texted her mother saying that she had been kidnapped and asking for help, according to the Birmingham Police Department. Now six of the eight suspects charged in connection to the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of the 20-year-old Jackson appeared in court Wednesday morning for a preliminary hearing. "The facts of this case are deplorable and sickening....

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker is calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to step aside. The media is terrified of the ticket that they’ve supported for the last three years. Who exactly do they think is going to come riding in to save them? Michelle Obama has made it clear that she has absolutely no interest in running for office. Parker’s column is raising quite a few eyebrows. FOX News reports: Vice President Harris should ‘step aside’ for good of the country, Washington Post columnist says Vice President Harris should “step aside,” Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote on Friday,...

Before they ramp up the wars and confiscate our wealth to pay for out-of-control spending the Uniparty powers that be in Washington DC have to censor our speech... The Moderate Centrist Liberal Capitalist Globalists are running the show pushing an agenda carry out "The Great Reset" demanding compliance from all nations including Israel... What I Have Been Posting This Week On "Free Republic"... This week Congressman Ken.... Lauren Boebert has been in that sexualized spotlight in the context of her conduct and I'm not here to talk about that but I am here to say it like I said it...

So, you're interested in learning all the terms and phrases someone might use to express their gender identity. Or maybe, you're exploring your own gender, and looking for the right word or words. Either way, there are a lot of terms out there, and you might have a few questions—especially if you're realizing that you don't (always) identify with the gender assigned to you at birth...... What is gender identity? In short: “Gender identity is how you feel about yourself and the ways you express your gender,” says Jackie Golob, MS, LPCC, an AASECT-certified sex therapist in Minnesota. It’s important...

A Harvard Medical School professor who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine has been terminated, according to documents reviewed by The Epoch Times.Martin Kulldorff, epidemiologist and statistician, at his home in Ashford, Conn., on Feb. 11, 2022. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist, was fired by Mass General Brigham in November 2021 over noncompliance with the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate after his requests for exemptions from the mandate were denied, according to one document. Mr. Kulldorff was also placed on leave by Harvard Medical School (HMS) because his appointment as professor of medicine there “depends upon” holding a position...

Uber and Lyft are pulling their services out of Minneapolis after the city council passed an ordinance that will increase drivers’ pay. Both companies say they will no longer offer ridesharing services in the city when the ordinance goes into effect on May 1st. The ordinance, which guarantees drivers a minimum rate of $1.40 per mile and 51 cents per minute while carrying a rider, was first passed last week but later vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The City Council voted 10–3 to override the veto on Thursday. Lyft spokesperson CJ Macklin calls the ordinance “deeply flawed,” as the...

Jeffrey Toobin, that former CNN legal analyst who managed to use a Zoom call to transform his name into a verb, returned to that network on Friday to stroke his theories on the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump.Jeffrey Toobin, a former CNN legal analyst, returned to the network on Friday and argued that the Georgia case against Donald Trump was "going nowhere," and said it had been a "very good day for Donald Trump."Toobin, a former federal prosecutor, and Gwen Keyes, a former district attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, joined CNN's Elie Honig and Anderson Cooper...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may be able to stay on the Georgia case against former President Donald Trump after a decision by Judge Scott McAfee on a disqualification motion against her. But in the meantime, she seriously compromised herself and the case, given all that was revealed during the disqualification hearing. Willis is also now facing multiple investigations/inquiries including from the state bar of Georgia, the Georgia Senate and the House Judiciary Committee looking into the misuse of federal funds by Willis' office. The House Judiciary Committee is looking into whistleblower allegations from a former Willis employee who...