Free Republic

Policies subsidizing generators, utilities, and unreliable energy have raised the cost of electricity in Texas by $19.9 billion in 2023, constituting 42.7 percent of total electricity costs. In a study published Wednesday by the Energy Alliance, the group found that the total government-imposed cost of electricity in the Texas Interconnection operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas was $84.3 billion. Texas state and local governments are responsible for causing 85.7 percent of that $84.3 billion. “The massive increase in subsidies has done nothing to address the primary cause of unreliability in the Texas market, renewable energy,” stated Bill Peacock,...

Holy Sh*t. According to Charlie Kirk and his sources, when Biden was in Vegas last week - he suffered a medical emergency. USSS personnel informed LV Metro to shut down roads to move POTUS to University Medical Hospital. Then there was a stand down order mysteriously given to local PD, and that they were going to “medivac” POTUS across the country to John Hopkins in Baltimore. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY!?

The Su-75 is a single-seater with a Saturn AL-51F-1 engine that can push out Mach 1.8 with a range of 1,900 miles. However, many specs are unknown because this fighter may still be in development stage and is only appearing at air shows as a mockup. The first flight won’t happen until at least 2025. It is a light tactical fighter with five internal weapons bays for various unguided and guided munitions, hopefully, some of Russia’s best air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles. Russia believes it could someday employ a “loyal wingman” concept consisting of a tethering to an unmanned fighter or...

Over and over and over again, we were told by the White House that Joe Biden's health was just fine. That he was old, he had some minor issues, but he was basically fine. We of course knew that wasn't true, given what we've seen day after day, watching his incoherence and confusion. But they've been selling us this fiction for months as he campaigned. But now Frank Biden, Joe Biden's brother, has made a concerning comment about Joe's health that's going to cause even more questions. CBS White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes reported late Sunday that Frank said that...

Congressman David Joyce (R-OH) is a member of the House Ethics Committee, which is probing Gaetz. The American Conservative found financial disclosures that reveal Rep. Joyce’s campaign and his leadership PAC donated a combined $7,000 to Gaetz’s primary challenger, Aaron Dimmock. For his part, Gaetz told TAC: “It is no surprise to see Mr. Joyce, a stock-trading member of the ethics committee, funding my opponent. The ethics committee was hand picked by McCarthy and they will do his bidding in elections and in their witch hunt coming after me.” There is evidence here of a $2,000 transaction from Friends of...

Political figures on both left and right have questioned whether Biden is seriously ill over the way he announced his departure from the 2024 election race. In a wild post on X on Monday, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, 37, demanded 'proof of life' from the 81-year-old and even gave the president a deadline. The Republican firebrand posted: 'I demand proof of life from Joe Biden today by 5:00pm. The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard 'He needs to get in front of some camera and discuss if...

In a new book, political scientist M. Steven Fish argues that pro-democracy forces need to deploy a “high-dominance” political style to defeat Trumpism. And, he says, they need to stop being so squeamish about patriotism.

In light of recent events I'm reminded of this video from nearly 4 years ago. Pastor Dana Coverstone has had a series of dreams in which he has posted details. His first predicated the events which unveiled the covid pandemic. The entire video is well worth listening to, while the time stamp at about 6:30 mark details which I believe to be current events as well as near future events. (hint) a casket laying in state in the Rotunda in December

In California, after a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr and Black Lives Matter, a first grade girl drew a picture with four ovals she said were the faces of herself and her friends holding hands. One was white. One was black. One was Brown. One was yellow. The the phrases "Black Lives Matter" with "any lives" right under "Black Lives" accompanied the drawing. She gave it to a classmate. The classmate thanked her and took it home. The next day that classmate's mother expressed her concern to Viejo Elementary School Principal Jesus Becerra that her daughter was being singled...

President Biden has not been seen publicly since a letter was released announcing that he would no longer seek re-election and is endorsing Vice President Harris to replace him as the Democrats' nominee.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted former President Trump’s pick of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his vice presidential candidate on Monday, predicting that the selection could hurt Trump’s campaign. “I’ve never got a good answer in my own mind figuring this out. I can usually figure some things out in politics, not all, but I’ve never figured out this JD Vance pick,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.” “It just strikes me as one of the dumbest picks ever,” he continued. “It adds nothing. It accentuates [Trump’s] weaknesses, accentuates his weaknesses on abortion, accentuates his weaknesses on women.” Vance, a first-term senator...

A number of famous faces have been quick to pay tribute to US President Joe Biden after he announced he will not be running in November's presidential election. Hollywood has long been a strong base of support - and money - for Mr Biden's Democratic Party, but in recent weeks donors had been turning away from the president after a poor performance in a TV debate with rival Donald Trump. Since the announcement, some have publicly declared their support for Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the Democratic nomination. Talk show host and comedian Jon Stewart called Mr...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president on Monday. Why it matters: The speaker emerita helps solidify an emerging consensus around Harris as the clear frontrunner to replace President Biden at the top of the ticket. Editor's note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated with more information

[Catholic Caucus] Tradition and Traditionalism: Let us not be "men of little faith" - by Father Richard CipollaFather Richard CipollaIn that by now well -read article posted at Messa in Latino just a few weeks ago in which a representative of that web site engaged in a conversation with Andrea Grillo, the famous (or infamous) professor of Sacramental Theology at the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, I was of course, struck by Professor Grillo’s un-Catholic statement that “Tradition is the future”. The image that sprang to my mind is the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland. Or...

The thronged Bryant Park area will soon be even more thronged. Salesforce, the powerhouse software company that’s the largest tenant at 1095 Sixth Ave. at West 42nd Street, is poised to bring most of its employees back to their offices. An internal Salesforce memo advised staff that most employees must return to their desks by Oct. 1, according to online news site San Francisco Standard. The directive appeared to apply to Salesforce staff everywhere, not only in its San Francisco headquarters. The reported memo said, “Select employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering and onsite support technicians under the...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris awkwardly encouraged a crowd to clap for President Biden on Monday in her first public appearance since he ended his candidacy for a second term Sunday and endorsed Harris to replace him. “Joe Biden’s legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. In one term, he has already …,” Harris said in a speech on the White House South Lawn, before stopping mid-sentence to add, “Yes, you may clap.” Harris delivered her trademark laugh — often described by detractors as a cackle — while pausing at the event honoring...

In remarks today honoring NCAA champion athletes, it took Kamala about 30 seconds to unleash a cackle, 20 seconds more to mention Beau, referring to his description of "what kind of father" Biden is. The kind of father that showers with his young daughter, ya mean? In addition to Kamala, the two other people who spoke were a black woman who is an NCAA official, and a black woman athlete. Message received, Kamala!

Former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Sunday on the network’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race that the Democratic Party will run a process with the “goal” of making Vice President Kamala Harris look strong while “technically” leaving room for other candidates. Psaki said, “The DNC and the Democratic Party has to run — they’re going to run a process, is my understanding. And the process is going to be the goal of it is to make the vice president look strong and be strong at the end of the process....

[Catholic Caucus] Why the Attempt to Ban the Latin Mass Is FailingThe inability to shut down the traditional Latin Mass reflects the different between power and authority in the papacy.There has been much chatter on the interwebs lately about possible further restrictions being imposed upon the celebration of the classical Roman Rite, or the Traditional Latin Mass, as it is often called. However, it appears that such rumors are not going to materialize for now, even as the Vatican liturgical office devises new ways to express its contempt for those who attend celebrations of the TLM, in addition to the...

— Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation.The United States had endured a life-altering pandemic. There was a jarring burst of inflation and now global conflict with Russia invading Ukraine, as well as the persistent threat to democracy he felt Donald Trump posed. How could Biden possibly heal that collective trauma?