Free Republic

There’s “a monumental presidential election approaching,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Monday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” and pro-lifers in 10 states have the opportunity to stand up and protect life, or see countless pro-life protections erased. One of the 10 states with abortion-related ballot initiatives is Missouri with its Amendment 3. According to Perkins, this initiative, “if passed, would enshrine a deregulated industry of abortion and gender transition into Missouri’s state constitution.” Chris Williams, pastor of Kansas City’s Abundant Life Church, insisted that “we need all hands on deck to defeat this ideology trying to get a...

USA Today’s headline on the FBI’s reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime that fell, but that is not the same as all crime nor is it the only measure of reported crime. So they could have written, the FBI’s measure of reported violent crime fell in 2023. The second error is that they are wrong claiming that this was the second straight year, where an adjustment in the...

This is for the cheese heads in the north. Any counties or cities that have not gone all progressive (leftist). Saw an article the other day that was promoting their new progressive woman sherif. I'd like to come back but want to avoid all of that as much as possible. I believe it was Rhinelander; they used to make good beer. Yes I do school board meetings, and do all the political stuff possible.I'm not a communist and we have to go out and be active. Unless you are John MicCain, Mit Romney, Lindsey Gram, Liz Cheney... You get the...

To some of us, the unholy marriage of the Democratic Party and the pornography industry may seem like an obvious one, almost an inevitability, but it was still “newsworthy” that a coalition of pornography producers, distributors, and “performers” officially launched an online ad campaign urging porn-watchers to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. The $100,000 ad campaign is based on the fear that former President Donald Trump — according to The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a program which Trump has repeatedly disavowed — might ban pornography and jail porn producers if he were returned to office. The ads label...

The Republican National Committee (RNC), along with the Georgia Republican Party and the Fulton County Republican Party, is suing Nadine Williams, Director of Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections for refusing to hire Republican poll watchers. Under Georgia law, election officials are required to ensure balanced representation from both parties at polling places. Williams scoffed at the lawsuit, saying "Ill hire whoever I please. Before this case can be heard the election will be over and the Democrats will have won. All the Republicans involved in this suit will prosecuted by the Fulton County District Attorney for attempting to...

CNN’s Daniel Dale said Wednesday on “Newsroom” that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims former President Donald Trump would cut Social Security in a second term are false. Dale said, “She’s been saying that at a bunch of events dating back to July, that Project 2025, this conservative think tank plan that sets up proposals for a next Republican administration, says that Social Security should be cut under the next administration.” In North Carolina, at a campaign rally, Harris said, “Donald Trump will give billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts, cut Social Security and Medicare and make it...

The daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick broadcast her approval of Donald Trump using her father's famed antiwar film 'Full Metal Jacket' in a video that bashes a 'woke' military. Vivian Kubrick, 64, weighed in after Trump aired a video at a campaign rally that drew on scenes of a actor R. Lee Ermey portraying relentless Drill Sgt. Hartman in the 1987 flick, contrasted with images of men in drag and what Trump calls an increasingly 'woke' military. In a post on X, Kubrick, who worked with her father and had small parts in some of his iconic films, called...

“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” mobs of college students chant at terror rallies. What is there to ‘revolt’ against in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago? The Hamas rallies like the BLM, environmentalist and other radical rallies take place in cities run by mayors and city councils who support their efforts and sometimes even show up to their events. Even before New York City and other municipalities paid out millions in voluntary settlements to the BLM rioters who had assaulted police officers, the dirty secret of the radical mobs was that the authorities were on their side....

People are making up excuses for Pittsburgh teenagers who commit crime.Here are two examples:“More activities for them, instead of coming downtown wreaking havoc,” said Payne.“There’s nowhere near as much things for these kids to do recreationally. If they turn one of these into a YMCA center or something down here for the kids, I guarantee you there’d be more for them to do,” said Banks.Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/11-investigates-exclusive-teens-causing-211541770.htmlThese excuses are ridiculous. Most teenagers somehow manage to avoid committing crime because their parents raised them properly. The idea that teenagers commit crimes because there aren’t enough government-run babysitting services is ridiculous. These are...

A report into clergy abuse across multiple dioceses in Massachusetts, based on investigations that took place years ago under then-Attorney General Maura Healey, is still not available to the public. Andrea Campbell, the state’s attorney general since January 2023, said Tuesday that it’s out of her hands when or whether to release the findings. Appearing on Boston Public Radio, Campbell fielded questions around why the office she’s led since January 2023 has yet to make the document public. Survivors and advocates told New England Public Media last year that investigators from the state attorney general’s office interviewed them 2021 about...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is feeling confident heading into the 2024 Presidential Election ... voicing her belief Kamala Harris will emerge victorious this November. We caught up with the U.S. Representative from California at LAX Monday, where she explained why she is feeling good about the Harris-Walz ticket ahead of Nov. 5.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s wife discussed sexual orientation in the classroom as a high school teacher, and spoke to at least one student about his sexuality before he had told his parents he identified as gay, the student said during a campaign event aimed at LGBTQ voters. Jacob Reitan, a former student of Gwen Walz when she taught at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, has said on numerous occasions that Gwen Walz told his entire class “on the very first day” of sophomore year that her class was a safe place for any student that identified as...

A former priest accused of sexually abusing children Diocese of Scranton has been permanently defrocked, diocesan officials said Tuesday. The process authorized by Catholic Church's disciplinary arm concluded against Martin M. Boylan, more than eight years after the church first removed him from priestly ministry. Boylan, 76, was found guilty under canon law of sexually assaulting two children, but he was credibly accused by five. The diocese referred the allegations to law enforcement, as well. Boylan has not been criminally charged, records show. Once convicted under canon law, the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the arm of...

Rising social disorder in a post-Covid, defund-the-police America has forced cities and states to address new kinds of criminal outbreaks—from mass retail theft to squatting. Authorities have increasingly formed special police and prosecution units and toughened penalties in places as varied as New York City, Tampa, and Las Vegas to deal with these eruptions. Now added to the growing ranks of policing challenges is the latest lawless craze: street takeovers. In recent months, authorities in Texas, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Ohio, to name just a few places, have had to reorganize their increasingly undermanned police resources to confront these...

It depends. If you mean, “What happens to those who die rejecting Christ?” the Church’s answer is uncompromising: They will go to hell. But no one goes to hell by accident. If someone is simply ignorant of the name of Christ through no fault of his own, there is no sin in that. He has not rejected Christ. Moreover, we know Christ is not constrained by our knowledge. He can work in a heart even when that heart is only dimly aware of it. Jesus speaks of this in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. The ones judged...

Remember the poplar vote compact? Following the 2016 election, several blue states began to pass bills, that would give their states electoral votes to the winner of the popular votes… as of today 17 states and the District of Columbia have passed such legislation, ever single one of them has been a traditionally blue state, at least for the last several election cycles. Now, we are closing in on the 2024 election and it certainly appears the Donald Trump, has a legitimate chance for, and is actively making a play for the national popular vote. Several polls have the national...

California police aren’t loving their Tesla cop cars Elon Musk on Thursday night rolled out the latest tech from Tesla, saying of its sleek Cybercab robotaxis and a prototype of its new electric van that “the future should look like the future.” Back in the present day, however, California police departments are beginning to regret the decision to replace their fleets with Tesla Y models. Though climate friendly — preparing the departments for a zero-emissions future — turns out the Teslas pose a lot of other challenges, per SFGate interviews with three Northern California police chiefs. Once modified, for example,...

I recently received a call from CVS pharmacy. The caller wanted to update my information (full name, date of birth, etc.). Except that I have never once dealt with CVS pharmacy. And the caller had the typical Indian scammer accent. So I suppose they’re just calling random people, hoping to eventually reach an actual CVS customer. Just a heads up, especially for your older (and often trusting) relatives.

The Israeli military said it uncovered a trove of Hamas weapons hidden inside a clinic in northern Gaza belonging to the embattled United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) group.The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that their troops were attacked by Hamas gunmen operating inside the clinic in Jabalia, with an airstrike called to kill the terrorists.The IDF claimed that a secondary explosion from the clinic proved the existence of a weapons warehouse hidden in the medical buildings.

While regular IDF brigades like Golani and the Paratroopers fight in southern Lebanon border villages, reserve brigades are tasked with deeper missions as part of Israel’s ground operation to eliminate Hezbollah's Radwan Force threat to the Galilee. Now in its third week, the mission focuses on clearing the border region of this invasion threat...On Monday, the 8th Armored Brigade uncovered Hezbollah’s largest combat tunnel found by the IDF in Lebanon. Located on the outskirts of a major village in the eastern sector, the tunnel was designed to launch hundreds of Radwan fighters toward Kiryat Shmona.The concealed underground complex, stretching about...