Free Republic

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Hezbollah’s chief of media relations, Mohammed Afif, in an airstrike in Beirut on Sunday, according to Reuters. Reuters reported: An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah. The Israeli military declined to comment in response to questions from Reuters. There was no evacuation order for the area published on the Israeli military spokesperson’s account on social media platform X before the strike.

Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman is applauding the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House as a liberating force for all those who value freedom of speech and expression. She said it feels like a cloud has been lifted with Trump’s runaway victory. “I feel good. I feel great, in fact,” Bateman told Fox News Digital in an interview. “I feel like there was this kind of suffocating cloud that was kind of over us… Regular people who had questions about decisions that were being made were threatened subtly or obviously into silence. And I feel like that’s...

The leftist media are excited about a long-ago sexual assault claim an unnamed woman filed against Pete Hegseth. The police refused to press charges, but Hegseth, by then a well-known and wealthy TV personality, paid the woman some money. Hegseth contends that the sex was consensual, that the woman was the aggressor, and that he paid her to make her go away. I may be a lousy feminist here, but knowing how the world works, I think it’s just as likely that Hegseth’s version of events is true. That being the case, the entire thing should be disregarded moving forward....

Coming into office next year, Donald Trump will face massive budget deficits of $2 trillion a year and rising. Trump and every member of Congress now know that excessive deficits and spending can spike inflation, which is very unpopular with voters. The president and his budget team must find spending cuts to tackle the deficit monster. a However, Trump wants tax cuts, which would increase deficits. He also doesn’t want to cut Social Security or Medicare, and he may increase defense spending. Those are the three largest programs

LINK.

Now that the Democrats’ humiliating electoral defeat has gone into the record books, the remaining processes are beginning to unfold. The driving force for this is not Mr. Trump’s popularity or Harris-Walz’s lack thereof. It is the long overdue awakening of the formerly free-living American public to the accumulated tyranny of the modern mega-state. Various justifications have been offered for this persecution of the general public. Most conspicuous is the grossly hyperbolic threat of catastrophic “climate change.” In California and at least eleven other states, unelected agency functionaries have issued complete bans on new fossil-fueled motor vehicles, to occur within...

Just over a week ago, President Trump won a landslide victory over Kamala Harris to achieve a second term in office. Several epic tantrums on the part of liberals followed this. Now, some liberal women are so triggered that they are pledging to permanently forgo sex with men as a way to punish them. They have joined what is known as the radical feminist 4B Movement, which first originated in South Korea.

The Talk Shows November 17th 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Kentucky democrat Gov. Andy Beshear; Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.); former Never Trump Senator Chuck Hagel (RINO-NE); former Deputy Director of National Intelligence (And fired by Trump) Sue Gordon; Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator (democrats and fired people who hate Donald Trump. Some balance, Seebullshift).FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Marty Makary, British-American surgeon, professor, author, and medical commentator; Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del). Panel: Stef...

I've returned to writing my novel, tentatively titled "Dimensions of Essence". I've gotten somewhat deep into the first act, and I find that my word count is surprisingly low. I tend to be extremely concise. I need to do the opposite of what many authors do... instead of ruthless editing, I need to be more wordy. I asked ChatGPT what the size of the typical sci-fi novel is, and it replied: Science fiction novels typically range between 90,000 and 120,000 words. This length allows for the extensive world-building and complex narratives characteristic of the genre. However, some sci-fi novels can...

She is a rich land and a rare land, a fresh and fair land, a land so blessed in natural beauty, resources and people, that she became the world's best hope. Come take a look at her Americans, glimpse a nation's splendor, And be proud of your heritage.......

‘Psychopathy’ is the short answer. The longer answer needs some unpacking. Democrats picking through the entrails of their 2024 presidential election failure can’t help their cause, because, to quote Dr. Vern Coleman, writing on another topic, “They are communists, whether they know it [or admit it] or not.” Communists have a fundamental problem with how human beings operate, and with how much progress human beings have made raising their quality of life, and they have this problem because human beings haven’t fixed all their problems yet. This non sequitur lies at the heart of communists and Democrats ultimately believing that...

EI DQAC Q KSQZSZC ZE EQACW Q VBINCS QGX IGC FCC, IGC VBINCS, QGX Q FCC, QGX SCNCST. EYC SCNCST QBIGC JZBB XI, ZP FCCW QSC PCJ. - CDZBT XZVAZGWIG

“Wisdom is too high for a fool” (Proverbs 24:7). A fool wants his own way. There’s no question in my mind that we live in a world of fools. In fact, everyone born into this world comes in with congenital foolishness—otherwise known as the sin nature. Proverbs 22:15 says, “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child.” Since we live in a world of fools, let’s look at a few of their characteristics. A fool denies God. Psalm 14:1 says, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have committed abominable...

Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes. One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him. So, Elon Musk, perennial target of government regulatory functionaries, was once policed, but now he polices the bureaucratic police. Robert Kennedy, Jr., proposed overseer of government health programs, was often blasted as a crank by the subsidized scientists and the administrators within HHS whom he will now direct. Pete Hegseth fought the military DEI machinery...

In 2022, Seattle Police spent 18,615 hours responding to organized retail crime calls, equivalent to a year’s worth of work for nine officers... The damage from COVID-era policies has lingered for many years. For example, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) could not book individuals arrested for minor offenses, including shoplifting and other non-violent property crimes, into the King County Jail. The COVID era rules, designed to “slow the spread,” resulted in a de facto “catch and release” program. Now, years after the contagion has morphed into an endemic disease that people will contract many times over the course of their...

People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to see the smug elites who have ruled the world for five awful years taken down a peg? More than that, there are hints of a return to sanity. Mainstream advertisers are suddenly returning to X, putting their economic interest above their tribalist loyalties. The editor of pro-lockdowns Scientific American, which had long blessed totalitarian measures as true science, has resigned. The attempt to pillage InfoWars and give it to The Onion...

The strawberry ice cream for sale by the ticket booth seemed out of place at the museum to the My Lai massacre, one of America’s most ghastly crimes of war. The parking lot held a single car. Only a wide sign near the entrance explained the significance of the location. It showed a map of the area as it looked on the morning of March 16, 1968, when a company of American soldiers showed up and killed more than 500 women, children and older men, raping girls, mutilating bodies and burning homes with families still inside. One of the massacre’s...

Trump and his cabinet nominess will move the country from an administrative state to the sort of republic the Founders envisioned. There have been thousands of words written about the 2024 presidential election, but I think Jeffrey Tucker’s article at Brownstone best summarized the sea change in votes cast , and Victor Davis Hanson best describes the cabinet nominees so far of greatest significance, people selected in part to avenge their treatment by the prior lawless administration. Tucker argues that what we are seeing is an actual, not purported, transfer of power. A transfer from a permanent government to a...

The Israel Defense Forces reportedly destroyed an active, top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Iran during airstrikes in October. The nuclear site was previously reported to be inactive, which we now know not to be the case. The strike has left Iran’s effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research significantly impacted and damaged. Is this is a major setback to the Iranian regime and a major win on the part of Israel? How will the Iranian regime respond, and will they do it before Donald Trump takes office? Watch now!

Russia launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Sunday targeting power plants and energy infrastructure across the country. The barrage was the largest attack on Ukraine since late August and the third largest so far this year. Missiles and drones targeted cities including the capital Kyiv, forcing people into basements, subway stations and other underground shelters. -snip- The Russian aircraft involved in the assault included Tu-160 and Tu-95 strategic bombers, the air force said, as well as Su-34, Su-27 and MiG-31 jets.