Free Republic

Many U.S. beaches face Labor Day swim advisories due to unsafe fecal bacteria levels, posing health risks like illness, rashes, and nausea for swimmers.Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, but taking a dip might be out of the question: Many of the beaches will caution against swimming because of unsafe levels of fecal contamination. Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste. The advisories typically discourage beachgoers from going in...

Former San Jose Councilman Omar Torres was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for child molestation. Prosecutors say Torres abused a boy starting when the victim was 4 years old. Torres must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is pushing a repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990) in order to make it easier for law-abiding teachers, faculty, and others, to be armed to fend off would-be attackers on school campuses. The Gun-Free School Zones Act was put in place by President George H.W. Bush (R), barring the possession of a firearm in a “school zone” and thereby creating myriad gun-free soft targets in places filled with defenseless children, teachers, and school staff. Massie wants to see the Gun-Free School Zones Act repealed as a way of removing the soft target moniker from...

Well, it's been nine months since the last US election. So time to get the next election underway. Here is the latest campaign video by one of three declared GOP candidates for Texas-31: Valentina Gomez, who is running for Congress in Texas, declares war on Islam and Muslims by burning the Quran and says Islam must be stopped "once and for all." pic.twitter.com/wqI65qriD3— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) August 25, 2025Miss Gomez's last big viral video showed her shooting a hooded man strapped to a chair in the back of the head. Free-speech champion Elon Musk has disappeared the tweet, so...

BUENOS AIRES - They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province. But these five 10-month-olds are the world’s first genetically edited horses: cloned copies of a prize-winning horse named Polo Pureza, or Polo Purity, with a single DNA sequence inserted using CRISPR technology with the aim of producing explosive speed. Kheiron Biotech, the Argentine company that created the horses, says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding. While cloning creates a genetically identical copy, CRISPR functions as...

Tikkun Olam (תיקון עולם): In Jewish teachings, any activity that improves the world, bringing it closer to the harmonious state for which it was created. Tikkun olam implies that while the world is innately good, its Creator purposely left room for us to improve upon His work. All human activities are opportunities to fulfill this mission, and every human being can be involved in tikkun olam—child or adult, student or entrepreneur, industrialist or artist, caregiver or salesperson, political activist or environmentalist, or just another one of us struggling to keep afloat.

A prominent Ukrainian politician and former parliament speaker has been shot dead in western Ukraine, officials said, as a search was under way to find the attacker. Andriy Parubiy, who also previously served as secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, was killed in the city of Lviv on Saturday.The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him “on the spot”. The attacker fled, and a manhunt was launched, it said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the killing as a “horrendous murder” and offered his condolences to Parubiy’s family and loved ones.“All necessary forces...

The mother of Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman appeared in a movie about her reunion with a daughter she put up for adoption as a child, the Daily Mail can reveal.Years after giving up her baby, Mary Grace Westman, now 67, went on to became a devout Catholic and anti-abortion activist who once held a crucifix in protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.Mary Grace has so far refused to cooperate with police seeking information about her son.She flew to Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon, within hours of the shocking attack at the Church of the Annunciation Catholic School that left two children...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A major crash late Thursday night on Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County sent multiple people to the hospital, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed.According to FHP Lt. Alex Camacho, the crash, which involved 18 vehicles, occurred around 11:25 p.m. in the southbound lanes of the highway near Ives Dairy Road.Camacho said a tractor-trailer was traveling south as traffic was congested and failed to stop for the vehicles ahead.“As a result, the tractor trailer collided into several vehicles causing a chain reaction of crashes,” Camacho said in an email to Local 10 News.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SNIP<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Camacho said the driver of...

President Donald Trump was spotted heading to golf with his granddaughter Trump following bogus conspiracy theories about his health.The Republican, 79, was seen on the south lawn of the White House getting into a vehicle with granddaughter Kai at about 8.45am on Saturday.Trump sported his go-to golf outfit for the trip in Virginia - black pants, a white polo shirt and his signature red MAGA hat.His appearance comes after unfounded rumors circulated online claiming Trump was sick or even had died - with the hashtag '#whereistrump' going viral on Friday.The speculation began after several White House reporters noted the president...

By Dr. John BergsmaIn 2005, a quasi-remake of the famous 1967 movie “Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner” was released. Entitled “Guess Who?” it starred Bernie Mac as an African-American father who struggled to deal with his daughter’s Caucasian fiancé (played by Ashton Kutcher). Much of the comedy of the film revolved around the clash of cultures at the dinner table. Usually we only share meals with people like us, family members or friends from our own “circle.” When someone from “outside” comes in, it upsets the balance. If anything, Jews of Jesus day were even more careful than contemporary Americans...

Staff at the African Development Foundation, a USAID-affiliated federal agency, have returned to work after a D.C. judge overturned the Trump administration’s abolition of the agency — even as a new inspector general’s report blasted the agency for misleading Congress.A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahui as one of the agency’s current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge last year that it had seized Zahui’s phone and found evidence that he took secret payments from a company to which he steered suspicious contracts.Early in the Trump administration, Zahui told the White House that...

A major can of worms just got opened. In a late decision on Friday, August 29, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, decided 7 to 4 that Donald Trump’s tariffs were largely imposed without the proper authority. While the levies will remain in place until October 14, the fact that the challenge exists could be enough to cause more than just market turmoil.From Court to CourtThe DC court ruled the president did not have the right to implement the type of tariffs he did using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Historically,...

The success of President Trump's crackdown on DC crime is impressing the majority of Americans. Vice President JD Vance observed "this town averaged one murder every other day for the last 20-30 years, which means in two short weeks the president and his team have saved six or seven lives. People who would have been killed on the streets of DC are now living, breathing, and spending time with their families because the president had the willpower to say no more, we're not going to give the streets of DC over to vagrants and robbers and murderers." A recent Harvard...

Republicans in Congress are facing mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle about whether to extend additional Obamacare premium tax credit subsidies as part of legislation to avoid a government shutdown this fall. The popularity of the added Obamacare marketplace subsidies, which former President Joe Biden and Democrats passed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as a temporary measure, could make it difficult for Republicans to let them expire by January without facing blowback during the 2026 midterm elections. But conservatives argued that there is systemic fraud in the Obamacare insurance marketplace through the extended subsidies and are...

August 29-31 2025 Spoorpark and city center Tilburg, the Netherlands. Free entrance! Re the featured book, "Red: A history of the Redhead" by Jacky Colliss Harvey: Live online discussion about the book RED from Jacky Colliss Harvey Through Jacky Colliss Harvey, author of the book RED: A History of Redheads, who regularly attends the RHD, we were introduced to the Redhead Project (redheadproject.net). This is a collaborative photography project based in New York. The project captures the unique stories and personalities of redheads worldwide. Launched in February 2013, the project currently includes 565 redheads, photographed on four continents. The Redhead...

Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters said that teachers coming from left-leaning states like California will have to take an "America First" test to combat leftist indoctrination."We don't let leftists from California under Gavin Newsom come in and indoctrinate kids in Oklahoma," Walters said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "That's what's controversial about it. It's amazing. It's common sense."When we saw Gavin Newsom require teachers in California to teach that there's 27 genders [and] to teach that there's no difference between males and females, [and] when we saw the anti-Americanism in the curriculum in New York, we...

Minnesota Democrats are fundraising on the recent homicidal assault on a church by one of the transgender maniacs they have gone out of their way to foster. According to liberal ideology, the children were not murdered by Robert/Robin Westman, but by the guns he used. Therefore, the bloodbath is an opportunity to raise money to fight the Second Amendment: (X image on link) Our right to bear arms helps us defend the innocent from maniacs like Westman, who are outside the law and therefore will never have much difficulty obtaining firearms, just as they easily obtain illegal drugs. Democrats have...

https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harris-last-seen-fleeing-dozens-of-international-assassins-after-trump-cancels-her-secret-service-protection LOS ANGELOS, CA — Following President Trump's recent cancellation of Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection, the former Vice-President was seen fleeing dozens of international assassins. The last-captured video footage of the former VP shows Harris leaping from roof to roof in downtown LA, hotly pursued by a crowd of ninjas, men in suits wearing sunglasses, and other assailants from every corner of the world. "It's very sad to see what's happening now that she lost her Secret Service protection, but she's doing all right for herself," said Grayson Casey, the intelligence operative who was the last to see Harris...

On Sunday the nationalists in Australia are organizing a series of Australia-First marches confronting the issues of excessive migration, globalism, corporate control of politicians, population change and the destruction of Australian cultural identity.Obviously, this represents a threat to the authoritarian regime currently controlling Australian govt.As with the yellow vests in France, the AfD party in Germany, the MAGA movement in the USA, U.K Brexit and the current resurgence of British people against mass migration, these nationalist rallies are a direct threat to the globalist politicians and their corporate benefactors. The Australian government has pledged to crack down on non-compliant dissident...