Free Republic

The old ten-story Hedrick Building (erected 1928) at St. Mary’s and Martin Streets in downtown San Antonio gets a severe facial to take off the make-up applied sometime in the early 1960s. Note the revealed, original, intricate “Spanish Baroque” detailing (with grace-notes of “Aztec Terminalissimo”) in the applied terracotta ornaments. There’s quite an inventory of similar period office towers in the old downtown of America’s seventh largest city, a great many of them already rehabbed and sparkling again. Very impressive! The city must have been roaring like all git-out in the 1920s. (Oil money, would be my guess.) Of course,...

All video You can watch without having an account, just push the “x” icon.

Just heard this, live

t) - An Alabama man says a woman pulled a gun on him and his sons after she hit their car and drove away on I-20. Brandon Parker said he and his sons drove to Zoo Atlanta for a day trip when a woman hit their car and drove off. “You don’t care who’s in this car. You just hit us. You didn’t stop and check on us make sure we’re okay. You didn’t care,” said Brandon Parker, the father seen in a video of the altercation. Parker said after being hit, the woman crossed over multiple lanes and took...

Ac church pastor turned in the shooter

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump just told @foxandfriends that Charlie Kirk’s shooter is ‘in custody.’

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted for attempting a coupRIO DE JANEIRO, September 12. /TASS/. Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court has sentenced former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) to 27 years and 3 months in prison for his role in an attempted coup aimed at preventing the rise to power of current Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The decision to convict Bolsonaro and impose a prison term was made by four Supreme Court justices, while one justice voted in favor of acquitting the politician. By a vote of four to one, Bolsonaro was found guilty. As noted by...

A slew of deranged users on Bluesky sent a barrage of threats to prominent Republicans and outspoken media personalities immediately after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated Wednesday. Posters called for Tesla tycoon Elon Musk, conservative podcasters Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles, as well as “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, to be “next” in the hours after Kirk, 31, was pronounced dead, according to screenshots shared by one user. Some brazen accounts called for outright violence, including one who wrote, “I hope they shoot Ben Shapiro next,” while another compared the violence to a “game of whack a...

BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation’s largest abortion provider fights Trump’s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation. Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthood’s patients rely on Medicaid. A provision in Trump’s tax bill instructed the federal government to end...

In the boardgame RISK the goal is world domination. You achieve that by battling other players within and across continents. The best strategy is to take and hold Australia. Once secured you can build up your troops while defending the single point of access to keep your opponents at bay then attack in a methodical style and slowly expand. This strategy doesn’t always work, but the notion of finding an easily defendable base where you can husband resources and use it as a launching pad to attack others is sound. We’re actually seeing that strategy play itself in real life...

Charlie Kirk is dead—struck down not by fate but by political hatred, murdered beneath a tent on a college green where the air should carry ideas, not the scream of an assassin’s bullet. His killing at Utah Valley University was not the silencing of one man alone. It was an assault on the principles he lived for: civil discourse, free speech, constitutional accountability, and the American tradition of argument waged with words, not weapons. Kirk was the “happy warrior”—a figure once familiar in American politics, now uncommon. He argued without apology, confident in his cause, yet willing to test it...

BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.

According to polling by The Economist/You Gov, the proportion of white voters who support Trump has increased by 8 percentage points after it previously declined. The polling rebound means Trump's approval rating among the demographic is now positive.

People realize that something profound has shifted, and they’ve gone from passively engaged to very, very active. You can feel it. Something has shifted. The world’s axis bumped. The heavens are growling. There is a disturbance in the force. “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced,” said Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series. Everyone I spoke with yesterday after this paradigm-shifting tragedy unfolded, said that something…something deep, something cosmic, something sinister—or maybe revelatory—happened. We found out when Charlie died that the black soul of...

The incoming president of the Oxford Union has been accused of celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. George Abaraonye allegedly shared comments making light of Kirk's death shortly after he was struck in the neck by a single bullet while speaking about mass shootings at a university campus in Utah. Messages supposedly sent by Abaraonye have been shared on social media.

Charlie Kirk once welcomed a young gay man into the conservative movement, emphasizing that the most important part of his identity isn’t defined by 'what he does in the bedroom.' Kirk was fatally shot in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University as part of his 'The American Comeback Tour' on Wednesday afternoon. The 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder became a prominent figure in American politics through his strong appeal to young conservatives, frequently debating college students across the country on major political issues.

The Fiesta Del Rio, which was supposed to be held Sept. 20, was cancelled due to “recent ICE raids” surrounding Everett.City officials in Everett announced the cancellation of Fiesta Del Rio, an upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month event, due to a recent crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the area. “We know how much this event means to our city. It’s a celebration of culture, music, food and togetherness,” Mayor Carlo DeMaria wrote Thursday on Facebook. “But with the recent ICE raids in our region, many of our friends and neighbors are feeling fear and uncertainty.” The fourth annual Fiesta...

The British arm of Charlie Kirk's campaign group accused Deputy PM David Lammy last night of 'fuelling violent rhetoric' against Right-wing figures. Mr Kirk, 31, a father of two, was shot dead during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday in what authorities called a political assassination. Yesterday, there was widespread fury at Left-wingers who celebrated the death of Mr Kirk and used it to score political points.

Multiple suspects attempted to rob a jewelry store Wednesday afternoon in Milpitas but were possibly thwarted by a business owner with a gun, according to police. Just before 1:30 p.m., officers responded to a call about a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store by the Seafood City Supermarket near the 1530 block of Landess Avenue. According to police, between 10 and 15 suspected rushed into the business; at the time, only the business owner and an employee were present. The business owner shot a gun, but no injuries have been reported. Nothing was stolen. The suspects fled the scene before...

Members of the European Parliament dramatically refused a request to honor Charlie Kirk with a a moment of silence in the chamber Thursday. […] Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, asked colleagues Thursday to pause proceedings in the house and to “declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished.” Weimer’s wish was supported by members of Germany’s AfD and France’s Identity Liberties movement. But European Parliament President Roberta Metsola denied the request and said procedural rules requiring tributes had to be formally submitted at the opening of a plenary session. Since that...