Free Republic

In the fall of 2015, a student government colleague hustled me into a private room in the University of Oregon library to meet a visitor I “had to meet” before his flight out of Eugene. Tall, skinny, and with a grin from ear to ear, Charlie was in Eugene to flip our student government conservative. At a place like Oregon, just scraping together a slate of non-liberals was a stretch. But Charlie was ambitious and wanted to use Oregon as a trial run for flipping student governments at deeply progressive universities across the country. I was involved in student government,...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — Pensacola's candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk Sunday evening turned violent when someone spray-painted over the Graffiti Bridge mural of the conservative activist. Around 6:20 p.m., Pensacola Police responded to the bridge during the vigil after "a fight broke out among individuals and someone sprayed pepper spray." The man sprayed with pepper spray was transported to the hospital by EMS. Police say the person who sprayed the pepper spray fled the scene prior to officers arriving. VIDEO AT LINK.................... No one has been charged. An investigation is ongoing. The Pensacola Police Department is asking anyone with information...

While Hamas attempts to prevent residents of Gaza City from evacuating the city, as instructed by the IDF, the terror group’s leaders are scrambling to get their own families out of the enclave, COGAT revealed in a post on Sunday. In a post to X, COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) showed several Hamas officials who made requests to Israel to allow their families to leave the Gaza Strip, and some even requested permission to leave themselves. This comes amid repeated reports from Gaza City residents that Hamas has been instructing them not to leave the city, despite...

It never ceases to amaze me how, once the left settles on its preferred narrative, it cannot let it go. To this day, there are people on the left who cling to the debunked conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election. The latest fake news that the left seems unwilling to let go of is the fact that Charlie Kirk’s killer, Tyler Robinson, is a radicalized leftist. I am still seeing social media posts from leftists — random accounts and highly-followed accounts — claiming that Robinson was MAGA or a groyper, just because his...

According to the statement, the goal of the European liberal mainstream is to bring a compliant and loyal to Brussels leadership to power in one of the largest countries in the BalkansMOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. The European Union is plotting a "maidan" in Serbia with current disturbances in the country with the youth's active participation being a product of Brussels' "subversive activity," the press service of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement made available to TASS. "The press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation informs that, according to the information coming to...

Very enjoyable video to watch seeing all these evil doers fired, especially seeing that celebrator of `Charlie's assassination woman now crying, “What am I going to do now with no job?”. Let's hope she goes to hell. Hegseth has also sacked that crazy black captain in the army who made videos celebrating Charlie's killing and sacked plenty of other far left crazies too, Lets face it, America does not need lunatics in the military.

The closure of the Polish-Belarusian border has frozen a key route for Chinese exports to the European Union, prompting Beijing to put pressure on Warsaw to reopen it and restore the freight link, which is worth €25 billion a year. Poland took the decision to close its frontier with Moscow-allied Belarus ahead of joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises, codenamed Zapad 2025, which started on Friday. Following last week’s Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace, officials said the border closure would be in force until further notice. Three freight rail crossings, one for cars and another for trucks have been shut. The...

A large part of me feels filthy comparing the two because Charlie Kirk doesn’t deserve for anyone to lump him into the same category as George Floyd. Even if we accept the central thesis of the Black Lives Matter movement — that George Floyd was murdered in a senseless act of police violence — the circumstances between the two were extraordinarily different, and no one should lose sight of why: George Floyd was convicted of eight separate crimes between 1997 and 2005 alone. (It’s unclear how many times he was arrested.) In 2007, he was sentenced to four years in...

The Food and Drug Administration said Gooder Foods, Inc. has issued a recall for some of its macaroni and cheese. Dig deeper: The company recalled five lots of its "Vegan Is Believin’ – Plant Based White Cheddar with Spirals" due to the possible presence of undeclared milk. The company is also recalling three lots of "Here Comes Truffle – Creamy Truffle Flavored Cheddar and Shells" after discovering they may contain undeclared cashew. The affected lots were manufactured between April 7 and April 15, 2025.

A bomb on a local FOX 13 news van in Salt Lake City fizzled out instead of blowing up on Friday, and police have two suspects in custody. Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson is being held nearby. It was those sneaky Lutherans again. Just kidding. The suspects' names are Adeeb Nasir, age 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, age 31. The story slipped under the radar over the weekend, but investigators found that the bomb "had been lit but failed to function as designed," according to court documents revealed by CBS affiliate KUTV early Monday. On Sunday, the FBI...

Democrat lawyers want to define tariffs as taxes because taxes must be approved by Congress, not Trump. Taxes are imposed upon persons earning income in the U.S. Tariffs are import duties imposed upon foreign entities. They are not taxes. The courts need to get this right. If the courts says Congress must approve tariffs, Congress will be unable to comply. Tariffs change commonly, and there are 194 countries that will pay tariffs to us. There is no chance that Congress could handle that task, nor should it. Congress’s duty is to approve a rare change of income tax, which is...

Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday that Poland opposes Beijing’s indirect support for Moscow in its war with Ukraine – which Beijing refers to as “the Ukrainian crisis”. During the meeting, which took place in Helenow, located close to the Polish capital Warsaw, Sikorski also urged for more Chinese engagement on ending the war various media reported. Tensions have also been rising along Poland’s eastern border. Last week, Warsaw closed the Małaszewicze border crossing with Belarus, effectively halting a key artery of Sino-Polish and Sino-EU trade. -snip- According to diplomatic sources cited by...

On Saturday, the beleaguered British people, tired of abuse from their own government, rose up in peaceful, patriotic protest on a never-before-seen scale. Something fundamental shifted in Britain on September 13, 2025. In the heart of London, a sea of flags unfurled and hundreds of thousands...no, millions of ordinary men and women marched together for an idea: That Britain must remain Britain, that its borders must be defended, and that its culture, heritage, and people deserve respect. Or else.Naturally, the mainstream press dutifully downplayed the numbers, claiming “just” 110,000 to 150,000 attended. But I was there, and I can assure...

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that a “large group of people,” specifically tied to the radical left, are now under federal investigation in connection with the assassination of conservative powerhouse Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of Kirk’s shooting, social media sleuths have tracked down multiple accounts tied to the transgender and furry communities that appeared to have prior knowledge of the impending assassination.

A Long Island newspaper was forced to apologize after publishing a graphic Charlie Kirk cartoon slammed as 'unconscionable' and 'despicable'. Newsday removed the offending political illustration from all its platforms and acknowledged an 'error in judgment' after intense backlash from readers. The cartoon depicted an empty blood-splattered chair under a tent labeled 'Charlie Kirk.' An arrow points upwards toward the seat with the caption 'Turning Point USA,' the non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Kirk. The banner above the tent reads 'prove me wrong', which was Kirk's slogan for his college campus political debate events. The illustration was created by...

District Court Judge Kristen Simmons dismissed charges of election fraud against 15 Michigan Republicans who agreed to be the state's electors in the 2020 presidential election. "Historically, there have been other instances where the issue of which electors really represent the voters' choice has been disputed," she observed. "This is not fraud or a coup d'etat. It is a precautionary step in case recounts or reassessments of vote tallies reverse the results initially reported after the vote counting has been concluded. Both Democrats and Republicans have used this step. Once the winner is determined only one set of electors actually...

Prominent opinion columnist and editor Karen Attiah has been fired from The Washington Post over a series of posts she wrote following the murder of Charlie Kirk. Attiah, 39, said she was sacked last week over the 'unacceptable social media posts' in the wake of the conservative commentator's assassination in Utah. One read: 'Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.' Another of the posts, on social media platform Bluesky, said: 'Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face...

“Passive income.” That’s the sales pitch for rentals. Tenants cover the mortgage, you collect the rent, the property appreciates, and you’re off sipping margaritas. Sounds dreamy… until Saturday morning shows up with a broken appliance. Ask me how I know. Here’s the reality from my own ledger: one of my rental properties in the Finger Lakes, NY area is locked at $2,200/month. That’s the ceiling. Meanwhile the expense list has no ceiling. In the last year alone I replaced the gas range, microwave and dishwasher. That’s just a tiny sample of a seemingly never-ending list of surprise expenses. “Passive” income?...

The left is recounting all of Charlie Kirk's right wing, racist, homophobic comments---all of which have likely been distorted. A WAPO woke editor was fired for posting on BlueSky:: "Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot." -Charlie KirkContext is absent. He did say SC justice Katenji-Brown was not smart enough to interpret the constitution. IF he spoke the words as charged, he was surely repeating charges against him.

When Manners Disappear: A Society Without RestraintManners are often dismissed as superficial — just a list of rules about saying “please” or chewing with your mouth closed. But at their core, manners are much more than that. They are the quiet architecture that holds a civilized society together. They are the social grease that allows people to live near one another, work together, share space, and not come to blows over every disagreement.It’s my belief that societies create manners not just to promote politeness, but to control human emotions — especially the more destructive ones: anger, resentment, jealousy, and cruelty....