Free Republic

The Illinois Republican Party would make a great business school case study. Granted, the Illinois GOP is supposed to be a political party and not a business – unless we’re talking about the handful of mediocre (to be gracious) staff and consultants who milk the brand to mooch a living via gullible donors. It’s a business for that little crew certainly, even if the organization is not. But still, our once proud Illinois Republican Party and how it decayed provides a useful lesson for people who are actually serious about organizational governance. What would happen if a corporation anywhere in...

Georgina Owen, 21, of Saffron Walden in Essex, had been following a plant-based diet since 2016 'stemming from her environmental concerns', but was suffering from a B12 deficiency in the latter months of her life. Miss Owen told her family she had 'forgotten' to take her supplements but had bought an 'organic' Methyl-cobalamin B12 spray from Canada to top herself up. But a coroner's court heard that post-mortem blood tests showed she was B12 deficient Miss Owen's family reported that in the recent period before her death she had [been] dwelling on the state of the world and her place...

A Jackson Pollock artwork, described as one of history's "first truly abstract paintings", has sold at auction for $181m (£135m) in New York. Number 7A, 1948, which went under the hammer at the renowned Christie's auction house on Monday, smashed the previous record for the most a work by the late American artist has taken at auction. Christie's called Number 7A, 1948, which depicts black drips of paint with touches of red on a huge canvas spanning more than three metres, a key piece of art history. "It is with this work that Pollock finally frees himself from the shackles...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair is President Trump’s primary enforcer. He ensures that the Republicans on Capitol Hill follow orders and that the MAGA agenda is carried out. “Sometimes you can vote your conscience, other times you have to vote with the boss,”

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act, legislation to establish an independent Special Prosecutor to investigate unlawful conduct by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This bill is her latest in a series of efforts to stand up to ICE, demand transparency, and fight for accountability after a pattern of violence, misconduct, and lack of oversight. Here’s what Michiganders are seeing and reading about Rep. Haley Stevens fighting to ensure accountability at every level of ICE, from the bottom to the top, so...

As New York mayoral figure Zohran Mamdani unveiled plans for taxpayer-funded government grocery stores… Old videos suddenly resurfaced online 👇 Now? The backlash is spiralling FAST. In this video, we break down: 👉 Mamdani announcing government-run grocery stores across NYC 👉 The resurfaced speech invoking Islamic migration narratives 👉 Why critics say the videos are causing massive concern online 👉 The activists filmed praising violence and defending the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson 👉 Questions surrounding who was granted press access to official events 👉 Why conservatives say this reflects a much deeper ideological shift 👉 The growing national...

On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-04) faces primary voters in Kentucky. The seven-term incumbent is facing Republican Ed Gallrein, a farmer and a retired Navy SEAL who earned four Bronze Stars over three decades in the service. Rep. Massie is a Libertarian Republican in the mould of Republican Sen. Rand Paul (KY) and Paul's father, former Republican Rep. Ron Paul (TX-14). He marries a pro-life record with a very small government philosophy. He is also strongly anti-Israel (but more on that later). Rep. Massie is facing his toughest challenge ever, largely because he really pissed off the head of...

But if Massie loses, it's not just the end of his career. (He told Mangu-Ward that if GOP primary voters send him packing, he's going back to his plow and "nobody will ever hear from me again"). It would also effectively be the end of what used to be called the Tea Party, a loose conglomeration of Republican representatives and senators who rode a wave of anti-Barack Obama and anti-George W. Bush sentiment to office in the early 2010s. Although some said that the tea in Tea Party stood for the "taxed-enough already," the rallying cry of the early Tea...

Despite evidence to the contrary, liberal voting activists have spent years minimizing cheating concerns and portraying those who want to investigate such problems as “election deniers.” But the Justice Department, FBI and Homeland Security are now systematically exposing electoral fraud from noncitizen voting to ballot-box-stuffing schemes that are turning the table in epic fashion. The latest strike came Monday when a longtime voting activist in California reached a deal with federal prosecutors to admit to illegally paying homeless people to sign election petitions and paying people to register to vote in a two-decade scheme that allegedly leveraged the Democrat-run state’s...

In the rarefied halls of Western Michigan University’s Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Professor Parker Crutchfield teaches medical ethics. One might expect such a role to instill reverence for human dignity, bodily autonomy, and the Hippocratic admonition to first do no harm. Instead, Crutchfield has authored arguments for covertly drugging the population to improve its “morality” and, more recently, for actively spreading a tick-borne disease to make people allergic to red meat. This is not satire. In the journal Bioethics, Crutchfield and co-author Blake Hereth published “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which posits that if eating meat is morally wrong, then humanity...

European security services are investigating suspected Iran-linked attacks on synagogues, Israeli sites, and opposition groups. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Iran could expand covert operations across Europe once fighting with the U.S. and Israel subsides, raising fears of attacks on Jewish targets, Israeli institutions, and opponents of the Tehran regime. The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) said Iranian dissidents and other individuals regarded by Tehran as “traitors” would face particular danger if the regime increases its intelligence and proxy activities across the continent. One BfV official told Euractiv that the service is monitoring individuals based in Germany who have...

As a California congresswoman, Bass traveled to Cuba with the Obama administration in support of its policies. ============================================================== U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., has had a lower profile than other Democrats, but now is a contender to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate. That higher profile is coming with more scrutiny of her past positions, including her positions on Cuba. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said if Bass becomes vice president she "will be the highest-ranking Castro sympathizer in the history of the United States government." Democrats who represent large exile communities in south Florida have raised concerns, too....

(The Epoch Times)—Voters in Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Idaho head to the polls on May 19 for a slate of primary elections that will shape key gubernatorial, Senate, House, and statewide contests ahead of November. Here is what to watch in each state. Kentucky There are a few competitive races in the Bluegrass State. The most closely watched race is in the state’s Fourth Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) faces retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein. President Donald Trump endorsed Gallrein after criticizing Massie over several votes he took in Congress. Trump has had success backing...

While road-tripping out toward the southern Sierra Nevada foothills, it doesn’t take long to arrive at a place where the heat and congestion of the city fade into a tall canopy of native trees and a cool alpine breeze tumbles down the hillsides. Off Highway 58, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Bakersfield, is a place of tranquility and reflection — a national treasure that features a fountain, several seating areas and a walking trail tucked into a manicured rose garden.

Muslim street takeovers in the name of ‘prayers’ have become a global problem from New York to London to Moscow, they’re creating conflict in India, and, less expectedly, in South Korea. On a Friday afternoon, dozens of men stream out of a five-story building in Ansan’s Danwon-gu, some dressed in long white garments and caps, quietly walking away or chatting in small groups along the street. The building they emerge from looks like an ordinary commercial property, but it is the Ansan Islamic Center, one of 21 mosques operated nationwide by the Korea Muslim Federation. The crowd, made up mostly...

An incredible outpouring of love and respect as hundreds of strangers filled St. Joseph the Worker Church in Hanson to bid farewell to World War II U.S. Navy veteran John Bernard Arnold III. A veteran group put out the call for the public to attend the funeral to help honor Arnold, an East Bridgewater man who had no known family. "When the veterans service officer from Hanson put out the call that he had outlived everyone, he didn't even imagine this level of support. It's just fantastic," said Dr. Andrea Gayle-Bennett, the deputy secretary for the Executive Office of Veteran...

Dancers tired of independent contractor employment status, push for better working conditions at city’s clubsOn a Monday night in October 1967, three topless dancers donned slacks and overcoats to picket outside their workplace in downtown Vancouver. Pearl Johnson, 18, spokesperson for the trio, said they were “seeking an increase in their $100-a-week salary, a staff rate on meals and a heater in their dressing room,” according to a local paper’s two-sentence news brief. Decades later, the vast majority of Canadian strippers are no longer salaried, and their list of grievances has only grown longer. That's why Montreal sex worker Adore...

At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 infected in the outbreak, according to health authorities in central Africa. An American missionary was among those who tested positive for the deadly disease. VIDEO AT LINK.......... The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa rose sharply Tuesday, with the head of the World Health Organization expressing concern over the “scale and speed of the epidemic.” At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 suspected to have been infected in the latest outbreak, according to the Congolese Health Ministry. An American missionary was among...

19 May 2026Tuesday of the 7th week of Eastertide Saint Dunstan’s Church Bourne End Buckinghamshire, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingActs 20:17-27I have without faltering put before you the whole of God's purposeFrom Miletus Paul sent for the elders of the church of Ephesus. When they arrived he addressed these words to them: ‘You know what my way of life has been ever since the first day I set foot among you in Asia, how I have served the Lord in all humility, with all the sorrows and trials that came to me through the plots of...

A Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan is being roasted online over a series of unhinged TikTok campaign videos that show her twerking, lip-syncing and posing in front of banners that scream “P—y Power.” Shelby Campbell, a 32-year-old single mom, has flooded her social media with clips of herself dancing, responding to haters and spouting her political views as part of her campaign for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, which includes parts of Detroit and several suburbs. Some of Campbell’s more outrageous clips have exploded online in recent days, racking up millions of views as critics claimed that she’s proof that “Democrats...