Free Republic

Why would anyone want to be associated with a party that claims that killing an ethnic group is "the best money they've ever spent"?If the conservative party wants to win the cultural war against the radical left, and convince Americans that it has always been the party of liberty, then it must adopt the principles of the "old right" and stop voting for war-mongering politicians like Lindsey Graham.###When Crimea voted to rejoin Russia, we were all inundated with articles that told us it was a "sham election" and that this was the start of a European conquest, despite the fact...

In “Bridgerton,” the new Shonda Rhimes period drama on Netflix, the lords and ladies of early 19th century Britain are depicted as Black as well as White. Why? Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever explains it this way: “A Black character stops to explain, grandly, how and why this society came to be integrated. (Answer: because the queen is a person of color.) Not only does it not make much sense, but it seems like an unnecessary wrench thrown into a completely sensible and revisionary romp: People of color are here because they should have been here all along. Isn’t...

On 8 may 1945, Germany surrenders.WWII in Europe is over. Europe is divided in half. Soviet in the east, Allied in the West. But Who would have won if war broke out between the Allied and Soviets if they decided to declare all out war against each other in May 1945? Allied even prepared a battle plain: Operation Unthinkable was a code name of a plan of a conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. - SUBTITLES AVAILABLE -

I was wondering if there were any freepers here who are fans of the Red Gambit novel series, by Colin Gee. It's a series dealing with World War III, but set shortly after the end of World War II. In it, Stalin basically decides to stab the Western Allies in the back and restart the war with a eye to taking over all of Germany, and perhaps Western Europe as well.To stop this new enemy, the Allies must seek the help of their former German adversaries.

Alternate history series 'The Man in the High Castle' set in world where Allies lost World War II Amazon has pulled ads for its series The Man in the High Castle plastered throughout the New York City subway system that featured symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Variety reports. The new series, based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel of the same name, is an alternate history that imagines a world where the Allies lost World War II. The American coasts are controlled by Nazi and Japanese puppet regimes, while a free section remains in the Rocky Mountains.

What if Russia had got to California first? What if Spain’s feeble, arthritic hold on the province had been prised away, not by mutinous Mexicans or land-hungry Americans, but by sea-borne Cossacks? How different might the twentieth century have been if, in the nineteenth, the Russian Bear had sunk her claws deep into American soil, drawing the entire North Pacific into her embrace? Glorious Misadventures by Owen Matthews is the story of how it almost happened, and a splendidly ursine, shambling, alcoholic, opéra bouffe story it is. As British, French and Spanish settlers pushed westward into the American interior, looking...

The ever-feisty, always irrepressible Rev. Jeremiah Wright is back in the news. Yessiree, President Obama's long-time spiritual guru is once again regaling audiences with his unique blend of fire-and-brimestone and racial invective. During a seminar held in Chicago last week, Wright broke into his well-honed rap routine, claiming, "White folk done took this country." And "You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it." Wright then accused whites of designing schools to mis-educate blacks "not by benign neglect but by malignant intent." Refocusing his broadside, Wright continued, "whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and...

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking "repair of my people from the damage" he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries. Farrakhan sent the letter along with two books from the Nation of Islam Historical Research Team that the 77-year-old minister said prove "an undeniable record of Jewish Anti-Black behavior," starting with the slave trade and Jim Crow laws. "We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our worst enemy," he wrote....

With only ten years to go until the much-anticipated 400th-anniversary celebrations of the Pilgrim Fathers, it is no wonder Prime Minister Barack Obama spent much of this week locked in planning meetings with Buckingham Palace. Whether the Whig-Labour coalition will still be going in 2020 is a moot point. Some even wonder whether the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North America will still exist at all. More and more, it seems, critics look back to the failed rebellion of the late 1770s and wonder what might have been. That so few schoolchildren today learn the details of those tumultuous...

For many avid readers of Tom Clancy books “Debt of Honor” had a shocking conclusion and the follow up “Executive Orders” was, in many ways, a sobering what if. Let it be said, I’m a big fan debating alternative history and this essay is only meant to be taken in that vein. This is not a political commentary. For those of you not familiar with either book you may be familiar with the main protagonist in Tom Clancy’s writings from books translated to the big screen, John Patrick Ryan, or Jack Ryan. Ryan has been portrayed in films by Alec...

There are those who believe that people are merely a part of history, pieces of driftwood carried along by forces and currents often beyond our control. Others argue that history is shaped by individuals—that the right person in the right place can alter the course of human events. Certainly Osama bin Laden shifted the historical tide on September 11, 2001. As General Tommy Franks put it, bin Laden created a “crease in history” on 9/11, a fault line that changed how we piece together the past, how we live the present, how we look at the future. To their credit,...