Free Republic

There was a time when Kevin Van Ausdal had not yet been called a “loser” and “a disgrace” and hustled out of Georgia. He had not yet punched a wall, or been labeled a “communist,” or a person “who’d probably cry like a baby if you put a gun in his face.” He did not yet know who was going to be the Republican nominee for Congress in his conservative district in northwestern Georgia: the well-known local neurosurgeon, or the woman he knew vaguely as a person who had openly promoted conspiracies including something about a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.

The Department of Defense released an official directive last week to allow U.S. military personnel to request permission to carry concealed handguns for protection at government facilities. The directive came in response to a series of deadly shootings at military sites in recent years. Domestic military bases need no longer be “gun-free zones,” a change the department has been working on for several years.

Don't wanna live here if this spray-tanned, megalomaniac, compulsive liar is elected to the highest office in the land? Don't worry, neither do we. Take a look at all your options if Donald Trump is (God forbid) wins the presidency.

The U.S. military officer who headed a hearing in the case of accused deserter Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl recommended that the man held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan should not be sent to a military prison, Bergdahl’s lawyers said. In a memorandum issued on Friday, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Visger, the presiding officer at the so-called Article 32 hearing last month in San Antonio, recommended “non-judicial punishment” for Bergdahl, the lawyers said.

For a five-month period that ends this week, every single elected Republican in Congress was a white Christian. Let me repeat that: every elected GOP Member of the House and Senate was a white Christian.

The puppies were only a couple days old when they were found behind a Radio Shack in late October. Since then, volunteers at the Pet Network Humane Society in Incline Village have nursed the pups back to health.

Parts of downtown Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, resembled a war zone after hundreds of supporters of the jihadist group Islamic State [IS] engaged in bloody street clashes with ethnic Kurds. The violence—which police say was as ferocious as anything seen in Germany in recent memory—is fueling a sense of foreboding about the spillover effects of the fighting in Syria and Iraq. Some analysts believe that rival Muslim groups in Germany are deliberately exploiting the ethnic and religious tensions in the Middle East to stir up trouble on the streets of Europe.

Some guy running for Congress in Virginia is on the hunt for naked pictures of Texas Tech cheerleader and animal-lover Kendall Jones. The teen caused a ruckus on the Internet when her Facebook page with photos of her big-game kills, including a lion and a leopard, went viral. Facebook removed the photos and then begrudgingly removed a “Kill Kendall Jones” page Thursday. Now some liberal guy running for congress in Virginia is obsessively tweeting about Jones, asking for nude photos or videos, and it’s disgusting:

The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove its portraits of Confederate generals

The Marine Corps has tapped Colt Defense LLC to make more than 10,000 new Close Quarter Battle Pistols for the service's elite special operations troops. The July 19 contract, which has a total value of $22.5 million, brings an end to the Corps' exhaustive search for the top .45 caliber, 1911-style pistol to replace the fleet of worn-out Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, M45 pistols

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine Sgt. Gary Stein first started a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots to encourage service members to exercise their free speech rights. Then he declared that he wouldn't follow orders from the commander in chief, President Barack Obama. While Stein softened his statement to say he wouldn't follow "unlawful orders," military observers say he may have gone too far.

Since 1924 visitors from around the globe have flocked to Moscow's famous Red Square to view the body of former revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. But now, the Bolshevik could be relocating six feet under if the Russian people have their way with him.

WASHINGTON - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the 'most admired' man and woman in the United States in 2010, according to an annual Gallup poll. Mr Obama led the field of male candidates with 22 per cent, followed by former presidents George W. Bush (five per cent) and Bill Clinton (four per cent).

The question some conservative critics have is whether these groups are doing the work of the Republican National Committee (RNC). It’s a fair question, since dissatisfaction with the RNC is widespread after it fell far into debt this past election cycle, and after two years of a chairman who’s received most of his notoriety from continuously inserting his foot into his own mouth. Coleman rejects the notion that the RNC has been displaced, arguing that there’s enough money to go around. No donor, Coleman says, is “sacrificing the next family vacation or the next meal to participate” in funding these...

(Nov. 26) -- A 78-year-old Navy veteran and retired New York Police Department cop has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Barack Obama "for what he has done to this country." Michael Stephen Bowden, who now lives in South Carolina, told a nurse during a routine medical exam at a Veterans Administration clinic on Nov. 16 that he "was thinking of traveling to Washington, D.C., to shoot the president because he was not doing enough to help African-Americans,"

THE Russian parliament agreed in principle a declaration that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin personally ordered the Katyn massacre of Polish officers in World War II. The lower house, the State Duma, agreed a text that breaks several years of official reluctance to admit that Stalin and the Soviet leadership ordered the killing of thousands of Polish officers in 1940.

Fifty-two hostages and police were killed when an attempt by Iraqi security forces to free more than 100 Catholics held in a Baghdad church by al Qaeda-linked gunmen turned into a bloodbath, officials said on Monday.

Bristol Palin's public appearance at an Anchorage bar last month did not violate state law, according to an investigation by the the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told foreign automakers to share their technology with local businesses or they will be told to leave the country. http://www.br.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=566&fArticleId=5296745