Free Republic

The family of the 14-year-old Muslim boy who was led out of school in handcuffs has hired attorneys to get back the homemade clock that administrators mistook for a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed was suspended after showing his clock to a teacher at his Irving, Texas, high school last week. His case sparked an outcry on social media and attracted the attention of President Obama and a number of tech companies who invited Ahmed to visit. His family said in a statement Wednesday that it had pulled Ahmed and his two siblings out of the Irving school district "because of religious...

Last night, Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne revealed that the family of Ahmed Mohammed has repeatedly refused to meet with city officials, refused to released records exonerating police conduct, and that President Obama had tweeted about the case even before pictures of the so-called “clock” were publicly available. Appearing on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze TV, Van Duyne noted how reporting on the interaction between Mohammed and police had been remarkably one-sided, in part because the Mohammed family refused to release records noting: “As a juvenile, they can not release those records. The school district, a number of times, has...

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least five police officers and wounded 12 others on Sunday during festivities for a local holiday in Grozny, the capital of Russia's troubled North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported.

A week after its offices in Paris were firebombed in apparent retaliation over a stunt involving the Prophet Mohammed, the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hedbo fired back with a cartoon cover featuring one of the publication's male cartoonists kissing a bearded Muslim under the headline: "L'Amour plus fort que la haine." Translation: "Love: stronger than hate." A Molotov cocktail destroyed Charlie Hebdo's offices on Nov. 2, a day after the paper published a satirical announcement that the Prophet Mohammed would be the guest editor of its next issue.

TURIN, Italy - American Johnny Weir has been catching a few glances at the Winter Olympics. The Delaware resident was wearing a red warm-up jacket with “C-C-C-P” on it during a practice session today. Those are the Cyrillic initials for the former Soviet Union.

Australia secured their place at next year's World Cup after Middlesbrough goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer performed heroics in a penalty shoot-out against Uruguay in Sydney. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg at the weekend in Montevideo, Australia levelled the tie on aggregate through Marco Bresciano's first-half strike in a fiery match dominated by the hosts at Telstra Stadium. After a wait of 32 years since their only appearance at football's biggest tournament, Australia held on in front of 82,698 fans and took the game to penalties. Schwarzer saved twice, from Fabian Estoyonoff and Dario Rodriguez, before John Aloisi tucked away Australia's...

40 Reasons Why the USA Is Better Than Britain 1. We're not constantly starting whiney boastful lists like ''Reasons why the UK is...'' - no need. 2. God forbid, but if the U.S. decided to attack you, what could you do about it? 3. Don't you brush your teeth, or have dentists? 4. American women are the hottest in the world. British women? "Birds." Bad teeth plays a big part. 5. Our space center is at Cape Canaveral; yours is where...? 6. Travel slogan : the UK, home of the original mad cow disease 7. Let's compare the number of...

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible that Rather just isn't bright enough to interpret the overwhelming evidence that the Guard memos are fake? I remember when the JFK Jr. disappearance story broke and a Howard Stern prankster called in. The guy identified himself as a coast guard lieutenant and then proceeded to inform Rather that "We also found Baba Booey's teeth were laying along the bay, too, and Howard Stern and Baba Booey were all there." The most amazing part was that Rather wasn't even phased....he prattled on for over a minute about "this just in - a Coast Guard lieutenant says they...