Free Republic

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has delivered a blistering rebuke of the Norwegian Nobel Committee after it awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to controversial South African jurist Navi Pillay, whose record of attacking Israel has sparked fierce condemnation from Israeli leaders and supporters of the Jewish state. Kasparov, the 13th World Chess Champion and longtime opponent of authoritarian regimes, took to X with a devastating one-line response to the committee's decision. “Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker.” Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker. —...

Can we still see evidence of the Bible today? Biblical archaeology uncovers ancient objects that help connect the people and the events of the Bible to the real world. Join Dinesh D’Souza on a thrilling journey through thousands of years of biblical history, available as a full-length documentary or a 12-part series.

It doesn’t happen. That’s what we’ve been told for years. Illegal voting in America is a myth, a fairy tale, a bedtime story conservatives tell themselves after losing. Anyone who asked about it got a pat on the head and a diagnosis. Then the Department of Justice went looking.

Where I’ve been, followed by some brief thoughts about politics and news. Trying to act on my much-repeated message that the world is crazy but you don’t have to be, I just jumped on an invitation to hitchhike on an old friend’s backcountry permit. It’s an area I’ve been camping in for decades, but not a part of it that I’ve walked, so I went online and read about the place we were going before we started a few days of backpacking. Then I went there, and I’m still not convinced that the Internet connects very well to real life....

Oct. 17 Revolution France MEDIA MANDATE MOVES UP A GEAR For October 17, I evolved the site with new tools to participate, share and follow the mobilization: PERSONALIZED PROFILE PICTURE Add a yellow frame or drawn vest to your photo, then download it for free. REAL-TIME COUNTER See how many visitors are on the site, even without joining the chat. INTERACTIVE MAP Select your department and declare your intention to participate, without sharing your specific location. RANKING OF DEPARTMENTS Discover the departments which record the most participations declared on the site. This is not an estimate of the number of...

It would have been hard to improve the backdrop for Marco Rubio’s foreign policy address on October 7 in Athens, Greece. Standing on the Pnyx with the ruins of the Parthenon rising up behind him, the Secretary of State delivered a speech that won almost universal plaudits. Let me toss my vote in with the overwhelming majority and affirm that Rubio’s speech was simply splendid: robust, heartfelt, honest, masculine, and true. Is it still permissible to praise such a public performance for being “masculine”? It was part of Rubio’s accomplishment to render that question moot. His speech was statesmanlike but...

it seems like a great example of how JD Vance tries to be everything to everyone. He enthusiastically supports executing Nidal Hasan for committing the worst crime ever, but he is going to keep himself away from the actual execution.

Rare evidence of medieval Rome's thriving community of Anglo-Saxons has been found close to the city's Palazzo della Rovere near the Vatican, according to a statement released by the University of Cambridge. The team has unearthed 20 coins, including 19 silver pennies and one halfpenny, minted by a son and grandsons of the Anglo-Saxon king -- and first king of England -- Alfred the Great. Scholars have long known about the Anglo-Saxon enclave in Rome. There are modern place names that preserve this legacy, including the embankment between the Tiber and the Vatican that is still called the Lungotevere in...

The responses to the natural disasters will show the difference between red and blue rule. Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis and California's Gov. Gavin Newsom have mixed it up on various occasions as to whose state is better governed. Now that two hurricanes are hitting each state at the same time, it's time for those claims about response management to be inspected side by side. Here we have Florida, whose panhandle was beset by Category 2 Hurricane Isaias: [Numerous X posts from Florida at article] We see leadership and communication from De Santis, weeks of preparation including securing federal resources, helpful...

Concealed Carry Reciprocity is a perennial issue for good reasons. Currently, reciprocity is granted only between states that enter into compacts. How many states offer reciprocity? That’s hard to say with precision. Most likely, only 22, and five more require no permit. The devil, as always, is in the details: at least six states--Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Maine--seem to have reciprocity but only honor permits issued in those states. Yes, that’s contradictory and makes no sense, which creates a problem for anyone traveling in those states. If you come to the attention of the police, they may...

ZD KXH OPZCW IYXHO ZO, TLTGKOPZCU RT NX ZC FZDT ZE ETO OX EXJT WZCN XD JHEZV. —STIYX YGKEXC

This week in Athens, standing in front of the Parthenon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a remarkable speech which I think in time will be considered to have been an historic one. At this link, you can see a video of the speech or read the complete transcript of it. It reminded me of an afternoon in the 1950s when taking a bus home from junior high school, I looked around and saw the Greek Orthodox kids studying Greek, the Catholic kids studying their Latin, and the Jewish kids studying Hebrew. In those days, and in that cold Wisconsin...

A CVS Barbie package sparked outrage after shoppers said background spectators appeared to be making Nazi salutes. Ana Elizabeth highlighted the imagery in a TikTok clip featuring a gymnast themed doll from Mattel’s You Can Do Anything line. Some viewers declared they were 100% boycotting Mattel, while skeptics said the figures were merely celebrating. The dispute followed criticism of a Target Halloween costume that some shoppers said evoked Blackface and minstrel shows.

Teens waved terrorist flags and learned Maoist war tactics at a radical “Anti-Imperialist Summer Camp” hidden in the Pacific Northwest, The Post has learned. The late August camp, run by the terror-linked Anti-Imperialist Front USA (AIF-USA), was attended by teenagers from their offshoot, Revolutionary Youth, along with community college students and young workers, in the Pacific Northwest, according to materials provided to The Post by education watchdog group the North American Values Institute (NAVI)

A fugitive wanted for nearly 14 years in the alleged kidnapping and shooting of an Iowa woman was arrested in San Diego after authorities said he reinvented himself as a popular chef under a fake name, even appearing in local news segments while hiding from law enforcement. Brian Anthony Williams, 50, was arrested Tuesday at Miss B's Coconut Club in Mission Beach, California, where he had been working under the name "Troy Williams," the U.S. Marshals Service said. Williams had been wanted since 2012, when he and several others allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and shot a woman before abandoning her in...

As questions remain as to what happens next for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike after a botched execution attempt last week, her accomplice and former boyfriend has at least another five years before his next parole hearing in the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Tadaryl Shipp, 49, was 17 years old when he, Pike and another person tortured and killed Slemmer, their classmate from a vocational school, in a crime with "satanic elements" that still haunts investigators 31 years later. Prosecutors accused Shipp of holding Slemmer down when she tried to escape her attackers...

Former state trooper John Nagel pointed the finger at his opponent, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and the Democratic Party for allowing Somali American gang-linked violence to escalate in the Twin Cities. Residents of Eden Prairie and surrounding Twin Cities suburbs have been left fearing for their safety after a string of gang-related incidents this month, including the shooting of two teens outside an Eden Prairie High School football game and more than 100 shell casings recovered in a Bloomington neighborhood. "Where is Ilhan Omar in all of this?" Nagel, a Minnesota native who spent 30 years as a state trooper,...

Henry Graham, a 52-year-old man with a lengthy arrest record who killed a man with a single punch on the Magnificent Mile, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, months after a judge found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, saying state law barred him from being convicted of murder. The state’s “one punch” legal standard that spared Graham a murder conviction may surprise many, but it is well established in Illinois, where nearly a century of case law holds that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone. Therefore, in almost all cases, a person...

The UK government has revived plans for digital IDs, now saying they’ll be voluntary — not mandatory — after fierce public backlash. But privacy, surveillance, and hacking concerns remain. We talked to British citizens to find out if they trust the government with their data. (TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service)

Democrat socialist Abdul El-Sayed has made a lot of braindead comments regarding football over the years, and throughout his campaign for state senator in Michigan. El-Sayed once connected American football to toxic masculinity and the transatlantic slave trade, but he's also pandered by embracing the NFL and Detroit Lions in his campaign messaging. In a 2021 essay in response to then Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden, El-Sayed wrote, "The toxic masculinity at the heart of America's most popular sport — and men's sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails." In separate remarks, he...