Free Republic

After 2020, Americans are coming to terms with the fact that the United States is splitting into two different countries culturally and politically. The red-blue divide is a divide between free states and counties and increasingly repressive and authoritarian blue states and counties. As the conservative professor Eddie Zipperer quipped on Twitter: 1980s Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Russian and China don't have that." 2021 Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Michigan and California don't have that."The freedom divide is particularly clear in the area of education. Republican states and counties...

Joe Biden is officially the Democratic nominee for president, but if you drive through my town, you’re more likely to see Biden’s name on a tattered, peeling bumper sticker from 2008 than on a shiny new 2020 sticker. Biden simply isn’t the sort of candidate that inspires Joe Taxpayer to drop $2.50 on car art. And even though Biden has been ahead of Trump in the polls, the underreported weeds of those same polls are forecasting disaster for Democrats.  The newest CNN poll shows Biden four points ahead of Trump. No big deal; that’s within the margin of error. What...