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Bernard-Henri Lévy takes on the Israeli crisis. Born in 1948 in French Algeria to a family of Sephardic Jews but raised from infancy in France, where he has spent his long and productive life, Bernard-Henri Lévy has led a distinguished career as a philosopher, war correspondent, and prolific author and commentator. Unlike many members of his generation in France, he was not seduced by Marx, and has in fact spent much of his life criticizing Communism and other forms of tyranny, championing oppressed peoples around the world, and defending Israel and the United States at a time when most of...

There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown. … A strange new pattern of psychological dysfunction has infiltrated all our institutions, from humdrum bureaucracies to the highest offices. Wherever we turn, that creeping feeling sets in: our society is sick; our institutions are out of balance; our public life has been consumed...

I have been around FreeRepublic for over 26 years, and one thing I notice is how the more things change, the more they get worse, not better. Everyone needs to understand that we the people are the inmates, and what ultimately happens to us is of no concern of those running this asylum we call America. I have learned that while there are good people elected to office, the vast majority of them are in it for themselves. After all, the days of the citizens getting elected to do their civic duty, then going back home after a few terms...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has had to defend his stance on Israel after an op-ed he penned more than three decades ago, in which he wrote of being an Israeli army volunteer and disparaged the Palestinian people, resurfaced. “Since he wrote this piece as a 20-year-old student, Gov. Shapiro has built close, meaningful, informative relationships with many Muslim-American, Arab-American, Palestinian Christian and Jewish community leaders all across Pennsylvania,” Shapiro’s spokesman Manuel Bonder told Fox News Digital in a statement. “The Governor greatly values their perspectives and the experiences he has learned from over the years – and as a result,...

If you secretly admire Trump, now’s the time to admit it. Shock your coworkers. Scandalise the wife. Today a grace period descends over politics in which even people who’ve labelled him Hitler and called for him to be removed must grit their teeth and say, “I-guess-he’s-kind-of-admirable.” Try awesome. Like Moby Dick or the Terminator, Trump is a force of nature. Think of all this man has gone through in eight years. He’s been been impeached (twice), accused of rape, arrested, condemned in court, labelled a traitor, survived Covid and now shot in the ear. Who can doubt he will win...

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That saying attributed to 19th-century British politician Lord Acton should have an addendum: Absolute power is all but impossible to wrest from an unwilling subject. In fact, when President George Washington decided not to seek a third term and voluntarily handed power over to John Adams, it represented one of the most momentous acts by a leader in world history: the willing surrender of absolute power without coercion, imprisonment, or assassination. These days, Joe Biden has become the anti-George Washington, refusing to bow to reality for one reason and one reason only: because...

1 John 5:14-15 (King James Version) And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. How desperate do you have to be to Virtue Grandstand for a group of bloodthirsty savages as if they are an oppressed person. Never mind they just had a sneak attack to gang rape and murder two thousand innocent victims; the innocent victims are the problem. You have...

Colossians 1:27-28 (King James Version) To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Moderate Hamas terrorists only want to kill Christians and Jews. Ratical Hamas want to kill moderate Hamas terrorists too. This is who the National Communist Party supports over Christians and Jews. You must be so proud of your Party, now Jews know they have...

No current topic is hotter, more divisive, and perhaps more determinative of modern election outcomes than abortion, but few understand more than bits and pieces of the issue. The broader contexts for the abortion debate have eluded the American public for decades, leaving most people with inadequate resources for engaging in it competently or confidently. Because their knowledge is fragmented, they can’t assemble the interlocking pieces to create the bigger picture, but must rely on the guidance of “experts” to show them the path to progress, wherever that may lead. But many of these “experts” are similarly ill-equipped for the...

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 Maui has become the biggest coverup of a natural disaster the PA derailment. The state and federal swamps are not releasing the information on deaths or missing children as it fears the investigation of another mass killing will point to the District of Corruption not only causing the deaths and disaster...

This posted tonight on X (formerly twitter) by Charlie Johnston @JohnstonPilgram It sums alot of my feelings about all this. ************************************************* Public Service Message for my leftist sparring partners here on X. You folks really do not understand what you have done and why you can't fast-talk your way past it. I am 67 years old. Spent my life mainly in politics, from the local to state levels and offering counsel at the national level. The other part of my life was in media, a managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers and political columnist and then a radio...

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Jeremiah 23:24 (King James Version) There is an old saying in DC which says, “An honest politician is one who when he is bought, he stays bought.” This week marked another step in the gradual reveal of the coup which the DNC machine organized against President Trump and the American people. A coup so deep and sophisticated it encompassed every part of Gummit and media to make sure the mistake of Hillary's defeat would...

As a physician I was told by the hospital there was a 90 minute meeting that was REQUIRED I needed to put on my schedule. Turns out it was a “seminar” of sorts. A guest speaker was brought in who was a consultant in communications. The reason (announced in advance) was the guest speaker was a being brought in as part of a campaign to “change the business model” of the hospital. Seems the “businessmen” realized the organization was suffering “from a lack of input by the physicians (insightful, eh?). There wanted to transform the model to include physicians in...

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 Everything the Conspiracy nuts, Qanon, Alex Jones, and MAGA was laughed at and mocked for the past six years was true according to the Durham Report. The Nation’s greatest intelligence scandal happened at the hands of Barak, Biden, and his KGB and CIA to spy on Trump from the time he came down the elevator and all through his administration and nobody in the Samestream media reports on it. They and everyone in Moscow on the...

Transwomen should play in separate leagues, so that everyone can compete while ensuring safe and fair competition for women and girls.

History won’t remember the cowards and collaborators of our day with any more kindness than it recalls those of former times. The nice thing about the long view of history is that it’s a beautiful picture. It may take decades, even centuries, but eventually the truth all comes out. Arrogant dimwits in positions of power, so insufferable during their reigns, become the subject of acid biopics and tell-all biographies. The people who apologized for them, and benefited from their patronage, wind up looking sinister, or criminal, even to their own grandchildren. My Greek father-in-law had a memory of Nazi collaborators...

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 The Communist Party has been using a cleaver trick for decades and Conservatives continue to fall for it. The Dems always claim to be the Party of science even though there is no scientific proof for any of their proclamations. They have simply changed the definition of science to fit their Communist agenda so it becomes a club to force Socialism down America’s throat. Follow the science is their main mantra even though...

I lived for very many years in rural Vermont. I’d bought a long-abandoned, post-and-beam farmhouse on a third-class dirt road. The realtor was a German immigrant who’d come to Vermont with his wife and infant children just after the war. He suggested that I call a local builder, Bob, to inspect the house, which was superficially in dreadful shape, but the farm and basement were sound. Bob said he’d be glad to put it right, and he and his brother-in-law restored it to its 1805 perfection. Bob’s family had lived through the war in Germany, and through the famine afterward,...

Dear Collette, For the past four days, I've been thinking about writing this letter. I couldn't write earlier because I was crying. Four days ago, I got the news about Robert. Tears washed away my ink. Friday? Saturday? My brain ping-ponged from one scheme to another – should I march? Should I fast? Should I paint a protest sign? Should I go to Robert's house and pray the rosary on my knees? Should I write a letter to my senator, Cory "Spartacus" Booker? I am as voiceless as a submerged sea sponge. Robert's life didn't matter. My life doesn't...

Alongside Poland, Hungary has formed a semi-alliance of conservative central European powers, and has been an example of sorts for Western conservatives. They all should do more.Entrenched leftists within the U.S. State Department are supporting the effort to demote Viktor Orban from prime minister of Hungary, if a report in Financial Times is correct. The Biden administration also left Hungary off its invitation list for a forthcoming international virtual Democracy Summit on Dec. 9 and 10 to which some 100 countries were invited.“Trump and his enablers and those who invaded and attacked our Capitol, they don’t like the world we’re...