Free Republic

South Korea’s dictator reluctantly commuted the death sentence of democracy activist Kim Dae-jung on January 24, 1981 … a gesture that would eventually enabled Kim to return the same favor to the dictator. A farmer’s son who became a wealthy businessman and a charismatic orator, the Catholic Kim had been a fixture of the political opposition since the 1960s which was a dangerous profession. In his address accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for 2000, Kim reflected that five times I faced near death at the hands of dictators. Six years I spent in prison, and 40 years I lived under...

In March 2022, hundreds of students at Yale Law School disrupted a panel with Kristen Waggoner, a conservative lawyer who has argued religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, arguing that her presence was a "slap in the face" to "queer students." Yale's response to the incident left the school with egg on its face: Though the protest clearly violated Yale's free speech policies, which do not allow protesters to disrupt speakers, not a single student was disciplined. Now Waggoner is returning to Yale Law for another talk. And this time, administrators aren't leaving anything to chance, banning press and...

Western societies are tearing themselves apart with enmity, injustice and conflict. That is not what Our Lord created us to be. We must return to the harmonious roots of our heritage. Where people can be human. God Bless The Freedom Where We Can Love Ourselves And Each Other

The October 2020 letter alleging that damaging content on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation and was signed by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former Director of National intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan and others is now admitted to be a lie. Former US intel official Douglas Wise now says "we all knew the Hunter laptop had to be real, but signed the letter claiming it wasn't because we all knew that, true or false, it was essential to prevent Trump from being reelected. As post-election polls showed, 17% of those who voted for Biden...

Lima, Peru on this date in 1639 celebrated a huge auto de fe featuring 72 prisoners. Of these, 12 were executed at the stake, one of whom had the consolation of being already dead by his own hand. (He was punished in effigy.) Their crime, per the Inquisition, was Judaizing — but we might better consider it today in the vein of terrorism, an idee fixe crawling from a swamp of public insecurities both real and projected: race, religion, geopolitics, and crass opportunism all vying for precedence under the Inquisitor’s cowl. This post will speak of “Jews” but it’s important...

You can call everyone for dinner, because our goose is cooked. We are so deep in debt that the only way we can keep the entire system from collapsing is to keep borrowing even more money. Perhaps you have been through a similar scenario with your own personal finances. When you simply do not have enough money to pay your bills, borrowing more money can seem like a really easy short-term solution. Unfortunately, the U.S. government has been doing this for decades, and now our national debt spiral has reached a terminal stage. Even if we gathered up all of...

Poor helpless, hapless, mumbling, stumbling, bumbling brain-dead Joe Biden. It’s all over for him. The puppet’s days are clearly numbered. It’s so obvious what’s happening. Biden’s presidency is over. The Deep State and DC Swamp don’t need him anymore. He served his purpose. Now they want him out. There are two reasons why all of this is happening now. First, Democrats realize Biden is not only the worst candidate in the history of politics, but he is deteriorating right in front of everyone’s eyes. Biden may have started out as a brain-dead puppet, wearing masks and diapers, and hiding in...

King Charles is a figurehead. He reigns as King but does not rule. However he is the titular head and moral leader of both the Anglican Church and the British Commonwealth Of Nation. So I now exercise the free speech right to push for him to show moral leadership and recognise the crisis of morality within the institutions of his realm which undermines the authority of those institutions.

The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun. The Ukrainian army, egged on by its US controllers, had put most of its resource in the static defense of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk)-Soldedar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops... The aim of the Russian thrust in the south will be to take cities like Zaporiziha. The aim is to bring the main transport routes, railways and roads, from west-Ukraine to the front in east Ukraine under...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) complains that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s determination to keep him off the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) “is so unfair.” McCarthy defended his position, pointing out that “Swalwell’s long-term sexual liaison with a Chinese spy indicates that he should not be privy to the kind of sensitive national security information that the HPSCI deals with on a regular basis.” Swalwell called McCarthy’s explanation “unconvincing. President Biden stored classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, DC. This Center was funded by Chinese Communist Party money and included sharing...

While the Department of Justice saw fit to send a platoon of armed FBI agents to seize documents from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, no such dramatic enforcement effort has been expended in the retrieval of classified documents held in various locations by President Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland explained that "the situations are in no way analogous. Trump was a twice-impeached enemy of our democracy. President Biden is the nation's most prominent defender of our democracy. It stands to reason that different approaches are warranted." Among the differences between the two cases is that President Biden's private lawyers--none of...

"The Kid" was released 102 years ago on January 21. It is the story of an economically marginalised man who raises and loves an abandoned baby boy through his earliest years. Modern feminism demonises the caring nature of most men and marginalises mums. The Trump family doesn't do that. As Melania has said, "We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children ....." God Bless Her And Her Family

On this date in 1964, Cambodian dissident Preap In was shot in Trapeang Kraleung … an execution so public that every cinema-goer in the country would witness it. This is the Cambodia of Narodom Sihanouk — “a libertine and a francophile, a filmmaker and a painter, a serial husband and father and philanderer, a cherubic but ruthless god-king,” in the words of one obituary when he died late last year. Plucked from the distant branches of the royal family tree and set up on the throne as an 18-year-old French puppet in 1941, Sihanouk cast a long shadow over his...

Hunter Biden’s scandals have intersected with his father, President Joe Biden’s classified documents saga, with evidence showing the troubled son likely had access to one of the areas where his father kept classified documents. The president's lawyers have admitted Obama-era records with classified markings on them were found in his office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in early November, with more classified documents found in the president's garage in Delaware in December and further classified documents found in his Delaware home last Thursday. Evidence shows Hunter Biden spent time at the Wilmington home — and likely had access...

How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) berate the Trump tax cuts as “a giveaway to the rich?” Biden and congressional Democrats now want to let expire major planks of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, former President Donald Trump's signature domestic achievement, particularly the incentives for American businesses to invest more here at home. We now have incontrovertible evidence that after five years since they took effect, the Trump tax rate cuts of 2017 raised revenues over this time period. For full disclosure, I should note...

I rate Donald Trump along with Ike, Kennedy, Nixon and The Gipper as one of the best five American presidents of my lifetime. (I was born in 1957 on a day when Andy Williams "Butterfly" was on top of the charts.) I believe that what the Trump Presidency did for America and for the Western World would never have happened if he had not had smart beautiful women who loved him in his family and at his side. Words and images which I believe prove this can be seen by clicking the link in red type below the title of...

Trudeau gets unwelcome greeting in Windsor In the video, Trudeau’s motorcade can be seen driving through a crowd of people protesting his appearance in their city. Half a dozen “F*CK Trudeau” flags are seen being waved by members of the crowd. “Last night, Trudeau’s motorcade was met by a wall of angry protesters in Windsor, Ontario,” tweeted The Counter Signal’s founder Keean Bexte. “Locals calling on the beleaguered Prime Minister to resign.” Last night, Trudeau's motorcade was met by a wall of angry protesters in Windsor, Ontario. Locals calling on the beleaguered Prime Minister to resign. pic.twitter.com/TsIEZrPE8v — Keean Bexte...

With the House of Representatives poised to conduct investigations of crimes and abuses committed by the Biden family businesses, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) kindly advised them not to. "The issue of whether it is worthwhile to go down this path was adjudicated by voters in last year's elections. If voters had wanted such investigations they wouldn't have elected so many Democrats." House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) pointed out that "more Republicans than Democrats were elected to the House. Four million more votes were cast for Republicans than for Democrats. On top of this, a recent poll conducted by...

On this date in 1573, Gilles Garnier was burned at the stake as a lycanthrope. The “Werewolf of Dole” was a scavenging hermit resident on the outskirts of that Burgundian town when a little girl was strangled and partially eaten in October of 1572. Townsfolk feared a maneating wolf but a subsequent pattern of attacks would point at something even more frightful. As kitsch as it becomes for us in modernity, it is not difficult to discern in the werewolf legend the shadow of a truly terrifying era when predatory wolves and predatory men alike prowled the dangerous byways in...

The Australian nation started as a penal colony. The best of Australian culture is robust and free. But the worst is weak and servile. Freedom Fighter Matt is a working man in Melbourne not afraid to denounce leftist police totalitarianism. God Bless Matt.