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Back on October 1st, Richmond, Virginia public schools superintendent Jason Kamras followed President Joe Biden’s lead and announced a vaccine mandate for all teachers and staff in his district. Those failing to comply would have their pay withheld and could potentially face the loss of their jobs if they didn’t come into line with the policy. But that was then and this is now. The schools were already struggling to fill more than 100 vacancies, almost all of which were driven by the mandate. This week, on Monday night, the School Board was forced to approve 29 more resignations, so...

Love is truly blind! A Big Apple man left blind after being stabbed in the eye by a subway robber has revealed how he found love in the aftermath of the horrific attack. In January 2020, The blind man, identified simply as “K” for privacy reasons, was reportedly the victim of a random subway robbery, in which the attacker used a screwdriver to gouge out his left eye.

Parents reveal sleazy details of how they helped capture the California mom hosting sex parties for underage children. Shannon O’Connor usually communicates with teenagers via Snapchat, according to parents. Details are surfacing about how parents helped expose a mother from Silicon Valley area who was accused of hosting wild, drunken sex parties for teenagers in her multi-million dollar California home.

As any mother to a child knows, you certainly are a busy woman with a lot on your to-do list. However, imagine having 21 babies of your own – that’s Kristina Ozturk’s life. The 24-year-old mom of 21, from Batumi, Georgia, and her 57-year-old husband, Galip, a millionaire businessman, have spent $195,500 on surrogacy between March last year and July this year.

A young fan holding a “Tom Brady Helped Me Beat Brain Cancer” sign breaks down in tears when Tom Brady gives him a signed cap. Tom Brady shared the heartwarming moment with the young fan, who is a cancer survivor, on Sunday night as the team was closing out a victory over the Chicago Bears.

Here’s what Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito looked like on some of their cross-country road trip stops. These photos might be the last ones Brian and Gabby have taken together during their final road trip stops.

I am not an atheist, nor even an agnostic. Keep that in mind, because I am not saying the Bible promotes atheism. Quite the opposite, of course — but there is a passage in the Bible that helps us Jews and Christians to understand why some people are atheist/agnostic and why we cannot persuade them otherwise. The reason may humble us. From 1 Corinthians 2:14 (King James Version): [T]he natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. This passage rebukes atheism,...

Way back when, in the very beginning of Pandemic Time, March of 2020, I found an article that described a think-tank exercise determining how we might respond to a pandemic. It played out four response scenarios, with outcomes for each, from shutting down the economy, as we did, to doing nothing, emphasizing what each scenario would do to the world’s economy. I vaguely remember it being undertaken in either 2009 or 2014. I wish I could find this article, but it’s either been taken down or buried so deep it might as well have been. My bookmark disappeared. I remember,...

His wife just texted me. He passed away suddenly today. He wanted Free Republic to know. He was active on the Talk Radio threads, especially Levin, Limbaugh, Plante & others. His birthday was on Friday, 9/24/21. His wife just wrote: "No words". We know each other from WMAL events. May he Rest In Peace.

Following a violent storm sometimes comes a most beautiful rainbow. The rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant to man, declaring that he will never again destroy nearly all of humanity by a cataclysmic flood. It reassures us that, despite the natural tendency of man towards depravity, God promised He would never again (save Noah’s family) wipe us off planet Earth. What God did not promise is that man would not cause great harm to his own kind. Indeed, we have seen the rise and fall of many nations, each warring against one another and exploiting the other’s weaknesses, strengths,...

This is an anonymously posted document by someone who calls themselves Spartacus. Because it’s anonymous, I can’t contact them to ask for permission to publish. So I hesitated for a while, but it’s simply the best document I’ve seen on Covid, vaccines, etc. Whoever Spartacus is, they have a very elaborate knowledge in “the field”. If you want to know a lot more about the no. 1 issue in the world today, read it. And don’t worry if you don’t understand every single word, neither do I. But I learned a lot.

As the disastrous policies, both domestic and international, of resident Joseph R. Biden (D) and his amateur and incompetent ideological crew continue to wreak havoc on America, the glories of President Donald J. Trump's talented and creative work, such as the Abraham Accords, continue. Just yesterday, during the Jewish holiday of Succoth, a group of over 300 prominent Iraqis, both of Sunni and Shiite outlooks, publicly announced their "call for full peace with Israel." Hundreds of Iraqi leaders and activists gathered in the country's Kurdistan region on Friday to publicly call for full normalization with Israel. The group, which includes...

When parents go to Back To School nights at their children’s schools, they’re accustomed to the fact that the teachers have personalized “their” classrooms, filling them with materials related to the subject matter. We’ve all seen, though, the teachers who have gone too far, bringing in personal or political material that has no place in a public school. In one Los Angeles classroom, parents discovered that a teacher had turned the classroom into an homage to far-left politics. Parents Defending Education, which describes itself as “a national, grassroots nonprofit empowering parents to advocate for classrooms that educate—not indoctrinate,” obtained photos...

I wish everyone would acknowledge that leftism is the party of death and destruction and anti American everything. Look at the truth and their actions it makes me sick that we haven’t thrown them out as a plaque of society.America deserves better.

I don't care if you hate Twitter. Get your butts over there an read MTG's Twitter feed. She is on freaking fire. She is methodically destroying Biden and laying out what's really happening in Afghanistan and the One Belt initiative, the war, and how it all ties together. We built the infrastructure that was to mine the rare earth materials, and now have all but given it to China. While our own roads deteriorate and we are going to be forced to drive crappy electric cars. SHE IS POINTING OUT GLOBALISM AND NAMING NAMES. This woman is a true patriot.

The full tv debate by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on the question of Human Nature. Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Japanese. Proper subtitles. If you'd like to help create subs for other languages, then contact me. [Dutch & Portuguese below] Excerpts from the historical debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky have passed the reverse many times in recent years. And there is frequently referred to these two thinkers. Here we will be showing the whole fascinating debate on philosophy and politics that in 1971 was recorded for Dutch television. Noam Chomsky (1928): linguist, historian, philosopher, critic and political activist. As...

Could use some help please. I make a calendar every year for my dad that includes daily text entries to remind him of birthdays, but also has jokes and puns which he likes. I have always used the iPhoto calendar template in the past, but Apple no longer supports making calendars from iPhoto. Last year the Apple template was available but I had to order the calendar from Mimeo by sending them a PDF of my iPhoto calendar.. Mimeo has a calendar template but it limits text entries to maybe 20 words per date. I have searched all over but...

I am interested in treatment protocols (if any exist) for those who took the first 2 shots and now have regrets. I have a family member (older male with no co-morbidities except age~67) who took the PFE jab in Feb. or March...Regrets it now! Does not want boosters. So far, no ill effects of which I am aware...However, they are concerned. Is there anything that can be done to mitigate what seems to be emerging data on ill effects for those who took the shots early on? Therapies? Research?

“‘I’d rather be myself,’ he said. ‘Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.’” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance “Even despotism does not produce...

“There a three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left. The first is, ‘Compared to what?’ The second is, ‘At what cost?’ And the third is, ‘What hard evidence do you have?’” “Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area—crime, education, housing, race relations—the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the...