Free Republic

British actress Frances Barber conceded Monday that she's changed her view on President Donald Trump following his role in brokering a peace deal between Israel and Hamas earlier this week. "I had TDS and I'm now eating my words," she wrote on X Monday, reposting a photo showing a "Thank You" message to Trump written on a Tel Aviv beach. The actress later confirmed in her comment section that the acronym she used in her post stood for "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Barber had previously been an outspoken critic of Trump, slamming the president on social media for being a "convicted...

The White House press secretary said on Tuesday that President Biden “respectfully disagrees” with Catholic bishops on federally-funded fetal tissue research. At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, EWTN News Nightly’s Owen Jensen asked press secretary Jen Psaki about the Biden administration’s recent decision to remove restrictions on federally-funded fetal tissue research. “As you well know, the administration just lifted the ban on researchers using fetal tissue from elective abortions,” Jensen said. He cited a statement of the U.S. bishops’ conference that the decision to lift the ban and allow for taxpayer-funded research with aborted fetal tissue was “deeply offensive.” “Look,...

Targeted attack suspectedRUMBEK, South Sudan (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic clerics are among those implicated in the shooting of a South Sudanese bishop-elect. Three Catholic clerics were among 12 suspects arrested Monday in conjunction with the April 26 shooting of Bishop-Elect Christian Carlassare in South Sudan's Rumbek diocese. The other nine suspects arrested in what's believed to be a targeted attack are "prominent lay personalities" in the diocese. An inside source told ACI Africa (ACI) that a cell phone found at the crime scene linked the suspects to the shooting. "When the two men shot the bishop-elect, one of them dropped down...

Yesterday, 11 National Post contributors named their preferred Republican nominee in less than 250 words. Being more indecisive and longer-winded, I needed 24 extra hours and 500 more words. I’m looking for two chief things in a candidate for 2012: The temperament, judgment, deftness and largeness of spirit required in the presidential office; and The creativity and intellect to respond to the global economic crisis — a crisis threatening to actually get worse if (or when) the euro implodes. Those conditions obviously and categorically exclude the clownish Herman Cain, the daffy Ron Paul, the dim Rick Perry and the firebrand...