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Former ambassador to the UN under President Trump and candidate for the 2024 presidential race, Nikki Haley, sharply criticized fellow candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The candidate said that he supports ending the military funding to Israel once the current package passed by Congress expires in 2028, arguing that the aid would be unnecessary after he successfully negotiates new peace treaties between Israel and its Arab neighbors during the first year of his presidency. Ramaswamy later clarified that he would support continued aid to Israel after 2028 if his plan were to fail. ...."Ramaswamy is completely wrong to call for...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, in testimony at a hearing Wednesday on the Defense Department budget, said — in comments that have since gone viral — “I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military … of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there.” In a lengthy introduction, Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz claimed the military’s introduction of the study of extremism and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s one-day stand-down order is the “number one” complaint he hears from service members. He ultimately asked...

Third lawsuit against media for false attacksDETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Nick Sandmann's legal team is suing NBCUniversal for $275 million, bringing the number of lawsuits filed on behalf of the aggrieved Covington Catholic High School student to three. Prior to suing NBC, Sandmann's attorneys also sought financial restitution from cable news network CNN for $275 million and The Washington Post newspaper for $250 million. The suit names NBCUniversal and its networks and platforms — including NBC, MSNBC and the NBC owned-and-operated stations — as defendants. The suit also alleges attacks on Sandmann were posted online on corresponding websites and Twitter accounts...

Hannity allegedly made the comments about Smith — who has made a name for himself in the Fox News Trump-era by refusing to pander to his network’s conservative audience — while hanging-out with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend where he was “overheard trashing” the anchor, according to Vanity Fair. “Hannity was denouncing Shep and Trump was eating it up,” said one source who is familiar with the encounter between Trump and Hannity, which led in the host attempting to discredit the report. This wouldn’t be the first time Shepard Smith has butted-heads with Fox News’ opinion programming. During an in-depth...

A controversial voter-turnout tactic employed by Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign in Iowa is cropping up in New Hampshire, this time by way of a mysterious organization about which few public details are available. Voters in New Hampshire received envelopes in the mail this week claiming to contain “important taxpayer information,” according to Christopher Crawford, who received one of the mailers and posted pictures of it on Twitter. Mr. Crawford, who recently moved to Washington, was visiting his parents at their home in Nashua, N.H., this week when he opened an envelope addressed to him only to find a chart...

Back in July, Friends of Artorius, part of my blog, filed charges with the SEC regarding Schumer's leak and subsequent run on IndyMac. It is our belief that Schumer's Wall Street contributors were short on IndyMac and benefitted handsomely. Today, I turn on FR and the TV to find the Banking Comm meeting today. And Chuck Schumer is on there. Outraged, I called the SEC number of the investigator demanding an explanation. I was blown off by being told the charges were "ambiguous". Now Schmuckie is going to ask me for 700 Billion dollars, when we cant even pay attention!

-Yet this Putz wants the taxpayers to pay more for gas to punish Oil Companies for being profitable...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic 2008 White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton says she is happy she stuck out it out with her husband, the 42nd president, through "challenges" in their marriage. Clinton said in an interview with the November issue of Essence magazine, that Bill Clinton is "so romantic" and recently brought her home a wooden giraffe from a trip to Africa. "I know the truth of my life and of my marriage, my relationship and partnership, my deep abiding friendship with my husband," Clinton said, according to excerpts of the interview on the magazine's website. "Now obviously, we've had challenges...

Jimmy Carter may or may not have been the worst president of the 20th century — history will have the final word on that — but his disgraceful performance yesterday at Coretta Scott King's funeral marks him as the most shameless. Maybe of all time. There is, after all, a time and place for everything — but not for Carter. In a reprehensible (albeit typical) display of tone-deafness, the former president used the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow to score cheap points against President Bush. (He wasn't alone in that regard, more of which in a bit.) Carter...

Dear people of Free Republic, I recently had to come into this wonderful country that is your website. After reading a post about the come back of Bruce Springsteen andt the fact that you think he is anti-american and a traitor just because he dared to use his FREEdom to speak and said publicly that Bush was a liar., i told myself, that, if this wonderful country uses the word FREE to call itself, I should use this opportunity to answer and to use MY FREEdom to speak as well. I posted under “blec93” an article showing how high the...

Edwards is getting skewered for his almost grinning taunt to AlQaeda ... Howard Fineman notes if that's the best the Dems have got then the US will decide "we need Dick Cheney". Andrea Mitchell notes that it's impossible for Edwards to say anything and come across seriously because he's so young and Scarborough cracks a joke about how AlQaeda cannot take "the Breck Girl" seriously. Meanwhile on CNN lib gal laments Edwards came across as a slick "game show host" and "Jr." by any comparison.

The staffer said, Well, we can’t take the risk that he’s known to be seeing an expert on lying. Ekman rather liked Clinton, and wanted Clinton’s ‘trademark expression,’ to have been no more than a meaningless facial tic.

The Boston University Board of Trustees has brought down the curtain - at least for now - on the multi-act melodrama playing out on Commonwealth Avenue. Former NASA chief Daniel S. Goldin saved the trustees the trouble of firing him before he even took office and no doubt walked away with a settlement handsome enough to salve any bruises he might have suffered to his ego. A pile of cash, no hassles from the board, no John Silber to breathe down his neck and no damage to his reputation since it was the board that persisted in acting like the...

<p>We have the War Against Poverty, the War Against Drugs and the War Against Terrorism. Needless to say, we're losing all of them. I say let's make a war that we can win. My proposal? The War Against Stupidity.</p> <p>Now you might think this would be the most difficult of all wars to win, but as a schoolteacher, I have hope. I'm fortunate to work in a school where the teachers think—they read books, they write poems, essays, songs and stories, they discuss current affairs and even timeless questions. They think about how they think and they think about how to help children to think. And the results are impressive. The children do think and they show promise of growing into adults who will continue to think.</p>

DAILY WHISPER The Lott buzz: Gone in days Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, under pressure from colleagues and the White House to give up his post instead of face a January vote of confidence, may give in as soon as this weekend, predict key Senate Republican aides. In fact, they're already discussing Lott's post-majority-leader career, suggesting that he might be handed the chairmanship of a key committee for "doing the right thing," says one aide. As his comments at a birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond and his subsequent apologies continued to ripple through Washington yesterday, fellow Republican senators began...

Like whist, whilst, and self-abuse, the word sodomy has an old-fashioned ring to it. You don't even see it alluded to much anymore, except in punning tabloid headlines about the situation in Iraq. But it—or its kissin' cousin, the nearly as archaic-sounding "deviate sexual intercourse"—can be found in the criminal codes of thirteen states of the Union, where it is punishable by penalties ranging from a parking-ticket-size fine to (theoretically) ten years in prison. Even at this late date, many people are vague about just exactly what sodomy is. Montesquieu defined it as "the crime against nature," which is not...

Heads Up! Sean Hannity just announced that Jim McGreasy called and asked to be on his radio show this afternoon. Sean said they are trying to arrange the call-in, so be listening; Sean predicted fireworks. Tony

<p>DENVER — The White House yesterday ridiculed Al Gore for flip-flopping on Iraq and dismissed the former vice president's charge that President Bush is trampling civil liberties.</p> <p>"You know, it's hard to pay attention to what Al Gore says because it's so hard to know what Al Gore really believes, given how many times he's changed his position on Iraq," said White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.</p>