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Paul Ryan has slithered back onto the American political stage. Does he come bearing bold new ideas for the GOP of the future? Does he come bearing sick workout tips?Oh come on. Of course not. Ryan is back to trash Donald Trump.Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Thursday that former President Trump is a “proven loser” after a string of Republican election losses in recent years.“He’s fading fast,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday. “He is a proven loser. He cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us...

A well-known Australian athlete was found dead Saturday at his Sydney home, according to news reports. Simon Dunn, a rugby player who also competed on Australia’s bobsled team, was 35, according to Yahoo Sport Australia. His cause of death was not released, but officials said the cause of death “is not being treated as suspicious,” according to the report. The news outlet quoted a police representative as saying, “About 10 am on Saturday, January 21, 2023, police were called to a unit on Crown Street, Surry Hills, after reports the body of a man had been found inside. “The body...

Why are so many people, many of them quite young and seemingly in the peak of health, dropping dead? Today, the news of such events is so inescapable that it feels like an epidemic.

While Volodymyr Zelenskyy was on tour banging his tin cup for NATO donations, apparently his top government officials were skimming the books and building an extravagant life on the backs of the U.S. taxpayers. Slava Ukraini! However, on a brutally obvious note, I mean the wife of Zelenskyy went Christmas shopping in Paris and spent over €40,000 in a few hours on ritzy Avenue Montaigne. Where did people think she got that money?In an effort to stop the embarrassing revelations of internal corruption from weakening support for the inbound flows of cash from corrupt U.S. officials, the government of Zelenskyy...

In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting in our nation, the left is going after the Second Amendment once again and demanding that gun control measures be put in place. But one journalist, in a rare piece of actual journalism, pushed back on those demands and exposed a flaw in the left’s gun logic. On Monday, CBS News journalist Norah O’Donnell interviewed California’s leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom following a mass shooting in Monterey Park on Saturday that left 11 people dead. Predictably, Newsom repeated the leftist talking points about guns. He even went so far as to describe...

(Last Updated On: January 20, 2023) NATIONAL IRISH COFFEE DAY National Irish Coffee Day kicks off January 25th each year with a mug of strong coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and topped with a layer of cream. #NationalIrishCoffeeDay On a cold, wet day in 1942 weary travelers to the small Shannon Airport in southwest Ireland found their way to a restaurant and chef Joe Sheridan. To warm his guests, he served them hot coffee, spiked with whiskey and topped with whipped cream. The passengers asked if the beverage was Brazilian coffee. Sheridan responded that it was Irish coffee. Click play and...

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said House Republicans are “adamant” about leaving entitlements like Social Security and Medicare untouched as lawmakers battle over the debt ceiling.Banks’ comments came after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) last week that the U.S. government has hit the $31.3 trillion debt ceiling. Yellen told McCarthy she would use “extraordinary measures” to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt.Banks told CBS New’s Robert Costa that House Republicans have a “duty to use that majority the American people gave us to address real spending reforms.”News here from House Republican Jim Banks,...

Willis said Tuesday that "decisions are imminent" in the case.Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis suggested in a Tuesday afternoon court hearing that she could seek indictments in connection to a special purpose grand jury’s investigation into possible criminal interference in the state’s 2020 election. During the court hearing, Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments in relation to potentially releasing the special grand jury’s investigative report, to which Willis said that the report’s release could impact her cases, therefore it shouldn’t be released, according to WSB-TV. The brief notes that the investigation "has been one of enormous public...

On episode 20 of the show we are joined by Viktor Bout, a man whose life story is quite worthy of a film adaptation. A polyglot, entrepreneur, graduate of the Soviet Military Institute of Foreign Languages. In the West Viktor is portrayed as the “lord of war” and the “merchant of death”. A Russian businessman, a case against whom was fabricated by the American intelligence services on the basis of a provocation they carried out against him in Thailand in 2008. After extradition to the United States, Bout was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security prison. He was...

One of the characteristics of the modern world that you can see in people all around us is an intense dissatisfaction. Not just with social systems or with politics or whatever else, but with themselves. At a deep level, there is a profound alienation which these people have from themselves, indeed from human-ness itself. While they love hedonism and perversion, they hate the actual human being himself. Culturally, this is readily seen in pretty much every culture war position that the Left takes. Pregnancy is a “disease” and a child is an unwanted “clump of cells” that gets in the...

This is the true story of how President Trump saved my life. It everlastingly amazes me how most people I meet have a relative or friend suffering in agony from kidney failure, yet it is not considered a serious societal problem. Few can connect the dots.And the main dots are these: Diabetes is by far the most prevalent cause of kidney failure. No. 2 is long-term, high blood pressure. But here’s the kicker … high blood pressure is one of the main symptoms of diabetes. So, diabetes is doubly urgent to avoid.The very strict renal diet I was put on...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Photo: AlamyPresident Donald Trump has won the hearts of conservative voters across the U.S., and a series of new polls over the last few weeks can resoundingly prove it. On Tuesday, Trump remarked that “Despite the Fake News, which is out in full force, and our weaponized and corrupt legal system, the people get it!”2024 National Republican Primary Polling Trends by Morning ConsultJanuary 2:Donald Trump: 45% (+11)Ron DeSantis: 34%Mike Pence: 8%Nikki Haley: 3%JANUARY: 22Donald Trump: 49% (+19)Ron DeSantis: 30%Mike Pence: 7%Nikki Haley: 3%n=3,592 RV (Jan 22), n=4,829 RV (Jan 2) pic.twitter.com/qIhwY2wgLu— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) January 24, 2023His comment captioned a graphic...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) railed against “weapons of war” after the suspected Half Moon Bay shooter used a handgun to kill seven people. Breitbart News reported the suspected shooter killed seven people in separate shootings on two mushroom farms early Monday afternoon. CBS News noted that the suspected shooter “drove himself to the substation located between the two businesses and surrendered to deputies.” They pointed out that the weapon used was “a [semiautomatic] handgun.”

After years of service to our country, soldiers were fired for not getting an experimental vaccine. As if that wasn’t nasty enough, the Biden administration demanded these same soldiers give back their “signing bonuses” after years of service and multiple deployments. One soldier had to “sell” 60 of his unused vacation days to pay it back and cover the protracted amount owed. “I’ve deployed multiple times, and I feel like the last thing I had was selling leave days that I earned and was never able to take due to me being deployed or needing that time to prepare for...

Can someone help me find a link to the recent Tucker Carlson Tonight segment on M&Ms? It was on in the past few nights. I saw it on YouTube but now seems to have gone down the memory hole. All that’s available are other people’s commentary on the matter. I would like to see Carlson’s original segment. Thanks

Labor Party chairwoman MK Merav Michaeli attacked Deputy Finance Minister Michal Woldiger, after it was announced that the "transgender-boy," a girl who has been dressed as a boy for years, would be transferred from her school in Givat Shmuel to a school for gifted students. "I want to say to Michal Woldiger from Religious Zionism, well done. You won," Michaeli wrote on her Twitter account. "You destroyed the life of an 8-year-old boy from Givat Shmuel." .....

San Diego County’s Regional Transportation Agency’s (SANDAG) latest transportation plan is designed to make driving so expensive that you succumb to public transportation. In addition to the current gas tax and registration fees, SANDAG’s plan adds three new half-cent sales tax increases, over 800 miles of San Diego County freeway lanes converted to toll lanes, and a mileage tax for every mile driven to pay for their $165 billion public mass transit plan. SANDAG’s new plan refuses to build the road improvements promised in their last plan but will continue to tax us until 2048 to pay for them. SANDAG’s...

Draft bill sheds light on possible assault weapons ban in Colorado By: Meghan LopezJan 25, 2023 DENVER — A bill that would ban assault weapons in the state could soon be introduced at the Colorado legislature. Two versions of the draft bill have been leaked, giving some insight on what the biggest battle of the legislative session could be. Denver7 obtained the newest version of the draft bill, dubbed the Mass Shooting Prevention Act. The bill would do three main things: define what an assault weapon is and what firearm components qualify as one, prohibit the sale and manufacturing of...