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Dr. Rand Paul Offers Amendment to NDAA on Much Needed Ukraine Aid Oversight

Will Hurd is a former CIA clandestine officer who later served in the US Congress as a Texas Representative until 2021. Deep State ally Will Hurd hated President Trump and still hates President Trump. During the Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Will Hurd, a former CIA Agent (Deep Stater) and Texas congressman, launched a series of personal attacks against Trump at the end of his speech. These cheap shots including claiming that Trump was running “to stay out of prison,” rather than to “make America great again.” He started his unprovoked assault by unfavorably comparing Trump to...

Like a lot of Coloradans, residents of Costilla County balked at the changes to their property values because of what it means for their property taxes. Higher values, higher taxes. The county assessor is in charge of determining that value, but the values that people are getting back don't make much sense to them right now. Whether you are Joe C. Rodriguez who has lived in southern Colorado for 79 years, or Tom Philips who moved out there in 2021 for his retirement home, it's the same problem across the board. They both got increased values out of what they...

We continue our extracts from Richmond papers of July 27: A correspondent of the Richmond Sentinel writes from the camp of ALEXANDER's battery of light artillery, near Hagerstown, Md., under date of July 10: "There is no doubt about the fact that our repulse here has, at least for a time, changed the whole plan of this campaign. Almost every one feels that we attempted almost impossibilities. I think we were too confident. I intimated this in my letter to you from Chambersburgh. Every man felt we could whip HOOKER wherever we might meet him. We had forgotten the power...

Russian RAMBO, YOU BE THE JUDGE. go to 4:25 to see video

It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends. The MSM have constructed an undiluted narrative about “Putin’s War” that disguises America’s imperialist expansion into eastern Europe. It is utterly Orwellian in its effort to project onto Russia what the U.S. and its main imperial ally, the UK (which a British journalist deemed “America’s tugboat”), have been doing non-stop since 1945—and indeed for centuries. Looking back, the U.S. under Truman began the...

African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show in response to their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a way to end the war there. During a press conference Saturday, Putin said terminating the grain deal this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies, and Moscow would share some of those revenues with the “poorest nations.” Putin also said Russia would analyze the African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine.

The proposal floats a series of possible steps to defuse the conflict, including a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that an initiative presented by African leaders could be a basis for peace in Moscow’s war on Ukraine but claimed that attacks from Kyiv made a cessation of hostilities “virtually impossible”. The Russian leader made the comments in Moscow on Saturday after meeting leaders from Africa in Saint Petersburg and hearing their calls for Russia to move ahead with their plan. The proposal, according to the Reuters news agency, floats a series of possible steps...

Alabama woman Carlee Russell has been charged with two misdemeanors after police say she launched a false police search by staging her own abduction, officials announced Friday. Russell, 25, of Hoover, turned herself in Friday and faces two misdemeanor charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident, local police said. Both are punishable by up to a year in jail. Her total bond was set at $2,000. She posted bail Friday afternoon and was released from custody.

The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world’s leading scientific organizations. It turns out that levels of water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas, whose heightened presence leads to higher temperatures, a mechanism that dwarfs any effect CO2 may have. So, why has atmospheric water vapor increased so dramatically? Because of a historic, gigantic volcanic eruption last year...

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to continue his 2024 White House run even if he is convicted and sentenced on criminal charges. Trump made the promise during a Friday appearance on "The John Fredricks Show," a pro-Trump radio program, when asked whether his potential conviction would terminate his second bid for the White House. "Not at all. There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could," Trump said. "Even the radical left crazies are saying, ‘No, that wouldn’t stop!’ And it wouldn’t stop me either."

The first glimpse I ever had of Robert Oppenheimer was in an episode of the landmark British television documentary series The World at War. (Soon to be the topic of this column.) It was in Episode 24 ("The Bomb"), which tells the story of the American nuclear program from its inception to the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oppenheimer does not play a huge part until they get to the first test of the "Gadget", on July 16, 1945 at the White Sands Proving Grounds, roughly midway between Albuquerque and El Paso. He...

The hall of fame rapper said the left and right ‘[have] just got to talk. That’s the only way we’re going to work this out. I know that when the talkin’ stops, the fighting starts.’ LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews) — In the wake of his ride-along interview with rapper Ice Cube, Tucker Carlson sat down with the Hip Hop icon in his L.A. studio where they discussed race, politics, cancel culture, the trans phenomenon, men, and the police. In this 11th episode of his new Tucker on Twitter show, the former Fox News ratings king asked “Cube” — whose birth name...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 24 The Ascension of Jesus 50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. _______________________________________________________New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.God Bless America.ML/LTOS

It is high time people became aware of the true objective of the climate agenda: curtailing and monitoring human activity and allowing the elite to ultimately control all resources. If you experienced unprecedented delays during air travel this summer, the airlines likely blamed it on the weather. You might have been surprised, for bad weather wasn’t reported in the news. But here is what should surprise and shock you even more. The real reason – a shortage of pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCs) – is linked to the Great Reset, the agenda to control people and restrict freedom conceived...

On July 24th, 2023, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit refused the government’s attempt to stay the district court’s decision in the case of VanDerStok v. Garland, which vacated the ATF’s “frame or receiver” rule. The preliminary injunction against enforcement of the frame and receiver portions of the Final Rule was issued by Judge O’Conner on August 17, 2022. The Memorandum Opinion by Judge Reed O’Conner, published on June 30, 2023, vacated (ruled them to be unlawful) the ATF’s Final Rule. Judge O’Conner, told the ATF (the Biden Administration) it did not...

The Talk Shows July 30th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.); Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Ass-a Hutchinson (R-Ark.); Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg (I) and CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Republican presidential candidate Gov Doug Burgum (R-N.D.); Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee; Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Trump attorney Alina Habba. Panel: former State Department...

Russian pomp and circumstance greeted 17 leaders of African countries who arrived in St. Petersburg earlier this week. Some delegations were welcomed with a military orchestra, and Zimbabwe’s president received a helicopter as a gift from President Vladimir Putin. Putin billed Russia’s second summit with African leaders and delegates as “a crucial event” to boost ties and partnership for many years to come. For Russia, the event was a battle for influence and allies, and showed how isolated Russia could become in the shadow of its invasion of Ukraine. “We see the same, reciprocal interest to act together, hand in...

It has been a week of scandalous doings under Attorney General Merrick Garland’s watch. It has been a week of scandalous doings on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s watch. Congress seems paralyzed to intervene with more than hearings, and so far, only federal district court Judge Maryellen Noreika has tried. As I explain, it’s questionable whether her conduct will prevent the Justice Department from exonerating Hunter Biden from laundering what may be as much as $50 million in bribes from countries, including China, Ukraine, and Romania, into his family’s pockets. Through Jack Smith it has corralled President Trump’s valet and the...

Ghislaine Maxwell is so broke she may have to represent herself in her legal appeal against her conviction on child sex-trafficking charges, it was claimed last night. The disgraced socialite has told friends she is penniless and has no money to hire lawyers. Maxwell's former marital home in Manchester-by-the-Sea in Massachusetts was sold last week for £4.5 million but it is unlikely that she will see a penny from the sale. While she alleges that her money was used originally to buy the property, it was in the name of a company controlled by her ex-husband Scott Borgerson, who has...