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On the debate stage and on the campaign trail, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has loudly urged other Republicans to focus their attention not on their own internal squabbling but on Donald Trump’s comeback bid. During an interview Tuesday on “Politically Georgia,” Christie also repeatedly brought up another GOP figure: Gov. Brian Kemp, a longtime ally who defeated a Trump-backed candidate last year and hasn’t yet taken sides in the 2024 race. "I’m proud to be a Brian Kemp Republican. I was with Brian Kemp in 2018 when he ran the first time. I was with him in the...

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Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Put the Flag on Ruzzian Positions | Hard battle was won https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9X8O0a3Mg Militaryland news The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 9th December 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-654-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Former South Carolina governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was endorsed Tuesday New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu, The New York Times reports. The Times notes Sununu said during an interview last month that "he was looking for someone who could beat" Donald Trump "and who could connect with voters on 'a very retail level.'" He added, "You always want a fighter — you always want someone who is going to put passion and energy behind it." With that, the GOP leader announced during a Manchester, New Hampshire campaign event, "We are all in for Nikki Haley." Per...

The gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks continue the trend in 2023 of the third or fourth highest month on record and the ongoing trend of over a million guns sold during the month. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has reported gun sales, as estimated by NICS, have been over 1 million a month for 52 months. Gun sales during November 2023 were about 1.56 million firearms. NICS checks for the month were about 2.65 million, making them the third-highest gun sales for November and the fourth-highest NICS checks.Gun sales in November of 2021 were 1.51...

In a shocking development, Elon Musk and Chris Pavloski are gearing up for legal action against an alleged fraud scheme, mirroring tactics used on Twitter, now deployed on Rumble. The controversial Media Matters/X playbook is said to involve manipulating algorithms and orchestrating fake ad placements to pressure advertisers into abandoning the platform. The narrative, described as “evil,” underscores Musk’s role as a key player in dismantling what is portrayed as a censorship-industrial complex. This complex, comprising government agencies, think tanks, private media, and activist organizations, is accused of censoring, controlling, and financially crippling free speech platforms under the guise of...

A man accused of robbing an armored car at gunpoint earlier this year had previously served 26 years in federal prison and was granted “compassionate release” by the state of California, which is typically reserved for inmates diagnosed with terminal diseases or other debilitating illnesses. Markham David Bond, 60, of Inglewood was arrested in November for allegedly robbing a Brinks courier at gunpoint in a Chase bank parking lot on South Sepulveda Boulevard in Westchester on Aug. 18. Bond allegedly pointed a gun at a Brinks employee who was carrying a blue duffel bag full of cash, ordered him to...

Ten Israeli soldiers, including a high-ranking official, were killed while fighting Hamas forces in the Gaza strip yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Grinberg, 35, Major Roei Meldasi, 23, Major Moshe Avram Bar-On, 23, Sergeant Achia Daskal, 19, Captain Liel Hayo, 22, Major Ben Shelly, 26, Major Rom Hecht, 20, Sergeant Oriya Yaakov, 19, Eran Aloni, 19, and Itzhak Ben Basat, 24, died amid battles in Gaza City's Shajaiya neighbourhood. Several of the servicemen were killed by an explosive device, while the remaining soldiers were gunned down by Hamas fighters after being cut off from the rest of their troop, according to...

Chicago Residents VOW to disrupt Democrat Convention, this is going to be good.All over our country black Americans have been throwing their support over to Trump. Now finally, Chicago’s black Americans vow to stage a revolution against the Dem Party and disrupt the Dem convention.

@BasedMikeLee Tomorrow the Senate has the chance to remove FISA 702 from the NDAA. The Senate rules can make this happen if just 41 senators agree. FISA should be reviewed on its own merits—not the NDAA’s. If you agree, please share & tell your senators to remove FISA from the NDAA!

The newest video shows the migrants crossing the border near Eagle Pass through multiple locations after getting past the Rio Grande. In the first part of the video, the migrants, lined up in droves next to a long, chain-link fence appearing ready to be processed. The second half of the clip sees several physically swimming their way across the Rio Grande before piling past a barbed wire fence and in some cases, making camp on the shores to dry their clothes. A border patrol agent told Fox News that 'the TCOs (Transnational Criminal Orgs) know what they’re doing.' Transnational Criminal...

Rabbi David Wolpe is stepping down from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard University, citing “events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony” of the university’s president, Claudine Gay, during a congressional hearing this week on campus antisemitism. “Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” Wolpe wrote Thursday on X, formerly Twitter. .....

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken criticized the delay in the United Nation’s response to reports of Hamas’ sexual violence on October 7th and said the atrocities were “beyond anything I’ve ever seen.” He told Tapper, “The atrocities that we saw on Oct. 7 are almost beyond description or beyond our capacity to digest.” .....

CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process. “You got to move both forward by a percentage that leads to a plus on your bonus," Krishna said about hiring Hispanics, "and by the way if you lose, you lose part of your bonus.” After pulling ads from X for 'racism,' IBM chief Arvind Krishna says he will fire, demote or strip bonuses from execs who don't hire enough blacks, Hispanics — or hire too many Asians "Asians are not an underrepresented minority in tech...

Vice President Harris' holiday party speech was interrupted by a Democrat state representative who called for a cease-fire in the Middle East. Harris was in the middle of speaking at a Christmas party on Monday night when Delaware state Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton held up a sign that read "cease-fire" and began yelling at the vice president. "Madam Vice President, I am a rep from Delaware. Did you know in Bethlehem they are not celebrating Christmas? Did you know in Bethlehem, baby Jesus is under rubble? Why won't you call for a cease-fire?" Wilson-Anton shouted. The vice president cut off the...

House Speaker Mike Johnson Johnson told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that there was no resolution in sight to the impasse over President Biden’s request for $61.4 billion in new funding for Ukraine. Johnson (R-La.) said that he told Zelesnky during a private meeting that “we stand with him and against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” but that he was concerned about the lack of a plan to resolve the conflict and provide oversight of the proposed spending. “I have asked the White House since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity....

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Ron DeSantis blames Satanic display on Donald Trump at CNN townhall as Kim Reynolds under fire in Iowa

Chargers' Justin Herbert having season-ending finger surgery LOS ANGELES -- Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was scheduled for surgery to repair his fractured right index finger Tuesday and was placed on injured reserve, ending his 2023 season, the team announced. Herbert suffered the injury in Los Angeles' 24-7 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday . . . Herbert had started 62 consecutive games, the second-longest active streak by a quarterback, behind only the Buffalo Bills' Josh Allen (84). That streak will end when the Chargers play the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday, with Easton Stick starting for Los Angeles. ....

Tesla has unveiled “Optimus Gen 2”, a new generation of its humanoid robot that should be able to take over repetitive tasks from humans. Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, has not been taken seriously by many outside of the more hardcore Tesla fans, and for good reason. When it was first announced, it seemed to be a half-baked idea from CEO Elon Musk with a dancer disguised as a robot for visual aid. It also didn’t help that the demo at Tesla AI Day last year was less than impressive. At the time, Tesla had a very early prototype...

There is a major controversy brewing in Canada over a proposal in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons that schools shift from emphasizing “medical expertise” in favor of teaching “anti-racism” and social justice values.An organization of physicians called Do No Harm is opposing the recommendation of the interim report by the college’s Anti-Racism Expert Working Group.The report states that the new emphasis should center around “values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice, rather than medical expertise.” By “de-centering medical expertise,” the anti-racism experts suggest courses focusing on “anti-racism,” “anti-oppression,” “social justice and equity,” “inclusive compassion,” and “decolonization.”That includes...