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Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border. That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk...

“He can’t be as honest and candid as he was with me when he didn’t have Donald Trump as his boss,” Massie said. “He’s got his job is to sell this bill, and he’s trying to put lipstick on a pig, and Rand Paul and I are pointing out it’s a pig.”

May 4, 2025 marks 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on university students during an anti-war protest. The shooting, which killed – Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder – and those wounded – Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Grace, Dean Kahler, Joseph Lewis, Donald Mackenzie, James Russell, Robert Stamps and Douglas Wrentmore, sparked a turning point in the nation’s history.

China on Thursday denied any suggestion that it was in active negotiations with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over tariffs, saying that any notion of progress in the matter was as groundless as “trying to catch the wind.” China’s comments come after Trump said Tuesday that things were going “fine with China” and that the final tariff rate on Chinese exports would come down “substantially” from the current 145%.

President Donald Trump on Thursday offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian leader to “STOP!” after a deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!”

We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data.

My wife’s Facebook account looks like it’s been hacked. When she requests a reset code, she enters what’s sent and Facebook says the code entered doesn’t match the code sent. Anyone have experience with this? Ideas, suggestions or insights to break through would be appreciated. She uses the feature to stay in touch with old classmates, associates and family on the other side of the country. TIA.

Tom Selleck is worried he will no longer be able to afford his plush 63-acre ranch once “Blue Bloods” comes to an end this winter. The beloved actor, 79, has been starring in the popular CBS crime drama as the fictional New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan since 2010.

Look at the pics on today's website. See one taken a while back alongside Jeb Bush http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.parcol33.0002.ImageFile.jpg and one from todays ditto cam http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.parcol33.0003.ImageFile.jpg . Look at his jowl area. Definitely fuller. Or go to the web page to see it side by side (or one on top of the other) http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html

Let me ask a question. It's loaded. If Al Gore had won in 2000 and had executed his administration exactly as President Bush has with the exact same results, exact same actions, exact same bills signed, exact same actions, bills and speeches given, the exact same situation in Iraq and the WOT....everything exactly the same as has been done to this point by President Bush, would your support for Al Gore be as strong and would you find fault in Gore what you see as success in President Bush? Please, not Gore wouldn't have done this or Gore wouldn't have...

I'm helping a friend who owns a small market radio station. He would like to devote his entire 4th of July broadcast day to patriotic music to celebrate our freedom. (and the promotion would help a small struggling station doesn't hurt either). We've come up with a few, but would like to amplify the list with your imput so that the songs don't become overly repetitious. Any ideas for songs, from WWII tunes, Iving Berlin Classics, Sousa marches, Military marches, and especially any contemporary music that fits in with patriotism would be appreciated.

A recent Washington Post (see source url) article noted that in 13 of 16 major radio market, Rush Limbaugh's ratings are up. Good news for the Maja Rushie? Maybe.This article is reflecting the Winter Arbitrons (Jan-March) which have been released over the past 2 weeks for major markets and smaller markets are still being released. 13 of 16 major markets would normally be good news.....in fact excellent news. As with all news stories, sometimes it's important to peel back the facade and see the entire story in context. What?, you say. The point I want to make is that Rush ...

I hope this works, 'cause this is the first time I've done a link. To actually witness the Gumbel clip in Real Audio click here. IF the link doesn't work simply log onto www.mrc.org. I would be curious, after watching the clip, did he really say what they claim and to whom they claim?

Any Rush insiders here who can tell me whether listenership to his program is down? I've made it to the screener 5 times in the last 2 weeks. On the air twice. My cell phone bill will confirm at least 4 of the hits. (For any doubters, when it comes to me it will be available.)Three times on Monday or Tuesday and once yesterday. I can't remember if the 5th time was from my cell phone, which would log the call, or my office phone which wouldn't. And usually on the 3rd of 4th redial max.This is highly unusual, as ...

Did anyone yesterday sense the difficulty that Rush had answering a lady callers questions about school vouchers? She brought up some very interesting questions from an interesting perspective. Her questions cenetered around if the vouchers are granted by DC, what's to assure DC won't try to influence vouchered schools. I don't normally hear Rush not be well prepared to answer a question. On this matter, she caught him not well prepared. The questions she asked were some of the questions I have had for some time. He really put forth an effort to come to a reasonable answer and IMHO, ...

To be brief, this is an excerpt."This is politics at it's worst", Ohio Senator George Voinovich was quoted as saying in a statement issued Tuesday evening by Bush staff members. "This smear campaign is beneath contempt and beyond comprehension."There's only one problem with the statement. Voinovich never said it. And he never authorized the GOP presidential candidate's campaing to issue the statement in his name. In a rush to roll out expressions of outrage from varioius governors and senators condeming McCain's tactic, the Bush campaign wrote down what it WANTED (emphasis mine) Voinovich to say and distributed the statement via ...

Let me first explain that I one of the so called "Mushy Moderates" so often referred to on this forum and articulated on the Rush Limbaugh program. Actually here on Free Republic, the term RINO is more frequently used. The term "moderate" doesn't bother me. In fact, I'm proud of it. Using the adjective mushy before the word moderate, while labeling me (I thought that was a liberal trait), doesn't really define my thinking process and the term RINO is, well, just off the mark.That being said, I overall support John McCain. I have no real problem with George Bush. ...

Following the many Keyes articles and threads here on Free Republic, there seems to be 3 ways views of Alan Keyes:1. The ardent supporters who would be behind him no matter what the circumstance. 2. Those who like what he says, but wish he had a better way of saying it or would get off the race card.3. Those who would not support him under any circumstance, who think he's a kook or are dems responding to a thread about a candidate who they don't like. This thread is directed at the #1's and 2's.If you saw the Sam and ...

Y2K. That unknown computer programming bug that caused New Years Eve parties to be held at company IT centers around the world. Increased real estate sales in the hills of western Virginia and the remote parts of the Rocky Mountain states. The event that caused bottled water, freeze dried food, back up generators, weapons and other survial gear sales to soar.Certainly early on, the Y2K bug was serious stuff. There were no fixes. Billion of lines of software code would have to be studied, parsed and repaired. Hardware fixes could have to be devised. And would those fixes only fix ...