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It's official the US national debt now tops 33 trillion dollars... In Alberta, Canada today Pastor Artur Pawlowski given a 60-day sentence for speaking out during last year's trucker blockade... Following three months of silence from Canadian authorities Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now saying the murder of a Sikh activist in British Columbia may be linked to the Indian government... After the mainstream media allegations against COVID vaccine critic comedian Russell Brand... Azerbaijan demanding a back down from Armenia... Ukraine angered by the ban on import of its grain imposed... Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Space X-Tesla magnate Elon...

More public opinion polling this week much of it focused on Marine Le Pen creating a full picture of her positives and negatives... French cabinet ministers met Friday to discuss the migrant flood that reached the Italian island of Lampedusa this week. 7000 in two days. A shorter video clip from today's protest in Paris. Yellow Vests worn by most of the group that sang as they marched drums also present. One carboard sign displayed by a protester reads: "Tout augmente la misere aussi Dehors Macron" linking President Emmanuel Macron to the notion that: "Everything increases the misery"... In rural...

Newsdump Alert Breaking News: Security Guards Detain Armed Main Near Robert F. Kennedy Jr... Here I am your host to again recall the Great El Rushbo and Rush Limbaugh often reminded us that the "Rush Limbaugh Program" was the: "most fun you can have with your clothes on" But of course other folks out there... God Bless Congresswoman Lauren Boebert... US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho leading a US Senate delegation to nations like China and Japan No. 1 and 2 holders of the massive US national debt... The Second Coming Of Jesus...

The new military government in Niger increasing the military presence outside the French base in the capital city of Niamey... In Sweden two arrests with ten others detained as violence broke out at a Quran burning in the southern city of Malmo... A lockdown continues at the Stillwater Prison in Minnesota tonight... Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky firing his defense minister... Air strikes from the US-led coalition in Syria early Sunday morning in the Al-Tanf Region... Iraqi security forces deployed in the northern city of Kirkuk... At least 25 civilians killed in two days of warfare in Khartoum, the capital city...

Support Free Republic Posts from this blog are often reposted on "Free Republic" and the fundraiser to support FR currently underway... Fewer births more and more folks even Elon Musk says "Yes" to the notion of a population shortage... Let's go the "Barbie Update" I sat back in silence as the hype came down and the "suckers" lined up to feed the Never Trump Corporate Machine... The big people in the "Business Roundtable" the Davos Crowd etc. etc. are taking out Trump and that's the truth... Deny the Never Trump Corporate Giants your labor and or investment... The political argument...

North Korea says that US Army Private Travis King wants refuge after he crossed the border recently... The Russian military in Syria saying that two US warplanes came dangerously close to Russian aircraft in Syria... In Libya heavy fighting between militias in the capital city of Tripoli... Russian President Vladimir Putin urging a peaceful resolution to the dispute between African nations over the recent military coup in Mali... (Updated) In Argentina the fall of the peso continues today following yesterday's devaluation... The markets today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 361.24 points or 1.02 percent. The NASDAQ down 157.28 points...

The teaching about the "God Of My Understanding" began with the message conveyed in churches when I was young including a United Methodist Church in my hometown some 60 years ago... And out in Cape Girardeau, Missouri a young Rush Limbaugh III began his connection with the Centenary United Methodist Church in his youth in the 1950's.... The Woke World Bank Cuts Off Uganda... Are social media posts death sentences? Have FBI agents decided they are James Bond 007's that they have a "License To Kill"? I took a long trip "across the fruited plain" this week and some observations.....

The situation in Niger US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland visiting Niger. Nuland was active as a US State Department official during the 2014 coup in Ukraine that removed an elected pro-Russian government from power. That led to Russian annexation of Crimea and the fighting in eastern Ukraine that ended with Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. "extremely frank and at times quite difficult" That is how Nuland characterized her talks with Niger's new leaders. A talking point in Mainstream Media tonight is that Nuland was not allowed to see Niger's ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Nuland pushing for a transfer...

There Was More Truth In The Vietnam War Than The Ukraine War As I See It "At least Walter Cronkite was able to tell us how many died by government estimate each week during the Vietnam War..." Liberal Democrats Want To Fuel The War In Ukraine-New CNN Poll... Russia is so bad what a country prosecuting and persecuting political opponents heck they don't that here in the USA... The Bankruptcy Of Our Nation The Bankruptcy Of Our Leaders... The credit rating of the United States is downgraded and our leaders live in denial... And they distract us with a crank...

"it's not fair...it's not legal...it's criminalization of political speech" President Trump speaking at... A Russian tanker was attacked in the Kerch Strait tonight... Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer proposing a plan to incorporate the right to use paper money... Six former Mississippi police officers entering guilty pleas to federal civil rights charges... A day of mourning declared in the nation of Georgia after a deadly landslide... Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria want the US-led military coalition to take a clear stand on Turkish drone attacks... The United Nations human rights agency pulling out of Uganda... "It is election interference & the...

This week in France's National Assembly National Rally (RN) lawmaker Julien Odoul introducing legislation to require athletes to compete using the sex registered on their birth certificate. Odoul says the legislation is needed to "preserve women's sport" and to combat what amounts to "a form of legalized doping" that enables athletes born male to have a physiological advantage. On Thursday a reshuffling of the cabinet in France... In Marseille four police officers indicted and one placed in custody in connection with the beating of a 21-year-old man during the violent incidents on France's streets just weeks ago... There was a...

Hi I am on the road a lot today its summer and much of the post today "canned" ahead of time. I always had this vision in my head back 20 or more years ago of Rush Limbaugh playing oldies on the radio every weekend an extra show to help promote the weekday shows and soften the image that was being dumped on El Rushbo by his enemies. Well lets go to the music Janis Joplin lost too early to drugs I remember when she died it was on the news and she looked weird to me back then... Still...

A series of explosions in the Ukrainian city of Kirvoy Rog early Friday morning... In the end only 70 US House members all Republicans voted to stop US military aid to Ukraine... A brawl in Kosovo's parliament today as ethnic Albanian Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke... Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says 50 Iranian terrorism plots have been stopped... The Russian military in Syria says that US coalition warplanes violated Syrian airspace 10 times...] "Shame on them" Actress Fran Drescher, President of the Screen Actors Guild, announcing a strike... In the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa a spokesman for...

Flooding in the US state of Vermont called "historic and catastrophic"... North Korea launching a projectile Wednesday morning local time what appears to be a ballistic missile... The White House choosing sides in the debate over judicial reform in Israel... In Southern Russia a suspect detained in the shooting of a local mobilization official... Russia and China voted against extension of a UN humanitarian aid corridor into the jihadist occupied northwest of Syria... Dollar short Argentina struggling to meet payments to the International Monetary Fund... The continuing legal assault by authorities in Pakistan against former Prime Minister Imran Khan... The...

In the aftermath of the police killing of Nahel M the focus was on the violence on France's streets with international attention paid to the situation. At least one more person killed by police taken down by a police projectile. President Emmanuel Macron at one point paid a late-night visit to a police station to visit officers... A National Rally Deputy in the National Assembly visited the prison where the police officer accused of killing Nahel M is being held... And the mayor of the southern French town of Beziers Robert Menard, who has political ties to the RN party,...

A manhunt for an escaped murder suspect here in Pennsylvania... "I'm sure that Lindsey Graham knows this, but this would mean American troops on the ground in Ukraine. The American people will not stand by and allow our troops to go die in someone else's war" Reaction from Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert... Joe Biden with a statement today saying the US has destroyed... In Brazil today a deadly building collapse... The US Supreme Court taking up a Second Amendment case this fall... The British tabloid "The Sun" says that a BBC star presenter is accused of paying a teenager for...

Conflicting charges from the US and Russia about what's going on in the skies over Syria... A letter from Twitter threatening a lawsuit against competitor Meta over the newly launched "Threads" social media app... Authorities in Tunisia forcibly removing migrants from the port city of Sfax... Tonight in Israel the opponents of judicial reform protesting outside the homes of government ministers and blocking roads... An Israeli soldier killed in a terrorist attack in Samaria today... Dutch authorities arresting a man and his wife from Central Asia on terrorism charges... Pushing for Sweden to be accepted into NATO membership Secretary General...

The music wow Kelly Willard with a song I first heard in the summer of 1981 in my car as the legendary WGCB Radio in Red Lion (The First Amendment, "Red Lion" Case Involving The Fairness Doctrine) experimented with Contemporary Christian Music... Donald Trump Had It Right As President He Unleashed America's Economic Potential I posted something on Free Republic the other day in a thread concerning the comments of Liz Cheney about "idiots" being elected to office nowadays... Senators like Lindsey Graham who have kissed up to powerful people as US Senators enriching themselves becoming Fellatio Alger's deserve this...

The United States is considering providing cluster munitions to Ukraine... Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi today... A US State Department report released today on the US pullout from Afghanistan... Joe Biden has a condition for meeting with Israel's Prime Minister... At least 48 dead in Kenya when a truck collided with other vehicles and pedestrians... 25 people burned to death when a bus caught fire in India... The Russian military mission in Syria says that drones of the US-led coalition are violating... Russia has imposed a ban on Polish trucks transporting goods...