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President Donald Trump pardoning a Virginia sheriff sentenced to... A controversial US-Israeli aid scheme to provide food for Gaza supported by US military contractors is underway... In the UK a card drove into a crowd...dozens were hurt with at least two injuries described as serious... "That is a rather dangerous decision" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacting to comments of German Chancellor... US President Donald Trump participating in a Memorial Day... "Death to Arabs" Those words shouted in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem today as nationalist protesters gathered... Israeli air attacks this afternoon in eastern Lebanon... "There are no longer any...

This week a US State Department spokesperson echoing the message of impeached South Korean... The new FBI Director Kash Patel out tonight... defending... US Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling CNN European countries want to keep the Ukraine War going...Rubio also saying...Zelensky needs to apologize... "Zelensky cannot make peace with Moscow he would be removed within days...opinion of British journalist... A group of nations will meet in London on Sunday...Zelensky will be there... Ukraine, The Washington Post reports the US may stop shipments of military... The FBI returning property seized from President Trump... In New Mexico the Santa Fe County...

I started lurking on FR back in 2001 but joined in 2005 and more recently became a financial supporter... Interference in elections has been an accusation thrown at Russia, China, Iran etc. but yesterday US Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on Germany's election and government... Ringo Starr has some personal identification with that song he broke away from his drugs and Hoyt Axton who wrote it struggled with drugs and adult beverages throughout his shortened life.... It wasn't too many years ago that Congresswoman Nancy Mace was making a speech at a prayer breakfast talking about her... I hope Nancy...

Israeli Chief of Staff...apologizing to female soldiers taken captive...wrong to have ignored their warnings... Ongoing fighting in northern Syria involving... In Beirut a UN peacekeeping force vehicle torched during a protest by supporters of the Hezbollah... There's a new report from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...Ukraine... Ukraine revising a deal offered by the Trump Administration... President Trump signing an executive order barring federal funds... The firing of probationary employees at US government departments... The crew of the US Army helicopter that collided with an airliner...may have missed... Nine days before Germany's election US Vice-President JD Vance meeting...

Director of the National Archives Colleen Shogan fired... Ukrainian drone attacks in the Rostov Region of Russia... President Trump signing an order freezing us aid programs in South Africa... Democrat Attorney Generals from 19 states suing... Next week three aircraft carriers leading a major naval exercise in the Western Pacific... a 7.4-billion-dollar arms sale to Israel... British government demanding Apple allow it to spy... The missing plane in Alaska found... President Trump expecting to meet Ukraine's President...next week... President Trump meeting with Japanese Prime Minister... A Second Amendment Executive Order from President Trump... A US judge with what he's calling...

"The love you gave me nothing else can save me" So we are told in the lyrics of the first song today I listened to ABBA occasionally back in the 1970's... As I was entering the new millennium, I was amassing a huge music collection of thousands of songs and those three were part of the playlist of three thousand... It is time for a Political Update the US election just over two weeks away. I get text asking me to feed the politicians money every... "Harris's two joint fundraising committees raised about $652 million combined over the past three...

In eastern Syria an air attack by unknown perpetrators... At least five explosions reported in the eastern Ukrainian city... The "Islamic State-Khorasan" group claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack in Moscow...criticizing the Taliban in Afghanistan... (Comment) One should deeply suspect who is ultimately behind the ISIS (Daesh) activity that has sprouted up in Afghanistan since the US defeat... Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin is saying... The US Department of Homeland Security raiding properties associated with Sean "Diddy" Combs... Police in Brazil are investigating after former President Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy... Israel's military intelligence chief says...

Support Free Republic... What was that on Thursday evening was it the "Putin-Biden Debate"... I think there's some football game this weekend a lot of churches having events related to it I notice so let's go with a "Football Update"... The Joe Biden Update bring out the Benny Hill music... Why not an actual Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" show close to intro Joe Biden... And in his own words the Physical Occupant Of The White House... Are they trying to create sympathy for Biden... Back in the 1970's as a teenager I read all three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag...

Heck it's Halloween and what does one do I see some folks with massive displays on their front lawns... The China Update the Chinese Foreign Minister in Washington and let's bring in Randy Stonehill to sing "China"... The tech-linked NASDAQ stocks hit hard again this week. The NASDAQ down 287.84 points or 2.23 percent for the week... Now talk of a Biden-Xi Jinping meeting on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in San Francisco next month the White House-Drive By Media trying to bill it... The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Theme and here to introduce it are the Smothers Brothers......

I need a Higher Power G-d if you will right now more than ever as I consider the "Fort Apache Israel Horror Show" that played out last Saturday. I was in tears for a multitude of reasons as I listened to Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly, both of whom were hostile to President Trump back in 2016, discuss the horrible videos of this evil and the notion of putting them out... The mass murder in this world the Holocaust of Nazi Germany its snuff porn started with a culture where pornography was redefined as art. The Western "Christian" World engulfed...

Last night, “The Last Jedi” scored $45 million in preview shows around the US. That’s the second highest Thursday preview opening ever, behind “The Force Awakens,” so that’s good news. But the WTH news is that “The Force Awakens” did $57 million on its Thursday previews two years ago. In between there was “Rogue One” with a $29 million preview Thursday last year. So what the heck? Is there “Star Wars” burn out with movies three years in a row? Could be.

WASHINGTON -- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged President Clinton Tuesday to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, a move that could boost Jewish support for the Republican's prospective Senate campaign -- and complicate a possible run in 2000 by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. ... Regarding Pollard, Giuliani said the Israeli deserves presidential clemency because the life sentence for espionage given him in 1987 goes "way beyond" sentences given in the past to American citizens convicted of spying for a U.S. ally. Pollard, a former civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, has already served a longer prison term than enemy...

3">Roman Catholic apologists are going about the land presenting seminars and talks in parish halls and church buildings, all designed to 1) confirm the faithful in their allegiance to Rome and the Papacy, and 2) invite the "separated brethren home to Mother Church." While the number of RC apologists has grown exponentially over the past decade, the one gentleman who has been out-front, or maybe better, in light of the article we will be reviewing, "up-front," the longest, is Karl Keating, president of Catholic Answers. In a recent article in the December, 1996 edition of This Rock magazine, Keating introduces...

<p>If I were to take a wild guess, I'd bet that Bill O'Reilly and his colleagues at the Fox News Channel spent the weekend, as many of us did, reading Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."</p>