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Joe Scarborough: self-hating Southerner? Scarborough -- originating from the "cracker counties" of the Florida panhandle -- sometimes likes to stress his Southern upbringing, and describe himself as a "simple country lawyer" who attended two southern state universities. But the Morning Joe host has developed an ugly habit of mocking southern Republicans by putting on their supposed accents. We've caught Scarborough doing that twice in the case of House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, who at least sports an accent. Check out this instance of Scarborough fantasizing Comer saying [at 0:25], of his supposed lack of evidence against Joe...

At Christmas I think of others and I wanted to think about Kathy Barnette who many of us admired and supported for US Senate in the spring of 2022 right here in Pennsylvania... British Intelligence and the CIA and so on got these civil wars going in Libya and Syria in 2011 using Al Qaeda followers admirers of Bin Laden the kind of folks that perped 9/11. Then Russia and Hezbollah came in to help to prop up the ruler of Syria Bashar al Assad. And then.... ISIS-Daesh Islamic State call them what you will came along... Ukraine Funding is...

The Turkish member of parliament who collapsed after he attacked Israel's warfare in Gaza and the Turkish government's continued trade with Israel died today... "that vote...just threw away the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution" Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky)...147 Republicans including US House Speaker Mike Johnson supporting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act today... The members of the European Union agreed tonight to start talks with Moldova and Ukraine about membership. Before the vote Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban left the room while the 26 other nations held a vote... The US Central Command says that Houthi-Yemeni forces launched a ballistic missile...

House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced backlash for allowing two bills to be introduced on the surveillance law.Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the House Rules Committee, confirmed to the Washington Examiner late Monday evening that neither of the bills reforming Section 702 would come to the floor for a vote this week. Republicans have been split on how to extend Section 702 of FISA, so Johnson had intended to introduce both bills Tuesday and have the one with the most votes advance to...

Raj Shah, the Deputy Chief of Communications for Speaker Johnson, has announced that Speaker Johnson is scheduled to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Zelenskyy’s visit coincides with a deadlock in Congress over an assistance package that is ‘supposed’ to combine funding for Ukraine with policy measures, including immigration and border security. In October, Joe Biden requested massive funding of over $100 billion earmarked for defense assistance to Israel and Ukraine, along with border security funding in the US, and aid to nations in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan.

Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill. Reports say that congressional leaders, including Johnson, agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill would extend Section 702 until April 19. This frustrated many conservatives, including those who were supposed to be instrumental in crafting the final texts for the NDAA. Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a video statement after she said that leadership asked conferees, which includes...

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans are blurring footage from the Capitol attack before releasing it publicly because they don't want Jan. 6 rioters to be charged with crimes. "We have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ," Johnson said Tuesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson issued an ultimatum to Joe Biden on Tuesday, saying there will be no more funding for Ukraine before the administration works with Congress first to make extensive reforms to the U.S. immigration system, creating an immediate dilemma for Biden.Now we're talking. The question is, will Johnson stick to his guns?Johnson's ultimatum was in response to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young sending a letter to House and Senate leaders on Monday warning that funding for Ukraine would likely run out by the end of the year. Young wrote, in part:There is no magical pot...

Those were the Days Of My Life Tammy Wynette singing her life with conviction to the world Anthems of Codependence... A janitor with decades of experience like me learns that: "It stinks when everyone uses the restroom"... What Do Israeli Men And Iranian Men Have In Common?... Is the hatred of Post-Communist Russia a testament to the presence of Marxist-Leninist (Communist) moles in our government? And while I'm thinking about it I get pitches for money from House Speaker Mike Johnson... The Lust For War And The Woman In Congress Who's Willing To Talk About It And So Much More......

Less than one month before Mike Johnson’s sudden ascent to the speakership, the Louisiana Republican, then a little-known member, joined with most GOP lawmakers to vote against $300 million in U.S. security assistance for Ukraine. Now, as speaker, Johnson has surprised many on Capitol Hill by publicly and repeatedly calling Ukraine aid a critical priority for the House. Where Johnson stands on Ukraine and how hard he plans to push for tens of billions of dollars in new aid could shape the future of the embattled country, just as the U.S. is facing questions about its commitment to Kyiv and...

I snipped this 10 minute talk by Mike Johnson from another video that was much much longer....Mr Speaker remember how we arrived here. When when the New York Post reported the existence of the hunter Biden laptop. Now Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin organized a group of 51 former intelligence officials to claim the laptop was Russian disinformation. Social media accounts were banned from sharing the story and individuals who believed it were labeled Russian assets and conspiracy theorist. We now know that Not only was the laptop not Russian disinformation of course it was known previously to the Intel...

US House Speaker Mike Johnson expecting approval of funding for Ukraine... There's new political polling in Germany that puts the Alternative for Germany at 26 percent of the popular vote... Poland's Conservative President swore in a conservative-nationalist government today even though the liberal-secularists won... A former adviser to the jailed ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan says he was the victim of an acid attack... British politics the latest opinion poll from "Redfield and Wilson" showing the Labor Party at 45 percent, the Conservative Party at 25 percent and the Reform Party at 10 percent... "No choice but to kill...

Here you go, you guys. After McCarthy promised but failed to do it, House Speaker Mike Johnson has released the January 6th tapes — all 44,000 hours of them!

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released all the 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage. Immediately, the release blew apart the Jan. 6 Committee's narrative about the event. . The video release showed why they were likely suppressed. They included police escorting peaceful protesters walking through the Capitol, even shaking their hands. There was even a video showing one "protester" who appeared to have been cuffed, then taken to an area by the Capitol Police, where he was released and fist-bumped one of the officers. ... That raised many questions about whether the man released was an undercover officer, which then...

Some of the posts on this blog reposted to "Free Republic" I support FR regularly and hope... Well, here we are again an excursion into Media Excellence. The Truth Detector is in the room this week. Rush Limbaugh's family a family of lawyers connected to the Republican Party in Missouri. They were fighters for the GOP in parts near the Confederacy where Democrats were the "Hood and Sheets" party... I got a Candace Owens Theme Song... Meanwhile in Israel Jews get the January 6th treatment... And Joe Biden's Secretary of State Tony Blinken is riding Israel's... In the end if...

VIDEOAnd now we know WHY the Democrats were so vociferous in their demand that the J6 videos NOT be released. Because so far they are showing that the real MAGA patriots were entirely peaceful that day. Notice how none of the "protestors" (feds) who were acting violent and breaking windows were charged. But if you peacefully entered the Capitol after being invited in by the Capitol police for a quick quiet stroll through the building, it would ultimately mean months and years in the DC jail thanks to a politically weaponized DOJ. If there is one thing that shouts out...

1) Johnson: When I ran for Speaker, I promised to make accessible to the American people the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill security taken on January 6, 2021. Truth and transparency are critical. 2) Johnson: Today, we will begin immediately posting video on a public website and move as quickly as possible to add to the website nearly all of the footage, more than 40,000 hours. 3) Johnson: In the meantime, a public viewing room will ensure that every citizen can view every minute of the videos uncensored. 4) Johnson: This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal...

House Republicans have begun releasing thousands of hours of footage from inside the Capitol from Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building. “This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in announcing the website, where videos will be posted throughout the weekend.

There are few things more frightening to leftist Americans than a Christian conservative who has political power. That’s why the unexpected, out of the blue rise to power of Rep. Mike Johnson sent shock waves through the left, as if to say, “These religious fanatics are trying to take over the country! Soon they’ll be imposing the Christian version of Sharia on every American! Danger!”Johnson even had the temerity to say this in an interview with Sean Hannity, “I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, 'It's curious, people are curious: What does Mike...

“Separation of church and state … is a misnomer. People misunderstand it,” Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked about him praying on the House floor. “Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote is not in the Constitution.” “And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life. It’s exactly the opposite,” the Speaker added.