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It's time for a "Black Clothing Update" and in my lifetime of experience this song touched me... The old "Safety and Security" thing from the public school bureaucracy but in Big Government and Big Business FEAR is the Order of the Day... Cori Bush defeated in a Primary Election in St. Louis. She pointed the finger at the Israel Lobby (AIPAC)... Kamala Harris got an earful from the Pro-Palestinian camp in Detroit the other day. But Kamala... In the Good Ole USA the Democrats bend the knee for the powerful money supporting Israel but what about our "Mother Country" the...

Nothing but the blood of Jesus saves me from my wickedness. Christ is Coming every time the Middle East heats up I go back to the preaching and messaging of my teenage years about a Second Coming of Jesus.... Well it's time for a Benjamin Netanyahu Update the pride of Cheltenham High School Class of 1967 Bibi went to high school on the doorstep of Philadelphia... And how does Israel deal with the United Kingdom and its new "Soviet" leader? Tommy Robinson has openly identified himself as Pro-Israel while Sir Keir Starmer tries to steer a less friendly course purging...

Welcome again your host here remembering Rush Limbaugh who played songs like those back in 1974... That Top 10 song the Lord's Prayer back in those days..."Deliver us from evil" indeed I am thankful for deliverance from evil today Jesus gave that to me... On to a Money Update ABBA with our theme... And one of the great tech centers of the world is Taiwan and around Taiwan the South China Sea... "A key Marine Corps role is to 'serve as the inside force' in the first island chain-from the Ryukyus to Australia-to curb China's ambitions, Commandant of the Marine...

And ghastly, thro' the drizzling rain, on the bald street breaks the blank day', or so wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson on another occasion. It certainly seemed fitting as I biked through the suburbs on Friday morning, contemplating 20 years of dwelling in Starmergrad, if I make it that far. We are told that we should give 'losers' consent', when people we don't like win democratic elections, and I agree that is the only civilised thing to do. But I can't actually remember an election when I did not have to give a least a bit of loser's consent. A bit...

Bob Ayala there an example of "Contemporary Christian Music" from the 1970's a beautiful song. Wow folks we had that "Come to Jesus" meeting last weekend the kind where Jesus is in the room... What Is Going Out There A New January 6th On Steroids? I am still a Zionist people. But I believe the next Holocaust isn't stopped by turning the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution into toilet paper... These events keep popping up at the college campuses a masked mob attack a protest the police allowing it to happen... That violent Tuesday night attack by the...

They are making men illegal. The former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales faces a prison sentence of 30 months if convicted of charges of sexual assault and coercion. Rubiales grabbed and kissed footballer Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup medal ceremony in August last year. He says it was consensual. She says it wasn't. But that's not the point. The point is that an area of life which has always been governed by manners, custom and judgement has now fallen under the grey, chilly shadow of criminal law. I confess I have not been all that given to grabbing...

On Christmas Eve I was in the room with three people on the Temu App Temu a Chinese company making big inroads in low price online retailing... President Donald Trump wants to modify Obamacare who isn't getting their cut?... I think a lot nowadays about a big COVID vax promoter a friend of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla namely... Time for the Globalism Update.... Two US senators featured at Davos 2023 and both were Democrats at the time Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona heck they even high-fived each other... Why Did October 7th Happen In Israel?...

This post is reposted to "Free Republic" and I support FR and if you are able to... Is Christmas Time again and El Rushbo brought us the music of Mannheim Steamroller for The Season. Peter Hitchens writes about the Advent Season... I ended this week thinking about Christ on the Cross being executed saying: "Father forgive them they don't know what they're doing"... The late famed preacher-evangelist Dr. Billy Graham said in his day that one day he saw Israel going all the way from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River in the middle of Iraq. In Washington DC they...

How unfair it is on Chipping Norton, that handsome, decent town, to be burdened by a link with David Cameron, the second worst Prime Minister of the modern age... Mr. Sunak cannot want Mr. Cameron's expertise on foreign policy. His major achievement in that field was to destroy Libya, replacing the despot Gaddafi with wild, burning chaos. This one action triggered the giant explosion in human trafficking across the Mediterranean which has utterly transformed Europe and European politics for the worse. He also supported the failed attempt to overthrow the nasty Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, supposedly in the name of...

El Rushbo used to talk the NFL a lot he went to games sat in the boxes and all that so I guess I got to start with the NFL. On Thanksviging Dad and I along with my son taking in the game after the dinner. The Dallas Cowboys versus the: "Washington Scaffold Commanders"... My Mom told me the story of a young man... "We are at sort of a crossroads right now. There's not enough for me in the UK to justify the effort that I put in. When I go to China I play in great venues, great...

Today Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia led a hearing on injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines... Authorities in Los Angeles say the fire at two pallet storage yards that damaged and shut down a portion of the I-10 Santa Monica Freeway is the result of arson... The Israel Defense Forces say there is evidence that hostages were held in the basement of children's hospital... The message from Israel's military is that Hamas has lost control... Iceland declaring a state of emergency and evacuating a town in anticipation of a volcanic eruption... "There's no evidence that Roosevelt brought suitcases of...

I've got a US Military Command Update the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff speaking out about Israel. General Charles Q. Brown of the Air Force oversees the Air Force, the Army, the Marine Corps and last but not least the Navy... Can we all say thanks to Senator Tommy Tuberville Republican of Alabama for gumming up the works on nominations of new military commanders because General Brown is telling us the quality of Joe Biden's military leadership picks... This guy wants Abortion in France's Constitution he liberalized France's abortion law to a 14-week one from a 12-week...

Matthew Perry debating the topic of addiction with a dismissive Peter Hitchens in 2013

Some of our posts like this one get reposted on Free Republic and now is the time to support FR during its quarterly fundraiser... "Before there was an Islamic State there was a Deep State" Let's go to the "Deep State Update" Shelia Walsh sings "Sleepwalking".... Why is Antony Blinken staging talks in China? Blinken is going to China for the sake of appearances the US requested this meeting to use it as a prop to claim the US is talking and wants peace while China is aggressive and belligerent... What you need to notice is that National Security Adviser...

@arbinot_jim Oh, Peking will build its forces to outmatch those of the USA and then encourage and pressure Taiwan to "request" reunion with the PRC. Ultimately Washington won't risk war fur Taiwan, or Japan. The contrasting obsession with decrepit Russia is weird

"Obviously @count18899. That is why he believed in WMD, when I didn't, and supported the Iraq war, when I didn't. No contest, really. Do you want to add that the wrong brother died (it's all included in the Twitter admission price), or are you quite done for the day?" Peter Hitchens Twitter Post Saturday 1/28/2023 About His Differences With His Brother The Late Christopher Hitchens Over The Notion Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Iraq In the aftermath of 9/11 it certainly made sense for the US military to go after Osama bin Laden and is Al-Qaeda Organization in Afghanistan....

What is Britain’s interest in Ukraine? Why are we shovelling weapons and equipment into that country, despite the fact that our national budget is stretched to bursting and our own armed forces have for many years been starved of money, men and kit? If we were a proper open society, surely this question would be asked all the time. But it is not. So I am asking it now, as the Ukraine war threatens to ignite the whole of Europe and has already brought us closer to actual nuclear warfare than we have ever been. I ask as a British...

What is Britain’s interest in Ukraine? Why are we shovelling weapons and equipment into that country, despite the fact that our national budget is stretched to bursting and our own armed forces have for many years been starved of money, men and kit? If we were a proper open society, surely this question would be asked all the time. But it is not. So I am asking it now, as the Ukraine war threatens to ignite the whole of Europe and has already brought us closer to actual nuclear warfare than we have ever been.

My brother and I loved to play with my father's sword. The fact that my mother was quite unworried by this tells you a lot about the world we then lived in. It was a real weapon, made by Messrs Wilkinson, a beautiful patterned blade and a very sharp point. But the thing which fascinated me about it most was the hilt, several ridges of rough grey sharkskin... Now, the Royal Navy to which my father belonged had by then given up the use of naked steel blades, though only just. As recently as February 1940 sailors from the Destroyer...

The astonishing thing about our departing Prime Minister is that he is so ordinary. See past the fake Edwardian growl, the artfully rumpled appearance and the little jokes and you find a rather dull person with no actual ideas or aims. He is a Bertie Wooster with a Jeeves, amusing at first but not so funny later, bound to get himself and you into impossible trouble. Some of you may remember the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy's fictional English hero. By day he was the apparently moronic Sir Percy Blakeney, a languid drawling top, but by night he was a ruthless,...