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Somaliland’s president has offered to put Donald Trump’s name on an airport.Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, commonly known by his nickname Irro, has floated renaming Berbera International Airport. The idea came after weeks of lobbying at Washington and New York to win what his government has sought for decades: formal recognition from the United States. Berbera, a port city on the Gulf of Aden, has a runway built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s that stretches more than 4,000 meters, among the longest in Africa. So far, no agreement has been reached on the airport, on military access, or on recognition...

Cruz alleged that El-Sayed's purported associations could jeopardize American intelligence operations and military personnel overseas. He emphasized that elected members of Congress don't undergo the traditional executive-branch security clearance process, although access to particular classified information is subject to congressional rules and need-to-know restrictions. Cruz devoted much of the podcast to challenging El-Sayed's recent denial of family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Asked by moderator Kristen Welker whether he or his family had ties to the organization, El-Sayed said, "No." Cruz disputed that denial, citing social media posts by El-Sayed's half-sister Eman...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz fired back at Vice President JD Vance for suggesting he is already gearing up for a 2028 bid — blasting the veep as “insecure.” Vance, widely seen as the 2028 frontrunner, threw shade at Cruz (R-Texas) last week when he implied that the Lone Star State lawmaker was more focused on 2028 than the upcoming midterms. “In my experience, people engage in political bomb-throwing when they’re feeling insecure,” Cruz snapped back in an interview with Politico on Saturday.“So he’s welcome to make whatever comments he likes,” Cruz, 55, continued. “I’m going to keep focusing on the...

Vice President JD Vance says it's apparent that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a fellow Republican, is preparing to run for president in 2028. Polls show Vance is among the top choices among likely GOP voters to become the next GOP presidential nominee. However, he's remained noncommittal, telling NBC News recently that he's focused, at least for now, on electing Republicans in the midterms. “It is really obvious to me that, at this very moment, Ted Cruz is running for president,” Vance said. “At this moment, I’m not. I’m trying to help elect Republicans. That’s what I’m going to keep on...

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke optimistically about Republicans’ chances in the November 3 midterm elections, declaring that the GOP nominee for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat was going to win. In a joint appearance with Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Cruz said a “hostile takeover” of the Democratic Party by communists and Islamists was underway. “Senator Cruz, I want to turn real quickly to Texas,” guest host Charlie Hurt said. “You know, we’ve seen a lot of these polls showing Talarico and Ken Paxton within the margin of error. In the past, you have...

WASHINGTON — Verbal sharpshooter Sen. John Kennedy kept the door open to a 2028 presidential run and defended Sen. Tom Cotton from President Trump’s wrath over his blocking of the Sunshine Protection Act. “My plans right now are to run for re-election, but as I’ve said before, if I don’t think I can be effective in the Senate anymore, I would consider it,” the 74-year-old told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I haven’t made a decision. If a bunch of, on my side of the aisle, if a bunch of goobers run, and I think they’re goobers, and one...

Joel Webbon made the case in a 21 September episode of The NXR Podcast, arguing that universal suffrage puts conservatives at a political disadvantage when Democrats promise voters government benefits. Webbon titled his episode The Right Must Embrace Socialism To Win, laying out what he described as a problem created by modern democratic politics.

Karl Rove is maybe the least 'Republican' Republican in the history of Republicans. It's been an open secret for some time that he is as close to a card-carrying member of the Uniparty as exists in Washington, D.C.. He is as pure a swamp creature as you can find in the wild. So, when Rove came out of the RINO closet and announced that he was voting for a Democrat, nobody got the vapors. Nobody looked askance at the television set and did a spit-take. No one's jaw hit the floor. Rove, and everyone else in the Bushite orbit, speak...

Shortened title. Full title: ere's an open secret about Cambridge Analytica in the political world: It doesn't have the 'secret sauce' it claims As Sen. Ted Cruz mounted a bid for the presidency in 2016, a nascent, data-obsessed company presented his campaign with an intriguing proposition. It had a "secret sauce" that no other firm could deliver.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., argues the Democratic Party is increasingly being driven by its socialist wing, and the party's leadership is capitulating to the radical left on 'Hannity.' Cruz says party leaders have been reluctant to challenge the far left, allowing those voices to play a larger role in shaping the party's agenda. He also praises Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., for what he calls ‘extraordinary courage’ in criticizing fellow Democrats and warning about the direction of the party.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has the right instinct on the Department of Justice's new $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.The idea behind the fund deserves a fair hearing; Americans who were targeted by abusive federal power should have some path toward relief, especially after years of lectures from the same political class pretending government weaponization only exists when Democrats campaign on it.Still, a good idea turns rotten fast once Washington gets control of the checkbook.President Donald Trump's administration created the fund as part of a settlement connected to Trump's lawsuit over the leak of his tax records. The agreement gives Trump and...

Senator Ted Cruz provides a short history lesson for Sen. Hirono.

Screaming, yelling and accusations of self-dealing. That’s how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that’s drawn bipartisan opposition. On his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas senator described the meeting as “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.” “Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said. “My guess is there’re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”...

During the days of colonialism, it was gratifying for the British, Portuguese, Germans, and French to look at the world map and bask in all the colonies of each country. But the pretty blotches of red or blue or black hid an unpleasant fact. Many of those colonies were a drain on the mother country; they would put into those colonies far more than they got out of them. This was particularly obvious in those colonies that were principally desert. Spain also had colonies. Cubans tried to become independent but failed due to the eternal ineptitude of Cubans, whose only...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has hit out at United States senator Josh Hawley for his “irresponsible” remark that Hong Kong is becoming a police state. Hawley, the youngest sitting senator in the US, arrived in the city on Sunday to observe the anti-government protests, which have raged for more than four months. At the end of the visit, he urged demonstrators in Hong Kong to shun violence, but he blamed Hong Kong police for aggravating the crisis, accusing them of ramping up their use of force. He also said the city is in “danger of sliding into...

There are moments in American foreign policy when the warning signs are flashing so brightly that failing to act becomes its own form of negligence. This is one of those moments. Senator Ted Cruz and his fellow sponsors of S. 4063 are not engaging in political theater. They are responding to a gathering national security threat that too many in Washington have either underestimated or deliberately ignored for years: the growing cooperation between the Polisario Front and Iranian-backed terrorist networks operating across North Africa and beyond. The Senate should move quickly to advance this legislation. Not because it is politically...

Screencap of YouTube video. People in the left are absolutely frothing at the mouth over the decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that tore down their effort to gerrymander the state. Hasan Piker, an America-hating, self-proclaimed communist and streamer, who Democrats just can’t seem to get enough of, has alsready suggested violent revolution as a fix for the problem. It’s just amazing how political violence has become so normal for people on the left. They just want their way and will do anything to get it. FOX News reports: Leftist streamer calls violent revolution ‘inevitable’ as Democrats explode over Virginia...

Tucker Carlson just lobbed a rhetorical grenade at Sen. Ted Cruz, telling a New York Times podcast audience that the Texas Republican is "more morally repulsive" than white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes. The comments, which surfaced over the weekend, instantly recharged old arguments inside the GOP over Israel, the Iran war and who poses the bigger danger to the party’s future. Cruz wasted little time firing back on social media, turning what started as a policy beef into an unmistakably personal feud. NYT interview: Carlson singles out Cruz On The New York Times podcast "The Interview," host Lulu Garcia-Navarro put Carlson...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling for Republicans to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with enough funding to last a decade. He believes Republicans can do that without the support of a single Democrat. "We can do it with just 50 votes," Cruz said. Lawmakers in the Senate agreed early on Friday to advance funding for DHS that includes the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and seven other agencies — even as gridlock over ICE remains firmly in place.

Ted Cruz endorses article accusing Traditional Catholics of being ‘parasites’Traditional Catholics are in the firing line in an article Ted Cruz described as 'the best and most comprehensive explanation of what we're fighting.'On Sunday, March 15, Senator Ted Cruz retweeted a long anti-Catholic X essay by the Republican Zionist account “Insurrection Barbie,” stating:READ every word of this.It’s the best & most comprehensive explanation of what we’re fighting.In the essay, which runs over 8,000 words, the author claimed that the Republican Party was being taken over by a small bloc of Catholics and undermining its support for “Christian Zionism.”A chief influence...