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Tonight in Epping, England police making arrests...demonstrators protested...allowing migrants... A big lottery prize here in the US... ...all Palestinian representatives will be denied admission to the US for the UN General Assembly... ...in Missouri Republican Governor Mike Kehoe calling the Republican controlled legislature...to redraw US House ... In Germany a 31-year old Iraqi asylum seeker arrested...pushing a 16-year-old girl to her death... The Chief Data Officer of the US Social Security Administration resigning... ...federal appeals court ruling against President Trump's global tariffs... Late tonight Ukrainian drone debris igniting a blaze at a Russian oil refinery...Explosions reported for the fourth time...in...

In Brazil a senator banned from social media...appearing in a live... Iran will resume talks with the UK, France and Germany... Iran's defense minister speaking of new surprise weapons... President Trump speaking at the White House today about Israeli hostages...concerned reaction from a hostage family group... The Houthi movement in Yemen claiming attacks on Israel... Three people wounded...Ukrainian drone attack in Russia's Volgograd... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth firing the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency... Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from federal custody... An Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon tonight... President Donald Trump announcing...US government now owns 10 percent of...

Newsdump Alert: Trump Seeks Peace Agreement In Ukraine War Following Putin Meeting... Newsdump Update: Jihadist Attack In Iran... Support Free Republic... Your host with another attempt at media excellence powerless over Jewish women at times in my life so... Does God have a sense of humor Helen Shapiro sang this 'corny' hit song in the recording studio in London back in the early 1960's... "We praise you, God, we praise you, for your Name is near; people tell of your wonderful deeds. You say, "I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge with equity'" Psalm 75:1-2 NIV Bible......

Democrats in California putting out maps of new US House districts.. Tonight, the US Justice Department backing away from naming...Washington DC police commissioner...deciding... A US Army Major General demoted three ranks to retire...found to have engaged in an inappropriate relationship... The NCAA imposing fines and sanctions on the University of Michigan football...sign stealing incident... Nine are dead following a factory fire in Russia's... One killed, others injured...train derailed in Denmark... New Orleans Mayor Democrat Latoya Cantrell indicted on federal corruption charges... An Israeli military offensive on the outskirts of Gaza City... A report from Israel's "Yedioth Ahronoth" newspaper about increasing...

"Israel is likely to launch another war with Iran before December--perhaps even as early as late August" Trita Parsi-"Foreign Policy' Commentary 8/11/2025... "So here is the great news. The moment your country is free Israel's top water experts will flood into every Iranian city... We will help Iran recycle water...we'll help Iran desalinate water... I urge you to be bold and brave...take to the streets...protest tyranny" Portions Of Israeli Prime Minister's Video Message To The People Of Iran 8/12/2025... The next round of the Israel-Iran War is on the way with signs of US-Israeli activity to appease nations neighboring Iran...

Newsdump Alerts: On Saturday night hundreds of Orthodox Jews protesting outside an Israeli military prison... In Israel Saturday night mass demonstrations against 'eternal war mongers'. Calls for soldiers to refuse orders... Hundreds arrested in London for violating a ban on the "Palestine Action" group... Newsdump Update: Authorities in Gaza report 11 starvation deaths, 21 killed seeking aid at US-Israeli aid centers... Astronaut Jim Lovell passed at the age of 97 on Thursday reminding me of the Christmas Eve broadcast that he... "I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and...

President Donald Trump calling Israeli Prime Minister...Israel's deadly bombing... Tucker Carlson with a special release tonight discussing the Jeffrey Epstein... The "Wall Street Journal" out with a story...Trump saying the story is falsified... Later this evening...Trump on Truth Social saying he is directing Attorney General... In Southern Syria tonight fighting is raging between trial fighters and Druze militia...Israeli air attacks... A Maryland man arrested for threatening Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene... as outsider politicians...Massie...Greene...push for release of those Jeffrey Epstein files the insider politicians... A government committee in Israel voting this evening to fire the Attorney General... The US Senate...

Newsdump Update: Thousands March In Budapest Pride Parade In Spite Of Law Banning LGBTQ Displays In Front Of Children... There's Bobby Sherman with one of his hit songs I didn't really experience his music at the time the neighbors of mine... Indeed it's still the economy stupid President Trump rolling out a dramatic series of social media posts and that comment... What Is The Ultimate Truth About Candace Owens? She's made in God's image like all human beings is a sinner in need of the saving blood of Jesus and she professes that "Jesus is King"... Israel Does Assassinations "The...

"Personally too there was the excitement of working here, the 'Saturday surprises', the deeper story of this land in evil ferment"-Journalist William L. Shirer's September 27, 1937 Entry In His "Berlin Diary" Newsdump Alert: US B-2 Bombers Attack Iran... Newsdump Alert: 12 to 16 B-2 Stealth Bombers... Newsdump Update: US Director Of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard affirming President Donald Trump's statement "Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb"... Your host the winner of the American History Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution. What about this tendency of people in the modern age to condemn the sins of the past...

At least two killed in an apparent Israeli assassination in the Iranian city... The liberal pro-European Union Armenian Prime Minister...visiting Turkey... Confrontation in the South China Sea today as Philippine ships... A state of emergency declared in western Panama where demonstrators... "We're not prepared to negotiate with them anymore, as long as the aggression continues" That is Iran's Foreign Minister... Federal agents deploying tear gas and smoke...just outside Los Angeles... Los Angeles Dodgers...one million dollars...families impacted by the immigration crackdown... Spanish police raiding offices of the ruling Socialist Party... Illegal immigrants may still be able...President Trump suggesting.., The Louisiana law...

This evening 60 people arrested as they ran towards the steps of the US Capitol... Tomorrow nationwide protests in opposition to President... In Los Angeles US Marines deployed to protect the federal building... Through executive order US President Donald Trump approving the Nippon Steel-US Steel merger... Four detainees escaping from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey... At dawn in Israel..barrage of missiles...one dead and 19 wounded in Rishon LeZion south of Tel Aviv... Iran released a photo tonight saying it is of a downed Israel F-35I... Police in Northern Ireland using water cannon... Japan contacting China over an...

Newsdump Alert: Federal Judge Signs Off On Deal To Pay Student Athletes In The United States... Your host with you again seeking media excellence heck I got into this "Conservative Movement" back in the 1970's... And things just seemed to explode on Thursday afternoon how about a "Trump-Musk Update"... And it's time for a "War Update" Shelia Walsh sings our theme... There are those who see Russia as the enemy and if the President of Brazil is to be believed there are those who want Russia to be destroyed... "Joe Biden with whom I spoke at length, though Russia thought...

In Los Angeles... An internet outage in part of New Zealand caused by an Australian warship... "They won't be enriching" US President Donald Trump... possible nuclear deal with Iran... Elon Musk on "X" tonight touting "The American Party"... About 1.7 million window air conditioners recalled after 17 customers... An internet outage in North Korea... Four Ukrainian drones attempting to attack Moscow taken down... At the request of Israel the United States.... A US delegation will talk to Chinese officials in London on Monday... President Donald Trump touting the words of Attorney David Schoen...nothing incriminating Mr. Trump... Jeffrey Epstein... Alan Dershowitz...speaking...

Newsdump Alert: "act now to stop Iran" Even as US President Donald Trump openly seeks a nuclear deal with Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a different message today... A China War Newsdump Update: Carl Douglas with our theme music "Kung Fu Fighting".... "We are not going to sugarcoat it, the threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent" "China's army is rehearsing for the real deal" US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Speaking Today in Singapore... Has China "Pearl Harbored" Us With Economic Warfare Mr. President?... El Rushbo like to talk about "The Greatest Generation"... Millions dislocated...

US President Donald Trump announcing his approval of the alliance between Japan's Nippon Steel and US Steel... Reports from Russia on Saturday morning of drone attack alerts... Chaotic scenes in Gaza as local residents seek to obtain the limited amount of food Israel has allowed... Israel's left-leaning "Democrats" leader Yair Golan gaining more voters than he lost... Most Israelis think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is more interested in staying in power... A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack reported on Kiev late tonight... US Chief Justice John Roberts ordering the process of discovery halted in a lawsuit... 18 people hurt...

Support Free Republic Some of the posts on this blog are reposted on Free Republic I joined FR back in 2005 in those days FR regular reading for El Rushbo who even used one of my... Newsdump Update: Dozens Killed As Israeli "Operation Gideon Chariots" Underway In Gaza... My knowledge of Canada and things Canadian 99 and 44/100 percent deeper than most Americans. So let's put that to... It's time for an "O Canada Update"... And Walmart is doing what it has to do to avoid raising prices heck my hours have been cut this month... So, the United States...

Newsdump Update: Labor Party Wins Australian Election By A Wide Margin... C.S. Lewis wrote a commentary back in 1948 that published as part of a book called "Arthurian Torso" here is a portion of that. "When race is separated from rave and 'grace is prized in schism', when all pleasure is to be inside some partial and arbitrary group, then of course, we must have 'outsiders' to despise and denounce--"... Well, there's that and it's not gay the "Village People" say but the guy that wrote that song well he ultimately died of AIDS... Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene setting the...

Today, President Emmanuel Macron joining other world leaders at the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome at the Vatican. Mr. Macron and the Pontiff had met each other during the papacy of Francis but when it came to French government policies there were differences. Francis took a swipe at restrictive policies adopted to deal with migrants when he spoke in Marseille in 2023. President Macron's push for assisted death... The controversy over alleged acts of abuse at a Roman Catholic school decades ago is engulfing President Macron's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou... This afternoon from Paris video from "The First Yellow...

Federal District Judge James Boasberg holding an emergency hearing this evening...Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union also asking for Supreme Court... Meanwhile a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington DC putting a hold on an earlier contempt order from Judge Boasberg... ...federal district judge ordering that a detained Turkish doctoral student... Al Jazeera reporting 64 killed in Israeli attacks... Hundreds believed dead in Congo after a wooden ship caught fire... The Pentagon making official...pullout of a large part of the US military...in Syria... US President Donald Trump on the phone with British Prime Minister... In the Netherlands...

Democrat US Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland meeting the imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador... Tonight in Israel anger from some hostage families... In the Central American nation of Belize an American man killed in a small airliner after he attempted... British politics Reform UK leader Nigel Farage touting the latest... US Central Command announcing the destruction of a major fuel depot in Yemen... Four killed another seriously injured in Italy when a cable car... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff is... The Emir of Qatar visiting Moscow and meeting Russian President......