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"So the court is saying that I owe St. Luke's 50 million dollars for speaking out against them over the Baby Cyrus case" That's Ammon Bundy libertarian activist independent candidate for Governor in Idaho last year... Bundy speaking about the result of that civil lawsuit brought against him by St. Luke's Hospital... ...this lawsuit stems from an incident that just happened to happen during the political campaign last year. The grandson of Bundy's campaign manager and co-defendant in this civil lawsuit Diego Rodriguez was at the center of a child neglect matter involving doctors associated with the St. Luke's medical...

Wow "Hey Loretta" a song written by a guy whose books like "Where The Sidewalk Ends" adorned many a classroom I entered... (The Following May Be Disturbing) Naked Or Fully Clothed The Politicians Are Outraged What a world I live in politicians are outraged when women are naked and politicians are outraged when women are fully clothed. Can't we make up our minds people?... When it comes to naked or clothed the politicians go for the votes wherever they are. And the Liberal Capitalists win every time with "Climate" or whatever scheme they come up with... How about a Climate...

Hi I am on the road a lot today its summer and much of the post today "canned" ahead of time. I always had this vision in my head back 20 or more years ago of Rush Limbaugh playing oldies on the radio every weekend an extra show to help promote the weekday shows and soften the image that was being dumped on El Rushbo by his enemies. Well lets go to the music Janis Joplin lost too early to drugs I remember when she died it was on the news and she looked weird to me back then... Still...

In the aftermath of the police killing of Nahel M the focus was on the violence on France's streets with international attention paid to the situation. At least one more person killed by police taken down by a police projectile. President Emmanuel Macron at one point paid a late-night visit to a police station to visit officers... A National Rally Deputy in the National Assembly visited the prison where the police officer accused of killing Nahel M is being held... And the mayor of the southern French town of Beziers Robert Menard, who has political ties to the RN party,...

A manhunt for an escaped murder suspect here in Pennsylvania... "I'm sure that Lindsey Graham knows this, but this would mean American troops on the ground in Ukraine. The American people will not stand by and allow our troops to go die in someone else's war" Reaction from Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert... Joe Biden with a statement today saying the US has destroyed... In Brazil today a deadly building collapse... The US Supreme Court taking up a Second Amendment case this fall... The British tabloid "The Sun" says that a BBC star presenter is accused of paying a teenager for...

Conflicting charges from the US and Russia about what's going on in the skies over Syria... A letter from Twitter threatening a lawsuit against competitor Meta over the newly launched "Threads" social media app... Authorities in Tunisia forcibly removing migrants from the port city of Sfax... Tonight in Israel the opponents of judicial reform protesting outside the homes of government ministers and blocking roads... An Israeli soldier killed in a terrorist attack in Samaria today... Dutch authorities arresting a man and his wife from Central Asia on terrorism charges... Pushing for Sweden to be accepted into NATO membership Secretary General...

Israeli air defenses shooting down five rockets incoming from Gaza early Wednesday morning... A federal district judge in Louisiana with a July 4th order regarding censorship of social media posts by the Biden Administration... Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that Russia and the US are talking about a prisoner exchange... Nuclear incident talk as Ukraine reinforces its military positions on the border with Belarus... An emergency evacuation of the White House Sunday night over a white powder that turned out to be cocaine... US politics and Joe Biden's approval ratings moving downwards... In Tunisia a local resident killed during fighting...

The United States is considering providing cluster munitions to Ukraine... Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi today... A US State Department report released today on the US pullout from Afghanistan... Joe Biden has a condition for meeting with Israel's Prime Minister... At least 48 dead in Kenya when a truck collided with other vehicles and pedestrians... 25 people burned to death when a bus caught fire in India... The Russian military mission in Syria says that drones of the US-led coalition are violating... Russia has imposed a ban on Polish trucks transporting goods...

It's being called a "congestion pricing program". New York Governor Kathy Hochul saying that as early as next spring anyone driving into the center of Manhattan... Hundreds of billions of dollars in US government COVID relief funds likely stolen by fraudsters... 500 million dollars more in US military aid heading for Ukraine... French police shot and killed a 17-year-old driver in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, this morning... As the holiday period approaches here in the USA the move to pass judicial reform is moving forward in Israel... Today Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledging that Russian pilots were killed during...

German politics and a runoff election victory for the anti-Ukraine War Alternative for Germany (AfD)...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announcing an investigation after a video appears to show soldiers executing five men... Joe Biden vetoing legislation that blocked his program... In announcing his candidacy for President today former Vice-President Mike Pence claimed that he was asked by President Trump to choose 'between him and the Constitution' on January 6th... Saudi Arabia condemning an attack on its embassy in Sudan... The Russian and Syrian militaries conducting joint operations in Syria... The FBI went to Twitter with a list of accounts to censor provided by Ukraine's state police agency... An attempt to arrest Ammon Bundy...

China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang meeting Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Beijing... North Korean Spy Satellite Launch Effort Fails As Rocket Plunges Into Sea... The South African government intends to pass a law allowing it discretion in complying with International Criminal Court arrest warrants... Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposing a common currency for South America... The US military says that the pilot of a Chinese warplane performed an unsafe maneuver near a US spy plane in the South China Sea last week... Joe Biden is warning Uganda of sanctions and other penalties if it does not immediately...

As we watch the results come in we can use a point spread comparison to last year's Presidential Election. In Virginia Joe Biden at 54.1 percent and Donald Trump at 44 percent last November. (10.1 advantage Biden-Democrats) In New Jersey Biden at 57.3 percent and Trump at 41.4 percent last November (15.9 advantage Biden-Democrats). The Repoublican and Democrat numbers in these governor's race lets see how they match up to those numbers last year for President.... The vote in the heavily Democrat City of Richmond still held back at this point. The vote also lagging in heavily Democrat Fairfax County...

Various Democrats are all over the media today saying that the fact that the GAO found that Trump acted illegally re spending appropriated funds means he should be tossed out of office. Does this mean that Obama, whom the GAO found illegally defied Congress in ordering the Defense Department to send five Guantanomo prisoners to Qatar in defiance of duly-enacted legislation prohibited Obama from expending any funds on such action, should have been removed from office as well? If you can find me a Democratic House member or Senator who denounced Obama for that move, I’ll concede that he is...

Todays protests focused on the violence of the police against protesters with injury totals in the thousands over the last three months of protest in the country. The weapon of choice causing most of the injuries the "flash bang" or as its called in France the "flash ball"......