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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley says "I no longer feel bound by the promise I made to support the eventual GOP presidential nominee." She justified her reversal, saying "it was made under duress. The Republican National Committee required that all candidates sign this pledge in order to be permitted to participate in the debates. Besides, as Lenin once said when he was criticized for breaking his election promise to give the peasants land, bread, and peace--'promises are like pie crusts, made to be broken.' He went on to totally transform his country in ways never seen before." "Anyway, it is...

Liz Cheney effectively ended her political career in Wyoming Thursday evening. She called the January 6, 2021 protest and riot an “invasion” of the Capitol aided and abetted by President Donald Trump.

It's at http://www.scottadamssays.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Episode-1172-Scott-Adams-Fake-Polls-Election-Day-Unrest-Biden-Chased-Out-of-Texas.mp3, queue to 40 minutes and 02 seconds (40:02). It would be like the Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bombing.

I’m not sure where all of you are today after witnessing the results of yesterday’s election. I have experienced a wide range of emotions, beginning with disbelief then moving to anger and a decision that it’s time to give up and move to a fortress in the woods. (SNIP) Here is a list of elected officials who endorsed Thad Cochran and betrayed the conservatives of Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant Lt. Governor Tate Reeves Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann State Auditor Stacey Pickering Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney State Treasurer Lynn Fitch Senator Roger Wicker Congressman Gregg Harper...

The latest refugee is State Rep. Bubba Chaney of Rayville, who made his switch official today. With Chaney’s move, there are now 53 Republicans, 47 Democrats and four independents in the House, with one seat open (the one formerly held by Democrat-turned Republican Fred Mills, who just won a special election for the Senate) and set for a special election next month. Chaney, who is serving his first term in the Louisiana Legislature, changed his party affiliation at the Richland Parish Courthouse late Monday afternoon. “I just didn’t feel that my philosophy as a traditional conservative Blue Dog Democrat has...

Americans tend to revere our preeminent honorary citizen, Sir Winston Churchill. That view is apparently not shared by Barak Obama, who made one of his first official acts the unceremonious return to the British embassy of a bust of the great wartime leader that George W. Bush had received from Tony Blair shortly after 9/11. snip Winston Churchill considered his inability to prevent the carnage of World War II to be a personal failure. In truth, then – as now – the responsibility ultimately rests not with the watchman who sounds the alarm, but with those who fail to heed...

Differing vice presidents Who do you agree with regarding national security?

A big secret they couldn't escapeBy William Neikirk Tribune senior correspondent Published June 26, 2005 By October, Mississippi's searing heat usually gives way to the cool spells of fall. And so it was in 1967, in the graceful city of Meridian, where I had come to cover a federal trial as a reporter for The Associated Press. But a different kind of heaviness hung in the air that October long ago, a feeling no less oppressive than the swelter of a Mississippi summer. You could sense it by viewing Confederate flags some people had unfurled near the federal building. You...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) -- Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen watched from a wheelchair Monday as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the civil rights era -- the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers. The case against the 80-year-old Killen represents Mississippi's latest attempt to deal with unfinished business from the state's bloodstained, racist past. In a measure of how much things have changed over the past 41 years, about a quarter of the jury pool was black, roughly reflecting the racial makeup of the county's 28,700 residents. In 1964, very...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - Hicks. Rednecks. Racists. People who live in this town of 7,300 have heard the epithets slung their way for decades. And many - black and white - cringe as they anticipate how the world will view their town when reputed Ku Klux Klansman and part-time preacher Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial Monday in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. "People make it sound like it’s a hick town. It’s not," said Bryon Whitley, a white 21-year-old who works in a music store on the downtown square, just across from the red brick Neshoba County...

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - Hicks. Rednecks. Racists. People who live in this town of 7,300 have heard the epithets slung their way for decades. And many — black and white — cringe as they anticipate how the world will view their town when reputed Ku Klux Klansman and part-time preacher Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial Monday in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. "People make it sound like it's a hick town. It's not," said Bryon Whitley, a white 21-year-old who works in a music store on the downtown square, just across...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During the 2004 presidential elections, the mainstream news media frequently engaged in bias -- especially on pro-life issues such as abortion and stem cell research. As with previous polls, a new survey confirms most members of the media voted for Democrat John Kerry over President George W. Bush. The University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy found journalists picked Kerry over Bush by 68 percent to 25 percent. The college sampled 300 journalists, from both newspapers and TV. The poll also found that Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1 and twice as many self-identified themselves as...

John Chaney, the provocateur of Philadelphia, is accustomed to receiving a free pass because of all his humanitarian work. As you know, he helps little old ladies navigate dangerous intersections. He is a father figure to all too many of the fatherless basketball players who elect to play at Temple. He saves lives. You know the well-worn talking points. Chaney teaches life skills with a basketball in his hand, which, to be honest, is beside the point. Chaney appears to have a serious anger-management problem, which is the point.

Chaney's punishment should be dismissal, not suspension Feb. 24, 2005 By Gregg Doyel SportsLine.com Senior Writer No more excuses for John Chaney. No more explanations, no more minced words. Temple coach John Chaney has had a handful of run-ins. The Hall of Fame coach from Temple perpetrated a crime on college basketball this week, and the punishment for that crime should be an immediate dismissal. In Temple's 63-56 loss Tuesday to Saint Joseph's, Chaney sent in a goon -- his word, goon -- to send a message. That message went all the way to a hospital in Philadelphia, where Saint...

We can all agree that Dick Chaney made mince meat out of John Edwards last night, and actually performed much better than Bush did last week. However, it seems that Chaney did not have a good response to Edward’s attacks about Chaney’s relationship to Haliburton. In corresponding with my 19 year old son today (who is a sophomore student at liberal George Washington University in D.C. and who writes a column of conservative political commentary for the school newspaper), I thought the readers of Free Republic would find his comments on this subject of interest. Here’s what he wrote: Hey...

<p>Some people say old unsolved civil rights-era murder cases should be left alone. The quest for long-delayed justice, they say, is not worth reopening those old social wounds. For others among us, those wounds never healed.</p> <p>Forty years have passed, for example, since "freedom summer," but I still vividly remember the massive project to register black voters in the South. The Constitution had granted African-Americans the right to vote almost 100 years earlier, but that radical notion had not taken hold in the South.</p>

<p>PHILADELPHIA, MS — Another anniversary, another year without justice for the killers of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, speakers said Sunday.</p> <p>"All of us know that people who helped and aided in the murders are still alive," Leslie McLemore, a member of the Jackson City Council, told the 200 or so gathered at Mount Zion United Methodist Church to remember the three civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. "They need to be brought to trial."</p>

Belgium And The Legal Stoning Of Her NATO Allies By Paul M. Weyrich When NATO awarded a contract earlier this year to build its new headquarters in Brussels, NATO's Secretary General, Lord Robertson, proclaimed "I have no doubt that NATO's new Headquarters will stand as a landmark of Brussels' architectural landscape." Well, apologies to Lord Robertson, but there might not be a new headquarters in Brussels. Not if Belgium intends to keep a law on the books to permit prosecution of foreign soldiers and leaders for crimes committed during war. Who has been the target of such lawsuits? It's not...