Bill O’Reilly Talking Points
L Exiles From Reality
et’s all hope cher doesn’t leave the country. The chan- teuse said she would if Donald Trump was elected, but that
is a tragedy of a mockery of a sham, to quote Woody Allen. We need Cher right here in the USA.
I forget the reason why but there is one. Madonna can leave if she wants.
It’s reported she’s cursing a lot after absorbing the election results. You would think the material girl would like President Trump because he’s a mate- rial guy. But no. She looks askance at him, and that’s not easy when you’re botoxed up. Taylor Swift can’t leave. What would
the Kansas City Chiefs do? And where would Taylor go? Yes, you are correct, anywhere she wants. Same with Oprah. I passed by her
house in Turks-Caicos and nobody in the swanky neighborhood had ever seen her. Very nice house. She could go there.
The Obamas have to stay in the U.S.
Too complicated to split. Big Hawaii property, really nice Martha’s Vineyard spread, mini-mansion in D.C., some- thing in Chicago. Not bad for the hope and change
couple. Maybe they meant change addresses. I don’t know. Joe Biden can’t leave either. He
would never be able to find his way back. Jill and Hunter could depart, but they won’t. They will recede from pub- lic view. In fact, the last time we heard from Jill was after the June debate when she vowed the Bidens would stay in the White House until the Twelfth of Never. But now it’s back to Delaware for the
first couple. There are worse places. Give me a moment. A jest for you sensitive folks in Wilmington. Finally, Kamala Harris is not return- ing to her middle-class home after leav-
ing the vice presidency. She’s alighting to her lavish spread in Brentwood, Cali- fornia, where O.J. Simpson once lived. No way Kamala is going anywhere
except the lecture circuit, where she’ll get around $250,000 to not answer questions. Life can be sweet even in defeat. Yes, that rhymes. What’s it to you? I may have to leave because there
are only so many years in a person’s life. I hope I’m going to heaven, but that is no lock. The nuns warned me, but I didn’t lis-
ten. They said if I was snippy to people like Cher and Oprah, there would be a price to pay. Hopefully, the deity has a sense of humor. And maybe a MAGA hat.
Bill O’Reilly hosts The O’Reilly Update, heard daily on more than 100 radio stations, and is the author of the bestseller The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America.
U.S. Funds Atheism Overseas
Tax dollars used to boost nonreligious groups. BY VAN CHARLES
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isturbing details have emerged of Biden administration efforts to
promote atheism overseas, including how taxpayer dollars were used to recruit, train, and organize nonreligious groups. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the U.S. State Department “misappropriated” $500,000 under the auspices of promoting religious freedom and violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution in the process. “The State Department, through the
deployment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, sought to evangelize on behalf of the nonreligious — which is illegal,” McCaul wrote in the religious journal First Things. McCaul’s committee began investigating
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the State Department in 2021 when a “notice of funding opportunity” for $500,000 was issued by its Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. McCaul said the notice solicited
proposals for programs that would “promote and defend religious freedom inclusive of atheist, humanist, non- practicing, and non-afiliated individuals.” He said the notice indicated to
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that the programs they put together should “increase capacity” of atheists and humanists to “form” and “strengthen” their networks in South Asia. “After obtaining information the
Department of State tried to keep hidden, my colleagues and I have learned that some members of our nation’s diplomatic corps consider the concept of ‘religious freedom’ to be as malleable as clay, even entailing, in some cases, government promotion of
nonbelief. Regardless of one’s faith tradition or political allegiances, this distortion is cause for concern.” McCaul said the funding should have been used as intended to help religious groups experiencing persecution. He said the State Department’s own
International Religious Freedom Reports, along with reports by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, showed Christians and Muslims in countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka recently faced persecution, but there was no mention of atheists or humanists experiencing the same. “The State Department was picking
favorites,” McCaul wrote. “Washington, D.C.–based oficials deliberately chose to spurn the religious groups most in need of assistance in the relevant countries and devote funds instead to a pet project, one that appears to have been tailored for the grantee.”
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