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President Joe Biden on Thursday issued a forceful defense of his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan and denied it was inevitable that the Taliban would eventually topple the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.

A massive population of grasshoppers is proliferating in the sweltering American west, where a deep drought has made for ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and survive into adulthood. “I can only describe grasshoppers in expletives,” said Richard Nicholson, a cattle rancher in Fort Klamath, a small community in southern Oregon, who once recalled seeing grasshopper bands eat 1,000 acres a day and cover the ground like snow. The insects cause innumerable headaches for farmers and ranchers, competing with cattle for tough-to-find wild forage and costing tens of thousands of dollars in lost crops and associated costs. “They are...

Former President Donald Trump has announced class-action lawsuits against tech giants Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube parent company Google, over their "unlawful" censorship of him and other conservatives, after the social media giants banned him from posting in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well," Trump said during an appearance at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Wednesday morning. "We will prove that this censorship is unlawful, it's unconstitutional, and...

The "Flip or Flop" star said she was worried about "false narratives being thrown around left and right" regarding their relationship. "We decided what's in the past, is in the past. We aren’t looking at all the nonsense online. The internet and social are great for businesses or staying up to date on fam / friends but also, can be toxic and (let’s be real) pretty fake," Haack penned. "I may be a bit crazy and I'm definitely not perfect but I will never live my life based on other people's judgments or opinions. "We pride ourselves on never judging...

Nessel says she is using Republican Senator Ed McBroom’s report on the 2020 election. McBroom and his colleagues said they found NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD in the 2020 election. McBroom also encouraged Nessel to go after those individuals who made “false claims” about the process. ..... Snip..... State Republican Senators Ed McBroom and Mike Shirkey then went on to urge government officials to investigate the Michigan and Detroit whistleblowers who spoke out about the election fraud and abuse. .....Snip..... In June the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee released a report saying there was no “systematic” fraud in the 2020 Michigan election....

A major power outage in Central America cut electricity to some 15 million residents on Wednesday, with the worst impact felt in Honduras and Nicaragua. The two most-affected countries saw power for nearly all residents “practically go down to zero volts,” siad EOR communications head Evelyn Flores. The grid operator said the outage began at 1 p.m. (1900 GMT) but the cause and specific origin of the massive loss of power still being determined. Energy use fell from 8,300 megawatts to just 2,400 megawatts across the region with the exception of Panama and Costa Rica, which were mostly unaffected, EOR...

Donald Trump became the political vehicle for the American people’s resentment of an overweening, corrupt ruling class. Trump’s invaluable contribution to the Republic was to lead Americans publicly to disrespect that class. Americans elected Trump to preserve freedoms and prosperity against the encroachments of that class. But instead, he became the catalyst by which that class cohered to transform the American Republic into an oligarchy. During Trump’s presidency, more wealth passed from ordinary Americans to oligarchs, and more freedoms were lost than anyone imagined possible. As we consider how to remedy these losses, Trump’s fateful combination of things said and...

Joe Biden is failing to fulfill his most sacred obligation as President: keeping the American people safe. The Democrat Party’s efforts to undermine our brave law enforcement officers have led directly to a stunning surge in violent crime nationwide. The left’s defund the police rhetoric and policies have become so politically untenable that some Democrats are now claiming to support increased funding for police. Americans see right through that political spin. Democrats have already done too much damage to law and order to now credibly state their support for police. They have put Americans’ safety at risk. Thanks to powerful...

U.S.—Controversy continues to unfold surrounding what teachers should and should not be teaching children. Teachers have responded by demanding cameras be placed in homes so they can monitor what parents are teaching their students. “Why shouldn’t we be able to see what they are teaching our students? Do they have something to hide?” said Katherine Lunsford, a public school teacher, and activist. “For all we know, they could be teaching our students that America is a great country, or worse, that not seeing race is okay.” “We need dedicated cameras in every room to watch students at all times to...

We don't have any news on our granddaughter Amanda's condition. That will only come after more tests. Our family wants to express our deepest gratitude to all of you who have joined us in praying for Amanda and ask that you continue and ask others to join us in our prayers for her as well.

The vaccine door-to-door evangelists are coming for you! Luckily, we at The Babylon Bee are extremely anti-social, so we've got some great ways to scare off the vaccine missionaries trying to get you to accept Dr. Fauci as your lord and savior. Try one of these and let us know how it goes!* 1. Answer the door while casually cleaning your AR-15. - "Greetings, agent of the government! What can I do for you today?" 2. Wear a MAGA hat. - Works every time. 3. Sneeze violently and say you're starting to lose your sense of taste. - "Does this...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE – Abp. Viganò rebukes pro-LGBT Cardinals Cupich, Gregory, Tobin: They’re ‘unworthy to celebrate’ MassJuly 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In a new exclusive written interview with LifeSiteNews, former U.S. nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò condemns Pope Francis’s recent endorsement of homosexuality-promoting priest Father James Martin.It is therefore unsurprising that James Martin enjoys such appreciation in the highest spheres of the Vatican, which according to the methodology in force since Vatican II leaves a free hand to the most agitated exponents of progressive currents and then adopts the Hegelian dialectic between the thesis of natural and Catholic morality, the...

Are we there yet? Yes, we are. A look at Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: Revisited (1958). This man was a visionary.

Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli BabbittMost police departments — including Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police — are required to release an officer’s name within days of a fatal shooting. Not the US Capitol Police, which is controlled by Congress and answers only to Congress. It can keep the public in the dark about the identity and investigation of an officer involved in a shooting indefinitely.Which is what happened with the Jan. 6 shooting of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester in the US Capitol riot who was fatally wounded by a plainclothes police lieutenant as...

This is frightening. Imagine if President Trump had done this? https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1413228649805873153

Eight weeks ago, Liz Cheney’s colleagues struck her down—and made her more powerful than they could have possibly imagined. They did so, if the media was to be believed, by inadvertently thrusting into her hands a new megaphone to broadcast her anti-Trump message. Around the same time, former Trump administration official Miles Taylor and dissident 2016 presidential candidate Evan McMullin announced a group of disgruntled Republicans who threatened to form a new third party if the GOP failed to expunge the stain of Trumpism. Despite the hype they received on cable news, neither Cheney’s nor Taylor and McMullin’s efforts have...

A leak of google blacklist. While this is no surprise, of course google has freerepublic on its radar as an enemy, here is a listing of a large number (hundreds) and FR makes the grade. Tthis is now circulating to correspond with yesterday's Class Action against Google. From the site: "Zach Vorhies was a Google employee who downloaded 950 pages of internal documents describing Google's censorship regime and then delivered them to the DOJ. He also disclosed these document to the public via Project Veritas on August 2019."

We are entering the age of "Full John Galt." This is a time where society and politicians are rapidly dismantling the rights of ownership. This transfer of rights constitutes a transfer of wealth whether we wish to call it by that name or not. This is a time when people can just walk into a small privately-owned convenience store, then, without paying walk out with an arm full of merchandise with little or no ramifications. This is a time when government deficits have lost all meaning and people are being paid not to work. This is a time when saying...

With new mutations discovered every few weeks, many scientists now predict that Covid will continue circulating around the world for at least the next two to three years, requiring nations to reinstitute public health measures on an ad hoc basis for the foreseeable future