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resident Joe Biden is about to do what President Donald Trump had proposed to do a year earlier – end the fruitless Western military presence in Afghanistan. Many, including President Trump, are applauding the move, while many others, including former President George W. Bush, are horrified, fearing a return to power of the Seventh Century Taliban. International conflict specialist Dr. Greg Mills, who is Director of the Brenthurst Foundation, is more hopeful for Afghanistan’s long-term future. In a recent op-ed, Mills lists five primary reasons why the West failed to help Afghanistan right the ship of state the Taliban had...

In 2020 alone, Facebook and Amazon spent more money on lobbyists than did Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing—major players in the defense-industrial complex. Big Tech companies are infamous for their massive lobbying muscle in Washington D.C., where they spend roughly $100 million annually to try and manipulate the policies meant to govern them. In 2020 alone, Facebook and Amazon spent more money on lobbyists than did Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing—major players in the defense-industrial complex. The shadow influence of Big Tech on the institutions and academics of public policy formulation is just as significant, although...

The formerly red county banned an America First rally and gave a very twisted reason for doing so. Anaheim, California, home to Disneyland, has an ugly, fantasy view of the First Amendment. How else can one explain why Anaheim, after boasting about its respect for free speech, canceled an America First rally at which Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz were appearing because of the town’s “duty” to oppose speech it doesn’t like? To date, Southern California has been hostile to America First. On July 9, an American First rally set for an event center in Laguna Hills, at which...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 119כ Kaph 81 My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word. 82 My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, “When will you comfort me?” 83 Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees. 84 How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors? 85 The arrogant dig pits to trap me, contrary to your law. 86 All your commands are trustworthy; help me, for I am being persecuted without cause. 87 They...

Yes, black lives matter. They have mattered, do matter, and most certainly will matter to the future of America. In fact, they matter too much to relegate millions of our black citizens to dependence on dehumanizing government entitlements in the name of righting past wrongs. Demanding reparations and special programs keeps them waiting for politicians to deliver on promises that are unlikely to come. Even worse, the premise that they can't succeed without such help is demeaning and keeps them from the hard work and drive needed to earn their own American Dream. Booker T. Washington knew the political power...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) railed against communists during a speech at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit on Sunday, noting that people only seem to flee communist-run countries for America, not the other way around. [T]he thing that liberals never seem to understand if you go down to Key West is the rafts are only going in one direction. Just once I want to see some left-wing socialist — I want to see Bernie Sanders, I want to see Elizabeth Warren, I want to see AOC go down to Key West, get on a raft, and sail 90 miles south...

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Source: Unsplash/Alex SmithMany in the media regularly promote and applaud positive abortion stories. But one Olympian’s story is forcing them to hint at the tragedy of abortion – and the truth that many women choose it because they feel like they have no other choice. On July 1, the New York Times reported that U.S. hurdler Brianna McNeal said she “didn’t open her door to antidoping officials” last year because she was “traumatized after having an abortion.” Now, she faces a five-year ban on competing, among other penalties. Sports reporter Juliet Macur detailed the plight of the 29-year-old athlete who...

LeBron James’ disgusting China pandering is not going to save his Space Jam: A New Legacy, which is looking like a box office flop. LeBron James’ Space Jam: A New Legacy died at the domestic box office this weekend with a pathetic $32 million opening (if that even holds). By comparison, all the way back in 1996, Michael Jordan’s original cleared $27.5 million on more than a thousand fewer theaters. LeBron’s Space Jam sequel also cost $150 million just to produce, and that doesn’t include promotional costs, which easily puts it closer to $250 million. Plenty of movies die a...

Two more Texas Democrats who traveled from Austin to Washington DC in an attempt to delay the passage of Republican-backed voting laws have tested positive for Covid-19, according to the Texas House Democratic Caucus. The number of delegation members to have tested positive for coronavirus has now gone up to five. Three were reported to have contracted the virus on Saturday. However, all the infected members are fully vaccinated. “In light of some positive Covid-19 tests over the weekend, the House Democratic Caucus has decided to go beyond CDC guidance and provide daily rapid tests for all Members and staff...

The censorship of conservative voices on social media, headlined by the Twitter and Facebook ban of former President Donald Trump, is pushing Republicans further away from the sites. In new Fabrizio, Lee & Associates polling provided to Secrets, just 14% of Republicans said they have a favorable view of Twitter, and 22% said so of Facebook. “GOP voters are sick and tired of the big social media companies,” said pollster Tony Fabrizio in his analysis. But, he added, it’s not an anti-internet thing. There is, Fabrizo said, much more approval by Republicans of other Big Tech companies, such as Amazon,...

My column week before last was quite critical of former President Donald Trump’s role in the creation and propagation of Covidstan. It was, in my opinion, tough but fair, notwithstanding the barrage of (expected) criticism it received from a majority of commenters. I don’t care. For all the good he did - and he did do a LOT of good - there’s a part of me that will never forgive him for the part he played in the madness of the past year and a half as well as the insanity that’s still doubtless to come thanks to the noxious,...

Yet based on reports in the press, "vaccine hesitancy" is purely a Trumpster phenomenon. On May 21, federal health officials testified before Congress that only 60% of their employees had received the COVID vaccine. Federal health officials testified at a Senate committee hearing that about 60% of their employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19 so far There are three COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. that have all received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. More than 279 million vaccine doses had been administered in the U.S. and 60.5% of adults had received at least one shot...

I apologize if anyone is offended, but we HAD a man that was pre-determined in his thought processes and we didn't have the revolution we should have had when we saw him SO attacked by the enemy

With the latest revelation of massive FBI incompetence/corruption – turns out the G-men ended up not just screwing up the gymnastics pervert case but lying about it under oath – you have to wonder something. We keep getting told that the rank-and-file are A-OK, that it’s just a few bad apples up on the top floor who are framing people, botching investigations, not stopping mass killers, urging intrafamilial narcing, and busting LEGO insurrectionists. Fine, great, dandy. So, where are all the good apples? Who quit in protest? Who resigned and went public? Who said “No?” If I was more technically...

Further to Jane’s post a couple of days ago about the political conversion of her friend Jackie (“Interview With Jackie,” July 14), I thought that readers might be interested in a similar story involving a somewhat more public resident of Manhattan named Maud Maron. Maron was the subject of a post by Bari Weiss at her Substack site on July 12, with the title “A Witch Trial at the Legal Aid Society.” Maron’s story gives a good indication of just how difficult it is to think independently and break free of the Manhattan groupthink, particularly if you want to have...

It's difficult to keep track of the Orwellian-style lunacy that's destroying our country. From systemic racism to white supremacy to Russia collusion to a January 6 "insurrection," the left are masters at running false flag operations. What is a false flag operation? It's when a group uses deliberate misinformation to disguise an actual source of responsibility and pin the blame on another party. President Trump "colluding with Russia" is a false flag. Anyone with a brain larger than a pea knows that it was Hillary Clinton who hired a foreign actor to work with the Russians and develop a fictitious...

resident Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has extended an invitation to two different United Nations Special Rapporteurs. One deals with contemporary forms of racism while the other is concerned with minority issues. Binken also welcomed "the UN Human Rights Council's adoption of a resolution that calls for action to combat systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement." Last year both Rapporteurs "signed a UN Human Rights Council statement that called for 'reparative intervention for historical and contemporary racial justice' around the world" because "[t]he protests [in the U.S. that] . ....

The "silent majority" was mentioned by President Nixon in 1969, who labeled middle Americans who weren't protesting the Vietnam war or joining the counter culture — two activities being over-reported by the media of the day. The silent majority didn't speak up much but respected traditional American values with a good-natured approach to political issues. They were silent, but they voted. In 1972, Nixon was re-elected with one of the largest landslides in U.S. history — 520 electoral votes to only 17 for McGovern. Today, most Americans focus on work and family and trust that our elected officials will work...

Several bishops in the world have already moved to restrict or close down priests or parishes offering the Traditional Latin Mass #TLM in comformity with the Pope's recent Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. 48 hours later attendance and support has surged. Dr. Taylor Marshall comments.