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The U.S. embassy in Kabul tells Americans to shelter in place and not to come to the embassy or airport amid reports of the airport taking fire. https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1426925292375973892

Sen. Tom Cotton says he’s "very confident about 2022." The GOP senator from Arkansas is crisscrossing the country this summer, helping to raise money and support Republicans running in the 2022 midterm elections, when GOP aims to win back majorities in the House and Senate. wo of the Republicans top four Senate targets in next year’s midterms are in Nevada and New Hampshire, where first-term Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez-Masto and Maggie Hassan are running for reelection. Those two states also happen to play crucial roles in the race for the White House, holding the second and fourth contests in the...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proposing a procedural vote this month that would set up future passage of two economic measures crucial to President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, a move Democratic leaders hope will win votes from unhappy party moderates. In a letter Sunday to Democratic lawmakers, Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested that the House will take a single vote that would clear an initial hurdle for both a budget resolution and a separate infrastructure bill. The budget blueprint would open the gate for Congress to later consider a separate, $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill for social and environment programs. Nine centrist Democrats...

Team USA dominated the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning both the overall medal count handily and gold medal tally, but Chinese state media has altered those figures in a way to assert itself as the gold medal leader. Images from the Chinese social media platform, Weibo, and China Central Television have circulated on Twitter this week showing an altered medal count that includes hardware taken home by Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to multiple reports. Under the IOC rules Hong Kong and Taiwan, referred to as Chinese Taipei, compete independently as National Olympic Committees. The deceptive ploy improved China’s tally from...

Fifty years ago this Sunday, President Richard Nixon announced a bold economic plan, including the severing of the U.S. dollar’s ties to gold. Since then, the world’s monetary system has consisted of (mostly) freely floating currencies. The dollar nonetheless remains the primary legal tender used internationally for trade, finance, and as a store of value, which has conferred upon the U.S. enormous advantages. Whether that will continue for the next half-century is far from certain. The Bretton Woods system, in effect back then, reflected America’s economic pre-eminence after World War II. Currency exchange rates were fixed, relative to the dollar,...

Eleven Senate Democrats on Thursday voted against a modest and commonsense amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution that requires illegal migrants apprehended on the southern border to be tested for COVID-19 before they are transported into the country. The amendment, introduced by Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a physician, establishes “a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting migrants and local communities against COVID-19.” Under the provision, migrants will be quarantined and not transported from the border until they tested negative. This minor impediment to the Regime’s goal of fundamentally transforming the nation through mass immigration was supported by Majority Whip Dick...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled President Ashraf Ghani fled the country Sunday as the Taliban moved further into Kabul, officials said. His countrymen and foreigners alike raced for the exit, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan. * * * KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Sunday and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government, officials said, as Afghans and foreigners alike raced for the exit, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

During Thursday’s Madison County (KY) Board of Education meeting, the school board gave a statement regarding their disagreement with the mask mandate ordered by Governor Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Board of Education. Chair Lori Cobb read the statement at the conclusion of the meeting, which outlined the board’s reasons for not supporting the governor's executive order which requires masks be worn in schools. “We maintain our position that it should be the parent’s choice in determining if their child should wear a mask,” Cobb read. “Like school districts, families are different, and only parents in consultation with their doctors...

In the past month 212,000 illegal aliens have overrun the southern border of the United States. In the past week, the Taliban has overrun American military outposts, and taken for their use—American military equipment, as they prepare to declare victory in the fight that began on 9/11 with planes flying into American buildings. In the past day you were labeled a terrorist, by—get this—your own Department of Homeland Security. (A department established in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with the expressed intent of stopping real terrorists.)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan’s embattled President Ashraf Ghani fled the country Sunday as the Taliban moved further into Kabul, officials said. His countrymen and foreigners alike raced for the exit, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

One of many definitions for Critical Race Theory is a widely-used one on Google: Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. Remember the "racial justice" part. The problem is, the methodology that CRT proponents implement to examine things is shoddy at best. A.) The correct thing is to say "There is racial inequality, or at least racial imbalance, for example, in math...

A father sent out a tweet today sharing a question his son asked: My son suffered massive injuries including lost limb from a blast in Afghanistan and he called me the other night and asked, “Dad what did I fight and suffer for?” Sad About 2500 members of the military lost their lives in Afghanistan. Many more were injured. All for nothing. Last month Biden promised America that Afghanistan would not fall to the Taliban. 36 days ago, President Biden told the American people that the Taliban would not take over #Afghanistan after he ordered the removal of U.S. troops....

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Country delivers more booster shots, restores mask and quarantine mandates as Delta variant drives up hospitalizationsTEL AVIV—After becoming one of the first countries to open up thanks to a widespread Covid-19 vaccination campaign, Israel is again on guard, this time against the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.Mask mandates are back, including requirements to mask up for large outdoor gatherings. Many venues require people to show proof of vaccination, a negative Covid-19 test or proof of recovery from the virus. People returning from most countries have to quarantine for at least a week, even if they are fully...

The claims made by Russian media that NASA Astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor had a nervous breakdown and damaged a Russian spacecraft to get home are not credible, Kathy Lueders, who is leading NASA's human spaceflight program, said at a press conference on Friday. Russia's TASS recently published a story, citing an unnamed source in the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, that claimed Aunon-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space and she made a microfracture in the Russian spacecraft to return early during a mission in 2018. "Absolutely," Lueders said when asked whether NASA will defend its astronaut. "Our NASA crews perform their...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is evacuating remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as the Taliban enter the Afghan capital. But he is playing down America’s hasty exit, saying “this is manifestly not Saigon.” Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Blinken said: “The compound itself, our folks are leaving there, and moving to the airport.” Blinken also confirmed that U.S. Embassy workers were destroying documents and other items ahead of fleeing the embassy, but insisted “this is being done in a very deliberate way, it’s being done in an orderly way,...

Ambrose Bierce was an early 20th-century writer, newspaperman, and adventurer known for his rapier wit. Indeed, among American satirists, Bierce is (in my opinion) second only to Mark Twain. Perhaps his most famous work, in addition to some excellent short stories (like "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"), is The Devil's Dictionary, a glossary of everyday terms cynically reformulated in accordance with Bierce's mordant sense of humor. For example, he defined "politics" as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." A politician, he said, is "an eel in the fundamental mud upon which the super-structure of organized society is...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Aug. 14. Orders have been issued for the raising and equipment of two additional regiments in New-Mexico, either of infantry or cavalry, as may be most readily, obtained. A gentleman, direct from San Antonio via New-Orleans, reached Washington to-day. He came to New-Orleans overland by way of Houston, Brashear City, on Berwick's Bay, and thence up the Mississippi. There is no difficulty for a Southerner on the confines of the rebel States. If he obtains a pass at Memphis, he comes through unmolested, otherwise his baggage and correspondence are searched at Clarksville, Tenn. This gentleman represents the corn,...

For the United States, however, it represents not only a military failure but also an intelligence one. Not only did the Central Intelligence Agency and other US intelligence agencies wildly underestimate the speed of the Taliban advance, but they also appear to have been blind to the extent of political dealings the Taliban had made as the withdrawal loomed and the military prepositioning the Taliban achieved to begin a near-simultaneous assault on provincial capitals. They appear to have missed the fact that Taliban shadow governors were already in place, alongside their staff, to take over provincial functions.