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Laura and I have been watching the tragic events unfolding in Afghanistan with deep sadness. Our hearts are heavy for both the Afghan people who have suffered so much and for the Americans and NATO allies who have sacrificed so much. The Afghans now at the greatest risk are the same ones who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation. President Biden has promised to evacuate these Afghans, along with American citizens and our allies. The United States government has the legal authority to cut the red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crises. And we have...

Wisconsin's Fort McCoy is preparing to receive Afghan refugees as the Taliban takes control of the Middle Eastern nation. A Fort McCoy spokesperson said Monday the base is getting ready for any refugees. The defense department says up to 22,000 could come to the United States in the next three to four weeks. Director for Defense Intelligence, Garry Reid, said during a Monday briefing that Camp McCoy as well as Fort Bliss, Texas are temporary sites are under assessment for receiving refugees. Fort McCoy is an army installation that sits on 60,000 acres of land between Tomah and Sparta, in...

Vice Adm Sir Ben Key, who is running the UK evacuation operation, tells the BBC the situation at Kabul airport is "much calmer" today.He says there had been "distressing" scenes at the airport as Afghans faced "huge uncertainty" about their future.About 300 people have already been evacuated, and he believes they could get between 6000-7000 people out.The Taliban are controlling the gates of Kabul airport and are having discussions with local commanders to allow people into the airport, he says.Evacuation efforts will continue for as long as they are needed to meet demand, he says, or until the security situation...

Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and other school board members held a meeting with a panel of local medical experts to discuss safety measures for the return to school.

The Biden administration’s feckless withdrawal from Afghanistan is sending the worst possible message to our enemies across the world. Our rivals are already convinced of our lack of morale and our fear of the consequences from a response serious enough to concentrate their minds. Twenty years after 9/11, and we still haven’t figured out the nature and aims of those who for decades have in word and bloody deed told us we are an enemy they want to destroy. Instead we cling to our shopworn belief that “diplomatic engagement” can deter and stop a fanatic enemy, hoping words can substitute...

A senior US senator, also a member of US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on his social media revealed that the US has 30,000 soldiers stationed in China's Taiwan island. If the tweet is correct, it is a military invasion and occupation of China's Taiwan and equivalent to the US declaring war on China. China could immediately activate its Anti-Secession Law to destroy and expel US troops in Taiwan and reunify Taiwan militarily, some experts noted. Some others believe the news leaked by the US senator cannot be true because 30,000 is not some small amount that the US Army...

“I assured him [Stalinist dictator Raul Castro’s son Alejandro, a KGB-trained secret police colonel] that any Democrat who succeeded Obama would continue our approach.” That’s failed novelist and Obama aide Ben Rhodes, exulting in his memoirs. Rhodes was tasked by President Obama with secretly “negotiating” his famous “opening” with Stalinist Cuba (i.e. with groveling before Raul’s son Alejandro, who pretty much runs Cuba with a few secret police and military henchmen, though you’d never guess any of this from all those intrepid “news” agencies bestowed Havana bureaus by the totalitarian regime.) Just last week pursuant to the tumult in...

Afghanistan has become the playground of global Islamist terrorists once again, less than one month before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America’s homeland. The Taliban and their friends from al Qaeda and ISIS will be marching in the streets to celebrate, while we at home we will be mourning the lost lives the terrorists took on 9/11. We will also be mourning the fact that we are right back where we started twenty years ago. That’s when the Taliban was previously in charge of Afghanistan and provided al Qaeda a sanctuary from which to plan...

Support for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is falling amid widespread coverage of the Taliban's takeover of the country, according to a new poll. The survey, conducted by Morning Consult and Politico between Aug. 13 and Aug 16, the day after the Taliban completed its takeover of Kabul, found that 49 percent of American voters support President Biden’s decision to pull troops from the region. That is significantly down from the 69 percent who expressed support for the exit in an April survey by the same firms.SnipRepublican support dropped to 31 percent from 52 percent, while support from independents fell...

"Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?" ABC News asks. "Afghanistan Is Your Fault," barks Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. “Why Afghan Forces So Quickly Laid Down Their Arms,” Politico ponders. The one thing that the Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan is good for is more media hot takes. Afghanistan didn't fall because it never existed. The Afghan army laid down its arms because it also never existed. And not just because many of the 300,000 soldiers were imaginary. Its Pashtun members surrendered to their fellow Taliban Pashtuns, or fled to Iran or Uzbekistan, depending on their tribal or religious...

KABUL, Afghanistan - President Joe Biden authorized $500 million in aid relief to Afghan refugees on Monday, according to a White House news release. The money will come from the "United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs of refugees, victims of conflict, and other persons at risk as a result of the situation in Afghanistan, including applicants for Special Immigrant Visas," according to the White House. The aid comes after chaotic scenes of Afghans clinging to U.S. military planes in Kabul in a desperate bid to flee their...

The perceived Biden administration’s lackluster handling of the collapse of the U.S.-aligned Afghanistan regime is expected by many to have political implications for President Joe Biden and Democrats. However, don’t expect any of them to be long-lasting implications, according to former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd. During an appearance on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” Dowd predicted little impact politically for Democrats.

Please pray for her recovery, but more importantly for her salvation. She has never been a believer but she is a principled, tough, enduring woman who raised us safe and stable through hard times. Let her know God through His Son Jesus, before she dies.

The Biden administration is set to announce that Americans who got a COVID-19 vaccine should receive a booster shot eight months after becoming fully vaccinated, officials said late Monday. The booster doses would likely not be made available until mid- to late September, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to grant full approval to the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, sources told the Associated Press. The announcement, which could be made as soon as this week, would be the clearest signal from health officials that the coronavirus is endemic in the US — and that flu season is now...

INDIANA, Pennsylvania -- When you cross the street in the downtown of this borough, located in a county that shares its name, you're in for a reminder that it's a wonderful life. Two of the crosswalk signals guide pedestrians with the voice of the late Jimmy Stewart, who was born and raised here in Indiana. "Please wait to cross Philadelphia Street at South 9th Street. Wait for the walk signal, will ya?" the folksy voice of Rich Little impersonating Stewart tells pedestrians as they cross from the movie star's namesake museum. Stewart is celebrated here a lot. There is the...

I wrote about the moral, diplomatic, international and American tragedy of abandoning Afghanistan a few months ago, so here I will address only the comment by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on ABC's "This Week" -- and what it says about our country. Commenting on the American helicopters picking up Americans from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Blinken said, "This is manifestly not Saigon." That statement sums up the state of the United States of America. We have become a Society of Lies. As I have known since I studied the Soviet Union and communism at the...

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A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III safely evacuated some 640 Afghans from Kabul late Sunday, according to U.S. defense officials and photos obtained by Defense One. That’s believed to be among the most people ever flown in the C-17, a massive military cargo plane that has been operated by the U.S. and its allies for nearly three decades. Flight tracking software shows the plane belongs to the 436th Air Wing, based at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Continue reading… https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/08/inside-reach-871-us-c-17-packed-640-people-trying-escape-taliban/184563/ CNN doing CNN things #Afghanistan #kabulairport #WheresBiden pic.twitter.com/82ds3xl96f — RxPhonics (@RxPhonics) August 16, 2021 @DAVILACOLON @cucusahernandez Un hombre...

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COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – A bipartisan group of South Carolina state senators is requesting a special session to reconsider the state’s ban on mask mandates in schools. Senators Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg), Ronnie Sabb (D-Williamsburg), Luke Rankin (R-Horry), and Sandy Senn (R-Charleston) signed the letter requesting that Senate President Harvey Peeler call the special session. The letter cited the state’s increased COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases among students. “When originally passed, many may have thought COVID-19 was well under control,” the letter reads. “Now, many in the Senate would like to revisit this proviso given the current conditions.” The South Carolina General...