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The establishment media reported Tuesday the White House is “currently overwhelmed by the Afghanistan crisis,” while facing the southern border crisis, debt limit crisis, and an uncompromising infrastructure fight on Capitol Hill. “Yet with this intraparty battle brewing, the president and top White House officials are currently overwhelmed by the Afghanistan crisis,” Punchbowl News wrote Tuesday after the total collapse of Kabul, Afghanistan. “That’s not surprising, considering the gravity of what’s transpiring in Kabul and throughout Afghanistan. But for Biden and his senior staff, the timing of this foreign policy disaster couldn’t occur at a worse time.”

Last summer, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser played a high-profile role in the protests sweeping America over police killings of Black suspects. She renamed a street Black Lives Matter Plaza and joined thousands of demonstrators there, many shouting what had become the movement’s slogan: “Defund the police!” Earlier this year, the mayor, a Democrat, proposed cutting the police budget and redirecting money to social services. Now, however, Bowser and many other Democratic city leaders are scrambling to boost police budgets and hire more officers amid the deadliest crime wave in two decades. Local and national Democrats are distancing themselves from “defund”...

Far from a strength, diversity in and of itself is at best a feature, and more often a weakness.. “Diversity is our strength.” You’ve heard it over and over again, and it seems simple enough. It doesn’t matter if it’s not true; it’s a basic feel-goodism — the kind of phrase that adorns the kitschy signs Bed Bath and Beyond sells for people to hang in their kitchen. A “live, laugh, love” sort of thing. If only. Rather, in America today, “Diversity is our strength” is a commanding ethos: It governs the minds of the Joint Chiefs, it informs the...

Hi everyone, my 67 year old aunt was diagnosed with lung cancer last week...it is treatable but she lives with my cousin who just found out she has covid. They are both vaccinated but we need some help with recommendations for supplements and dosage etc. Coming off of the terrible news last week we are very worried. Thank you

In his speech on Monday evening, President Joe Biden made a series of assertions about US policy in Afghanistan and the reasons behind his decision to withdraw forces from the country.BBC News has fact-checked some of his claims, comparing them with his earlier statements on Afghanistan and the situation on the ground.'Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building.'This clearly contradicts his previous positions on the US objective in Afghanistan.At the outset of the conflict in 2001, he outlined the long-term purpose of the American military intervention, saying: "Our hope is that we will see a...

Critical Race Theory has finally been demonstrated in America, but those who promote CRT wouldn't dare use this ironclad example. Proponents of Critical Race Theory are often caught torturing the numbers to present statistics that match their premises. It’s challenging to demonstrate the effects of so-called “systemic racism” in America because the hard numbers simply do not match the rhetoric. But there is one issue in particular where the numbers do not lie, supporting their CRT claims. Systemic racism does exist in vaccine mandates and the numbers are undeniable. According to a preprint study published by the National Center for...

The body of a dead Afghan was found in the landing gear of a US Air Force plane that hastily took off from Kabul airport on Monday as thousands desperately tried to climb aboard even as it taxied down the runway. Human remains were found inside the C-17 transport plane’s wheel well after pilots were forced to make an emergency landing in a nearby country because they were unable to retract the landing gear, sources told the Washington Post.

​Robert O’Neill, the SEAL member who killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on the terrorist’s Pakistan lair in 2011​, called President Biden a “disaster” and ​urged Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to resign over the catastrophe caused by the US military pullout in Afghanistan. “So, @POTUS is a disaster,” the former SEAL said on Twitter. “This is the worst loss in American history. Our most popular president has vanished. Prove me wrong.” He added: “Joe Biden opposed the raid to kill bin Laden. At least he lost Afghanistan in 7 months.” O’Neill also ​had Milley​...

CHINA has threatened Taiwan with "immediate war" after it was falsely reported that the US has 30,000 troops in the region. Chinese warships, anti-submarine aircrafts and fighter jets were dispatched for military drills close to the island nation following alleged "external interference and provocations". Now, Beijing's state-run media has launched a scathing attack on Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, after a US Senator tweeted out bogus troops numbers in the region. John Cornyn, a Republican Senator from Texas, today claimed on Twitter that there were "30,000" American soldiers in Taiwan - despite there being no US troops in...

VIDEOVerrrrry suspicious timing. We hadn't heard a peep from the Democrats about the legality of their recall law but suddenly, when it appears that their embattled governor Gavin Newsom will LOSE the recall and removed office, we hear the Democrats whining that the recall election law is NOT constitutional. It is so hilariously late in the game to be concerned about the law's constitutionality that recall ballots have already been sent out.This is a very strong indication that Newsom supporters have no confidence that their beloved can prevail in the recall election.

Health officials in Florida’s Orange County said there has been a 600 percent increase in the levels of COVID-19 RNA concentration detected in the area’s wastewater since sampling began in mid-May. Speaking at a press conference held Monday, the county’s utility director called the numbers “very high” and “very concerning.” “Again, the results of the virus RNA that we measure in wastewater indicate that we will see continued clinical cases and hospitalizations this week, even beyond what was reported this weekend,” Ed Torres, director of Orange County Utilities, said. “Please, we urge you to get vaccinated and continue to take...

Afghan troops could and did fight with air support and intelligence from the US and allies. Biden is giving false choice and is a lying sack of sh!t.

Nine House Democrats are refusing to support the budget plan containing Joe Biden’s signature domestic agenda. The leader of the renegade caucus, New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer, gave an interview with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman about his strategy. The reasons Gottheimer put forward for his rebellion were nonsensical. Gottheimer’s demand is that the House hold a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before it proceeds on the larger Biden plan. Why is it so urgent to vote on this bill now that Gottheimer is willing to vote down the Democrats budget? Gottheimer explained that the infrastructure bill is a “great, historic,...

New evidence shows that patients with Long COVID syndrome continue to have higher measures of blood clotting, which may help explain their persistent symptoms, such as reduced physical fitness and fatigue. The study, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Previous work by the same group studied the dangerous clotting observed in patients with severe acute COVID-19. However, far less is known about Long COVID syndrome, where symptoms can last weeks to months after the initial infection has resolved and is estimated to affect millions of people...

As the Biden administration grapples with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, Biden’s State Department has joined with the UN Security Council in calling for a new government in Afghanistan that “is united, inclusive, and representative. Including with the full and meaningful participation of women.”The State Department joins the UN Security Council in calling for an "inclusive" government in Afghanistan: pic.twitter.com/TDsQecokfv— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 16, 2021Are you kidding me?The Taliban don’t exactly have a stellar record when it comes to women’s rights in the first place. The liberation of Afghanistan under President George W. Bush enabled girls to go to school...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new sample preparation method to detect SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method bypasses extraction of the virus’ genetic RNA material, simplifying sample purification and potentially reducing test time and cost. The method is the result of a collaboration among researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI), the NIH Clinical Center (CC), and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Diagnostic testing remains a crucial tool in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 involve amplifying viral RNA to detectable levels...

A bill aimed at converting commercial properties into residential ones was quietly signed into law late last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The measures is meant to increase housing options through a targeted effort. Distressed hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial buildings could all be converted into much needed housing. Throughout the state there is a lack of affordable, and even median income housing. It’s part of the Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity Act.

During his 22 years as Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat in Washington, His Royal Highness Prince Bandar bin Sultan was a powerful influencer in the U.S., dealing with five presidents, 10 secretaries of state, 11 national security advisors and 16 sessions of Congress. He was close enough to both Presidents Bush that he earned the nickname Bandar Bush.Bandar was ambassador on Sept. 11, 2001 when 15 of his countrymen and four other al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four California-bound commercial airliners from airports in Boston, Newark and suburban Washington, D.C. and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and,...

#Taliban 's first presser: Spokesman says rights of women will be respected but within sharia law.

President Joe Biden’s brief visit to the White House yesterday to deliver a speech blaming Afghan officials for the fall of their nation to the Taliban cost taxpayers at least $30,000. The main added cost came from Marine One’s rushed round-trip from Camp David, where the president has been vacationing since last weekend. The most recently produced Navy and Marine Corps budget documents showed that the hourly cost of flying Marine One, in this case, a VH-3D Sea King, is $28,524. The flight from Camp David to Fort Lesley J. McNair and back lasted at least an hour. That charge,...