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There's a fascinating question in a new Fox News poll that suggests the political dynamics at work in 2022 and 2024 will be far different from 2020. If that is the case, it is good news for Republicans. Here is the question: "If you could send just one of the following two messages to the federal government right now, would it be 'lend me a hand,' or would it be 'leave me alone'?" Fox has asked the question in eight different polls since 2011, but 2020 stands out. In most years, a majority of respondents told pollsters the message they...

@LBC Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne suggests Afghan refugees should stay and fight rather than "queuing at the airport" and fleeing the Taliban Clip...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Aug. 17. A heavy seizure of goods destined for the rebels was made near Annapolis Junction to-day. The goods were bought by parties in Baltimore for Richmond dealers. A draft for $4,975 was sent to pay for them. With the goods were also seized the teams and wagons by which they were being conveyed, and a number of letters to officers in the rebel Army. Besides the value of the goods, this seizure is important, as the man in charge of the goods furnishes also much information of the manner in which communications are kept up between Baltimore...

Anyone watching Tuesday’s US market cash session sees red across the board. One of the strongest selling programs in months dumped stocks, and equity volatility exploded to the upside. Quite frankly, this could be the beginning of a market storm. Ahead of what could be further market turmoil, Palantir Technologies warned about an upcoming “black swan event,” according to Bloomberg. The software company, co-founded by the technology billionaire Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, wrote in a filing last week that it stockpiled $50.7 million in gold bars earlier this month. The filing also said it acquired technology startups, blank-check...

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about the possibility that there might be a “significant deterioration” of the security picture in Afghanistan once the United States withdrew its forces, said, “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” Blinken’s Nostradamus moment was somehow one-upped by that of his boss, Joe Biden, who on July 8th had the following exchange with press: Q: Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse. BIDEN: That is not true, they did not reach that conclusion… There is going...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 138 Of David. 1 I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise. 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame. 3 When I called, you answered me; you greatly emboldened me. 4 May all the kings of the earth praise you, Lord, when they hear what you have decreed. 5 May they sing of the ways of the Lord,...

“The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it” (Psalm 24:1). God owns everyone and everything. One day when John Wesley was away from home, someone came running to him, saying, “Your house has burned down! Your house has burned down!” Wesley replied, “No, it hasn’t, because I don’t own a house. The one I have been living in belongs to the Lord, and if it has burned down, that is one less responsibility for me to worry about.” John Wesley viewed his material possessions from a biblical perspective, for Scripture makes...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian, pictured the Christian like someone trying to cross a sea of floating pieces of ice. The Christian cannot stand anywhere too long, otherwise he sinks. He cannot rest anywhere while crossing except in his faith that God will see him through. After taking a step, he must watch out for the next. Beneath him is the abyss, and before him is uncertainty, but always ahead is the Lord firm and sure! The believer doesn’t see the land yet, but it is there as a promise in his heart. The Christian traveler must keep his eyes...

Shortly after the collapse of the Afghan government on Sunday, the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, recorded a video for his people. Baradar congratulated his fellow insurgents on their “unexpected victory” in a message delivered from his new home, the presidential palace in Kabul. “We have achieved an unexpected victory. Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way,” he said, according to Breitbart. Reuters reported that within hours, Taliban soldiers were knocking on the doors of private homes...

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In keeping with its penchant for increasing government dependence, the Biden administration recently announced it has greenlit the largest-ever increase for Americans on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. Under the revised SNAP guidelines, the 42 million Americans on SNAP will receive a 25 percent monthly increase. This means the average SNAP recipient will now receive $157 per month in benefits. According toTom Vilsack, secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “I think the pandemic sort of shocked people out of the belief that this is a program that was for some others, somebody else,...

This seems to be the latest scammers trick. Very clever! Scammers - Surprise Package Delivery This is very clever. I would probably fall for it, if not warned. Give this wide distribution. This scam is very clever. Just when you thought you'd heard it all. Be very careful out there! Beware of people bearing gifts! The following is a recounting of the incident from the victim: A week ago I had a phone call from someone saying that he was from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" (This name could be any courier company). He asked if I was going to...

Queues snake round a field deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. From the number of visitors, you would be forgiven for thinking this is Stonehenge or another international tourist attraction. In fact, the two-and-a-half-hour wait is to enter a tiny farm shop owned by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson. The store comprises a small stone barn, with an attached sheltered area to eat snacks from the cafe. Many journey for hours to get to the store the shop - sometimes planning whole holidays around their visit to Diddly Squat. It's the celebrity pull of Clarkson himself - rather than the £12.50 honey...

Commentator Liz Storer says US President Joe Biden left Afghans like “lambs to the slaughter” after withdrawing his troops so suddenly. “To know that every single piece of intelligence this man had, Biden’s own generals were saying ‘do not do this, this makes absolutely no sense’,” Ms Storer told Sky News. “This wasn’t just withdrawing troops that have been there for over 20 years now because over that time they’ve become a pillar of the way Afghans do everything. “You cannot stay there for that long and become such a part of their protection and resistance and withdraw at the...

In what could be an indicator of things to come in the 2022 mid-term election, the GOP flipped a state senate seat in a Connecticut special election on Tuesday night – the first flip for either party in 2021. The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) announced in an email: State Republicans tonight delivered the first flip of a state legislative seat in a special election by either party in 2021, as Republican Ryan Fazio defeated liberal Democrat Alex Gevanter in Connecticut’s state Senate District 36 – a district Joe Biden won by more than 25% in 2020. RSLC President Dee...

The Left's "by any means necessary" goes back a long way. Is there anything that comes out of the mouths of elected Democrats that is true? Their desire to fundamentally change America into something else (not good) is daily expressed in their outright prevarications. What justifies their rapid-fire falsehoods is the umbrella under which they do it. Their tag line, “By any means necessary” are not just the words of dedicated radicals who pledge to change the world. No! “By any means necessary“ is an expression of a deeply cunning enterprise. If America’s Judeo-Christian foundation is essential to the moral...

HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives surged to an upset election win Tuesday over the governing Liberals after capitalizing on their main opponent's early stumbles and promising a big-spending fix to the troubled health system.

Several days ago, the intelligence agencies said it would take months for the Taliban to take Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. It took only days. Shocking videos and photos showed chaos at the Kabul airport, as Afghans desperately sought an exit. Another photo showed a Chinook helicopter airlifting personnel from the American embassy—reminiscent of the fall of Saigon after the Vietnam War. Many are now saying that the collapse of Afghanistan shows we shouldn’t have left, or that President Biden mismanaged the exit. Rather, the complete collapse of the Afghan army and former Afghan government shows the futility of America’s 20-year war....

The scenarios leading to the outcomes in Vietnam and Afghanistan are different, but the cabbage-level I.Q. causes are the same. Yes, Forrest Gump's "stupid is as stupid does" sums it up. So does "someone with the I.Q. of a cabbage could have predicted the outcome" that I used recently to describe the mentality it takes to defund the police. The consequences for South Vietnam and Indochina are known but have been ignored; they didn't fit the preferred political narrative. However, those results decades ago are important to gauge the human costs on Afghanistan's horizon. In Afghanistan, the crimes against humanity...

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday that Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) efforts to stall then-President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in part led to Biden’s botched withdrawal. Davidson, an Army veteran, spoke to Breitbart News as Biden has been largely criticized for his strategy to withdraw from Afghanistan. While Davidson said that he has supported ending the war in Afghanistan since 2011, he said that the 46th president did not withdraw “correctly.” He also called Biden’s withdrawal plan a “failure.” The Ohio conservative, however, did note that some of the blame lies...