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American citizens trapped behind enemy lines. All safe routes to the nearest airport severed. Information received that the U.S. Cavalry will not be on the way. Cowardly administrators refused to send military help and went to bed with their binkies. Americans were left to die. Good luck and Godspeed. Kabul? Nope, that was Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Members of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia attacked two U.S. government facilities. The U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, and Sean Smith were murdered. Then the militant group turned their attention to a not-so-secret CIA annex located approximately one mile away....

Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) voiced his frustration over the Biden administration’s mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. He argued for Congress’ involvement and warned of the long-lasting implications that failure would have on the United States.

/ Patrick Hauf MSNBC talking heads have compared the Republican Party to the Taliban because of the GOP's opposition to abortion, a comparison that has drawn outrage from veterans and pro-life leaders. Network columnist Dean Obeidallah argued in a Wednesday article that pro-life Republicans who criticize the Taliban's mistreatment of women are hypocritical. Joy Reid, a primetime host on MSNBC, has for months drawn the comparison and once referred to GOP pro-life efforts as "Talibanism

In times like these, you need a refuge, a place to rest.There is an old African-American spiritual that says, “Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham. Oh, rock-a my soul!” At first glance its meaning may seem obscure, but it speaks to a deep tradition and a kind of spiritual strategy that has great wisdom.Biblically, the “bosom of Abraham” referred to the place of rest in Sheol, where the righteous dead awaited the Messiah and Judgment Day. It is mentioned once: in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke16:22-23). In it, Lazarus is said to rest and...

If decades of counterinsurgency have taught us one thing, it’s that you never want to see a helicopter above an American embassy. President Biden knew as much when he gave an explicit guarantee that such an event would not transpire. Yet here we are, sorting through the wreckage of a strategic failure greater even than the fall of Saigon. The war in Vietnam, for all its faults, was a pragmatic effort to counteract Soviet influence in East Asia. Though part of the broader ideological struggle against communism, the effort to contain Soviet expansion was undertaken as a matter of national...

‘Strategic Confusion’ in Afghanistan Special inspector general says “every agency experienced annual lobotomies” for 20 years. A new inspector general report eviscerates the entire 20-year U.S.-led reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, revealing a constant interagency rotation of “annual lobotomies,” ensuring that the same mistakes were repeated again and again. The August 2021 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report shows failure after failure, regardless of presidential administrations. Its conclusions are damning of the entire U.S. diplomatic, international development, intelligence, and the non-combat part of the military effort. The 11th annual “Lessons Learned” report, was prepared just before Afghanistan’s sudden collapse...

During his interview with George Stephanopoulos, Biden reiterated his July 8 claim that he had no idea the Taliban would move so quickly. However, according to a Wall Street Journal article, the administration has known for over a month about the speed with which the Taliban were moving. There was time to get people out safely. On July 2, the American military abandoned Bagram Airfield, the most important base of operations still in Afghanistan. They didn't inform the Afghans, and the State Department made no effort to get Americans and their allies out of Afghanistan before the military left. [SNIP]...

A woman has come forward to Politico claiming that conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, her former fiancé, showed her a loaded handgun during an argument during which, she said, he was high from smoking marijuana. Alexandra Datig, the former fiancee and longtime radio producer for California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, says she broke off an 18-month engagement with the conservative talk show host in 2015 after he waved a gun at her while high on marijuana. Datig’s claim, which she regards as the culmination of a series of humiliating disputes that made her fearful for her safety and...

As the Taliban moved into Kabul and demanded the unconditional surrender of the central government, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: “It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day.” The CNN “journalist,” demonstrating yet again the network's spectacular misunderstanding of the conflict (which, of course, is shared by the U.S. foreign policy establishment), followed that with “It’s a chilling admission from...

While Sleepy-Time Joe recuperates from the hard work of not getting lost on the White House lawn (Camp David is so peaceful this time of year), the vultures are circling. The America which flexed its muscles under Reagan and Trump is now prostrate. The Taliban, Mexican cartels, OPEC, city savages – the sky is full of carrion birds. Signs of weakness always bring them out. With Biden, America might as well be wearing a kick-me sign on its back. Kabul is a replay of Saigon in ‘75, with Chinooks and Black Hawk helicopters evacuating personnel from the U.S. Embassy...

The likelihood that Hezbollah will start a major war against Israel increased significantly in the wake of its Aug. 6 missile attack. Hezbollah attacked Israel with 20 missiles because the outcome of Hamas’s offensive against the Jewish state in May convinced Iran’s foreign legion in Lebanon that it would only gain from aggression. Three months ago, Hamas opened an unprovoked missile assault against Israel and incited Israeli Muslims to launch pogroms against Israeli Jews in cities across the country. Israel responded to Hamas’s aggression with pinpoint airstrikes that targeted the terror group’s military infrastructure and command and control mechanisms...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed earlier this week that after the Taliban took Kabul, he spoke not with Joe Biden or even Kamala Harris, but with Hillary Clinton instead. Trudeau said “I also spoke last night with former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who shares our concern for Afghan women and girls.” He continued, “She welcomed our efforts and urged Canada to continue our work. Governments, international organizations, and civil society must continue to work together to support women and girls in Afghanistan. The Afghan people need the world to stand with them. And that is what Canada...

See also: Can the Biden presidency last much longer?In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, demands have arisen in Congress for President Biden to resign or to be removed via the 25th Amendment. Elements of the formerly pro-Biden media have joined in the condemnation.Many silent Democrat office-holders likely want Biden out, as they fear that the systemic incompetence of his administration will bring them down come 2022.But Joe cannot resign or be fired. The Democrat high command will not let either happen, no matter the short-term political cost.On the surface, that makes little sense. Joe's resignation or removal would not...

Appearing on Hannity Thursday, Lt. Col. Oliver North warned that the Taliban has managed to obtain the personal details of everyone who worked with the US in Afghanistan, and are using the information to hunt down and execute people. “They’ve got the bank records. They got it all thanks to the embassy… It is being reported that the Taliban has captured the payroll data from the American embassy and the Kabul banks showing the names, addresses and phone numbers for locals now being hunted down,” North stated. North also warned that the Taliban have captured US weapons, including drones that...

Sens. Roger Wicker, Angus King and John Hickenlooper announced they contracted COVID-19

Some days, do you fear that maybe you’re going to be the last person in America who’s expected to pay his own way, and not grab one new handout after another from Dementia Joe Biden’s 21st century War on Poverty? Do you find yourself behind the economic eight ball because you’ve always tried to, you know, support yourself, and not become a burden on your fellow citizens? Here are some of the ways I find myself losing out on Free Stuff: I own my own home, so I don’t get to stiff my landlord and live rent-free for years on...

Mount Sinai researchers have found an important clue to a rare but serious aftereffect of COVID-19 in children, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children or MIS-C. The researchers reported that RNA sequencing of blood samples from the Mount Sinai COVID-19 Biobank led to the discovery that specific infection-fighting cells of the immune system are downregulated in children with MIS-C, and that this is associated with a sustained inflammatory response, a hallmark of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The study was published in Nature Communications on August 11, 2021. MIS-C is characterized by fever, pain, and inflammation...

Joe Biden is derelict in his duty. His State Department failed to prepare adequately to get Americans and our allied Afghans out of the country in time. His Department of Defense made the decisions that left our resources and materiel to be used by the Taliban. His intelligence units were the ones he now claims — despite evidence to the contrary — never warned that the Afghan government could fall so fast. This was a failure of many institutions of American government. But above all, it was a failure of the Commander in Chief.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Thursday announced that hospitals in the state are nearing a “critical point” with regard to being able to treat COVID-19 patients. Beshear urged unvaccinated people in his state to get the shot while he explained that hospitals are facing staffing shortages and reaching capacity, noting that the delta variant of the coronavirus is “burning through our population,” according to The Associated Press. “Our hospital capacity, really the capacity that we have based on the staffing that we have, is reaching a critical point,” Beshear said during a Thursday news conference. “At this rate, we...

There’s no doubt about it: COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated are on the rise in Massachusetts. Between July 10 and July 17, the state recorded about 700 so-called breakthrough cases. Between Aug. 7 and Aug. 14, it tallied almost 2,700 — raising the cumulative number of breakthrough infections to nearly 13,000. Although most vaccinated individuals have mild cases, some still land in the hospital. As of Wednesday, almost 30 percent of the 439 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Massachusetts were fully vaccinated. RELATED: The latest updates on COVID-19 Experts attribute the state’s uptick in breakthrough cases to a number...