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Matt Pottinger says the situation 'could get worse' in Afghanistan following the disastrous pullout by the Biden administration.. The British military has stepped in to evacuate some American citizens who were left behind in Afghanistan following the Biden administration's chaotic pullout of U.S. forces and the nation's quick fall to Taliban terrorists, according to former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger. "The United Kingdom right now, I know that they’re running patrols into Kabul to get British citizens, Afghans and in some cases Americans that they encounter, and helping bring them to safety," Pottinger told FOX Business' Larry Kudlow on...

By now, many among us are familiar with the words Green New Deal, net zero, Paris agreement, carbon neutral, etc. All are names for energy policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the very politicians who preach the climate gospel — and espouse anti-fossil fuel policies — have embraced fossil fuels with gusto. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden called for an increase in oil production from OPEC countries to rein in gas price increases in America, thus contradicting his calls for a reduction in fossil fuel consumption. Will there be an end to politicians’ fossil fuel hypocrisy? Biden:...

An Amnesty International report provided more evidence Friday that undercut the Taliban’s claims they have changed. The rights group said that its researchers spoke to eyewitnesses in Ghazni province who recounted how the Taliban killed nine ethnic Hazara men in the village of Mundarakht on July 4-6. It said six of the men were shot, and three were tortured to death. Hazaras are Shiite Muslims who were previously persecuted by the Taliban and who made major gains in education and social status in recent years. The rights group warned that many more killings may have gone unreported because the Taliban...

President Biden scrapped plans to travel to his home in Wilmington, Del., on Friday as the White House grapples with the chaotic situation in Afghanistan. Biden had been scheduled to depart the White House for Wilmington Friday afternoon, but a White House official said that he will no longer be traveling and will instead remain in Washington on Friday night. It’s unclear if he could travel to Wilmington later on in the weekend.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett refused Friday to block the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago as demanded by an environmental group. The groundbreaking for former President Barack Obama’s namesake library and presidential archives center began earlier this week, but Protect Our Parks, an environmental advocacy group, asked the high court to stop the construction. The group lost multiple requests in lower courts to halt the construction of the Obama center because it is located in a public park, Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. The case went to Justice Barrett because she oversees appeal requests from...

With tens of thousands of U.S. nationals, legal residents, their families and untold numbers of Afghans all desperate for a way out of the Taliban's Afghanistan, the U.S. military was forced on Friday to pause its evacuation flights out of Kabul. The suspension, hopefully to be quickly reversed by the opening of a new flight option to a base in Bahrain, was due to the current processing facility in Qatar hitting capacity.

There are images that mark us for life, no matter how hard we try to clean them away. I have never been able to let go of the sight of two hundred or so Americans falling to their deaths from the top floors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in order to escape the fire and thousand-degree heat consuming those who remained. Of all the carnage unleashed by Islamic terrorists against the United States on September 11, 2001, their murders most haunt me. Strangers became family as they fell through the sky holding hands. Solitary jumpers gripped...

Just in from boots on the ground via Maurine Bannon on Warrom. British and French Special Forces Teams that are going and rescuing citizens and safely bringing them to the air port ARE CALLING ON AMERICANS to Join the British and French citizens to be escorted to the airport safely by British and French Special Forces British AND French Are RESCUEING THE U.S. CITIZENS. ( thank you God, thank you U.K. Nd France ) United Kingdom France Rescueing Americans with their citizens Thank God for UK and FRANCE. Our French and British protecting and rescuing u.s. citizens the Biden Regime...

There was a time not too long ago when I considered POLITICO to be one of the few left-leaning mainstream news outlets that played straight with the facts. But repeated offenses to journalistic standards in recent months has made me put them in the same classification as CNN, Salon, and the Huffington Post. They are fake news.A “bombshell” report posted yesterday claimed California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder “waved a gun” at ex-fiancee Alexandra Datig “while high on marijuana.” The inflammatory characterization of the alleged event remains in the first paragraph of the story several hours after Datig informed them for...

The Taliban is calling the shots of the evacuation in Afghanistan. This situation continues to deteriorate by the hour. What happens next will be absolutely critical for the safety of Americans on the ground in Kabul behind Taliban lines. The Pentagon is paralyzed in fear as demonstrated by press conferences that seemingly display confusion about their own military capabilities, restrictive rules of engagement, and lack of innovative thinking to bring Americans home — instead, we get bureaucratic answers that leave one wondering, who is in charge and why isn’t the Pentagon moving hell or high water to get all Americans...

WASHINGTON — Facing a torrent of criticism, President Joe Biden plans to speak Friday about the chaotic evacuation of Americans and allies from Afghanistan as the U.S. struggles with obstacles ranging from armed Taliban checkpoints to airport pandemonium and cumbersome red tape. While Biden has previously blamed Afghans for the U.S. failure to get out more allies ahead of this month’s sudden Taliban takeover, U.S. officials told The Associated Press that American diplomats had formally urged weeks ago that the administration ramp up evacuation efforts. In addition to criticism from some lawmakers who say the U.S. failed to adequately plan...

Bank of AmerikaThe financial giant teaches that the United States is a system of “white supremacy” and encourages employees to become “woke at work.”Bank of America Corporation has implemented a racial reeducation program that claims the United States is a system of “white supremacy” and encourages employees to become “woke at work,” instructing white employees in particular to “decolonize [their] mind[s]” and “cede power to people of color.”Earlier this year, Bank of America’s North Carolina and Charlotte market president Charles Bowman announced a new “equity” initiative called United in Action, in partnership with the United Way of Central Carolinas. According...

Earlier this year, Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security disclosed plans to label their political opponents “suspected domestic extremists” and deprive them of their rights by placing them on the No Fly List. According to all indications, Mayorkas has carried out his objectives, rapidly growing the regime’s No Fly List and terror watchlist by adding dissidents such as America First talk show host Nick Fuentes to it. According to a new report by security researcher Volodymyr Diachenko, the Department of Homeland Security had their highly-secret terror/no fly watchlist exposed on the open internet last month, with nearly 2 million so-called...

ABC News’ “Good Morning America” appears to have not aired nearly a thousand words from Democrat President Joe Biden’s interview with host George Stephanopoulos, according to a review of a transcript published by the network and a review of the footage that it aired. The interviews comes as the administration faces an absolute debacle in Afghanistan that was precipitated by Biden’s chaotic pullout from the nation. Biden has avoided answering questions from reporters during two brief sets of remarks that he gave to the media this week and he has spent a significant portion of time during this crisis on...

SYDNEY — A lockdown in Australia’s largest city was extended through September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors. New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600. Sydney has been locked down since late June after the more contagious delta variant was detected in a limousine driver who became infected while transporting a US cargo aircrew from Sydney Airport. Since then, 65 people have died from COVID-19 in New South...

Various government services are funded through taxes, others are funded by fees. The idea behind the fee is that government is providing a service to the individual, so the individual should pay for that service. An example of this is our patent system. Inventors pay a fee to the patent office, and in exchange for that fee the office researches the idea and if everything goes well approves the patent. Fee paid – service provided. However, politicians can’t help but see fees paid as a potential pot of gold to fund their dream projects, and they are currently trying to...

The Western military alliance has called on the Taliban to allow people being evacuated to leave Afghanistan, and vowed that the allies will remain in "close coordination" while operations continue. "We call on those in positions of authority in Afghanistan to respect and facilitate their safe and orderly departure, including through Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul," said NATO's 30 member countries in a joint declaration, adding that the military alliance would maintain a presence in the country "as long as evacuation operations continue". The military alliance halted its own mission in Afghanistan in May after the United States decided...

[BARF ALERT] *More than 570 alleged Capitol riot participants have been arrested by the feds *About 90 to 95 percent are 'one-off cases,' a former senior official said *Even organized groups like the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys who aimed to breach the Capitol had no serious plans on what to do once inside, the FBI says *FBI so far has no evidence that Trump or people directly in his orbit were involved in organizing the violence on January 6, despite his incendiary speech *Violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after a Stop the Steal rally in DC Nine people died...

Last September, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted the federal debt wouldn’t hit $29 trillion until 2028. Just short of a year later, the national debt stands at $28.6 trillion and is set to surpass $29 trillion within weeks. Since Congress hasn’t yet enacted all its new spending proposals, the CBO debt estimates don’t yet include them. The $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill still has to pass the House, and a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill will add to the current budget. The proposed 2022 budget will likely be more than $6 trillion (up from $4.8 trillion in 2020).

A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would "by and large be dead" if not for institutions such as the education system "keeping it on life support." "I am a direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great great grandparents, and all 16 of my great greats. On my mother's side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father's side, we were enslaved...