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“It’s getting late early,” said that great 20th century philosopher, Yogi Berra. For President Joseph Biden, this nugget from the New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher sticks like butterscotch as his policy blunders pile up and Americans increasingly feel their baleful effects. They include the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, menacing inflation, the tidal wave over the open southern border, the new coronavirus outbreak, and his war on American energy. These are a few of many examples that suggest his presidency may soon implode, before his first year concludes. By contrast, it took Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon until their...

A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job. Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) anchor Shabnam Khan Dawran denounced the jihadist regime, in power since its takeover of Kabul on Sunday, for denying her access to the RTA headquarters on the grounds that she is a woman. “I wanted to return to work, but unfortunately they did not allow me to work. They told me that the regime has changed and...

“Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for [the Lord] Himself has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5). God promises to provide for all your needs. In World War II the death of many adults left many orphans. At the close of the war, the Allies provided some camps to feed the orphans and to try and find a place to relocate them. The children began to develop and grow, receiving the finest food and care. But in one of the camps, the...

The upcoming Supreme Court case about abortion is about more than a Mississippi law and Roe v. Wade. It's an opportunity for a nation to look in the mirror. We end the lives of unborn babies in United States. We sever the most precious relationship there is -- between a mother and a child -- and we call it health care. Long gone are the Bill Clinton days of "safe, legal, and rare." It's a miserable thing our culture does to girls and women --expect them to have abortions when everything isn't planned and pretty. When we are soon to...

If you’ve had any experience with civilian extractions, there are a whole lot of things in Afghanistan that don’t add up. One year ago, we had 2,500 U.S Military on the ground in Afghanistan in a non-combat advisory and over-watch role. They could go pretty much anywhere in the country and were not taking any casualties. Things were relatively stable by Afghanistan standards. Yet somehow today, despite having 5,000 troops on the ground from the Marines and 82nd Airborne – that is, fully-armed combat infantry – our military is besieged inside a three-square-mile perimeter at Kabul airport surrounded by Taliban...

Five Taliban-linked websites in five languages that the terrorist group used to spread official messages suddenly and mysteriously went dark Friday – days after the group took power in the country. It wasn’t clear why the websites went down. The Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English and Dari sites were previously protected by San Francisco-based Cloudflare, which shields the site host from being revealed to the public. Cloudflare has not commented...

In the penultimate segment of the Friday edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, he asked, “Why is the FBI exonerating people?” And there is a very disturbing answer. Most conservative commentators have reacted with glee to a report from Reuters that: The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials. “FBI Destroys Insurrection Narrative,” headlined Legal Insurrection. And it’s hard to avoid a sense of triumph that a ridiculous slur against Trump supporters,...

KABUL —Groups of armed Afghans attacked the Taliban on Friday, driving Afghanistan's new rulers out of three northern districts, the first assault against the Islamist militants since they swept into Kabul last week and seized control of the government. ...“We have ignited something that is historic in Afghanistan,” said Sediqullah Shuja, 28, a former Afghan soldier who took part in Friday’s uprising. “Taliban fighters had armored vehicles, but people threw stones at Taliban fighters and drove them out.” “As long as we are alive,” he said, “we do not accept the Taliban’s rule.”...

Joe Biden speaks with the insidious tone of the political predator intent on consuming everyone and everything. I listened to part of President Biden's recent speech congratulating himself upon Senate passage of the $1.9-trillion infrastructure bill — a "bipartisan" plan that seventeen Republicans were foolish enough to support. The "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act," as it's called, is a mammoth boondoggle laden with union favoritism and minority set-asides — the most corrupt piece of legislation yet, though overshadowed by the proposed $5-trillion American Families Act. Once again, what stood out was that creepy, sotto voce delivery, leaning into the camera...

It is not hard for one to see the overwhelming warning signs and the evidence of a coming Hurricane Henri, for they are all around us. As for this storm, we as a state have been watching and preparing for it for a week. Only a fool or "nut" at this point would pretend that Hurricane Henri is not real and be ill-prepared to bunker down for what is to be. As we awoke this morning it was safe to say that this storm was all that the weathermen stated that it would be and more. I have not seen...

...Even Cuomo was taken off guard by Mudd’s remarks about declining to "get" U.S. nationals in Afghanistan. “Did I just hear you right?” asked Cuomo. “Did you say that if you were the State Department, you wouldn't make preparations and plans to get Americans that right now can't get to the air base? Mudd said, “I wouldn't offer them safe travel. Look, the comment I heard from the U.S. government is, you have safe travel … to the airport. The other comment was, we can't assure that. What that means to me is, the U.S. government has some kind of...

Here are a vital words on freedom and liberty, especially with cancel-culture in full swing, a preponderance of Leftist ‘fact checkers,’ social media gatekeepers, biased search engines, and Joe Biden’s puppet masters controlling the White House: Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ~Frederick Douglass A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. ~Milton Friedman If we don't believe in freedom of expression for...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — For nearly 20 years, Bagram Airfield was the heart of American military power in Afghanistan, a sprawling mini-city behind fences and blast walls just an hour’s drive north of Kabul. Initially, it was a symbol of the U.S. drive to avenge the 9/11 attacks, then of its struggle for a way through the ensuing war with the Taliban. In just a matter of days, the last U.S. soldiers will depart Bagram. They are leaving what probably everyone connected to the base, whether American or Afghan, considers a mixed legacy. U.S. Central Command said last week that it’s...

The Afghanistan debacle has temporarily taken our eyes off debacles-in-the-making here at home. Joe Biden -- daily shuffling closer to a bottomless bowl of ice cream -- took to the airwaves the other night to double-down on failure. Claimed our latter-day -- albeit, wooden -- Harry Truman: the buck stopped on his desk for the fiasco decorously referred to as the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Not really, though. Either Biden’s cocktail of psychotropics needs adjustment or plain cynicism drove him to trot out the Truman cliché. Biden inanely fingered Trump and pro-American Afghanis for his lack of...

Police in Switzerland are rising up against the “Great Reset” by refusing to enforce government-imposed restrictions on the general public. A group representing Swiss police officers wrote a letter to the Swiss Federation of Police Officers (FSFP) declaring that cops work for the people and not the global elite. The group warned they will not enforce restrictive measures that disproportionately undermine the fundamental rights of citizens. “If the measures were to conflict with the general opinion of the population, disproportionately limiting their fundamental rights, many police officers would no longer be willing to apply them,” the group wrote in the...

Desperately Fleeing Murderous Regime But Crushed to Death in Landing Gear—Who Could Hail Such a Regime? “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.” (NY Post 8/17.) A horrible tragedy for sure. And any person—much less any prominent political figure or celebrity—who hailed the murderous regime that drove the Afghan teenager to such desperation would deserve the overwhelming censure of decent people worldwide…Right? Now, let’s move the...

Former President Donald Trump is putting his support behind former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt in the race for U.S. Senate. Trump’s endorsement, released Friday night, comes days after Laxalt officially announced his bid for the Senate seat held by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. The former president’s statement reads: “Adam Laxalt is running for Senate in Nevada to defeat Harry Reid’s, Chuck Schumer’s, and Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked successor, and win an America First majority in the U.S. Senate. Adam is a Navy Veteran who served our Nation bravely in Iraq. As a former Attorney General he has always supported our...

A lawsuit in California can proceed against Twitter by two young men who say the site was slow to remove explicit materials showing them when they were underage. A federal judge dismissed several claims against Twitter on Thursday. Yet he ruled that a legal shield for internet platforms didn't bar a suit under a law designed to penalize those who benefit from sex trafficking — in a rare decision on the impact of recent carveouts to the shield. Twitter and other social media sites rely on that provision, known as Sec. 230, to exit from all kinds of lawsuits over...

Over the years the Corby trouser press became part of British culture, and the target of lighthearted satire ...Peter Corby, who has died aged 97, was the inventor of the eponymous electric trouser press, a gadget which was once affectionately described in The Daily Telegraph as “faintly redolent of three-star hotels along with shortbread and coffee creamer”....t the time they were launched, the electric presses, equipped with jacket hanger and a tray for pocket change, were seen as cutting-edge and aspirational, company ads promising “no more baggy knees or wrinkles” and adding that the device was “perfect for women’s slacks...

Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was condemned as "catastrophic" and "shameful" on Wednesday as the Houses of Parliament delivered an unprecedented rebuke to a US president. MPs and peers from across the political spectrum, including Boris Johnson, put some blame for the Taliban's takeover and the chaos that followed on Britain's closest ally. Mr Biden was accused of "throwing us and everybody else to the fire" by pulling out US troops, and was called "dishonourable" for criticising Afghan forces for not having the will to fight. Former defence chiefs who led British troops in the Middle East were...