Free Republic

Lara Logan is an investigative reporter who lived in Afghanistan for a year and has great knowledge of how things work there. 54:25 long interview

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson laid out why he saw President Joe Biden as incapable of leading the United States. He used the fall of the Afghani government to the Taliban as the latest proof of it. Carlson called Biden “senile” and said there were numerous examples of his appointees contradicting him in public, which would not have been tolerated under prior administrations. CARLSON: We have learned a lot in the past five days. Maybe the most important thing we’ve learned is that Joe Biden is not capable of running the country. Joe Biden...

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny said on Friday, "I think there’s no question that President Biden was more in command of this chaos in Afghanistan than we have seen him really for more than a week, publicly. "He said very clearly, any American who wants to come home will be able to come home and then authorized, saying he will use any resources necessary and left the door open to the possibility of staying beyond his self-imposed deadline, and actually left several other spaces open for command decisions on the ground there.” “So perhaps more has been gone on than the military...

Nobody should, any longer, pretend that Joe Biden is fit to lead this nation.Joe Biden has badly, visibly bungled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has compounded the problem with his sluggish and dishonest public statements. This has gone so badly that even people and institutions that are normally sympathetic to Biden and his party have noticed. American allies have been appalled, and vocal about it. What is slowly dawning on people is that Biden’s critics were right about him all along. Not since James Buchanan has America had a president who came so prepared by experience for the job, yet...

The media is finally calling out Biden’s failures. ..... Snip..... Tucker Carlson isn’t buying it. Last night on his show, Tucker Carlson issued a warning. He pointed out that they have covered up for Biden since he began his run for President. Tucker said, “something else is going on here.” Mediaite reported:

Trump explained he would have a simple three-pronged approach to withdrawing American troops out of Afghanistan, which he said would have led to a smoother evacuation process. “We get the civilians out, we get others out that need to be gotten out. That’s number one. Number 2, is we get our billions of dollars of equipment out. We don’t leave it for these people knowing they’re probably going to be taken over as soon as we stop fighting,” he explained. “Then, we bomb the hell out of the bases and then last but not least, comes out our military and...

Representative Gary Palmer (R-AL), the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, says we have a new standard for the worst handling of a national security crisis, which dates back to the Carter administration of the 1970s. During an interview with Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5, the Alabama GOP lawmaker blasted the Biden administration for its mishandled withdrawal from Afghanistan and said it was worse than former President Jimmy Carter’s handling of the collapse of the U.S.-friendly Iranian government in the 1970s. AD “Let me ask this question — why would the Americans broker a deal with the Taliban...

The mornings are always challenging on the barricades. The British soldiers know that after a night waiting for the evacuation process to restart the tens of thousands camped on the road leading to their base will try to rush their way through. Today it was different. Very different. Today it turned chaotic in an instant. Within minutes this was an emergency, nothing to do with process; the soldiers found themselves just trying to save lives. At the front of the queue people were being crushed to death. Paratroopers began pulling people from the mayhem, medics rushing from the next casualty...

President Biden is once again scheduled to head home to Delaware Saturday, as thousands of Americans and Afghan allies remain stranded in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover last weekend. The White House announced that Biden would leave for Wilmington around midday following a meeting with his national security team to get updated on the situation. Vice President Kamala Harris, who was traveling to Southeast Asia, is expected to attend virtually.

Four college presidents in southern Virginia went maskless at an indoor meeting on August 10, just after announcing indoor mask mandates for their respective students and faculty. Video reporting from WHSV 3 shows the presidents of James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University, Bridgewater College, and Blue Ridge Community College speaking to each other indoors, in close proximity, without masks. On August 9, the day before the event, JMU president Jonathan Alger and senior university leaders issued a school wide message about updated COVID-19 protocols. "Beginning Aug. 16," the statement said, "all JMU employees and students, regardless of vaccination status, will...

Democrat Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) complained Thursday about challenger Florida State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) labeling her “one of the dumbest members of Congress.” “Florida Republicans are coming after Stephanie with disgusting and straight up inaccurate personal attacks!” her fundraising email reads. “One of her opponents, Anthony Sabatini, even called her ‘one of the dumbest members of Congress.'” In response, Friday, State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) told Breitbart News, “It’s time for honesty in politics. I refuse to lie to the American people about Murphy’s mental unfitness.” “Based on her socialist voting record, she’s demonstrated an alarming deficit in human intelligence,”...

President Joe Biden’s job approval is underwater in most states, according to the CIVIQS rolling job approval average. Thirty-seven states show the president with a 50 percent or higher disapproval rate. This is compared to only 12 states that show the president with a higher approval rating. Meanwhile, only one state, Colorado, polled at an even tie with 46 percent. The seven-month rolling average of the president’s job approval is now at 50 percent disapproval compared to only 43 percent approval, with seven people expressing no opinion. Broken down by age groups; 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65 plus, all have...

I do not see how we evacuate from the Kabul Airport successfully without the use of Bagram Airfield. As we draw down our troops there, we become vulnerable to attacks by the Taliban.

“Every morning this week at 8:45, a newly established ‘war room’ has convened at the White House, with about 20 staffers logging onto a Zoom call to coordinate messaging and deployment of critical resources,” they report. “The operation has nothing to do with the crisis in Afghanistan — it’s about keeping President Biden’s big infrastructure push on track,” and the war room is overseen by Tanden.

The Air Force Academy requires its incoming cadets to watch a diversity and inclusion video supportive of attending a Black Lives Matter chapter meeting. Critics argue this proves military academies have implemented critical race theory as part of their curriculum. We are pleased to offer this introductory D&I course as part of our commitment to working with cadets and cadet candidates in fostering a safe community built on mutual respect, teamwork, and personal dignity,” a note from Yvonne L. Roland, the director of Culture, Climate, and Diversity, reads at the onset of the training. The video follows Jose, a minority...

Trump is set to hold his largest rally since leaving office today in Alabama. Newsmax reported that at least 50,000 are expected to show. Advertisement - story continues below The Western Journal reported: Former President Donald Trump will hold what is expected to be his largest rally since leaving office this Saturday in the Republican-heavy state of Alabama. “It is literally in the heart of Trump country in one of Donald Trump’s most favorable states,” Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl said, according to AL.com, regarding the event in Cullman. “Anytime you’re working with an outdoor venue a lot depends...

Prayers up for continuing progress and success. FR is funded solely by contributions made by the liberty loving patriots who love and use it. We are beholden to no political party. No advertisers, no outsiders, no sugar daddies, no corporate string pullers. Definitely no government subsidies or tax breaks. No 501c or other IRS non-profit status. This means no commercial ads. No annoying pop-ups. No ad tracking. No mail campaigns. No spam. No third-parties -- not even the IRS -- trying to control what we do or say. We are self-funded, fiercely independent and enjoy our freedom to speak plainly...

Joe Biden is being roasted for his indefensible handling of the Afghanistan exit. As well he should be. Indeed, his incompetence is so legion that he’s actually getting roasted by a media whose only job appears to be to prop up the Biden regime. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post pilloried him while over at CNN: 'the debacle of defeat and chaotic retreat in Afghanistan' is a 'political disaster' for President Biden. The Wall Street Journal suggested his statement 'washing hands' of Afghanistan 'is one of most shameful in US history'. They’re of course right. This may...

What else is there to say about the comprehensive failure of the Biden presidency unfolding in front of our eyes? Jimmy Carter must be shaking his head, while Barack Obama is likely trying to scrub his reported remark on “never underestimate Joe’s ability to f— things up.”

Mounted police used pepper spray in Melbourne to break up crowds surging toward police lines...Sydney, a city of more than 5 million people, has been in a strict lockdown for more than two months now...