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The ends of things matter as much as the beginnings. This end was unworthy of an epic struggle. It was not a departure but an abandonment. We left carelessly, with incompetence that can hardly be imagined. Could there have been less planning and foresight? That’s what will follow Joe Biden now, his carelessness and, when it broke as a world-wide story with the stampedes at the airport and people falling from planes, his stubbornness and pride. It was weird from the beginning. The withdrawal plan always seemed abrupt and arbitrary. Why did the White House think the 20th anniversary of...

The White House wants it as a "good will gesture." The Biden administration continues to pressure Facebook to collaborate and help it achieve its goals, one of them being to counter COVID vaccine skepticism and get more people in the US vaccinated. After Biden shockingly denounced Facebook and others as “killing people” because they are allegedly letting COVID misinformation run rampant on their platforms, that pressure now continues in media reports, like the one The Washington Post published, citing three anonymous administration sources. According to them, The White House and Facebook have had a series of meetings whose aim was...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday expressed his desire to inoculate children with vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus, declaring that it needs to be done “quickly” and vowing to see if there needs to be a “very special push there” to make it a reality, as none of the vaccines are currently approved for children. Responding to a questioner who asked why he has not been more emphatic about getting children ages 5-11 vaccinated, de Blasio acknowledged that officials should “always be looking for the next place to push.” I do think a lot of the things...

Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. “The Taliban regime is coming to an end,” announced President George W. Bush at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on December 12, 2001 — almost twenty years ago today. Five months later, Bush vowed: “In the United States of America, the terrorists have chosen a foe unlike they have faced before. . . . We will stay until the mission is done.” Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced:...

Time was running out for Mohammad Khalid Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer who spent years working alongside the American military... After at least four attempts in as many days, the family finally was whisked away by helicopter Wednesday in a dramatic rescue — called Operation Promise Kept — carried out under cover of darkness by the U.S. military and its allies... He was widely known because of his position as police chief in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province and from television appearances, including one in which he challenged the Taliban to a fight, supporters said. Green said he was...

Alex Jones breaks down the studies and admissions by scientists who confirm the COVID injection destroys T-Cells and weakens the immune system. Video...

As you may be aware, Charles Murray is out with a new book, “Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race In America.” I picked up a copy today. It’s not a long book, and I am already much of the way through it. For those curious about how I got the book, I bought it at my local independent bookstore, Three Lives on West 10th Street in Greenwich Village. Of course, they did not have it in stock. But they took my order, and after a couple of weeks, the book arrived, and I went over and bought it. (This is...

Welcome to our Bible study and to a community of readers/commenters who passionately share, compare, and contrast their biblical knowledge and insights. Today we begin a two-part series on prayer in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and next week, the New Testament — starring Jesus, who taught his disciples how to pray. Both Testaments offer inspiring prayers that have comforted humankind since ancient times. The first time prayer was alluded to was in Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible. I write “alluded to” because the word “prayer” does not appear in the verse: “Adam made love to his wife...

Actress Melissa Joan Hart, 45, blamed unmasked children for her Covid ‘breakthrough’ diagnosis in a deranged rant this week. The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” actress is fully vaccinated and told her 1.6 million Instagram followers that she likely got Covid because her kids don’t have to wear masks at school in Nashville. “I got COVID. I am vaccinated, and I got COVID, and it’s bad,” Hart said. “I just really hope my husband and the other ones don’t get it because if someone has to be taken to the hospital, I can’t go with them,” she said. She continued: “I’m...

Four people were killed and 27 others were wounded in citywide gun violence since Friday night. One person was killed and two were wounded outside a gas station Saturday morning in Austin on the West Side. About 2:55 a.m., a man, 52, and two women, 62 and 24, were outside a gas station with about 20 other people in the 5100 block of West Madison Street when someone in a black Dodge Charger opened fire, according to Chicago Police. The man suffered gunshot wounds to the head and leg, the 62-year-old to the head, abdomen and lower backside; and the...

Call this suicide by Democrat. We have suicide bombers in the White House. We have suicide bombers in our governor's mansions. Worst of all, we have suicide bombers directing the U.S. economy. This is the Titanic. This is the Hindenburg. We are headed for disaster. New York City now demands vaccine passports to go into any restaurant, bar, nightclub, gym -- even retail store. Los Angeles followed suit. So did San Francisco and New Orleans. How many more will follow? Las Vegas, my home, the entertainment capital of the world, isn't far behind. You now need proof of vaccination to...

The Talk Shows August 22nd, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.); Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; Chloe V. Mitchell, the first college athlete to monetize her personal brand. Panel of Wallass idiots: Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal; Dana Perino; Charles Lane. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.); Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. Panel: Helene Cooper; Stephen Hayes, the Dispatch; Andrea Mitchell; Leo Shane III, Military Times—just...

On this date in 1946, the former wartime fascist Prime Minister of Hungary was shot for being the former wartime fascist Prime Minister of Hungary. Dimitrije Stojakovic by birth, the Vojvodina-born ethnic Serb Magyarized his name to Döme Sztójay as he rose up the ranks in the intelligence services in independent, post-Habsburg Hungary. He had for many years been the Hungarian ambassador to Berlin and a noted pro-Third Reich figure when in 1944 Nazi Germany took over its erstwhile Axis junior partner upon catching wind of Budapest’s interest in cutting a peace deal with the Allies to exit a fast-deteriorating...

The Brits would call this an indecent proposal, and to their credit, have slapped it away. So much for the U.S.-U.K. alliance. The commander of the 82nd Airborne, in a story I hope is wrong, has reportedly told this to the Brits, according to the Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan: I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter. Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army's 22nd Special...

Opposing groups are expected to gather in downtown Portland Sunday afternoon. The potential for conflict prompted Mayor Ted Wheeler to hold a press conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell on Friday to discuss community safety measures. While police and business owners are preparing for possible destruction, KATU News spoke with Portlanders on Saturday about their feelings on the subject. Those who spoke with a KATU News crew seemed fed up, several people said they are sick of seeing clashes in the city and they hope tomorrow ends up to be nothing. At the same time, they're not taking any...

Progressive hypocrisies are impressive. Current events often create memorable new clichés and aphorisms. One such well-known occurrence took place in San Francisco during Barack Obama’s first campaign for president in 2008. He made an off-handed remark to his supporters, expressing his frustration that mid-western blue-collar voters were not reliable Democratic voters. This was the famous “bitter clingers” remark whence he denigrated middle-class voters for being unhappy that government policies weren’t able to save their jobs. “They cling to their religion and guns,” said the tolerant Barack, his voice dripping with the derisive condescension of an elitist snob, unable to fathom...

Betrayal, frustration, anger, grief, numbness and concern for those left behind -- these are some of the emotions former service members say they are feeling as they watch images of their former enemies celebrating in Kabul and get desperate text messages from those left behind in Afghanistan. "It's a disgrace that the U.S. has forsaken these bonds and abandoned our allies," said Peter Kiernan, a former Special Operations Command Marine who deployed to Herat in 2012. "We were trying to liberate these people and give them a better life. And that's the part that's so hard to grapple with here....

Big Tech has become one of the major areas of concern for conservatives. Whether it's bias against conservatives, using their platforms to advance liberal policies, or turning a blind eye to the actions of hostile regimes like China, conservatives are united in their anger at these companies. That anger goes beyond conservatives as well. The anger is justified, but the question is how we fight back and curtail the power of the big tech companies. As conservatives, we must act in a way that is consistent with our principles of limited government. I believe the most effective way is to...

WASHINGTON — For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal. The photos and videos pouring out of Afghanistan hit a nerve, and triggered searingly vivid flashbacks to battles fought, troops lost and tears shed during their own deployments there. And in a response shaped by their memories and experiences in the war, they urged troops to check in on their buddies, talk to each other and seek help and solace if they need it. The top two Pentagon leaders made it clear that the scenes unfolding in Afghanistan, as citizens frantically tried to get out of...

A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. ~~~ Well, there's a very simple answer. ~~~ Nobody bothered to check the oil. ~~~ We just didn't know we were getting low. ~~~ The reason for that is purely geographical. ~~~ Our OIL is located in: ~~~ ALASKA ~~~ California ~~~ Coastal Florida ~~~ Coastal Louisiana ~~~ Coastal Alabama ~~~~ Coastal Mississippi ~~~~ Coastal Texas ~~~ North Dakota ~~~ Wyoming ~~~ Colorado ~~~ Kansas ~~~ Oklahoma ~~~ Pennsylvania ~~~ And Texas ~~~ Our dipstick is located in the White House! ~~~...