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First, for the purposes of this column, as a conservative commentator writing for a conservative publication, I intend to focus specifically on the Left’s biases and how those warp their thinking, explaining why they believe so many things that are patently absurd. That’s not to say we conservatives don’t also have biases. Of course we do. Everyone does. It’s part of the human condition. I have just observed that conservatives in general tend to be more rational, analytical, and introspective. (Remember that, for the Left, logic and reason are tools of white supremacy.) Thus, conservatives are more likely than leftists...

As the evacuation of Kabul descends further into pandemonium and desperation, President Joe Biden is considering activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to augment the struggling effort. The Pentagon said Saturday the United States has evacuated just 17,000 people, including 2,500 Americans, from Kabul in the past week, including 3,800 in the past day. It means the US has surged more American troops into the Kabul airport than the number of US citizens it has extracted from the country since the Taliban swept into power on August 14.

The Pentagon appears to be inching toward expanding its rescue mission in Afghanistan outside of the walls of Hamid Karzai International Airport, as the situation grows dire for US citizens now unable to reach the airport. The US Embassy in Kabul on Saturday issued an alert warning citizens not to attempt to reach the airport on their own, where four people were killed in a crushing stampede. It came as Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul and fears grew of Islamic State cells operating freely in the country. A senior US official said that small groups of Americans...

In a typical year, freight trains in the United States move about 1.7 billion tons on over 140,000 miles of track. The massive tonnage hauled by freight rail every year means that most American consumers own goods transported on freight trains. Yet, despite the importance of freight rail to American consumers and the broader economy, the Biden administration has proposed several potential changes that could undermine the profitability of freight rail companies and enhance government control of the industry. Given the importance of freight rail, any government intervention could have catastrophic effects for consumers. Policymakers only need to look at...

Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday. His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was...

resident Joe Biden has nominated some terribly polarizing candidates for crucial posts in his administration. Time and again, President Biden and his Democrat allies in the Senate have had to ram through – largely on part-line votes – nominees accused by GOP lawmakers of being radically partisan including the head of policy at DoD, Colin Kahl, and the third-highest official at the Justice Department, Vanita Gupta. True-to-form, President Biden has nominated a disastrous nominee to lead civil rights at the Department of Education in Catherine Lhamon. As with his calamitous nomination of Neera Tanden to head OM – a choice...

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tram ways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons,...

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...