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Hey, Joe Biden voters, are you happy now? Your boy Dementia Joe owns it all now — the catastrophe in Kabul, open borders, rampant inflation, skyrocketing urban crime, the destruction of American energy independence, endless nonsensical lockdowns over a mild virus that is killing almost no one, not to mention so many public misstatements by the doddering old clown that his own cabinet secretaries have to correct his insane lies even before he shuffles off to Marine One for the flight back to his weekend assisted-living facility in Delaware. But no more mean tweets, right? And that’s all that matters,...

The Pentagon on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet that will allow commercial airlines to assist with the Biden administration’s evacuation of Americans and Afghans at risk of reprisals by the Taliban, according to a report. The program will enable 20 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, among others, to support the evacuation efforts of US citizens and Afghans with special immigrant visas from Europe and the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported. The airlines wouldn’t fly into Afghanistan, where the Biden administration is struggling to evacuate thousands from Hamid Karzai International Airport in...

A Clearwater man is facing a charge of robbery with a deadly weapon after deputies say he tried to steal a Snickers bar from a Largo WaWa gas station. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office arrested 49-year-old Erick Minto after responding to a call from the WaWa on Walsingham Road, where deputies say an employee was threatened over the chocolate, caramel, and nougat bar. Plant City woman arrested for stealing Bentley from Clearwater Beach home, police say According to an affidavit from PCSO, Minto attempted by force to take a Snickers bar, “with intent to temporarily or permanently deprive” the employee...

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time John 6:60-69 Friends, we come today to the end of the extraordinary sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Before this, Jesus told his listeners, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you." Well, today, we have the denouement of the story. We hear that "many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, ‘This saying is hard; who can accept it?’" Notice that we are talking about Jesus’ followers. And yet they find this teaching impossible to take. If his words were meant in...

A man suing the US over mask mandates said he'd seek oral arguments in front of a federal judge. Lucas Wall filed a 1,500-page response after Biden's administration sought to dismiss the lawsuit. Wall filed 218 exhibits, including medical studies, news clippings, and blog posts. Lucas Wall, a frequent flyer who's suing the Biden administration over federal mask mandates, has pushed back on an effort to get his lawsuit dismissed. On Wednesday, he filed a behemoth legal response, which renewed his argument that mandates were unconstitutional. "It will take court action to ensure Americans will no longer have to give...

On Friday, ex-Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who killed Osama bin Laden, appeared in a Fox News interview where he said President Biden “surrendered to the Taliban” and should be impeached for our catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the interview with Will Cain, O’Neill ripped into Biden and everyone involved in helping him execute the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We have these people who are in charge who are a disgrace,” O’Neill said. “I’m amazed that there hasn’t been at least 30 generals and admirals that haven’t resigned or been fired today.” Cain then asked O’Neill how he feels about the administration...

20 years ago Joe Biden was a wise-cracking Democrat politician on top of his game. Whether you liked him or not, nobody could deny he had a way with words and knew how to work a crowd. Fast forward to now, however, and the picture is not so rosy when it comes to the former vice president’s cognitive health. The latest developments have left many Americans demanding Joe Biden to take a mental health evaluation! Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is no laughing matter. The real problem s that the Democrats knew about his mental decline almost a decade ago and...

JESUS' TRIAL BEFORE ANNAS . JOHN 18 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 18 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 30 A.D. Bible Timeline JOHN 18:13-14, 19-24 Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Caiaphas...

Still life with lemonsHighlights from Alabama last night: “We don’t need more woke generals, we need more Pattons.”“President Biden was going on vacation while Afghanistan was going to hell.”Kabal burns as Joe…well who knows what Joe was doing“He surrendered our airbase, he surrendered our weapons, he surrendered our embassy,” “I told the Taliban, if anyone ever double crosses the U.S. of America it will be the last thing they ever do.” “Vietnam looks like a Masterclass in strategy compared to Joe Biden’s catastrophe.” It’s hard not to agree with Former British Colonel Richard Justin Kemp, CBE who told Mark...

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Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens has been slammed for writing an article in which he appears to compare left-wing British people with the actual Taliban. Yes, really. In his column, he slammed people for caring about Afghan refugees but not “deprived” British “young men” and said that Britain has “our own liberal Taliban”. He wrote: “Young men live under our own Taliban, the fierce stone-faced Left-wing doctrinaires who in the past 50 years have created huge zones of misery in what was once a pretty happy society.” He then appeared to argue that women entering the workplace rather than being...

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PHILADELPHIA—Messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccines against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 provoke a swift and strong response by the immune system’s T cells—the heavy armor of the immune system—according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Although recent studies of vaccines tend to focus on the antibody response, the T-cell response is also an important and potentially more durable source of protection—yet little has been reported so far on the T-cell response to COVID-19 vaccines. In the new study, which appears in the journal Immunity, the Penn Medicine researchers analyzed the T-cell responses...

Freedom is the reason why America is the greatest country on earth. Freedom is perhaps the biggest reason why immigrants come to the United States. And yet Arnold Schwarzenegger ... attacked freedom while pushing for masks and vaccines... As a freedom-loving immigrant and an American citizen, I found Schwarzenegger’s words to be condescending, hypocritical and hurtful. Freedom is bestowed by God and was enshrined in the United States Constitution by America’s Founding Fathers. No issue — public health or otherwise — must prevent law-abiding Americans from making decisions about their own lives. Freedom is the foundation of American society ......

Aryana Sayeed describes the horrors of getting on a plane in Kabul, appeals for the millions left behind. Answers questions.

Hydroxychloroquine vs Ivermectin vs Quercetin All three are zinc ionophores. All three on the recommended list by Dr Zalenko and others for COVID prophylaxis or early COVID treatment. First two require prescription, quercetin does not. All three are safe for the vast majority of individuals. No comparative studies for efficacy. Thoughts on which is better or best?

In tears, Rameen* said that his life has felt like a "nightmare" ever since Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday. "I just hope that somebody comes and wakes me up from this bad dream," the 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insider during a phone call. Rameen, who works for the United Nations, once enjoyed Afghanistan's vibrant "underground" gay scene. Even though homosexuality was illegal, he said he felt relatively safe making his weekly visit to a clandestine karaoke bar in Kabul to sing and dance with other members of the country's hidden LGBTQ communities. "It was fantastic and so much...

"Which is better? Even asking the question bordered on heresy a year ago, when catching Covid for the first time could be deadly, especially for the elderly or people already in poor health. Now, we're no longer starting with zero immunity as the overwhelming majority of people have either been vaccinated or have already caught the virus"

A harrowing report from outside the airport in Kabul shows that the situation in Afghanistan has gotten so dangerous, tense and time-sensitive that even battle-hardened troops said they have never seen anything like it. ... “Every day the scene outside the British evacuation camp changes, every day it seems to get worse and this day there is a new sense of desperation,” .. “Collectively I think the thousands queuing outside in burning temperatures know that the clock is ticking on how long this airlift will go on for.” ... Most of them will remain,.. ... “Beyond the containers and beyond...

US Vice President Kamala Harris landed in Singapore on Sunday to kick off her week-long tour of Asia, escaping DC as President Joe Biden faces the biggest crisis of his administration. Harris plans to meet with US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base on Monday, making her the highest ranking official to address troops in person as the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan plays out. The Taliban's stunning return to power a week ago, and desperate scenes of thousands trying to flee Kabul, have cast another grim shadow over the United States' status as a...