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Sun Tzu, the brilliant Chinese military strategist offered this strategic advice: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That advice has withstood the test of time and Joe Biden embraced it when he became president. Actually, Joe’s son Hunter made a wooden plaque in shop class that sits on Biden’s desk in the Oval Office. Unfortunately, the plaque reads: Love Close Friends and Enemies Keep Loving. Whoops. That’s not it Joe.Joe not only loves his enemies but blindly initiates all of their hair-brained ideas. All of those whacky, moronic left-wing ideas fall into Biden’s brain and drop out of...

Hundreds of farmers who rely on the water from the irrigation district that channels water along the Rio Grande in central New Mexico face a second straight year of early cutoffs. The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board voted Friday to end deliveries for irrigation a month early because of low water availability. The Oct. 1 shutoff means winter crops like those grown by Travis Harris just north of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge about 90 miles (144 kilometers) south of Albuquerque are at risk. “This is my livelihood,” Harris told the Albuquerque Journal. “This is how I live...

As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the state’s Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.Fox News reported that the order issued Friday by State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said that those “infected with COVID-19 must remain in the home or other appropriate residential location for 10 days from onset of illness.”Dobbs added that people isolating due to a positive COVID-19 test don’t need a negative test to end their quarantine,...

A network of "hundreds of thousands" of people, including analysts using satellite imagery to locate Taliban checkpoints surrounding the Kabul airport, are coordinating to evacuate Afghan interpreters from the country, an Afghanistan war veteran and member of the coalition told Fox News. These interpreters, now targeted by the Taliban, were essential U.S. allies during the Afghanistan war and played roles much larger than simply acting as translators, according to Matt Zeller. The Biden administration has faced fierce criticism that the U.S. hasn’t made their evacuation more of a priority. "These people that we’re talking about … they were our eyes...

Outdoor outfitter Patagonia will stop supplying Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) with inventory following one of the resort’s owners hosting a fundraiser for the right-wing House Freedom Caucus. According to local, nonprofit news outlet WyoFile, Jay Kemmerer, one of JHMRs owners, hosted the fundraiser, which took place August 5. Several high-profile Republicans headlined the event, including President Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Admission to the fundraiser cost a minimum $2000 per couple. The event reportedly attracted protestors outside the venue.

Joe Biden surrendered to the Taliban and now 10,000-20,000 Americans are trapped in the country behind enemy lines and unable to escape the country through the Kabul Airport Biden also left the Taliban terrorists 600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles and 200 aircraft. This is already shaping up to be the greatest humiliation in US history — just what the Democrats wanted.

Hungary’s unofficial government newspaper Magyar Nemzet (Hungarian Nation) often floats issues that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government would like to gauge public opinion on without addressing those issues themselves. Last weekend, it happened again. On Sunday (August 15), the paper opened debate on an issue that had previously been deemed off-limits even in Hungarian government circles: Hungary’s exit from the EU. “It is time to talk about Huxit” was the title of the Magyar Nemzet opinion piece. The news went off like a bomb in Hungary — with most larger media outlets reporting, opposition politicians up in arms...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police on Monday night were warning anyone walking downtown or in the South Loop to stay alert after a series of attacks and robberies. Investigators have linked those attacks and robberies to a group of teens. They have happened to people who have simply been walking down State Street and Michigan Avenue between Balbo Avenue and the Chicago River. And it does not matter if you are alone or in a group. Police said the youngsters are attacking and stealing from people at all hours. On State Street near Van Buren Street, a woman waiting for...

Think of the red bluffs and cliffs of the Grand Canyon as Earth's history textbook, explained Barra Peak, lead author of the new study and a graduate student in geological sciences at CU Boulder. If you scale down the canyon's rock faces, you can jump back almost 2 billion years into the planet's past. But that textbook is also missing pages: In some areas, more than 1 billion years' worth of rocks have disappeared from the Grand Canyon without a trace. It's a mystery that goes back a long way. John Wesley Powell, the namesake of today's Lake Powell, first...

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec· 2h Civil Reserve Air Fleet is just for headlines and Biden knows it. Plenty of mil aircraft. Commercial airliners don’t even have midair refuel capability. Slows down and endangers operations just for clicks. 9:51AM•August 22, 2021

Snipers rely on specialized training, accurized, high power rifles and quality optics to reliably hit targets that are often mere specks on the horizon.Here's What You Need to Remember: The technology does have a few downsides. If EXACTO {Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance} does use a laser designator to mark a target that laser is visible under the right circumstances, alerting those being targeted. Even worse, the laser beam will point directly to the the person lasing the target. The system will also need a long-lasting power supply, as a sniper may need to wait for hours for the opportunity to...

Venice is planning to change rules for visitors by 2022, including charging for access and setting entrance quotas. The Italian city is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations and measures to control the influx of tourists has been debated for years. But according to Italian newspaper Stampa, visitors may have to reserve access in advance and there could be turnstiles installed at the main access points of the city's historical centre.

More than 60% of born again Christians in America between the ages of 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation and over 30% say they either believe that Jesus sinned just like other people when He lived on Earth or aren’t sure, according to a new study.There’s a “striking decline” in evangelical religious beliefs and practices over the last 10 years, as the number of self-proclaimed believers to hold these beliefs has increased by nearly 25%, says Probe Ministries in a statement announcing the results of its Religious Views & Practices Survey.The...

Dear friends; I truly liked President Trump's message last night and the phrase; Save America. It is absolutely amazing how far we have fallen since January under Red Biden and the woke godless demonic lawless Left; but remember friends, we as a nation were greatly falling before Donald Trump took office in 2016 and all President Trump was able to do for a moment was to slow it down a very very little in light of our EXPONENTIALLY imploding nation. We have to as Americans add that "EXPONENTIAL equation" into our perspective today as we look at our nation today;...

California Gubernatorial Recall Election - Frequently Asked Questions County elections officials have 30 days after the election to complete the official canvass. On the 38th day after the election, if the recall is successful, the Secretary of State will certify the election results, and the new governor would take the oath of office and assume the position for the remainder of the term (through January 2, 2023).

Joe Biden's national security adviser warned the Taliban on Sunday that the U.S. will issue a 'forceful' response if they interfere in American evacuation efforts from Afghanistan – and he doesn't rule out sending in more troops. 'If in the end Americans are blocked from getting to the airport, blocked from leaving the country, or our operations are disrupted or our evacuations are in some way interfered with, we have explained to them that there will be a swift and forceful response,' Jake Sullivan told NBC News host Chuck Todd during an interview on Meet the Press. Sullivan detailed that...

Suzanna Smith’s mother was supposed to spend a few weeks at a rehab facility in Fitchburg to recover from surgery, but she never came home. “She went in for back surgery, and she died from COVID. It’s still so surreal to me,” Smith said. Her mother, Masae Hodges, was 73 when she died last year. Hodges is one of more than 6,000 residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in Massachusetts who have died of COVID-19, roughly one third of all COVID deaths in the state. But for grieving relatives like Smith, there are few legal options if...

Screenshot from embedded video of Australians pushing past police barriers in protest of more draconian COVID lockdowns.The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting illness, COVID-19, has caused mass hysteria on global scale. Perhaps no response is as shocking as what we see in Australia. The country is included in the group of western democracies globally and among the Five Eyes intelligence community members. Yet, the nation’s response to the pandemic can only be described as authoritarian.A COVID-19 Delta outbreak emerged in Australia in June. The country adopted a “Covid-Zero” strategy early in the pandemic. The government has repeatedly imposed draconian...

Kamala Harris traveled to Southeast Asia to visit Singapore and Vietnam as thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan in a potential hostage situation. Both Biden and Harris hid from the public for several days as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Advertisement - story continues below Kamala Harris walked over to a gaggle of reporters on the tarmac before boarding her flight to Singapore. Harris laughed when a reporter started to ask her about Americans trapped in Afghanistan.

Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his National Security Adviser over key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to sources close to the US administration. The President is accused of insisting on recalling US troops ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, and allegedly ignored warnings that it would not leave the military enough time to get American nationals and allies out. A former defence official in regular contact with senior White House aides suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned...