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The liberal media have made it a mission to convince viewers that businesses need to mandate a COVID-19 vaccination on employees and infringe on freedom. Voters are rejecting the idea. A newly released poll of 1,080 likely voters revealed that a 42.7 percent plurality of respondents were “more likely” (10%) or “much more likely” (32.7%) to do business with companies “NOT requiring employees [to] be vaccinated.” Even more revealing in the poll by The Trafalgar Group — in partnership with Convention of States Action — was that the percentage of voters who were “much more likely” (32.7%) to do business...

Several countries have wound up their evacuation operations already ahead of US forces pulling out at the end of August. Sky News looks at the global evacuation efforts: United States Number evacuated (approx): 88,000, including 4,500 Americans Operation ends: 31 August UK Number evacuated (approx): 15,000 Operation ends: 31 August France Number evacuated (approx): 2,100 Operation ends: Friday Germany Number evacuated (approx): 5,100 Operation ends: Unclear Italy Number evacuated (approx): 4,400 Operation ends: The Italian government has not yet said The Netherlands Number evacuated (approx): 1,000+ Operation ends: Today Denmark Number evacuated (approx): 1,000 Operation ends: Completed on Wednesday Belgium...

What a hollow speech by a hollow man, whose handlers thought it a good idea to have him throw in a biblical verse in order to cement Old Joe’s faith and probity, as if he ever had either. As upcountrybananaland noted, he quoted Isaiah 6:8 in which Isaiah - after realizing and repenting for his own evil-doing – volunteers to be the Lord’s messenger to his own evil country filled with sin and corruption:Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!What Biden...

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that his successor President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the “single most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.” Trump’s comments came in a lengthy and wide-ranging nearly two-hour-long exclusive interview on Wednesday evening at his office at his golf club in northern New Jersey where he has been living and working for the last several months. The interview, which took place before Thursday morning’s horrific terrorist attack in Kabul at Hamid Karzai International Airport — an attack that claimed the lives of 13 American...

The White House on Thursday scolded Senate Republicans after they called for President Joe Biden’s resignation after 13 service members were killed in Afghanistan in a suicide bomb attack. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for Biden’s resignation in reaction to the disastrous failure to withdraw American forces out of Afghanistan. White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the calls as a political stunt. “I would say, first, this is a day where U.S. service members, 12 of them, lost their lives at the hands of terrorists,” she said. “It is not a day for politics.”

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Sarah Montalbano.How can it possibly be that, 16 months into the scramble to “flatten the curve,” the CDC still hasn’t exhausted its credit to make irrational mask recommendations? To be fair, we all suspected mask mandates weren’t over — a hunch it took the CDC all of three months to confirm. But it’s worse than we could have imagined. Now the agency is directing fully vaccinated individuals to mask up indoors. And it’s also recommended that schools institute universal masking for students, staff, and visitors. This is ridiculous. It’s high time we buck...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — School disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic resulted in significant drops in math and reading test scores for Minnesota students, according to state education officials. The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments results released Friday show proficiency rates fell 11 percentage points to 44% in math and 7 points to 53% in reading, since 2019. “The statewide assessment results confirm what we already knew — that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our students’ learning and they need our help to recover,” Education Commissioner Heather Mueller said. The Trump administration let states cancel their spring 2020 tests as the pandemic...

If it comes down to Seth Moulton vs. Dementia Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and tubby Jim McGovern, I guess you know which side I’m on. I bow to no one in my longstanding disdain for the preening wannabe John Kerry (j.g.). When Moulton was running for Congress the first time, I had him on my radio show to discuss his, ahem, business, and an alleged office he claimed to have in, I believe, London. Moulton’s answers were unsatisfactory, to say the least. I haven’t spoken to him since, nor do I have any desire to, and he probably feels the...

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday said he would be sending 2,500 additional out-of-state medical personnel to help address the state’s COVID-19 surge fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. The governor noted in a press release that with the latest addition to staff at Texas hospitals and nursing homes, there will be 8,100 total outside medical personnel that have been deployed across the Lone Star State over the past month as health care facilities struggle to keep up with record wave of hospitalizations. "The medical personnel and equipment deployed by DSHS [Texas Department of State Health Services] will...

(Paraphrased read more at link) Virginia GOP asked a court to remove McAuliffe from the November Gubernatorial ballot. Lawsuit claims McAuliffe failed to sign his declaration of candidacy, however, his two witnesses did sign the declaration. While a technicality,this document is a requirement in order to have a candidate's name appear on the ballot.

Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who got vaccinated in July because of the NFL’s unending pressure to get the COVID shots, has been placed on the NFL’s COVID reserve list and will now miss five to 10 days. Adam Schefter reports that the Titans now have three players and two coaches dealing with COVID. “The NFL has kind of made it clear what they want to happen. If you don’t fall in line, they’re gonna to make your life miserable with all the protocols,” Tannehill said in July. “I wouldn’t have gotten the vaccine, without the protocols that they’re enforcing on...

The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is a bipartisan, transadministrational failure. It is a humiliation. The fact is that after 20 years, after thousands of lives were lost and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on the military, police, training, infrastructure and education, the country fell in days. Whatever your position is on the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, however, it is incumbent on President Joe Biden, and no one else, to competently conduct a military withdrawal of his choosing -- and, at the very least, avoid humiliation. On this front, Biden catastrophically failed. Then again, the president has...

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US troops will need to go back into combat in Afghanistan — as the region remains on high alert for more suicide attacks, with the death toll from Thursday’s atrocity rising to more than 100, including 13 US soldiers. “We’re going to have to go back in to get ISIS,” Panetta told CNN, calling Thursday’s twin suicide blasts by the reinvigorated terrorist group “Joe Biden’s worst nightmare.” “We’re probably going to have to go back in when al Qaeda resurrects itself, as they will, with this Taliban,” he predicted. “They gave safe haven to...

Desperate Afghans continued to gather in huge crowds outside Kabul’s international airport Friday, undeterred by twin suicide attacks that left at least 100 people dead a day before, including 13 American troops. Inside the fortified airport walls, the U.S. flag was lowered to half-staff as the final evacuations carried on under heavy security as military officials warned that attackers were plotting further destruction. Video below: Twitter LinkBut it seems that things went from bad to worse later in the day as a video that was sent to us shows soldiers shooting at the people who breached the fortified walls inside...

"This is now on track," said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday, "to be the largest airlift in U.S. history." On the process of bringing American citizens, Afghan partners and allies out, she continued, "I would not say that is anything but a success." Psaki was careful not to use the word "all" in identifying the categories of people being evacuated from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. But, perhaps due to a Generation Xer's insufficient grounding in history, she was unwise in using the word "airlift." The word brings to mind the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, which was quite a different...

New Jersey Department of Treasury announced on Tuesday that the gas tax rate in the state will decrease by 8.3 cents per gallon beginning Oct. 1. It is the first gas tax reduction since its inception in 2016. The law enacted in 2016 in New Jersey imposed a tax on gasoline and diesel fuel purchases by motorists to generate funding for maintenance and improvement of the state’s roadways and bridges. The tax has been expected to provide $16 billion over eight years. The law dictates that the gas tax rate must be adjusted each year in order to generate roughly...

Army of Woke! Sgt. Maj.’s proud of Lt. who refused to comply with police By M. Dowling - April 13, 202115 The WOKE sergeant major of the Army commended the second lieutenant whose December traffic stop prompted a lawsuit and the firing of a Virginia police officer. He’s proud of him for remaining cool as a pair of cops pointed their weapons at him. “Like many of you,” Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston tweeted Monday, “I was concerned by the video of [2nd Lt. Caron] Nazario’s traffic stop in December. He represented himself and our Army well through...

A 20-year-old man was fatally shot by an armed woman walking her dog after midnight in Dale City, Va. At around 12:25 a.m. the woman was approached by the man, who was wearing a face mask and armed with a handgun. In what police later cleared as a justified self-defense shooting, the woman shot the assailant, who was transported to a hospital, where he later died of his wounds. Police have since linked the handgun carried by the assailant to several 7-Eleven store robberies. “Following the investigations into this robbery series, all known evidence indicates the deceased was responsible...

Say what you will about President Joe Biden, he has stuck to his guns on ending America's 20-year involvement in Afghanistan's forever war. His decision not to delay our departure after Aug. 31 was fortified by hard intel that the terrorist ISIS-K was preparing attacks at Kabul airport. Thursday evening, the two bomb attacks occurred. It now seems inevitable that the withdrawal will be completed by Aug. 31, with all U.S. military forces following the last civilians out. Before yesterday's attacks, the airlift had been going far better than in its chaotic first days. Some 100,000 Americans and Afghans had...