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A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to "catastrophic transmission damage," according to Entergy New Orleans.

A Nevada school board member said he had thoughts of suicide before stepping down amid threats and harassment. In Virginia, a board member resigned over what she saw as politics driving decisions on masks. The vitriol at board meetings in Wisconsin had one member fearing he would find his tires slashed....“There is starting to be an inherent distrust for school boards, that there’s some notion that we are out to indoctrinate children or to undermine parents or things like that, when we are on the same team,”

Marc Bernier, a Florida conservative talk radio host who was a vocal critic of vaccines, has died of COVID-19. Bernier, 65, died on Saturday evening after a three-week battle with the virus, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. ...

The bait n’ switch is on with the so-called Pfizer “vaccines.” The ones that are currently being offered are NOT the ones that the FDA approved last week. Eventually the approved shots will go into production and be available, but many governments and businesses are not waiting around before mandating their employees and customers get vaxxed. There has been speculation that “Comirnaty,” the new injections to be offered by Pfizer once they get immunity from liability to distribute them, will not be the same as the current Pfizer jabs. This is based on both odd wording in the FDA’s approval...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (Info found here.) If you're like me, you don't recognize the name of John Gillespie Magee, Jr. But when I got the suggestion from Ms.Behavin for this thread (thank you Ms.B!) I knew I should go check it out and see. John Magee is the young man who wrote the very famous poem "High...

It has been a rough 2021 for American wallets. Consumer and producer prices are soaring, making everything, from automobiles to food to shelter, more expensive. Moreover, the post-pandemic economy has not exactly been what policymakers had promised since the “wait two weeks” thing. But at least Americans could retreat to their humble abodes and drown their sorrows and droplets in a cheap box of donuts and wish that the last 18 months never happened. Sorry, but no.

A US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday killed nine members of one family, according to local reports. The casualties of the strike in the capital city of Kabul included six children, a relative told a local journalist working with CNN. The Pentagon said in a statement earlier that it was “assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time.” The strike followed a huge amount of bloodshed over a three-day period as the American military finishes evacuating citizens and others with papers ahead of President Joe Biden’s 31 August deadline for troop withdrawal... Verified...

She was expecting FREE BBQ Ribs. Oh, drats, shirley. Maybe you should move to NYC.

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider grants religious exemption letter to avoid abortion-tainted jabsHis Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider has decided to offer a personalized affidavit affirming membership in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, which will help members to avoid abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections. (LifeSiteNews) – Many Catholics in the United States are concerned about being fired or otherwise forced to receive abortion-tainted vaccines. Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan has decided to provide affidavits certifying membership in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima. The Confraternity is opposed to abortion-tainted vaccines as a deeply religious held belief. The certificates are personalized with...

Why did an alarming percentage of the Millennial generation embrace socialism? Here's why. If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up. Well, now you know. The problem is twofold. First, we Baby Boomers raised a generation of selfish, entitled brats. (I do not include my own children in that description, and if that seems hypocritical and self-serving — well, you don't know my kids.) Second, in their entitled brattiness, an alarming percentage of that generation...

Our new Sydney team spoke to usually law-abiding residents of NSW to find out why they are willing to protest regardless of the threat of heavy fines and prosecution. Australians are getting desperate.

Twitter has permanently suspended former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson, a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and mandates, from its platform. "The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules," a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News in response to an inquiry Saturday night. On his Substack page, Berenson subsequently posted a brief message, just over 152 characters, titled, "Goodbye Twitter." "This was the tweet that did it," he wrote, above a screenshot of his account before it was taken down. "Entirely accurate. I can’t wait to hear what a jury will...

Men still do most of the driving when it comes to automobiles. You see couples all the time on the roadways and the great majority of the time, it is the man in the driver's seat and the woman is riding "shotgun" in the passenger seat. I'm going to explore some reasons this might be. Now first, where does the term "riding shotgun" originate from in the first place? Well, apparently, during the stagecoach era, particularly in the Wild West when there were still savage Indians and bandits about, it was necessary to have an outdoorsmen type ride a horse...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was vacationing in the Hamptons just hours before Taliban insurgents invaded Kabul and completed their retaking of Afghanistan 20 years after their ouster by U.S.-led forces, according to a new report. According to a detailed timeline of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul compiled by The Washington Post, the actions by U.S. officials in the days leading up to the collapse suggested "no immediate cause for alarm," with many of them "surrendering to the customary rhythms of Washington in August." Blinken, like other U.S. officials, had to be called back from his vacation once things started...

"Update: Death toll from US strike in #Kabul has risen to 9. 6 of them were children. BIG questions to be asked about this one — where did the intel come from and/or how willing were we to incur collateral damage?" Charles Lister Twitter

From Desk Of Antony J. Blinken USA Secretary of State Refund Payment Committee Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.Good Day,This letter is written in order to change your life from today. Please note that this letter came to you as a result of information received from our monitoring network regarding so much payments which you sent through Western Union and Money Gram to Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and some other part of the World without receiving any payment to your name, further investigation reveals that you have lost hope towards receiving your payment after being deceived so many times.Following...

As a man lay dying on a Bronx street from a shootout with police, his father snatched the gun from the son’s hands — and used it to continue the gun battle with officers, authorities said. (excerpt) Valentine Avenue near 180th Street in the West Bronx just after 4 a.m., (excerpt) The father and son had been in an argument with a group of people on the corner when it turned physical and the son pulled out the gun, cops said. (excerpt) The dad has around 60 prior arrests on his record...

n a rare interview, a Taliban commander confirms the existence of a special unit called Al Isha using U.S. data to hunt enemies. The Taliban has mobilized a special unit, called Al Isha, to hunt down Afghans who helped U.S. and allied forces — and it’s using U.S. equipment and data to do it. Nawazuddin Haqqani, one of the brigade commanders over the Al Isha unit, bragged in an interview with Zenger News, that his unit is using U.S.-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive U.S.-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or...

Joe Biden and Jill on Sunday made an unannounced trip to Dover airbase to greet the plane carrying the remains of 13 US servicemen and women. After the photo op, Joe Biden headed over to FEMA headquarters in DC. Biden delivered remarks on Hurricane Ida at FEMA headquarters later Sunday — anything to avoid talking about Afghanistan. Biden called on a reporter following remarks on Hurricane Ida and the reporter asked him about Afghanistan. “I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,” Biden said. Biden slammed his hand on the lectern and said he’s not going to answer...

Sixty-six progressive Democrats are telling President Joe Biden to open the nation’s border to Afghan migrants because the U.S. bears moral responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan. “After decades of disastrous U.S. intervention, one thing is clear: We have a moral responsibility to provide safe harbor and refuge for the Afghan people,” the August 26 letter, which does not set an upper limit on the inflow of Afghan migrants, states. “The U.S. war in Afghanistan has caused irreparable harm to Afghans,” the letter claims, without mentioning the many hard-fought humanitarian gains Americans delivered or mentioning the almost 2,400 dead Americans...