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Family members of the US Marines killed in last week’s suicide terror attack at the Kabul airport are slamming President Joe Biden for his behavior at the dignified transfer ceremony over the weekend — with one Gold Star father accusing the commander-in-chief of “the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen,” as he repeatedly looked at his watch during the ceremony. Darin Hoover, the father of Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Biden checked the time every single time a flag-draped coffin was removed from the hold of the Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane during Sunday’s...

JunkScience.com Founder Steve Milloy ripped an absurd Washington Post argument that Hurricane Ida — which caused power outages to more than a million homes — is a spawn of climate change. The leftist Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper capitalized on the catastrophic hurricane to push insane eco-extremist talking points: “How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst.” The story’s first paragraph peddled straight-up fear porn: “From its birth, the storm was destined to become a monster.” It continued, calling the storm “the poster child for a climate change-driven disaster.” Milloy lambasted the propaganda in comments to MRC Business: “A...

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The U.S. Embassy in Kabul suspended operations on August 31, 2021. While the U.S. government has withdrawn its personnel from Kabul, we will continue to assist U.S. citizens and their families in Afghanistan from Doha, Qatar. The Embassy will continue to provide information via the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), the Embassy web page, Travel.State.Gov, and Facebook and Twitter. Consular services remain available outside Afghanistan. To locate the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate click here. The Department of State has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas. U.S. citizens still in country should: Enroll in...

The fathers of two of the U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan last week have blasted President Joe Biden for repeatedly checking his watch at a ceremony marking the return of the 13 US servicemembers killed. Mark Schmitz - the father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz - and Darin Hoover - the father of Staff Sgt Darin Taylor Hoover Jr. - spoke to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. Both claimed the commander in chief did not just check his watch once, but after every casket was removed from the plane. Hoover also told how he refused to meet...

My congressman is General Scott Perry. He is a Trump supporter. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus. He is perhaps the most conservative member from the PA congressional delegation. Sounds pretty good, right? It would seem that I should be rather pleased to have him as my congressman.But I am not.He has been AWOL throughout the Afghanistan surrender. I have written him. (And get the standard form letter reply.) I have called his office. Each day I search the www machine for news that Perry is making a stand. Just once last week there was a tacit article...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With fires raging across the state, the USDA Forest Service is closing all 20 million acres of California’s national forests to public access for two weeks beginning Tuesday. In an announcement Monday, the Forest Service said the closure will extend through at least Sept. 17. This closure starts at noon Tuesday. Those caught entering Forest Service lands — including developed campgrounds, hiking trails and recreation sites — face fines of up to $5,000 for violating the order. The announcement extends a closure that was already in place for the Forest Service’s nine national forests in Northern California.

As U.S. forces beat a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, defeated after 20 years by the primitive Taliban, who clung to their guns and their faith, America's invincibility as the "world's only superpower" might be disputed. Joe Biden told Americans, when speaking about his gun-control agenda, that to move against the government one would need F-15s and perhaps nuclear weapons. The Taliban lack those, although they have acquired a treasure trove of advanced weapons left behind by Americans. Against Americans, the U.S. government might not deploy F-15s, nukes, bombers, or killer drones, but it has other means of compulsion, backed up...

Two people were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in shootings in Chicago Monday. One of the fatal attacks occurred in South Shore when a man was shot by a gunman who forced his way into his home, police said. The 55-year-old man responded to loud knocking at his door in the 7700 block of South Shore Drive about 1:50 a.m., police said. The man was shot multiple times and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. n Roseland on the Far South Side, a man was killed and two others...

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There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc....

"April is the cruelest month," wrote T. S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, "The Waste Land." For resident Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which is now mercifully ending. When has a president had a worse month? On the last Sunday in August, Biden watched solemnly, hand over heart, as the coffins of the American dead in the Kabul airport terrorist massacre of Thursday were carried off the plane at Dover. The American dead had been carrying out an evacuation of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies from America's...

On Thursday morning, a collared female mountain lion named P-54 was near Calabasas, California, with two of her cubs. Born in October, the two young mountain lions were at an age when they're learning to hunt on their own in preparation for taking care of themselves and becoming adults. On that morning, though, one of the young lions set its sights on a 5-year-old boy playing in his front yard, and it attacked. "On Aug 26, 2021, approximately 10:45 a.m., a 65-lb. mountain lion attacked the boy in his front yard, inflicting wounds to his head, neck and upper torso,"...

Pretending COVID Is An Emergency Is Killing AmericaThere is no justification for the continued suspension of the American form of self-government that secures all our individual rights and liberties.The Western world is living a massive COVID lie. That lie is strangling the life out of liberty, and it will destroy our constitutional order if we do not end this horrifying charade.A recent article in The Guardian discussing France’s vaccine passport unconsciously provides the perfect example. It describes the Great Plague that struck Marseille in 1720 (the final contortion of the Black Death), noting that it “kill[ed] more than half of...

A Republican congressman who has proposed a bill to block federal funding of the U.S. military vaccine mandate hosted a conference call with troops who warn the mandate could harm military readiness. The service members say many of their colleagues feel the same way but are not speaking out because of the possible consequences, Breitbart News reported. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has introduced HR 3860, which would prohibit "any requirement that a member of the Armed Forces receive a vaccination against COVID-19." An Air Force member said there is "a lot of pressure from our commanders ... and they tell...

The small businesses that have embraced the “proof of vaccine required for entry” approach are destroying themselves. Despite glaring uncertainties, we must not deviate from orthodoxy on COVID. Vaccinations = good. For everyone, no matter the rate of death or other serious adverse reaction from COVID versus from the vaccine. Masks required, despite factually knowing they don’t effectively stop getting the virus, and have long-term health consequences, especially to children. The societal ramifications of COVID and of vaccination are apparent. The very rich have gotten very much richer and very much more powerful, as the middle class and below have...

Ah, who does my little friend, who does?Unlike the rhetorical phrase popularized after 9/11 - “If we (fill-in-the-blank), the terrorists have won” – the terrorists actually have won. When your enemy was the one who spent their blood and treasure and they withdraw leaving you with the spoils of war is there any doubt who won? So for now we live in an age of ambient anxiety. We can no longer trust anyone: not academics, nor scientists, media of all sorts, journalists or industry. And certainly not elite politicians. We can’t even truly trust our own research as every search...

(Video) Dr Zelenko discusses fear based herding of people into dubious vaccines.Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, Since early March 2020 has treated people with coronavirus-like symptoms using an experimental treatment consisting of an antimalarial medication called hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin and zinc sulfate.After testing this three-drug cocktail on hundreds of patients, some of whom had only mild or moderate symptoms when they arrived, Dr. Zelenko claimed that 100 percent of them had survived the virus with no hospitalizations and no need for a ventilator…

Or has the margin of theft inched so high as to be insurmountable? The Democrats are the party of voter fraud. This is the basic fact of American politics. Republicans know it, and so do Democrats. We all know that the dead who vote always vote for the Democrat and that those voting enthusiasts who vote early and often can also be counted on to vote for the Democrat. Consequently, the rule in America has long been that to be elected, a Republican must win beyond the margin of theft. But the margin is changing. It is changing because the...

President Joe Biden has repeatedly implied that his handlers set the rules and determine when and where he’s allowed to take questions from the press, leading observers to ponder who is actually calling the shots behind the scenes. Now it appears that we may have an answer to that question. A newly resurfaced video seems to reveal who is actually calling the shots as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is caught on a hot mic ordering aides not to allow President Biden to take questions.