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As President Joe Biden and his top military commanders continue their struggle to evacuate thousands of Americans and Afghan allies from the now Taliban-controlled country of Afghanistan, the next round of headlines will revolve around the massive influx of Afghan refugees being flown into the United States. According to Fox News, radically progressive Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are already digging in and signaling to the Biden administration that they want a minimum of 200,000 Afghans resettled in the United States, calling that staggering number a “rock bottom” minimum. “Whatever is necessary” Apparently not worried about the possibility of...

The US operation to evacuate people from the airport in the Afghan capital was extremely successful, President Joe Biden said, speaking at the White House in connection with the completion of this operation, Report informs referring to the White House website. “The extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. For weeks, they risked their lives to get American citizens, Afghans who helped us, citizens of our Allies and partners, and others onboard planes and out of the country.” “Last night in...

In the past week, I've learned that our soldiers were put in harm's way by a group of politicians, generals, and bureaucrats whose quality as leaders and human beings it is difficult to understate. They are so fantastically corrupt that they spent two decades funneling trillions of dollars in aid they knew wasn't helping to a puppet government which had its greatest achievements in the areas of fraud, child rape, and heroin production. They are so pants-sh-ttingly incompetent that somehow it didn't occur to any of them that it might be a bad idea to have the Americans with guns...

You have to wonder whether Biden’s speechwriters can do simple math. Possibly they don’t even care about getting numbers right because they know that no one in the press will check. But by virtually any measure, Biden’s speech on Tuesday claiming that our surrender in Afghanistan was a rip-roaring success didn’t go well. Biden claimed, “I take responsibility for the decision.” But he blamed the United States military, who he says unanimously advised him on what to do. He blamed the Americans who refused to leave despite supposedly being warned multiple times, ignoring Biden himself telling people that everything was...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Aug. 31. The Government has information to-night that Gen. BUTLER'S naval expedition proceeded as far as Cape Hatteras, where the forces were landed and the rebel batteries taken, and destroyed. No particulars have been received, but it is anticipated that the rebels could not have made much resistance, as they were not likely to have had a heavy body of men in that vicinity. SECRETARY SEWARD RETURNED. Secretary SEWARD returned to Washington this evening, bringing with him all the members of his family. OTHER ARRIVALS. Hon. CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, our Minister to Peru, is now here awaiting instructions. Hon....

f we think of the general madness of the world at the present in terms of the familiar biological taxonomical hierarchy: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species, while something like “Critical Whiteness Studies” might be a species within the Critical Race Theory genus, which is in turn classifiable in the neo-Marxian Family, Marxian Order, and Hegelian Class, the question arises: in what the Kingdom are all these interrelated insanities to be found? I assert that it is that ancient parasitic bugbear known as Gnosticism. In fact, the systematic Hegelian project and especially Marxism, which materialized it, would therefore...

WASHINGTON — White House officials are outlining plans to build and restore more than 2 million homes, a response to the volcanic rise in housing prices over the past year. First, it intends to deliver 100,000 affordable housing units over three years through a series of administrative changes. It will increase mortgage availability through Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for manufactured houses and buildings with two to four units. The government also intends to make it easier for would-be owners and nonprofits to buy homes that failed to sell in foreclosure auctions, as well as expand outreach to local governments...

What’s happening in Silicon Valley is proving to be little different from how North Korean censors treat criticism of the Democrat party and its leaders. Shana Chappell, whose son, U.S. Marine and lance corporal Kareem Nikoui, was murdered in Afghanistan thanks to the Biden administration's fecklessness, took to social media to say exactly what she thought of Biden, including questioning the legitimacy of his presidency. It was classic free speech of the type the First Amendment protects...so Instagram (which Facebook owns) suspended her. It later reinstated her, assuring that it was all a mistake when we all know that the...

Two men were beaten and robbed in Chicago’s River North neighborhood early Saturday. The victims were attacked on State Street near Kinzie at about 1:30 a.m. Video shared on social media shows the men knocked to the ground on State Street. They are robbed as they lay on the ground. Chicago police said that the 40-year-old victim was taken to Northwestern Hospital. The other victim refused medical attention. Video from the incident below: Twitter Link The incident has sparked new controversy, as video obtained from the scene by CWB Chicago does not show any police responding to the scene. Supt....

Many in the media and in Hollywood regularly promote positive abortion stories from women who say they have no regrets. But, at the same time, they overlook the stories of women who are haunted by their abortions and women who survived abortions. They forget the lost stories of unborn baby girls – stories left untold because they were cut short by abortion. The latest burst of positive abortion storytelling came on Aug. 22, when singer and musician Amanda Palmer released a video featuring conversations with three women in Canada about their abortions. Their stories all had one thing in common:...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPROVERBS 2Moral Benefits of Wisdom 2 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds...

The refugees are coming. And now for Chapter 2 -- the refugee story. Over the weekend, I heard someone on TV talking about Europe potentially flooded with new refugees. He based his prediction on what happened after President Obama left Iraq, unleasehd ISIS, and thousands got to Europe any way they could. Maybe it won't happen the same way, but refugees are coming, as we see in this BBC report: Thousands of people are scrambling to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized back control of the country, almost two decades after they were ousted by a US-led coalition. The United...

Celebrate today in Texas. Constitutional carry is law

The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January 2021. Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest", the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin. The WHO said the variant has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it. "The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape," the bulletin said. After being detected in Colombia, Mu has...

Obey or suffer the consequences. According to America’s “most closely watched forecast model,” the United States is projected to experience almost 100,000 additional COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1st. However, “experts” say that figure could be halved if everyone wore a mask in public spaces. (I say we’d all be better off if the number of “experts” was halved.) The experts whine that we’d all be safer and better off if Americans change their ways. Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, opined that “We can save 50,000 lives simply by...

According to a new report from The Washington Post, America's corporations have committed "at least" $49.5 billion to the cause of "racial justice" since the George Floyd murder last year riveted our national attention on race. This amounts to a little over $1,100 for every Black man, woman and child in America. Or, from another perspective, about $16,500 for every Black household earning $25,000 or less. But we're not talking about corporate America, despite their deep concern for racial justice, just simply giving black Americans cash. As much as they undoubtedly care about these Black citizens, they would never trust...

Next year's Republican primary for governor in Kansas took a truly unexpected turn on Monday when former Gov. Jeff Colyer announced that he was dropping out due to a recent diagnosis of prostate cancer. Colyer also endorsed Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who is now the only notable Republican challenging Democratic incumbent Laura Kelly. Colyer's decision came as an especially big jolt because he'd spent years laying the groundwork to return to the office he lost in 2018 after then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach beat him in the primary by all of 343 votes. Schmidt, though, was in no mood...

The left is learning that you cannot jeopardize the cubs without getting mauled by momma bear. Protests against Critical Race Theory (CRT) are breaking out all over America. It may even be shaping up as a major election issue next year. Parents are protesting against CRT at school board meetings and with their local school administrations. It has become such a heated issue that even state and local governments are getting involved -- and they’re not coming down on the side of CRT. But CRT supporters are telling opponents that they simply don’t understand what it is. They claim they’re...

Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation's most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. If all that were true, then they may report critically on violent extremists of any ideological stripe who find their joy in bringing anarchy and disorder. Sadly, some violent extremists are more celebrated than scorned. On Aug. 25, Reuters investigative journalist Aram Roston profiled Nicole Armbruster, a self-proclaimed "anti-fascist" who is putting her body "on the line" against fascism and racism. They call this "rare insight" into this movement, but instead, it's just letting a violent radical...

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