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On Friday’s “Fox News Primetime,” Fox Nation host Lara Logan stated that the generals responsible for the Afghanistan debacle aren’t taking responsibility, but are holding Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller responsible by “jailing him for speaking the truth.” Logan said, “So, what they’re really doing is jailing him for speaking the truth. And I listened to the parents, and I want them to know and I want everyone in America to know that I stand 100% with their son. Because he did something that everyone in America has been waiting for for years, Brian.” She added, “And what we’re seeing now...

JTA — Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t be certified kosher. The largest and most influential certifier of kosher products in the world has declined to endorse Impossible Pork, even though nothing about its ingredients or preparation conflicts with Jewish dietary laws. “The Impossible Pork, we didn’t give an ‘OU’ to it, not because it wasn’t kosher per se,” said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the CEO of the Orthodox Union’s kosher division. “It may indeed be completely in terms of its ingredients: If it’s completely...

Rich countries' plans to curb carbon are "smoke and mirrors" and must be urgently improved, say poorer nations. Ministers meeting here in Milan at the final UN session before the Glasgow COP26 climate conference heard that some progress was being made. But officials from developing countries demanded tougher targets for cutting carbon emissions and more cash to combat climate change. One minister condemned "selfishness or lack of good faith" in the rich world. US special envoy John Kerry said all major economies "must stretch" to do the maximum they can. "We're already on hellish ground at 1.1C," said Simon Steill,...

New York City restaurateurs are speaking out against the city's proof of vaccine requirements for in-person dining, which has disadvantaged local businesses. ... "Our business is definitely down 50. I'm going to say 60 percent. There are just no people coming into the restaurant. They have a fear of being asked for vaccines,"

The Talk Shows October 3rd, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont). Gen. Kelly McKeague, POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Panel of Wallass idiots: Steve Hayes; Marie Harf (Party on, Wayne!); Jonathan Swan, Axios. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ; White House adviser Cedric Richmond. Panel: Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Peggy Noonan; Susan Page, USA Today; Jake Sherman—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION...

I'm one of the few white conservatives in America who grew up in a majority-black urban city and attended an all-black middle school and an all-black high school. So, I grew up with an understanding and appreciation of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his extraordinary ideas and strategies -- in particular, civil disobedience. King was against any form of violence. So am I. But he understood that civil rights for black Americans would never be achieved without pushing the envelope. So, King inspired protests, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience to get the attention of the...

The other day a friend asked me why no Democrats ever become the kind of back-stabbing weasels that the GOP seems to crank out in factories or assembly lines somewhere in Utah or Wyoming? It got me to thinking about this classic 1947 poem by Christina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I:But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.That came to mind as yet another alleged Republican jumped ship... this time in my state of Texas: Matthew Dowd—who served as a “strategist” in the successful 2004 re-election campaign of President George W....

Imagine being so invested in something that it impacts every aspect of your life. Not your direct involvement in it, but the involvement of other people in it. Democrats insist an abortion is a personal choice for the woman, or birthing person, and the birthing person alone. Then they demand anyone who’s had one celebrate, or “shout,” their abortion, and insist it’s perfectly healthy and normal behavior. They want everyone to believe they love abortion the way most people love their kids, but there’s probably something deeper and darker at work. At a hearing this week in the House of...

By now many of the Covid jab victims and politicians are secretly realizing that they may have made a terrible mistake. That’s the reason they want you to get the Jab also. They feel if they have to die or have encouraged others because of their own gullibility, you should be included also. That way they don’t have to feel like the only ones who fell for all of the falsehoods of this deadly jab. Misery loves company.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed Friday there would be "consequences" for any city employees who aren’t fully vaccinated by Oct. 15, according to reports, as the city continued negotiations with labor unions. Lightfoot and the Fraternal Order of Police disagreed on whether her requirement affected its members, the Chicago Tribune reported. The union said in a statement that the deadline would apply only to coronavirus testing and no one’s pay would be affected, adding that self-reporting of vaccination status was "voluntary." But Lightfoot, a Democrat, denied there was leeway for union members. "Every employee in the City of Chicago has...

How stupid do those in the media think Americans are? The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was the moment when the curtain was drawn back on Biden’s presidency and everyone saw the incompetent, duplicitous, cruel man in charge. Behind that same curtain, they saw the architect of an open border (with 400,000 illegal aliens expected this month), skyrocketing inflation, draconian mask mandates, intentional racial divisions, and more. No wonder chants of “F*** Joe Biden” suddenly swept stadiums and concerts. The media, though, are still covering for Joe, and nothing shows that more perfectly than an NBC reporter’s real-time effort to gaslight viewers...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to take a shot at fellow Democratic lawmaker Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a tweet on Saturday as progressives and moderates struggle to agree on key pieces of legislation. "There really isn't anything maverick, innovative, or renegade about being a politician that works with corporate lobbyists to protect the rich, short-shrift working families, and preserve the status quo," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, adding its one of the "most conventional ways to navigate politics." She didn't mention the Arizona senator by name, but the tweet was posted hours after a report suggested Sinema wanted to be remembered as a "maverick,"...

Has the left won the battle over semantics? So YouTube is banning all content they say is spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. “Working closely with health authorities, we looked to balance our commitment to an open platform with the need to remove egregious harmful content,” the video-sharing platform said in a September 29 statement posted to its blog. “We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines.” In...

If you know the facts about vaccines and actual therapeutic drugs, you really have to start thinking hard about why Democrats are forcing vaccines on America. Biden insists that 97%-98% of the population must be vaccinated to end the COVID risk. However, as it seems possible that mass vaccination is a trigger for aggressive new variants, one can’t help thinking that he wishes to propagate the virus going forward to the midterm 2022 elections and beyond. That would explain why Biden and his CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have overruled the...

The national news media gushed with worshipful joy over the fact that Peter Buttigieg has acquired twin babies. Other babies may have been born to members of this administration, but the national media carried no stories about them. Babies have been born to other wealthy celebrities, and of course thousands of American babies have been recently born to American mothers and fathers, but there have been no slavish media celebrations of their arrivals. There’s a good chance that American youngsters and their parents are at risk in Afghanistan, but the national media is not investigating their identity in order to...

Welcome to Your Weekend hypocrisy the theme but your host well equipped a big hypocrite let the cleanup begin with me. Plenty of places to go but many concerned with a woman who resigned her office Friday the authoritarian COVID ruler who at one point spoke of "final measures" in the midst of the lockdowns, curfews, suppression of any public protest claiming violation of the health rules and yes the vaccination coercion. Yes the Premier of New South Wales in Australia Gladys Berejiklian here's the: Gladys Berejiklian Theme... Day 565 Of The Dictatorship Of COVID-19, Day 565 Of America And...

I may be more distraught than usual as I’m dealing with the illness of a beloved pet, but I think even if I were not I’d have to acknowledge that in the absence of any rational leadership things quickly are spinning apart here. Even in the best, most efficient emergency room in the capital wait times to be seen -- something that rarely took more than half an hour -- now stretch to five hours. The stress of long hours and the vaccine mandate have caused many experienced nurses and technicians to quit and newer replacements take time to train,...

Why does government seem to control so much of our lives now? What significant changes happened in the past 15 years that created a social shift and allowed government to influence almost every facet of our activity? Why has the previously ordinary become so complex? Why is it more difficult to be comfortably invisible and just live out the creed of pursuing ‘life, liberty and happiness’? What is behind all this?…. We were not sleeping, we were wide awake. Perhaps distracted, yes; but we were wide awake when something shifted. A Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created, and technology...

Poorly trained federal officers collected intelligence on Portland protesters and journalists during last year’s unrest, even though the demonstrators were not considered national security threats, a review by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security found. Dubbed “baseball cards,” the dossiers were a violation of protesters’ rights, The Oregonian reported.... ...Gathering information on citizens, particularly during constitutionally protected activities like protests, is prohibited unless there is an arrest for a federal crime or reason to believe they are a considerable threat, the report stated. The investigation was submitted to DHS on Jan. 6 and released after pressure from U.S. Sen. Ron...

Man shot, killed in Chevron gas station shooting Senate approval extends transportation funding amid debate over infrastructure… Several San Francisco city departments have accepted gifts from restricted organizations — groups with which the city does business — and distributed those gifts to city employees, actions that undermine the city’s rules regarding gifts, according to a new report by the city’s Ethics Commission. The 41-page report released on Thursday details “problematic” conduct related to gifts, including the awarding of tickets to events such as concerts and shows and the receipt of benefits and funds to pay for private parties, dinners and...