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“Che Guevara’s contribution to the Bay of Pigs victory was crucial,” writes Che hagiographer Jorge Castaneda, also a New York Times contributor, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, NYU visiting professor and former Mexican Foreign Minister. “Che's military leadership was permeated by an indomitable will that permitted extraordinary feats." Well, “extraordinary” is certainly one way of putting it. I refer to Che Guevara’s being wounded during that tragic battle. The wound, you see, came from a bullet that entered Che’s face just under his chin and exited under his ear doing only slight cosmetic damage to that forthcomingly famous Hollywood and Madison Avenue...

State Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, a former reporter who served as a press secretary before being elected to office, announced his resignation via Twitter on Friday. Kieckhefer, who was term-limited, did not specify a reason for his resignation. “While it has been an honor and privilege to serve the people...

I've given dozens of speeches across America in the past month -- in front of conservative crowds, business leaders, patriots and Christians. I've told all of them my opinion that resident Joe Biden is a brain-dead zombie puppet, incapable of knowing the difference between his wife and sister. I'm certain his wife Jill feeds him baby food in the White House basement -- in a mask. He should be in a 24/7 care nursing home, not the presidency. He should be wearing a sign around his neck saying, "Hi, I'm Joe. If I get lost, please call my mommy Jill...

follow the money The CIA destablized the Ukraine helped by an American businessman who funded propaganda of the so called opposition. The result was to replace a pro russian president with an antirussian president who was corrupt. Both Oliver Stone and other left wing sites discuss this, and of course, Alex Jones has had several programs about the back story of Hunter Biden's scandal So a couple years later, that same American businessman funded a reporter from CNN to start an anti Duterte news site. Full story here by a writer who used to work at Rappler (2015 story) https://www.techinasia.com/rappler-funding-omidyar-network#!...

Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't among them. Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead. Attending Friday's high-level talks in Mexico's capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. Ken Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, also attended....

**SNIP** The calls for taking the near-annual fight out of lawmakers' hands are coming from prominent voices such as House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who want to eliminate the debt limit in its current form. They argue that members of Congress should not be able to use the threat of a debt default as political leverage ever again - an approach that would respond to GOP stonewalling by playing some hardball of their own. Although lawmakers are poised to stave off a national default barely a week before the Oct. 18 deadline, when...

A beloved mountain gorilla who in 2019 struck a pose in a selfie seen around the world has died at the age of 14. The Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo said that Ndakasi died last month after a prolonged illness.... "It is with heartfelt sadness that Virunga announces the death of beloved orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, who had been under the care of the Park's Senkwekwe Center for more than a decade," the park said, adding she took her final breath in the arms of her caretaker, Andre Bauma.... ...Ndakasi was only two months old when...

One of the things that COVID and the vaccines have brought to the fore is the fact that, even in the third decade of the 21st century, as the Book of Common Prayer says, “in the midst of life, we are in death.” In the modern age, it’s been easy to forget that fact. But what if it’s government or other third-party dictates that are forcing that death upon us, rather than our free choice as citizens in a supposed free country. What then? In Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote about rope, specifically the ropes attached to harpoons. A whale...

...With a deadline of October 18th approaching—the point at which, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the U.S. would default on its debt if the debt ceiling were not raised by $480 billion—McConnell and Schumer agreed to raise the debt limit through December.... ...The critics might want to hold their fire until they see what happens in December. According to McConnell's allies, the minority leader had very good reasons for striking the deal. They say it connects all the important political dots now laid out before him as GOP leader, in ways that will benefit Republicans going into a midterm...

Let’s do a little thought experiment. The Turtle got eleven Republicans in the Senate to vote for cloture on the debt limit extension. Many Conservatives are screaming that he surrendered and all is lost. But what would have happened if he hadn’t done that? If there were no debt limit extension, the government would “shut down.” Anyone with half a brain would realize that no such thing would happen. Lots of “non-essential” (that means most gummint paycheck cashers) would go home and cry to the alleged news people that they couldn’t buy their favorite flavor of Häagen-Dazs to imitate Saint...

Some Republicans roll their eyes regarding Trump’s ongoing efforts to prove claims that massive election fraud won Biden the presidential election. They shouldn’t. Even if Trump never forces accountability, it is imperative to broadcast vast pushback to perceived Democrat political hijinks. After all, the corporate media’s focus on Trump’s “mean tweets,” ofttimes crude objectification of women, incessant bragging, refusal to hew to the DC playbook, and Covid gave them the cover to mostly ignore his systemic greatness. Trump crashed through the bureaucracy and for a while successfully diminished its reach; then the bureaucracy viciously smashed back. .Despite Republican squish and...

Back in 2002, Die Another Day was the highest-grossing film in the James Bond series. However, despite its box-office success, it was poorly received by Bond enthusiasts and critics who felt the series had devolved into pastiche with outlandish elements such as an invisible car and kite surfing over a tsunami. The gravitas and subtext that Ian Fleming had conceived had long been absent in the series but it became most apparent in the indifferently made Die Another Day. It also seemed anachronistic for the post 9/11 era to have a comedic spy thriller. Thus, the forty-year-old series returned to...

ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — Libya’s rival sides reached an initial agreement Friday on the withdrawal of foreign fighters and mercenaries from the North African nation, the United Nations said, a key step toward unifying the warring sides in violence-wracked country... ...The U.N. mission mediating between the rivals said a 10-member joint military commission, with five representatives from each side, inked a “gradual and balanced” withdrawal deal Friday, at the end of three-day, U.N.-facilitated talks in Geneva...

“He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot” (Proverbs 9:7).

We need to defund the school committees. In this context, “defund” is a term used to denote a lack of respect. “Defund the police” means that Woke progressives do not respect the police and would like to see their involvement and influence on society lessened. However, that definition of “defund” needs to apply to the many school committees around the country who are ruining our children’s education with their stubborn, misplaced backing of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Let’s face it, every day in “President” Joe Biden’s America, some new proposed legislation or government -- mandated edict comes along that the...

Anyone paying attention knows that America is fast polarizing to become two distinct factions. One is comprised of the coastal blue states commanded by dictators, for whom concepts like individual liberty are just speed bumps on the way to their newfangled visions of progress, and the other is largely made up of the red states in America’s heartland and Southeast, where leaders still generally fear the electoral consequences of putting their boots on their constituents’ throats. The latter faction’s ultimate victory in the war of ideas is the only chance we have of maintaining anything that resembles the American ideal,...

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer says Line 5 of pipeline is a ‘ticking time bomb’ and has ordered it shut down ...The Canadian government has invoked a decades-old treaty with the United States in its latest bid to save a pipeline that critics warn could be environmentally catastrophic if it were to fail.... ...Court-ordered mediation talks between Enbridge and the government of Michigan have broken down, and as tensions mount, Canada this week invoked a 1977 treaty...

Breck Dumas Fri, October 8, 2021, 9:02 PM·2 min read Emergency medical service providers across the U.S. are sounding the alarm that the shortage of medical workers has hit "crisis" levels in many areas, warning Congress that the problem is getting to the point that it is threatening the 911 system. The American Ambulance Association sent a letter to House and Senate leadership saying the "nation's EMS system is facing a crippling workforce shortage, a long-term problem that has been building for more than a decade. It threatens to undermine our emergency 9-1-1 infrastructure and deserves urgent attention by the...

In a speech in Elk Grove, Illinois, President Biden explained why everyone must be vaccinated against covid. Biden contended that "breakthrough cases of covid in those fully vaccinated only occur because they are infected by the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated serve as a reservoir in which the virus survives until it can infect another host. The best way to eliminate this reservoir is to eliminate the unvaccinated hosts." The President claimed that "mandating that everyone be vaccinated is a more merciful option than the culling of the herd that some of my advisors have urged. Granted, euthanizing the infected and burning...

China's effort to continue with their military build-up in the eastern Ladakh region and incoporation of new infrastructure development in a bid to sustain the large-scale deployment indicates possibility of an exacerbated geopolitical conflict between the two countries. Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane said on Saturday that India has been monitoring on all the activities by the Chine PLA meticulously. He said if the Chinese military maintains the deployment through the second winter, it may lead to an LoC-like situation (Line of Control) though not an active LoC as is there on the western front with Pakistan The...