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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died due to complications from COVID. He was 84 years old. His family released a statement on Facebook saying: 'General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated.

Colin Powell died from Covid per FNC

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 17. Information received to-day confirms the belief entertained by prominent military men, that the rebels are falling back even of their original lines at Manassas Junction, and taking up a new line on the south shore of the Rappahannock. I telegraphed you yesterday that the rebels had congregated about forty thousand men at Aquia Creek, as was supposed to resist the projected naval expedition. In reality this is now substantially their right wing, made very strong to resist a surprise, and to preclude our cutting off their communications with Richmond. From Aquia Creek their line extends in...

Trump legal people like Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell ran around condemning voting machines and promoting shady allegations of fraud. But they could never produce forensic evidence of wrongdoing - and both have suffered greatly for their advocacy. ... Now, a terrible picture is beginning to emerge and ground zero is Silicon Valley, California. That's where Mark Zuckerberg lives. The Facebook chief apparently took a very large financial interest in the Trump/Biden race for the White House. How large? Well, how about $420 million dollars. ... Here's how it worked. "Vote Navigators" were paid well to canvas mostly poor neighborhoods...

While the nation faces yet another crisis, this time to do with transportation, it happens to be coming at a time when Sec. Pete Buttigieg is on paternity leave. The issue is not so much that he took paid family leave to bond with his newborn adopted children--at least it shouldn't be. The issue is we're just now hearing about it, and during a crisis. "Oh, So That’s What Pete Buttigieg Has Been Doing," Katie's article was aptly titled, citing insight from POLITICO Playbook. Writing "Can Pete Buttigieg Have It All?," for the Thursday "West Wing Playbook," Alex Thompson and...

The Truth about Vladimir Lenin – The Father of Post-Truth Politics? Just who was Vladimir Lenin? While we know that he came to power after the Russian Revolution, much of his life is shrouded in myths and lies. Author Tanel Vahisalu explains all. PS - you can find out about Tanel’s latest project on Russian history here. Ninety-three years after his death, Vladimir Lenin continues to make headlines. During 2017’s commemoration of the Russian Revolution, a poll conducted by the independent Levada Center demonstrated that 56 per cent of Russians believe Lenin played a positive role in history. What’s more,...

On my recent article concerning factors to consider if moving overseas, reader Deus Valt took exception to my broad statement that the USA was out of the question as a destination to flee to. The USA is unacceptable? Methinks that is too broad a brush Bro. Enjoy your blog much btw.Many! of us are armed to the teeth in here in Texas and can train across weapon system platforms (dryfire/range) with ex .mil trainers, some of the best in the world like Paul Howe. http://www.combatshootingandtactics.com among many others.We can buy body armor, ammo, night vision, etc here to protect ourselves...

As Americans took to social media to post pictures of bare shelves, we learned that Transportation Secy Pete Buttigieg has been on tax paid paternity leave since August. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and because he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable. The public didn’t even learn about Buttigieg’s break at the start, but only after transportation-related problems exploded around...

”Isn’t it terrible that all of Andrew McCabe’s benefits, pensions, salary, etc., were just fully reinstated by the Justice Department? This is yet another mockery to our Country,” Trump said in a statement Friday. ”Among other things, McCabe’s wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and the Democrats while Crooked Hillary was under investigation, which was quickly dropped, of course.”

In a move that reveals much of import beyond first glance but repels U.S. media attention, the State Department has offered a whopping $2 million fortune in reward money for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive Pakistani human smuggler whose intercontinental network does something highly worrisome to homeland security professionals: since 2015, the network has smuggled Afghan immigrants, migrants, through South American and Central America to the southern border. So fretful is the State Department that it last week offered $1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Pakistani smuggler Abid Ali Khan and another...

It's illegal, but they don't care — and they'll get away with it. CNN reports: More than 300 Black churches across Virginia will hear from Vice President Kamala Harris between Sunday and election day in a video message that will air during morning services as part of an outreach effort aimed to boost McAuliffe. In the video, first obtained by CNN, Harris said her time growing up in Oakland's 23rd Avenue Church of God taught her it was a "sacred responsibility" to "lift up the voices of our community." "I believe that my friend Terry McAuliffe is the leader Virginia...

Investigators tell FOX 5 just after 11 p.m. Wednesday the suspect busted into the Dahlia Avenue house. After entering through the window, police say the alleged home invader grabbed two kitchen knives. He then allegedly went into another room and tried to stab a resident who uses a wheelchair. Another resident opened fire on the suspect, shooting him in the stomach and arm. The suspect was found nearby by officers. Paramedics rushed the injured home invasion suspect to Grady Memorial Hospital. He underwent surgery and was in stable condition as of late Thursday morning. The homeowner told detectives he didn't...

Joe Biden's vax-mandate minions are behind it and Joe's fingerprints are all over it. It's not just nurses, firefighters, cops, military troops, and airline pilots who are getting fired over rigid COVID vaccine mandates. Now it's nuclear scientists with highly specialized knowledge and top-secret security clearances: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Workers at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons laboratories face a deadline Friday — be vaccinated or prepare to be fired. A total of 114 workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the birthplace of the atomic bomb — are suing over the mandate, saying exemptions have been unduly...

There is more than the usual turbulence in the public schools these days. It's driven by things like the asinine mandates for kids to wear masks throughout the school day and the introduction of divisive programs like Critical Race Theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the school. This squeezes school boards between the professional educrats and an angry community. In this matter, there is no doubt which side the Democrat party is on. As a way of throttling criticism of school boards, Attorney General Merrick Garland has threatened to sic the FBI on parents objecting to CRT...

D.C. Metro is pulling more than half its fleet of railcars on Monday for an investigation into a derailment on the Blue Line last week. The official Twitter account for Metro issued an announcement late Sunday, as people head to bed before what is sure to be a rough commute for some to start the week. "ALERT: As part of the investigation into the Blue Line derailment, Metro is holding out of service all of its 7000-series railcars, which is about 60% of its rail fleet. Without these rail cars, Metro will operate about 40 trains tomorrow," Metro said in...

Texas Republicans have come up with a congressional redistricting plan. The plan would, in the loaded words of the Washington Post, “siphon[] off thousands of [Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s] Black constituents and potentially forc[e] her into a primary election against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green.” This is a wonderful development. Jackson Lee, who once compared the Tea Party to the KKK, has no redeeming quality I’ve ever detected. Green seems like a good guy (once, after a congressional hearing, he invited a friend of mine with whose testimony he disagreed to lunch). However, his over-the-top demands that Donald...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he will not vote for former President Trump if he wages a bid for the presidency in 2024. Cassidy, during an interview with “Axios on HBO” that aired on Sunday, also doubled-down on his prediction that Trump will not be the GOP nominee if he decides to run again in the next cycle. The Republican senator told Axios’ Mike Allen “I don’t know that” when discussing the likelihood that Trump will win the GOP nomination in 2024 if he launches a third campaign for the White House. “President Trump is the first president, in the...

Meanwhile, in Norway, unarmed police were unable to stop a mass murderer. Although the daily news always provides plenty of examples of people doing genuinely bad things (assault, robbery, rape, murder, etc.), the fact is that most people in America are law-abiding. And while some will sit passively while a violent rape occurs directly in front of them, many of these good citizens will act when called upon to do so. Nevertheless, America's retail stores and entertainment venues insist on disarming the good guys under the delusional belief that it will stop the bad guys. The latest example of this...

Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security who wrote the infamous “anonymous” New York Times 2018 hit piece criticizing former President Donald Trump’s leadership, bleated out an op-ed for the Times last week titled, unironically, “We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.” That “one way,” Whitman and Taylor argue, is to ally with Democrats in 2022 to defeat Republicans they feel have become too aligned with Trump and “Trumpism,” or the populist message he espoused. “Rational Republicans are...

Federal employees have been given until November 22 to be fully vaccinated. Information on how the mandate would be implemented was slow in coming and is still not very clear to most employees or to the HR personnel tasked with carrying out the implementation. Employees in some agencies were asked to complete a vaccine attestation and request an accommodation, if applicable, only after the agencies had announced the first deadline (October 11) for the first jab of the Moderna two-dose vaccine (October 18 is the deadline for the first jab of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine) necessary to meet the mid-November deadline....