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Amid challenging times, here are the five gravest challenges the Pentagon faced during the past 12 months:Disastrous Afghanistan WithdrawalThe catastrophic and immoral withdrawal of our military from Afghanistan effectively ended a major phase in the Global War on Terror that began after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.With the withdrawal date telegraphed by President Joe Biden, the Taliban launched a military offensive, overthrowing the United States-backed Ghani government.With the Taliban’s swift rise to power, the U.S. began a haphazard evacuation for its citizens and Afghan allies who would be at risk under the new regime. In total, more than 100,000 people were...

2nd term of David Dinkins begins.

COVID-19 is a dream come true for every Marxist and would-be globalist aristocrat throughout the world. The governments of all freedom-loving democracies have been transformed, virtually overnight, into oppressive authoritarian regimes, seemingly while we slept. Evidence, however, that the COVID pandemic may not have been just an unfortunate set of circumstances is starting to accumulate.Six months ago, it was revealed that a scientist with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the People’s Liberation Army, may have been trying to develop a vaccine long before the COVID virus “escaped” the confines of the institute. According to a June 4th...

“The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel” (Proverbs 1:1 KJV).

To cap off another year of pushing falshoods and half-truths, left-wing Hollywood actress-singer Barbra Streisand insisted that Joe Biden’s economic record is the “best in 40 years.” Streisand jumped to her Twitter account to lay this gem on her fans: “Joe Biden’s economic record in his first year is the best in 40 years. The media largely ignores this.”

A lawmaker who sponsored the original bill said violent novels the shooter penned could have been enough for a judge to grant an extreme risk protection order. A man who was feared by his colleagues, was on the radar of law enforcement, and who had written novels laying out in detail how the main character would kill people — naming some of the people he would eventually kill on Monday — wreaked havoc across Denver and Lakewood. So how was Lyndon James McLeod able to get a gun? Authorities have not released details about the weapon he used, but they...

Several residents in Texarkana posted pictures and videos to social media Wednesday after finding fish scattered in some unlikely places including their lawns and sidewalks. According to the city, this phenomenon is referred to as "animal rain" and occurs when small water animals are swept up in waterspouts or drafts that occur on the surface of the earth. Animals like frogs, crabs, and small fish are then rained down when the forecast calls for showers.

The honor and dignity of Japanese culture carefully hides dubious aspects of their WW2 military operations. Why would a culture place such a high priority of respect onto legacies of kamikaze pilots, suicide submarine missiles, and underwater suicide mine bombers? In short, families of these soldiers knew the personal realities behind the warrior myths.

President Joe Biden left for vacation earlier this week as the U.S. recorded the highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. He concluded that there was “no federal solution” to the problem, and various spin doctors in the media urged Americans not to blame the president. But last year, on the campaign trail and as President-elect, Biden promised specifically and repeatedly that he would make sure the virus was under control. Here are 11 examples: March 5, 2020, Wilmington, Delaware: “We’ve got to look at the history of what’s happened, the recent history of...

On Thursday, the United States surpassed 580,000 cases, beating the record set only a day before. That is believed to be a vast undercount because of testing shortages, the popularity of at-home tests and reporting delays over the holidays. What's more, scientists say, a significant number of people may have asymptomatic infections and never know it. New estimates from researchers at Columbia University suggest that the United States illnesses could peak by Jan. 9... In New York City, the first U.S. metropolis to see a major surge of omicron, the researchers estimated that cases will peak by the first week...

Pope Francis called for an end to violence against women on New Year’s Day in a strongly worded homily from St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. “How much violence is directed against women! Enough! To hurt a woman is to insult God, who from a woman took on our humanity, not through an angel, not directly, but through a woman,” the Pope said. “And since mothers bestow life, and women keep the world (together), let us all make greater efforts to promote mothers and to protect women.” The Roman Catholic Church celebrates both the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday suggested Republicans are upset they cannot date her and should admit it. “If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,” she wrote in a social media post: Her comments were in response to criticism from social media user Steve Cortes that Ocasio-Cortez was reportedly in Florida. “If Leftists like AOC actually thought mandates and masking worked, they wouldn’t be frolicking in free FL,” he wrote, adding, “Her guy is showing his gross pale male feet in...

They’re coming for white lies. A list of allegedly fake Native Americans has begun circulating in tribal and academic circles, accusing 195 people of falsely claiming an Indian identity for personal gain. The “Alleged Pretendians List” is the creation of Jacqueline Keeler, a Native American writer and activist who has spent years busting fakers in politics and academia. “Everyone on this list has made public claims through interviews, in books authored, documentaries, and even in Congressional testimony. They are also all monetizing their claims. These are not privately-held beliefs,” reads her introduction. “We will release the names and findings of...

The nickname “Dirty” was well-earned by the late Sen. Harry Reid. He was a masterfully corrupt and manipulative politician who would lie through his devilish smile to achieve his political ends. Case in point was the lie he admitted telling, as the Washington Post relates, in 2012 about Mitt Romney, an attempt to influence the presidential results: One of the strangest incidents of the 2012 presidential campaign was when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid accused then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of having not paid any taxes over the past decade. That Reid made that allegation from the floor of...

What if Mike Pence: Assessed his own political status as 2021 neared its end? Considered his bravery on Jan. 6 and wants it as part of his legacy? Looks ahead with dread to a Donald Trump nomination in 2024? Believes in New Year’s resolutions? L If any or all of these scenarios ring true, Pence is going to do the right thing early in 2022 by announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, emphasizing that his party needs to get rid of Trump and campaigning immediately to restore Republicans to sanity.

Then-President Donald Trump's team assembled a 10-day pressure campaign in December 2020 hoping to shame governors and state legislators into officially investigating allegations of Election 2020 irregularities, according to memos newly turned over to Congress by former New York Police Commissioner and Trump confidant Bernard Kerik. The strategy called for "protests" at governors' mansions and the homes of politicians ranging from secretaries of states to “weak” congressional members in key battleground states, the memos show. The documents, turned over Friday night under subpoena to the House's Jan. 6 commission, are remarkable in part because they show the primary focus of...

Just hedge funds and the blues. Or hedge funds got the blues in 2021. 2021 saw the S&P 500 index generate a return of 28.7%. Much of it thanks to The Federal Reserve “stimulypto” or excessive monetary easing. This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is spxfarbast.png But only three hedge funds beat the S&P 500 index: Senvest, Impala and SR. Thanks to fees (trading and management), the other hedge funds underperformed the S&P 500 index. And underperformed The Fed! Melvin Capital was the worst performing hedge fund of the ones examined. Yes, hedge funds had the...

The COVID World post date: January 1st, 2022The Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA), a group of over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists and health care practitioners, has released a video presentation called “The COVID-19 Incodulations – More Harm Than Good” and the evidence it presents about the Pfizer safety trials for its mRNA vaccine is truly shocking. ... Watch the full video presentation here:

Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen slammed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live coverage on Friday night, proclaiming, “The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been.” “Watching Mayor de Blasio do his victory lap dance after four years of the crappiest term as the Mayor of the New York,” Cohen began (de Blasio, however, actually served eight years as Mayor of New York).

Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell grew emotional on Wednesday night over having to leave her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan in order to keep serving in Congress after redistricting swiped her seat ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. For the first time in history, Michigan's new map was drawn by an independent commission rather than political operators. That saw the state's number of House seats drop from 14 to 13, and is forcing Dingell out of the 12th Congressional District she took over from her husband, late longtime Rep. John Dingell.