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What was the last known count approximately of U.S. citizens that are still stranded in Afghanistan? Soon after the deadly debacle of an exit the administration was quoting estimates that were probably low-balled, but I hadn't noticed any recent word on any citizens that made it out after that. There could be zero left now for all I know but that's not likely knowing the administration's batting record.

Jack Posovic 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec NYC has just released a nuclear attack PSA Guess they’re worried about Biden as president too

Sheriff Roy Boyd of Goliad County, Texas, joined other law enforcement officials from his state last week to raise alarm about the border crisis that’s wreaking havoc in America. These local officials, who confront the consequences daily, are now calling it an “invasion.” Boyd, a seventh-generation Texan, recently spoke to The Daily Signal about what it’s like in Goliad County, the vicious cartels trafficking humans and drugs, and why the problem of illegal immigration is much worse than anyone realizes. “This is just a tidal wave of people coming across. It is an invasion. There’s no two ways about it,”...

President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating. [cut] John Waldron, a 69-year-old registered Republican and retired machinist in Schenectady, N.Y., voted for Mr. Biden in 2020. Today, he said, he regrets it and plans to vote Republican in 2024. “I thought he was going to do something for this country, but...

As he wages war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be welcoming a baby girl with his ex-gymnast lover — and is grumbling that he already has enough daughters, according to a report. Putin, 69, is rumored to have four children with girlfriend Alina Kabaeva, a former champion Olympic rhythmic gymnast who is 30 years younger than the Russian strongman. The news of Putin’s latest bundle of joy was reported by the General SVR Telegram channel, which is reportedly run by Kremlin insiders. Putin did not appear to be very excited. The news did not at all please the...

Last week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson told us we'd see the "deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken" on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And we know many of you excitedly marked the date in your calendar. But over the weekend the space agency announced that they'd actually be releasing one the very first image a day ahead of schedule – at 5pm EDT (2100 UTC and 7am AEST on Tuesday 12 July). The first image will be released by US President Joe Biden in a special live stream that...

Prosecutors may have a case for federal prostitution offenses against Hunter Biden, according to documents, texts and videos that show he spent a staggering $30,000 on escorts in a five-month period. The president's son wrote checks to a Ukrainian woman whose transactions were red-flagged by banks for suspicious activity, documents reveal. A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filed by JPMorgan Chase named Florida and New York-based Ekaterina Moreva after she received tens of thousands of dollars from Hunter's company and women who the First Son paid for sex.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has drawn criticism for transforming Thomas Jefferson’s Charlottesville, Virginia, home into an exhibit on slavery. The foundation manages Monticello — the primary plantation and residence of the founding father and third president of the United States. Monticello was once a tribute to a man who helped draft the Declaration of Independence — the founding document of the U.S. Now, the plantation’s management has transformed it into a site that emphasizes the fact that Jefferson enslaved people, the New York Post reported. As the New York Post puts it, Monticello “offers visitors a harangue on the horrors...

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has drawn criticism for transforming Thomas Jefferson’s Charlottesville, Virginia, home into an exhibit on slavery. The foundation manages Monticello — the primary plantation and residence of the founding father and third president of the United States. Monticello was once a tribute to a man who helped draft the Declaration of Independence — the founding document of the U.S. Now, the plantation’s management has transformed it into a site that emphasizes the fact that Jefferson enslaved people, the New York Post reported. As the New York Post puts it, Monticello “offers visitors a harangue on the horrors...

Wondering what, if anything, will grow in your vegetable garden when summer temperatures soar above 100 degrees? Here are the vegetables that will grow, and thrive, in scorching summer heat.

Been a while since there has been a Barbecue thread. I am sure most people here have their opinion as to what is the best and will undoubtedly speak their mind.From the video text: "Different cultures have been roasting meat over a fire since prehistory. But the practice took on special meaning in the United States. The History Guy remembers a brief history of American barbecue." Video here.

The town is full of hippies and socialists. Need help in freeping a poll. The question is: Should the U.S. Supreme Court be expanded by adding additional justices? Thank you https://www.ptleader.com/stories/should-the-us-supreme-court-be-expanded-by-adding-additional-justices,84306?showpoll=1

President Joe Biden’s administration wants the United States to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 — and a big part of that plan involves a switchover to electric vehicles. EVs, we’re told, are the way of the future. Gone are worries about “range anxiety,” we’re told. These vehicles can put in some serious miles on a single charge — and the government’s building more charging infrastructure along the highways every day.

Two 16-year-olds were shot after they tried stealing an SUV with a married couple and their two babies inside, Texas cops say. The shooting happened just after midnight on Monday, July 11, in Houston, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The family had just arrived at their home when the teens walked up to their SUV and opened a back door, the sheriff said. Gonzalez said the father, fearing for the safety of his family, fired at the 16-year-olds, striking them both. Four gunshots are heard in surveillance video obtained by KHOU The wife drove away to get away...

It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don’t.“If American missile systems can nearly reach Moscow from Ukrainian territory, it’s time for Russia to roll out something powerful closer to the American ‘city on a hill,’” Olga Skabeyeva said on the news show on “Rossiya-1,” the most popular Russian TV channel.Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega published a decree last...

Meet the Press @MeetThePress · Follow Looking toward 2024, one former Republican congressman told @MarkLeibovich, “We have no plan for this except, sitting around, hoping [Trump] dies.” Trump drops F Bomb, crowd goes wild… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-drops-f-bomb-crowd-goes-wild/

LONDON -- Monty Norman, a British composer who wrote the theme tune for the James Bond films, has died. He was 94. A statement posted Monday on Norman’s official website said: “It is with sadness we share the news that Monty Norman died on 11th July 2022 after a short illness.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, said Sunday that in 10 years there won't be any supporters of former President Donald Trump left in the United States. His comment came during an interview on ABC's This Week after he was asked about Republicans' views on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The congressman sits on the House select committee that is investigating last year's riot, which has been holding a series of public hearings in recent weeks. "There's a lot of recent polling showing that the number of Republicans over the last year who view this...

Can you imagine what it would be like to literally starve to death? Most Americans believe that if a nuclear war with Russia actually happens the vast majority of the U.S. population will be instantly wiped out. But that is not what the science says. What the studies have shown is that only about 20 percent of the U.S. population will be instantly killed during a nuclear exchange. If you live near a military base or some other highly strategic target you will probably be among that 20 percent. Otherwise, it is likely that you will starve to death during...

Former President Donald Trump went hard against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski at a rally in her home state of Alaska on Saturday, denouncing her as being “worse than a Democrat.”Campaigning for several candidates in the state, including Murkowski’s challenger Kelly Tshibaka, the former president said Murkowski was a “lousy senator” who hails from the Washington swamp, citing her opposition to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and her eventual confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.“She’s a total creature of the Washington swamp but much worse than that and a tool of a corrupt establishment, the likes of which...