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Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) weighed in on the one-year mark of President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal out of Afghanistan that led to the death of 13 U.S. soldiers. Graham slammed Biden for going “against sound military advice” with his “political decision.” “Number one, this decision was against sound military advice,” Graham emphasized. “The military told president Biden we needed a residual force to avoid what happened. Biden became General Biden, and … the rest is history. We can talk about this all day long. It makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve been...

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/15/fbi-warns-threats-civil-war-dirty-bomb-following-t By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Monday, August 15, 2022 The FBI is warning of calls for civil war and a dirty bomb threat against its D.C. headquarters following its raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In a leaked bulletin, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said they have seen an increase in “violent threats” against law enforcement, government officials and judges in the week since the agents executed the search warrant at Mr. Trump’s residence. The bulletin warned of talk to place a dirty bomb in front of FBI...

A judge in Hong Kong has scheduled a five-day trial for 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, a longtime critic of China’s communist regime who was arrested in May for his role in a now-defunct humanitarian relief organization that helped people who participated in the large-scale 2019 pro-democracy protests. Magistrate Ada Yim set the trial date (Sept. 19-23) after speaking to prosecutors and Zen’s lawyers, The Tablet said, citing a report by the Hong Kong Free Press. Zen was arrested on May 11, along with four other trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which helped protesters legally and financially. The others...

Greg Gutfeld told his co-hosts Monday on FNC’s “The Five” that former President Donald Trump gets more popular as investigations target him.Saturday on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence would help him politically.Maher said, “Trump did sell his soul to the devil because he is the luckiest man in the world. His fortune was finally falling. The Big Lie was finally losing momentum. DeSantis was beating him in the polls — you know who hates this more than anybody? DeSantis, ‘I had this in the bag, and now I...

"Intel Slava Z In the Kherson region, members of the organization "Civil Corps" Azov ", created under the battalion of the same name, were detained. The detainees prepared sabotage and terrorist attacks in Kherson, collected and transmitted data about the Russian military, and planned to assassinate representatives of regional authorities. Remarkably, Vadim Kravchenko, the detained head of the local cell, personally informed about this. The unfinished partisan said that he, along with several other militants who already had combat experience, were in touch with the Security Service and the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, to whom they transmitted information about...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin gave his stammering spy chief a tongue-lashing at a security council meeting Tuesday, schooling him in a discussion about Moscow recognizing the independence of two separatist-controlled regions of Ukraine. The director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia seemed to goof after a testy exchange with Putin, and said he supported absorbing the breakaway states into the Russian federation before backtracking and saying he supported their independence. Russia’s recognition of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic has been viewed as the possible first step of Russia’s expected invasion of Ukraine. Putin is...

The Department of Justice is fighting efforts to reveal the reasons they ordered the raid of former President Donald Trump’s home at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. They expect us to trust them that the raid and retrieval of documents are all legit. The affidavit contains the underlying documentation and rationale for raiding the former president’s home while investigating his treatment of documents and retention of allegedly classified documents. The affidavit is usually revealed when a suspect — Donald Trump, in this case — is indicted for a crime. This breathtaking raid was a historical first. Attorney General...

Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day” that Attorney General Merrick Garland is like a “lamb” who is being politically “slaughtered” by former President Donald Trump.

When a phalanx of SWATted-out FBI agents descended upon Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, they also walked off with boxes of what the DOJ claimed were “classified” documents, photographs, the former president’s passports, and privileged legal documents that, the last time we checked, the Trump-Russia collusion hoaxers or any other government actor shouldn’t put their prying fingers on. Now, according to Just the News, we’ve learned that the FBI will give back President Trump’s passports and documents containing privileged information between the former president and his attorneys. No doubt the Justice Department will be reading and copying the documents as...

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, when she wasn’t teaching herself Russian, creating Salvador Dali-inspired art or recording rap songs about the excesses of Wall Street, Heather Morgan was very concerned about cybersecurity. “Cybercriminals and fraudsters are taking advantage of this unexpected disruption, leading to a spike in scams and cybercrimes,” Morgan, an “entrepreneur,” wrote in a June 2020 column for Forbes. She added that she was particularly concerned about elderly victims being vulnerable to online scams. “People are not always as they appear online,” she wrote. Oh, the irony. Morgan, 31, and her Russian-born husband, Ilya “Dutch”...

While we at the Heartland Institute do not believe any energy sources should be subsidized, if the federal government is going to support energy, it should support sources that are reliable and dispatchable.With that in mind, it is absolutely insane that Uncle Sam gives billions in tax credits to wind and solar projects when this sort of funding could go towards more effective, energy dense, dispatchable sources. The so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” continues this madness; one analysis found that under the bill, wind and solar will receive an additional $113 billion in tax credits by 2031. By comparison, the bill...

VIDEOIt's hard to overestimate the liberal anticipation over the past few years of the Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg "flipping" on President Donald Trump. Unfortunately for liberals, that desperate hope just fizzled out as you can see.

Video shows a bear taking on an Alabama bird feeder — and people can’t get enough of the wild match up. The curious bear was spotted on its hind legs, not quite able to reach the feeding containers that dangled from the top of a pole on Thursday, Aug. 11, according to a social media post. “My neighbor built a new birdfeeder that is a lot higher than the last one,” Facebook user Heather Fath Messick wrote. “The bear is trying to bring it down.” The footage she shared online shows the bear grabbing and shaking the bird feeder’s tall...

The RAF has effectively paused making job offers to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities to meet "impossible" diversity targets, defence sources have claimed. The alleged move has prompted the head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) - herself a senior female officer - to resign in recent days in protest amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the service, the sources said.

Park rangers found a disoriented bear cub that ate a hallucinogenic type of honey, according to officials in Turkey. High on “mad honey,” the baby brown bear lay on the brush-filled ground of a national park in Düzce, Turkey on Aug. 11, Reuters reported. The bear sat in odd positions, partially slumped over and disoriented, photos shared on Twitter by Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry showed. Park rangers put the bear into the back of their pickup truck where she wobbled around, looking confused, and sat, dazed and sprawled out, video from the ministry showed. The bear was “exhausted”...

There’s a false notion going around that if there’s a “red wave” and Republicans take back control of the House and/or Senate, things can be made right. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no indication that the Republican Party has any real fight left in it. In DC as well as in Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country, there’s a whole lot of bellyaching but very little action. Meanwhile, Democrats seem willing to sacrifice their careers for their cause As pundit John Cardillo noted on Twitter, the stakes are high and the GOP seems unwilling as a whole to fight the good...

A former CIA director and NewsGuard advisor yesterday seemingly promoted the execution of former President Donald Trump on Twitter. A Washington Post “exclusive” released Aug. 11 speculated that the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Fla., estate to locate alleged missing nuclear documents. NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted shortly after the “exclusive” was released that the “Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953.” Retired Gen. Michael Hayden quote-tweeted Beschloss’s post with the comment, “Sounds about right.” Washington Examiner Justice Department reporter Jerry Dunleavy blasted Hayden and Beschloss for their apparent flirtation with...

Provision was part of teachers Union deal struck March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike affecting 29,000 students. A Minneapolis Public Schools' contract with a teachers union says that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned outside of seniority order before “educators of color” if Minneapolis Public Schools needs to reduce staff. The clause was part of the deal struck by the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and MPS on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike affecting 29,000 students. Alpha News reported the story and a partial screenshot of a contract. “Past discrimination by the District disproportionately...

The RAF has effectively paused making job offers to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities to meet "impossible" diversity targets, defence sources have claimed. The alleged move has prompted the head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) - herself a senior female officer - to resign in recent days in protest amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the service, the sources said. The defence sources accused Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the head of the RAF, of appearing willing to compromise...

by Joshua Ford | 24NewsThe unveiling of a new Florida license plate by Governor DeSantis has liberals and leftist organizations up in arms.Liberals are constantly willfully misinterpreting traditional American and patriotic flags and symbols to try to associate them with “right wing extremism.” One such victim of this misinterpretation is the iconic Gadsden Flag.This iconic flag dates back to the time of the revolution and has been seen as a symbol of freedom, defiance in the face of oppression, and American patriotism ever since.Now, Governor Ron DeSantis has released a new Florida license plate which prominently features the Gadsden flag...