Immediately following President Biden’s contentious Friday press conference about the ongoing disaster he created in Afghanistan, ABC News special coverage slammed him for saying things about the crisis that were just blatantly false. Correspondents described his lies as “breathtaking” and completely out of touch with the dire reality facing U.S. citizens and Afghan allies still
The End Needs to Be Nigh… Anyone who reads the stuff I write knows that I tend to not get too worked up by the political news of the day. Yeah, I’ll rant a little, but then I’m off to play video games and enjoy a good meal. Nothing lingers. This guy we’ve got playing
The Taliban executed the relative of a journalist and seriously harmed another after a door-to-door search for the reporter in Afghanistan. The unnamed journalist, who works for German state-owned broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), is one of several reporters the Taliban have hunted in the aftermath of the Afghan government’s collapse, the media outlet reported. The
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on evacuation efforts and the ongoing situation in Afghanistan during a speech in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 20, 2021. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) During remarks at the White House on Friday, President Biden asked: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan with al-Qaeda gone?” But
The Taliban “massacred” and viciously tortured several members of the Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan, according to the human rights group Amnesty International. Amnesty International reported Thursday that nine Hazara men were murdered between July 4-6 in the Malistan district in the eastern Ghazni province. “Six of the men were shot and three were tortured
The Delaware Division of Public Health has issued an apology for a vaccination memo that some people believed was fat-shaming to encourage vaccination. What are the details? WBOC-TV reports that Delaware’s health department issued an apology following the controversy spurned on by the ad. The since-deleted ad — which was shared to the department’s Facebook
Afghanistan continues to be a mess and President Joe Biden has no plan to get Americans and our allies out safely, but Friday morning’s Politico Playbook got to what REALLY matters in DC: the party scene! According to reporter Tara Palmeri, the backlash to former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday in Martha’s Vineyard “is having
A British diplomatic memo leaked to Bloomberg News reveals Joe Biden promised G-7 allies in June at the summit in Cornwall, England that “critical US enablers” would remain in place to keep Kabul stable. British officials took Biden’s word and assumed they would keep the embassy safely functioning. They were wrong. Scoop: Biden told key
A healthcare worker prepares the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in El Paso, Texas, May 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) This is certainly creative . . . as judicial legislating often is: On Tuesday, a federal judge in Manhattan (the Southern District of New York, SDNY) ordered that a defendant who is unvaccinated
Mixed messages about COVID-19 from the media, politicians, and public heath officials have left many Americans questioning what information they can trust. Across the nation, some political leaders and health experts continue to push for individuals to be vaccinated. We now know, however, that those who are vaccinated still may be infected by the coronavirus
In this article TPT-GB Topps’ baseball cards from the 2016 season are on display during the “Open Topps Baseball Series 1 Cards ” event at the Topps’ offices on February 10, 2016 in New York City. Kris Connor | Getty Images Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II on Friday said its SPAC merger with The Topps
A passenger who had collapsed on the tracks at a New York subway station was rescued by a police officer and member of the public moments before a train arrived. Video of the incident from a bystander shows the man lying face down at the station in the Bronx area of the city, as others
As President Biden epically fails in trying to clean up his Afghanistan debacle, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace has responded in kind by turning her show into state-run TV. Wallace spent a good deal of her show Thursday deflecting blame from the president and talking about anything else besides Afghanistan. A man arrested outside the Library of
Well, Isn’t This Spectacular? If you still know any people who openly admit to voting for Joe Biden and are still insisting that things are going well, wrestle them into a straitjacket and get them off to the nearest insane asylum. Really, you will be doing them a kindness. via GIPHY Yeesh, what a week,
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From the cover of The Amateur Hour (Johns Hopkins University Press) Students often complain that their professors are boring and little interested in the classes they teach. How different from other service industries, where people are so eager to do their best. A new book by Jonathan Zimmerman entitled The Amateur Hour explores the history
An internal State Department memo in July warned of the possible collapse of Kabul shortly after America’s Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official and an individual familiar with the document, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The July 13 cable signed by nearly two dozen Embassy staffers went
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) says that President Joe Biden needs to terminate his national security team, beginning with national security adviser Jake Sullivan. “Joe Biden needs to fire his national security team, starting with Jake Sullivan,” Blackburn declared in a Thursday tweet. Blackburn’s call for a mass firing comes as the Biden administration faces heavy
The very supportive media environment around President Biden has turned suddenly sour over this administration’s shoddy handling of Afghanistan. This debacle shouldn’t be buried and ignored by the press, like they’ve tried to do with the border crisis. But Biden’s gone back to hiding as a strategy, as he did in the 2020 campaign. For
Pennsylvania State Representative Rob Kauffman Pennsylvania Senate President Jake Corman, a so-called Republican, is preventing full forensic audit efforts in Pennsylvania. The Gateway Pundit reported on Thuesday that Corman was blocking State Senator Doung Mastriano’s audit efforts in Pennsylvania. REVEALED: Pennsylvania GOP Senate Leader Jake Corman Is Preventing Sen. Doug Mastriano from Issuing Subpoenas for
Texas Governor Greg Abbott addresses former U.S. President Donald Trump at a border security briefing in Weslaco, Texas, June 30, 2021. (Brandon Bell/Reuters) The Texas Supreme Court upheld school mask mandates in the state on Thursday, at least temporarily. After a judge in Travis County, which encompasses the state capital of Austin, issued a temporary
A liberal male columnist and comedian says that conservatives are unqualified to fight for the rights of Afghan women—because they don’t believe women are oppressed here. “Afghan women’s rights are threatened—but the GOP isn’t their champion” was the headline Wednesday on Dean Obeidallah’s opinion column for MSNBC, as the world watched video of young Afghan
When Ken McElroy decided to go to Belize after a business trip to Miami last June, he wasn’t worried about contracting Covid-19, he said. The real estate investment company CEO was flying privately to both places — plus, he’s vaccinated. “I was like, there’s no way I’ll get it,” he told CNBC. His fiancee, Danille
A woman accusing R&B singer R Kelly of abuse has told a court he would often record their sexual encounters and sometimes ordered her to “dress like a girl scout”. Jerhonda Pace, who was the first accuser to begin giving evidence during the opening of the trial in New York, returned to continue her testimony
Thankfully the extremely racist, two-part episode on Freeform’s grown-ish is behind us, but, unfortunately, the show’s not done spewing racism. Should we really expect anything else from a show that said white people are “inherently bad,” and featured a protestor holding a sign reading, “Put avocado on racism so white people will pay attention?” On
Ben Sasse, one of the more jovial and introspective senators in America, has had enough. Thursday on The Hugh Hewitt Show, the Nebraskan castigated the Biden administration on their world-changing blunders in Afghanistan. “When you combine the failures morally, the failures of planning leadership, and the failures of just communication to the American people about
President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly charging American citizens upwards of $2,000 to board evacuation flights out of Afghanistan’s only operational airport. Those that make their way through armed Taliban checkpoints and into the airport could then be charged upwards of $2,000 from the State Department to board evacuation flights, sources on the ground told
A U.S. Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escorts a Department of State employee to be processed for evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2021. (US Navy/Central Command Public Affairs/Sergeant Isaiah Campbell/Handout via Reuters) What follows are some initial thoughts on the fall of Kabul. I will follow up
Vice President Kamala Harris (D) saw even worsening favorability in a new poll as the Biden administration continued to get battered over the debacle in Afghanistan. A Rasmussen poll released on Thursday showed that a majority of Americans, 55%, said that Harris was “not qualified” or “not at all qualified” to assume the duties of
Mohammad Khalid Wardak, an Afghan national police officer who worked alongside the U.S. military for years, has been rescued with his family, according to the Associated Press. The man and his family were flown via helicopter on Wednesday in a rescue dubbed Operation Promise Kept — they were transported in the dark by the American