President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 10, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Biden committed to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until all American civilians are evacuated in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos released on Wednesday. Up to 15,000 Americans are currently
The scenes coming out of Afghanistan right now are nothing short of brutal. Amid the much-belated withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban has once again seized control of much of the nation, as the alternative government the US spent decades trying to prop up quickly collapsed. From the renewed subjugation of women and desperate attempts
MADISON, Wis.—The people of riot-ravaged Kenosha were pleading for help from Gov. Tony Evers with each passing day of chaos and destruction. When Wisconsin’s Democrat governor finally did act, the help he sent was too little and much too late. Emails from the nightmarish riots late last August paint a picture of a disconnected executive
Denise King, a staff member at Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from Walgreens Pharmacist Annette Marshall, in Brooklyn, New York, December 22, 2020. Yuki Iwamura | Reuters U.S. officials plan to withhold federal funding from nursing homes that don’t fully vaccinate their
Giving a third COVID jab is like “giving out extra life jackets while others drown”, a WHO scientist has said – as the US announces plans to start their rollout next month. The Delta variant is now dominant in the country, and while the US will start by giving the tertiary doses to healthcare workers,
New York Times reporters Shawn Hubler and Jill Cowan covered the upcoming gubernatorial recall vote in California for Wednesday’s edition, a race which polls suggest is a dead heat, and tried to help sitting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom by smearing the idea of the recall and Newsom’s leading conservative opponent, black conservative talk show host Larry
The Durham investigation has now gone on longer than Mueller’s involvement in the Trump/Russian collusion hoax. Durham’s review has thus far resulted in one prosecution, an FBI lawyer who was convicted for altering documents and was sentenced to probation. Durham’s report is rumored to have its sights on several low-level members of the FBI and
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, with sons Beau and Hunter, delivers remarks after he and his family helped assemble care kits for U.S. military service members during a pre-inauguration service project in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) A lot of people are pointing to Biden’s 2010 exchange with Richard Holbrooke as an omen
In the wake of the United States pulling troops out of Afghanistan, the progressive Left in the United States appeared more concerned about preferred pronouns and the Green New Deal than the reality of what had transpired in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. In this clip, BlazeTV’s Chad Prather asserted what he believed the people of
A Los Angeles Police Department officer is on leave after being caught on video punching a handcuffed suspect who was being lifted into a waiting ambulance after a botched carjacking. What are the details? A Monday report from KTTV-TV stated that the unnamed officer has been “relieved of his police powers” after the incident, which
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared to be very unhappy with China’s new stake in TikTok. He called on the Biden administration to “take immediate action” to block the platform and its parent company ByteDance from operating within the United States. Rubio said in a press release on Aug. 17 that “it is past time” for
Kamala Harri will travel to East Asia on Friday to visit Singapore and Vietnam, of all places. And she continues to shy away from the collapse of Afghanistan. What complete cluelessness. FOX News reported: The timing probably couldn’t be worse for the Biden administration. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to embark on
A U.S. Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escorts Department of State personnel 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) Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. will continue to evacuate all the Americans
Multiple watchdog groups say Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure. Omar’s memoir launched in May 2020 to rave reviews by the press and prominent Democratic lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The partisans push for the end of voting. As thousands of illegal migrants from all over the world invade this country—some of them sick with Covid-19 and some surely criminals—they are not just unstopped by border patrol agents (acting under the president’s orders) but actually encouraged by the president himself to come illegally. Meanwhile, Attorney
The Bible and the Torah have served as sources of inspiration and guidance throughout the ages. Accounts in the Book of Genesis of the Tower of Babel and the Garden of Eden are among those that have helped people from ancient times to understand God and to navigate personal issues. Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli venture
In this article TGT Target CEO Brian Cornell is confident the big-box retailer will have plenty of merchandise this holiday season, despite industry-wide supply chain complications that have sparked worries that items could quickly sell out of stock. Target’s inventories were up $2.5 billion in its latest quarter compared with a year earlier, Cornell said
A laboratory in the US is on the cusp of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research which would see the fuel it generates release more energy than is needed to ignite it. The US National Ignition Facility (NIF) confirmed that a successful experiment on 8 August “made a significant step” toward this goal, which is
Four summers ago, the network evening news shows obsessed over Donald Trump Jr. attending a brief and ineffective meeting with Russians in Trump Tower in 2016. He hoped to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, but nothing came of it. ABC, CBS, and NBC offered viewers more than 62 minutes of coverage energetically speculating over collusion
The collapse of Afghanistan, record inflation, high gas prices, and the border crisis appear to have already taken their toll on Joe Biden’s popularity, as multiple polls are now showing that approval for Biden is starting to tank. At least in some polls. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports shows Biden polling underwater, with 45
The many people who are certain that America must be torn down and rebuilt along their utopian collectivist fantasies have unleashed a diabolical weapon — something called critical race theory. If its proponents were to have their way, the U.S. would be utterly transformed, from a country where people succeed or fail as individuals into
Country music star Carrie Underwood faced the rage of some on the left after she committed the simple act of liking a tweet from a conservative commentator against school masking. Underwood liked a tweet from Matt Walsh that included a video of his speech to the Nashville school board arguing against “the cruel and indefensible
Sen. John Kennedy issued a video statement on Tuesday in which he blasted “stunning incompetence” as the U.S. seeks to pull out from Afghanistan. “President Biden chose to withdraw from Afghanistan, but there’s no reason it had to be so chaotic,” he said. The Republican lawmaker from Louisiana described it as the “biggest terrorist victory
The fact-check says the article had “false information” and that “independent fact-checkers say the information has no basis in fact.” The article mockingly accused CNN of “praising” the Taliban for wearing masks during its Afghanistan takeover. Ron Coleman, a legal commentator on First Amendment issues, applauded the Bee for being fact-checked once again. “You’ve done
According to a press release from the Great American Patriot Project PAC, they have compiled and released a database to track Critical Race Theorists across America. In addition to users being able to check the thousands of names already in the database, they are also able to report CRT in their own communities. The information was
Parents walk their children on the first day of school at West Tampa Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., August 10, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Florida education officials on Tuesday ruled that the Broward and Alachua county school districts had issued mask mandates in violation of state law, with officials voting unanimously to consider penalties for the
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Nation-building abroad was a fool’s errand, but the fall of Kabul may have troubling implications closer to home. Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the
For six months, an overwhelmed southern border joined COVID-19 as the dominant headline. Now the two stories seem to have merged. Almost one-fifth of illegal border crossers in federal custody tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to a Department of Homeland Security document leaked to NBC News. Texas cities such as Laredo
Spire CEO Peter Platzer rings the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during their listing in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Small satellite builder and data specialist Spire Global began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, becoming the latest space company to