The White House is being accused of removing from a readout of a call between French President Emmanuel Macron and President Joe Biden an impassioned plea from Macron calling on Biden to share in the “moral responsibility” of rescuing Afghan allies. What are the details? The French government on Friday published a readout of the
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In yet another recent sign that Joe Biden is losing the support of much of the liberal media due to the debacle caused by his enormous mishandling of the exit from Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times has now revealed the real purpose of a new War Room set up at the White House. Now, you
Happy Saturday! So I’m a day late…shut up. The great news in my life is that Mr. Fox and I have been married 21 years as of this week and we are finally taking our 20th-anniversary trip that got delayed last year due to COVID awfulness. We are literally on the way as I type
CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, the network’s chief foreign correspondent, chose the consummate word to describe President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal as she waited to depart Kabul on Friday. What did Ward say? While waiting inside the Kabul airport compound for her flight to Qatar, Ward — who had become the face of on-the-ground reporting
The United States Embassy in Kabul released an updated security alert Saturday that directly contradicts what President Joe Biden claimed about security at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the location of American and allied evacuations from Afghanistan. What did Biden claim? During a press conference on Friday, Biden claimed the U.S. government has received “no
We noted CNN reporter Clarissa Ward’s strange statement on Monday about the Taliban: “They’re chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.” Washington Times columnist Tim Young mocked this on Twitter: The Taliban are sooo “friendly” that the female CNN reporter went from dressing like a free woman to covered head to
Since the fall of Afghanistan, Joe Biden has been criticized from all sides, even from the left-wing media that spent the entire campaign and his presidency carrying water for him. Some have gotten the impression that Biden’s political future could be in jeopardy. The White House called an indefinite lid for Biden on Thursday, which
Actress Melissa Joan Hart said that the lack of a school mask mandate at her children’s schools likely led to her family contracting COVID-19. Hart made the comments in a video posted Wednesday to her 1.6 million followers on Instagram. “Hi, I never do videos but I thought that this was really important,” said the
An Asian giant hornet nest has been located in the state of Washington about a quarter of a mile away from the location where someone reported spotting one of the insects on Aug. 11, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture. “The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA), Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), and
New York Times coronavirus reporter Apoorva Mandavilli offered yet another dubious piece of virus-related advice, suggesting in Thursday’s edition that wearing masks and avoiding company for the foreseeable future is somehow preferable to receiving a “booster shot” of a coronavirus vaccine: “Vaccines’ protection against virus infection is waning, C.D.C. studies suggest.” Mandavilli found sources
Almost 170 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus, with about 200 million receiving at least one shot. As with any other vaccine, so-called “breakthrough cases” will occur, even as vaccines work as intended. Asymptomatic infections among non-vaccinated people also transpire, but evidence shows that illnesses tend to be less severe among those who
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed protester Ashli Babbitt in the Jan. 6 riot has been exonerated by an internal investigation. A department memo obtained by NBC News said that “no further action will be taken in this matter” after finding the officer was justified in using deadly force. Babbitt was a
A number of Twitter users pounced on CBS News in response to a tweet linking to an article titled, “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” Much attention has recently been focused on Afghanistan where the Taliban has seized control. The U.S. is currently scrambling to evacuate its citizens and others, and the Biden administration
On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours. Pushaw was suspended from the platform for twelve hours. Conservatives were quick to note the hypocrisy, stating that Twitter has not told Pushaw why she
I’m going to admit from the start here that until a few days ago, I had no idea who Nathan J. Robinson, nor his publication Current Affairs, were. As a survivor of the late ’60s and a student of history, it would be a surprising “democratic socialist” publication that said anything, well, surprising. Until today,
A killer whale at SeaWorld San Diego passed away not long after it started exhibiting signs of illness earlier this week, the theme park said. The 6-year-old Amaya passed away Thursday but the reason will not be known until the results of a post-mortem exam are finished, and that could be weeks, SeaWorld’s statement said,
Mississippi public health officials warned the public against ingesting ivermectin, a drug meant for horses, to combat COVID-19 after a surge in poisoning calls involving the drug, The Hill reported. A letter from State Epidemiologist Paul Byers said that more than 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were related to the
When she was named the new CEO of the Associated Press, Daisy Veerasingham claimed “The importance of AP as an unbiased, factual news source cannot be overstated – our journalism reaches more than half the world’s population every day.” But the AP isn’t unbiased on Ron DeSantis. The latest “scoop” by reporter Brendan Farrington went so
Michael Mina, M.D. Ph.D., an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard, gave a wide-ranging interview about the state of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It contained a shocking amount of honesty from an expert who has been a corporate media favorite over the last 18 months, with regular contributions in The New York Times, Washington Post, and
Liberal political groups expressed their horror and shock at how close California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is to losing the recall election, according to recent polling. Their emotions were relayed in a conference call where liberal leaders begged for help from out-of-state organizations to shore up the effort to defeat the recall. The lead
A proof of vaccination mandate in New York City requires certain establishments to make people furnish proof that they have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in order to enter. This applies to indoor dining at restaurants, indoor movie theaters, indoor gyms, and more. But in addition to the proof of vaccination requirement, people
Despite the fact that we’re in the middle of a horrific fiasco in Afghanistan due to President Biden’s bungling, MSNBC would really rather talk about how awful Donald Trump is. On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, Wallace gave Donald Trump’s niece psychologist airtime to promote her latest Trump-bashing book that psychoanalyzes how he is still “traumatizing”
As I’ve said before, I’m not expecting Joe Biden to be removed from office over Afghanistan. While he certainly deserves it, Democrats won’t give him the boot. Biden ran on the promise of character and competence, and removing Biden for a gross display of incompetence would be devastating to their party. So Biden will serve
When I first experienced success as a newspaper columnist, I told people that if there was a more effective form of communication than writing, God would have released the Bible on VHS and you could rent it at Blockbuster. That was back in the early 1990s. As technology advanced, I updated my quip to refer
A homeowner in Alabama was shot recently while defending his home against someone he thought to be an intruder — only it turned out the alleged assailant was his wife’s boyfriend, who had been secretly living inside his home for more than a year, according to police. The bizarre story unfolding in Creola, Alabama, has
After dodging journalists and ping-ponging from the White House to vacation, back to the White House, Joe Biden on Friday finally faced the music and talked to pent-up journalists about his Afghanistan disaster. Although the President called on just five reporters, they hammered him for badly botching the situation. It was Stephanie Ramos of ABC
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
As the situation on the ground in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, President Joe Biden stepped up to the podium to boldly declare, “I stand squarely behind my decision,” even as he pointed much of the blame at former President Donald Trump. Thousands of people are trapped with no ability to get out of the country.
The Chicago cop who was shot and wounded at a traffic stop where Officer Ella French was murdered spoke out for the first time this week. Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., 39, thanked all those who supported him after he was shot, while his father slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for not standing up for the
The New York Times has uncovered still more “culture wars” it will try to convince you were started by conservatives, this time in schools: “The School Culture Wars Over Masks, CRT and Gender Identity.” Sarah Mervosh and Giulia Heyward collected anecdotes from fraught school board meetings around the country as the school year begins,