The time has come to ask: Is Presidentish Joe Biden being blackmailed by foreign powers? It’s a troubling idea that been at the backs of many people’s minds, but it popped to the very front of mine with yesterday’s news that Biden will at least partly de-sanction Communist Chinese tech giant Huawei. First, a little
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The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued an urgent warning to Americans to leave the airport over unspecified “security threats” on Wednesday. The travel warning was the latest in the ongoing crisis involving Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the fall of the government to Taliban militants. The statement warned Americans to stay away from the Kabul
During an interview with NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Ricard Engel, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that “There is no evidence” that Osama bin Laden was involved in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks executed against the U.S. Engel noted that the war began when bin Laden orchestrated the terror attacks while he was a
After almost an entire week away on vacation (aside from an August 23 briefing), The Psaki Show hasn’t exactly gone swimmingly for the Biden administration and, like Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday was no exception as Press Secretary Jen Psaki had little in the way of friendly reporter questions as Fox’s Peter Doocy had the cavalry
COVID Panic Porn Theater is reopening in America, just in time to ruin school kids’ lives everywhere. My job involves spending a lot of time reading, writing, and talking about the Wuhan Bat Flu, which I’d obviously rather not do but here we are. This pandemic wasn’t apocalyptic, but you’d never know it if you’re
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has issued a memo calling for the mandatory vaccination of U.S. troops who have not already been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Austin instructed “the Secretaries of the Military Departments to immediately begin full vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces under DoD authority on active duty or in the Ready
U.S. District Judge Linda Parker referred pro-Trump attorneys including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood for possible suspension or disbarment over their legal efforts to overturn the official results of the 2020 election. “This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” wrote Parker in her decision Wednesday. Powell and Wood have publicized
A committee in the South Korean parliament voted to recommend amending legislation that would ban Apple and Google from charging software developers mandatory fees for in-app purchases. According to Reuters, Apple and Google charge commissions of up to 30% for in-app purchases. Apple slammed the measure, arguing that the bill “will put users who purchase
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the botched withdrawal are, without a doubt, the fault of Joe Biden. He’s made a series of mistakes that have created chaos, alienated our allies, and made us less safe. But the events of the past couple of weeks are also a depressing epilogue to the already
Beginning Nov. 1, unvaccinated Delta Air Lines employees will be charged $200 more a month for health insurance premiums as part of a company policy to curb costs associated with the coronavirus pandemic. What are the details? Delta CEO Ed Bastian made the announcement Wednesday in an employee memo in which he called the surcharge
Dozens of San Diego County-area school students and their parents are stranded in Afghanistan, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times, after taking a trip abroad for summer vacation. What are the details? The outlet reported that at least 24 students and 16 parents from Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon,
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of a lower court ruling that the Biden administration’s decision to repeal former President Trump’s Remain in Mexico was “arbitrary and capricious” and thus illegal. On Wednesday, CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto, the former Obama official, declared this to be an outrageous act of hypocrisy. Talking with CNN
President Joe Biden’s abysmal, failed withdrawal from Afghanistan has stranded American citizens and our allies alike. But after Biden spoke to the nation, MSNBC’s far-left hosts praised him for “owning” the decision. It took one of their own guests to blast Biden for his outright lies. On a recent episode of “LevinTV,” host Mark Levin
As evacuation efforts continue in Afghanistan, the White House is signaling Americans may be left behind in order to comply with the self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline and an agreement with the Taliban. What are the details? White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked Tuesday how the Biden administration would respond to Americans stranded in
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, in conjunction with the Free Speech Alliance, joined 10 other conservative leaders in demanding the International Fact-Checking Network remove PolitiFact as a fact-checker for violating IFCN’s Code of Principles. More than 40 conservative leaders have signed on to the open letter led by the Free Speech Alliance and MRC’s
Afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster. Joe Biden is down hard in the polls as a result and the media are turning decisively against him. Even CNN ran a lengthy segment Wednesday after Biden’s much-delayed speech in which a Democrat congressman flat out said that the August 31 deadline is arbitrary and there’s no way the
NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel gave a sobering assessment of the effort by the Biden administration to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan. Engel made the comments on MSNBC Tuesday via satellite from Kabul. “If you step back and you look at what is going on, this is the United States after twenty years,”
The Supreme Court handed down a defeat for the Biden administration and its effort to end the “remain in Mexico” policy begun by former President Donald Trump in 2019. The highest court in the land said in the 6-3 decision that the policy would have to be reinstated after Biden ordered its end. The controversial
A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers said that they secretly visited Kabul, Afghanistan amid the chaos currently unfolding as the U.S. scrambles to evacuate citizens and others from that country. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), who are both veterans, issued a joint statement regarding their trip. “As Members of Congress, we
Apparently, the end of a tribe that pulled out still-beating human hearts from living victims as human sacrifice is a real bummer. At least, it is according to the CW’s comic book show DC’s Stargirl. In the episode, ‘Summer School: Chapter Three,’ on Tuesday, August 24, Stargirl Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) mourns the fact that the Aztec
Back in November, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who sent thousands of elderly New Yorkers to their deaths with his nursing home policy in the early months of the pandemic—and then tried to cover it up—won an International Emmy Founders Award for his “leadership” and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Governor’s 111 daily
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) has announced that starting on Friday masks will be required outdoors in public areas where people cannot engage in social distancing, irrespective of vaccination status. Under Brown’s direction, the Oregon Health Authority rule will require masks in outdoor settings where people from separate households cannot consistently stay physically distanced, according
Talk show host Alex Jones bashed former President Donald Trump after he advocated that everyone should go out and get vaccinated. Jones voiced his disappointment on his “Infowars” talk show on Sunday after Trump told supporters at his rally in Alabama to get vaccinated. “Shame on you, Trump. Seriously. Hey, if you don’t have the
There is a lot of bad stuff to keep an eye out for here in Joe Biden’s America. As the nightmare in Afghanistan began unfolding about a week and a half ago (seems like years), I referred to it as “a firehose of awful.” It can all be rather exhausting. via GIPHY One thing I
The American Medical Association is calling for the public and private sectors to impose COVID-19 vaccination mandates. “With the highly transmissible and more virulent Delta variant wreaking havoc and emergency departments once again overwhelmed, physicians and all frontline health care workers need help. The way to regain the upper hand in this fight is requiring
A harrowing surveillance video captured the moment a car flew into the air and crashed into a Wendy’s fast food restaurant just feet away from where a family was eating outside. The incident unfolded at the Wendy’s in South Brunswick, New Jersey. The video shows the car fly across the parking lot and hit another
Appearing on MSNBC’s MTP Daily Tuesday afternoon, NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel predicted that history would look back on President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan as “a very dark period for the United States,” especially after news broke that the administration would allow the Taliban to dictate the time line. “What are you
Joe Biden evacuated our military from Afghanistan before he evacuated American citizens. Biden left millions and millions of dollars in military weapons, equipment, and aircraft behind. Biden is poised to leave thousands of Americans behind, too. But according to the Democratic Party, Biden is doing a fantastic job. In fact, Biden has “defied expectations” and
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has cratered in the wake of his heavily criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan and disorganized evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies from the Taliban-controlled capital, Kabul. A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that Biden’s job approval has dropped to 41%, with 55% of survey respondents saying they disapprove of
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that he expects COVID-19 vaccine trials for children ages 5 to 11 will be completed in September. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for full use in people ages 16 years and older. What are the details? During a Monday interview with NBC News’ Lester