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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
SCOTUS Refuses To Block Texas Fetal Heartbeat Law, the Left melts down.
Fact check: No, Texas's New Law Does Not Ban Abortions - Or Even A Majority Of Them
But Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Now Have to Vote to Codify Roe v. Wade.
Nancy Pelosi Blocks Names of 13 Service Members Killed in Kabul From Being Read on House Floor
https://floridianpress.com/2021/08/pelosi-blocks-names-of-13-service-members-killed-from-being-read/
'The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 percent of all countries' thanks to Joe Biden
Top Biden adviser refuses to say whether Taliban is an enemy of the US: 'Hard to put a label on it'
https://www.theblaze.com/news/top-biden-adviser-refuses-to-say-taliban-enemy
General Milley: ‘Possible’ to Work With Taliban in Future
Pallets of Cash for Hostages? Biden's National Security Adviser Talks Giving Aid to the Taliban
Most Voters Think Congress Should Investigate Afghanistan Withdrawal
“So, alongside the billions for bombs went hundreds of millions for gender studies in Afghanistan. According to US government reports, $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking America made in the country.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/marcel-duchamp-toilet-afghanistan-conceptual-art/
Taliban commit 'house-to-house executions' in Kabul after US exit as chilling audio demonstrates Afghans' fear
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-kabul-executions-afghanistan-gunshots-audio
Convicted Rapist, Previously Deported, Brought Back to US as Afghan Refugee
At least 30 California kids remain stranded in Afghanistan after U.S. forces leave
China wants to promote strong men, bans 'sissy men' from TV and demands masculine role models.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9951089/China-bans-sissy-men-TV-new-crackdown.html
China bans under-18s from playing online games for more than an hour a day
Taliban Announces China Will Be Their Main Partner
https://humanevents.com/2021/09/02/taliban-announces-china-will-be-their-main-partner/
Oliver North: China Will Reverse-Engineer Weapons Left in Afghanistan
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/09/01/oliver-north-weapons-afghanistan-china/
A clueless Joe Biden declares Afghan mission an 'extraordinary success'
https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/a-clueless-biden-declares-afghan-mission-extraordinary-success/
Angry Joe Biden Refuses to Admit Mistakes or Accept Accountability in Disastrous Afghanistan Exit
Taliban Offered Biden Control of Kabul, but He Declined
Biden's Job Report Misses Expectations By Astonishing Amount, One of Worst Job Reports in History
Poll: Joe Biden Approval at a Record Low.
Poll: One in Five Americans Want to Take Back Their 2020 Biden Vote
52% want Biden out but fear worse under Harris
Flag Officers Demand Milley, Austin Resign After Afghanistan Debacle
38 Republicans Demand Biden Resign, 'Let's See What' Harris Can Do
Impeachable Phone Call??: Biden Pressured Afghan President Ghani to Create "Perception" That They Were Beating Taliban
Biden proposal would give the IRS access to your bank account
https://sentinelksmo.org/biden-proposal-would-give-the-irs-access-to-your-bank-accounts/
Biden calls 47 year old black advisor “boy”, media ignores. Nothing to see here.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-calls-black-adviser-boy
32% of Democrats say Biden should resign now. 40% say Biden deserves to be impeached. 33% say Kamala Harris isn’t qualified to be President.
https://townhall.com/columnists/chrisstigall/2021/09/02/maybe-if-biden-yells-loud-enough-n2595183
CNN 'fact checker' comes to rescue after Biden appears to fall asleep while sitting with Israeli PM
US military had drone lock on Kabul suicide bomber, permission to fire "was requested and denied." The reason: "Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban…”
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-deputy-assistant-us-military-drones-kabul
Fathers of Marines killed in Kabul blast rip Biden: 'He talked more about his son than my son'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gold-star-fathers-marines-killed-kabul-biden
'I hope you burn in hell!' What sister of Marine killed in Afghanistan screamed at Biden in Dover
'You Just Killed My Son': Anguished Mother Unloads on 'Feckless, Dementia Ridden Piece of Crap' Biden
'America Hates You': another mother of Marine Killed in Kabul Writes Scathing Message to Joe Biden—and Is Silenced by His Big Tech Buddies
Joe Biden Actually Checked His Watch During Transfer of Bodies at Dover and He Wasn't Even Subtle About It
Former President Trump Endorses Candidate Joe Kent To Challenge Incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington CD-03
More RINOs: House Democrats name Liz Cheney as vice chair of the January 6 panel
Poll: Utah voters ready for Mitt Romney replacement: Poll
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/1/utah-voters-ready-mitt-romney-replacement-poll/
Former Bush aide doubles down on Biden praise: ‘Most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership’
Roughly 43,000 absentee ballot counted in DeKalb County GA in 2020 violated chain of custody rule
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/sdfsd
Investigators Have Video of 240 Leftist Operatives in Georgia Dumping Thousands of Ballots from Backpacks into Drop Boxes in Middle of the Night! Ballot harvesting is not legal in Georgia.
Wisconsin Legislature Votes to Approve 'Special Counsel' to Audit 2020 Election
Biden administration has lost track of one in three migrant children who were released from custody.
States battle Biden administration in court for failing to deport criminal illegal aliens
State Dept Admits The Majority of Afghans and SIVs Who Helped us Did Not Evacuate, So Who Are These 116,000 Afghans We Evacuated, presumably headed here?
US handed out blank copies of visas in Afghanistan, setting terrorists up says Ex-FBI agent
https://news.yahoo.com/us-handed-blank-copies-visas-110000814.html
Afghans Arriving in US to Get Immediate $1,250 Payments
Florida Diner Posts Sign Telling Biden Supporters To Eat Elsewhere
The Diner had to close early after it SOLD OUT of food following a boom in customers.
Bill Maher Crowns Greg Gutfeld the 'New King of Late Night': Conservative Comedy Successful Because Liberals 'Sound Like an Onion Headline'
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
U.S. In More Trouble Than At Any Time In Its History
9/2 Issues & Insights editorial
Candidate Joe Biden said last October that we were nearing the “most important election of our lifetime.” He was right. What made it so crucial was keeping him out of the White House.
President Joe Biden is visibly exhausted. His mental decline that began long before the 2020 election appears to have now gone straight over a cliff. The first seven months of his term have depleted him so thoroughly that the toll taken by eight years of the modern presidency look mild in comparison. His errors and poor judgment continue and compound. Never in possession of an abundance of sound thinking, he’s been drained of what little wisdom he ever had. And he’s only going to get worse.
Biden’s record of failure is well-documented. He’s been a train wreck in progress for decades. Just added to his resume of misery is the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan where Americans have been murdered and abandoned; historic inflation that threatens economic growth; a workforce that feels work is optional; dire conditions in which businesses can’t find enough workers; an open wound on our southern border; and a greenlighting of terrorism both in the U.S. and abroad.
President Ice Cream has also caused further political and social division, increased gasoline prices through perverse energy policies, and forsaken allies while inviting enemies and rogues to test American resolve. Given that his handlers often call a lid on his workdays before afternoon tea, he’s often been able to make a hash of things before lunch.
Maybe some of the rapid decay we’re watching can be attributed to Biden’s failing mental capacity. But even in his best years, he would have been a wretched president, a stain on our history. In any event, a president who’s overseen such a dreadful mess in just a few months should be booted from the White House. Forget resignation, though. Biden has believed in his lies and self-righteousness for a half century, and he’s never been embarrassed by his frequent malfunctions. He won’t willingly leave the office he’s craved since the 1980s. Impeachment and removal are the only options.
But to America’s great misfortune, Biden has impeachment insurance. Kamala Harris, the country’s largely invisible (thank heavens for that) vice president, would be no improvement over Biden should he be removed from office. In fact, she would be worse, an outcome that is almost impossible to imagine. Harris is Biden’s human shield. Her malign presence can’t prevent Biden from becoming mentally incapacitated or from dying in office, though. If he is unable to continue for any reason, she becomes president, and our decline not only continues, it takes a sharp dive.
The former U.S. senator, California attorney general, and San Francisco district attorney is shallow, a “careerist” without a rudder who will do what she thinks will make her popular with the media and the ruling class rather that what is right, meaning she will go left, left, and left. (GovTrack rated her Senate performance to the left of Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is an outright socialist.) Harris has no foreign policy credentials, and, given that she reportedly agreed with Biden’s Afghanistan surrender plans, is about as brainless in international relations as he is.
The vice president of the United States is a spiteful narcissist who craves celebrity, a cackling nag who actively supported a fund that bailed out last year’s Minnesota rioters. Politically, she’s a washout who dropped out of the presidential race before the first primary because she turned off even Democratic voters.
Her offices, from California to her White House campaign to her current post in Washington, have been toxic environments where staff members are mistreated and harassed, disorganization overwhelms aides, and vital information is withheld to the point that key assistants are often caught by surprise as events occur. Hardly the type of conditions required for managing the federal government and staying out of trouble on the international stage.
Harris’ is the story of a person of no substance who has constantly failed upward. This has been made painfully clear in moments when, as the Washington Examiner has noted, “she is completely inept in any situation in which she is unable to stick to a rehearsed, scripted answer,” and “unable to stand up to the mildest of pushback in interviews.” As much as the country needs to rid itself of Biden, an act of self-preservation that would be nearly 50 years late, elevating Harris would be catastrophic.
Sure, a Republican rout in the 2022 mid-term elections like that of 1994 will help. But the nation is stuck with either Biden, Harris, or some other drag-America-down Democrat in the White House until at least January 2025. The last, best hope for humanity is in deep trouble.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/09/02/u-s-in-more-trouble-than-at-any-time-in-its-history/
The negligence of Joe Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-negligence-of-joe-biden
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TUCKER & LARA LOGAN
FNC's Carlson: 'Not One More Word About Gun Control' from Biden Until They Get Back Every Single Rifle from Kandahar
Tucker Carlson Completely Destroys Democrats' 'My Body, My Choice' Hypocrisy
Lara Logan: “We are creating the most powerful terrorist army in the world.” “FACTS VS. SPIN ON AFGHANISTAN”
https://ifapray.org/blog/lara-logan-facts-vs-spin-on-afghanistan/
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ISLAM
Taliban 'brutally' killed a popular Afghan folk singer just days after it said 'music is forbidden' in Islam.
The Thirteen-Hundred-And-Eighty-Nine-Year War “During an interview regarding the recent suicide attack on Kabul airport, a former Navy SEAL quipped that no one making military decisions for the United States seems to have read a history book…..Here, then, is a short skeletal history of Muslim-Christian relations beginning with Islam’s founding in 622 AD by Muhammad, an Arab military leader intent on unifying the Arab world and conquering the rest. The lessons learned might put us on the right path forward.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/the_thirteenhundredandeightynineyear_war.html
Ray Ibrahim: The Eternal Jihad
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/the_eternal_jihad.html
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CENSORSHIP
Big Tech, woke finance crack down on Gen. Flynn, Gateway Pundit, in cancel culture purge
Instagram account of mother of Marine killed in ISIS bomb attack SUSPENDED after she blamed Biden
COVID vaccine doubter Alex Berenson permanently banned from Twitter
https://nypost.com/2021/08/28/covid-vaccine-doubter-alex-berenson-permanently-banned-from-twitter/
Candace Owens denied medical treatment as Colorado lab cancels COVID test appointment
NPR warns about the dangers of free speech: Are the ruling elites looking to move in for the kill?
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
New progressive idea: San Francisco rolls out program to pay people $300-a-month not to shoot each other, eligible for bonuses if they get a job.
Chase Bank Goes Full Woke, Cancels Gen Flynn’s Credit Card Over “Reputational Risk”
On 9/11 Anniversary, Virginia will Teach How 9/11 Hurt Muslims
‘Christian Evangelicals Are America’s Taliban’: Actors, Journalists Equate American Christians To The Taliban
Kamala Harris Poses In Front Of Communist Ho Chi Minh Bust - "The WORST Photo Op For An American In That Country Since Jane Fonda Donned A Helmet There In 1972."
Ex-Obama education chief compares anti-mask Americans to suicide bombers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/29/ex-obama-education-chief-compares-anti-mask-americ/
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office of Princeton University has a message for incoming students: It wants them to participate in “tearing down” the very institution they have worked so hard to attend.
University tells students not to use the term "African-American" because it's now offensive
Host of School's Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting 'Man,' 'Woman,' and 'Mother’
Beyond Orwell: CDC Releases ‘Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication’
Media attempt to portray Larry Elder as anti-black. ??
https://www.city-journal.org/playing-race-card-on-california-gubernatorial-candidate-larry-elder
The NFL Will Continue To Have Social Justice Messages On Helmets And On The Field During The 2021 Season
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/02/nfl-social-justice-messages-field-helmet-decals/
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JAN 6
Unprecedented: Jan. 6 committee Dems push phone companies to secretly turn over phone records of GOP colleagues.
Democrats' Jan. 6 subpoena-palooza sets dangerous precedent
Jonathan Turley: Statements By Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt ‘Demolish the Official Reviews That Cleared Him’
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COVID
Is it time to stop obsessing over Covid figures? Statistics reveal coronavirus is NOT biggest killer
The Western world is living a massive COVID lie. That lie is strangling the life out of liberty, and it will destroy our constitutional order if we do not end this horrifying charade.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/30/pretending-covid-is-an-emergency-is-killing-america/
Two utterly fascinating facts about COVID. Must see the survivability chart. Reminder: “Ivermectin is such a good drug it won the Nobel Prize.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/two_utterly_fascinating_facts_about_covid.html
American Medical Association calls for 'immediate end' to use of ivermectin for COVID-19
Rand Paul: Scientists aren't studying the effects of ivermectin on COVID due to "hatred of Trump"
Dr. Scott Atlas: Science Killed Itself Over COVID-19
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/01/dr-scott-atlas-science-killed-itself-over-covid-19/
Israel has become the Covid capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines
Will Truckers protest force Australia to come to its senses on COVID-19
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ARTICLES
Something to think about: “…what happened in Afghanistan wasn't simply because the people in charge were too stupid or dishonest to know better. Instead, what happened in Afghanistan was deliberate. Fundamentally, the Biden administration wanted to recreate what happened to Europe in 2015 — namely, a flood of Muslim immigrants pouring into a Western country. It's not enough to open the southern border. If the Democrats are to change the American population to create a permanent Democrat majority, they need to get third-world people in from all over…”
And here’s another theory: “Unlike previous withdrawals, where it is customary upon withdrawal to first evacuate our citizens, and then destroy the equipment and blow up the bases, we did the opposite….. Are we to believe that our military leadership, led by four-star generals, is so naïve and incompetent? Highly unlikely! A more likely scenario is that Afghanistan was surrendered at the urging of the Red Chinese, who saw an opportunity to blackmail old Joe for the many kickbacks he and his son, Hunter, had been taking throughout his years in Washington, D.C….”
Biden's Bagram Blunder Surpasses Custer at Little Big Horn, Lee at Gettysburg
Charles Hurt — Biden’s War: Image of President in Fetal Position Has Enemies Quaking
VDH: Is Our Military Woke, Broke or Both?
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/01/is-our-military-woke-broke-or-both/
There are very few issues out there that seem to send progressives right over the edge harder than abortion. The primary talking point, in the wake of the Biden administration’s dismal failure in Afghanistan, is that the Texas pro-life law is exactly the same type of Sharia law the Taliban imposes on women in Afghanistan. This is mind-bogglingly ignorant rhetoric that we cannot let pass.
Job No. 1 for GOP: Stop Bernie's $3.5T monstrosity
https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/job-no-1-for-gop-stop-bernies-3-5t-monstrosity/
Quotes Global Warming Narrative Takes Another Hit
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/08/31/global-warming-narrative-takes-another-hit/
Proof that modern academic leftism is insanely stupid
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OTHER STUFF
21 Times Joe Biden Promised to Leave 'No One Behind'
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/30/21-times-joe-biden-promised-to-leave-no-one-behind/
Newt Gingrich: Joe Biden's top 10 blunders
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-joe-bidens-top-10-blunders
'Flood of emotions': 14yo. boy pays tribute to the 13 fallen Marines with tear-jerking rendition of Taps
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