(Associated Press) Three families from a San Diego suburb have made it out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban's takeover, officials said Thursday.
Five other families from El Cajon were still trying...
Although somewhat rambling and incoherent in a somber address Thursday evening, President Joe Biden's latest remarks to the nation concerning the ongoing Afghanistan fiasco were relatively lucid and focused by his own standards.
Hitting talking points well rehearsed by now---that he is able to empathize with gold-star military families due...
UPDATE (8/26 7 p.m.): According to the Gateway Pundit, at least 60 people are dead as the the result of Thursday's suicide bombings in Kabul.
At least 150 are injured, many of them in critical condition, it reported, based on dispatches from the BBC and other news sources.
The number was...
(Headline USA) Missouri is opening antibody treatment centers in several counties in the hopes that they’ll keep some high-risk patients with COVID-19 from dying or becoming critically ill.
Monoclonal antibody infusion treatment will be available for 30 days at sites in Jackson, Pettis, Scott, Butler and Jefferson counties. Two more...
(Headline USA) The Republican Party of Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday asking the courts to remove Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe from the ballot for failing to sign an official form declaring his candidacy.
The McAuliffe campaign dismissed the suit as “desperate" and “Trumpian.”
McAuliffe won a June primary election for...
The incredible atrocity that is the Biden administration's Afghanistan crisis may have ceased to shock the public, but it remains no less horrifying.
It is reminiscent, in some ways, of the ghastly tragicomedy in Tim Burton's 1996 classic Mars Attacks!---a cross between Dr. Strangelove and Independence Day, in which self-serving...
President Joe Biden claimed on Monday that Megan Rapinoe, a left-wing activist and U.S. Women’s Soccer player, represented “the best of what American stands for” despite reports that she bullied her teammates into kneeling for the national anthem.
During a ceremony at the White House on Monday to celebrate the...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., blasted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Wednesday for focusing more on a second failed impeachment effort against former president Donald Trump than on the Taliban’s growing influence in Afghanistan.
“We should have been having hearings on what's going on over there....
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) Most everyone in Illinois schools, including college students, must to get vaccinated or be regularly tested for COVID-19, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandated Thursday in his latest executive order.
The governor also said masks will be required indoors statewide Monday.
Now a year-and-a-half into the pandemic, and nearly...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in striking down a mask mandate issued by the San Antonio school district that violates state law.
The governor and attorney general requested the court reverse an appeals court ruling...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) The chaotic aftermath of the US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is making international headlines and capturing the world’s attention.
Lost in this conversation is the true scope and cost of the 20-year war that is finally coming to an end.
But a new Ivy League report...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) California Republicans are raising concerns about potential ballot fraud in the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom after the Secretary of State’s Office sent out mail ballots to 20 million voters.
The ballots were mailed after the state legislature passed a measure for them to be...