August 21, 2021                                             

fromOANN: The Biden administration revealed there are no plans to evacuate Americans outside the Afghan capital of Kabul. Officials from various departments including State and Defense, told Senate staffers they don’t know of a way to get those Americans past Taliban checkpoints. 

fromTheChristianPost: A Republican congressman has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey denouncing the social media giant's double standard for banning the former president from its platform but allowing the Taliban. 
Media Bias on Parade                                                                 Indoctrination and Censorship


fromNYPost: Defense contractors, who had no financial incentive to properly train an Afghan military to operate independently of them, made off handsomely along the way. 

fromAmericanSpectator: Power to the people, unless it puts progressives out of power. 

fromRutherfordInstitute: The government has a history of shamelessly exploiting national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes. Terrorist attacks, mass shootings, civil unrest, economic instability, pandemics, natural disasters: the government has been taking advantage of such crises for years now in order to gain greater power over an unsuspecting and largely gullible populace. This COVID-19 pandemic is no different. 

August 20, 2021                                             

fromTheFederalist: Adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security. 

fromRealClearEnergy: Embracing Green New Deal-style environmental policies, Biden’s approach to domestic energy production cripples hard-working Americans while increasing our reliance on foreign nations. 

fromAmericanGreatness: Forces more powerful than the Taliban, in places far more strategic, will now leverage a cognitively challenged American president, an ideologically driven but predictably incompetent administration, a woke Pentagon, and politically weaponized intelligence communities. 

fromDailyMail: He also said he would have still pulled troops from Afghanistan without former President Donald Trump's deal to get everyone out by May 1 in a reversal of his finger-pointing at his predecessor for the chaos. 

fromReason: The case is the latest example of people who say their savings were seized in airports, despite it being perfectly legal to fly domestically with large amounts of cash. 

fromWashingtonExaminer: Plenty of vice presidents have been actively destructive. But aside from that cackle driving down Democratic turnout, no other vice president has been remotely this useless in this century. 

August 19, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan. 
The Government is Not Us                                           Defense Versus The War Machine

fromTownhall: Biden reportedly had reports that the situation on the ground was not what he was telling the American people. At some level, we knew throughout the summer that Afghanistan could collapse. Biden insisted otherwise. In April, he said this withdrawal will not be hasty or chaotic.  

fromIssuesInsights: On his first day in office, President Joe Biden embarked on a campaign to rein in domestic oil and gas production. On his 204th day in office, he was pleading with OPEC to increase its production to stem the sharp rise in gasoline prices, to which OPEC said no dice. 

fromReason: Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery. 
Police State America                                                    Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process

fromAmericanThinker: How can any American trust the Intelligence Community in determining the true capabilities and intentions of nations armed with nuclear weapons and the means to launch them? 

fromAmericanGreatness: The only real question here is whether our government is populated by idiots or criminals.