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Joe Biden has already made sure to place responsibility Donald Trump for his own disastrous Afghanistan policy. Watching Biden officials and their partisans (neocons + liberals) try to claim this withdrawal was Trump's plan is shamelessly deceitful. Trump did want to leave Afghanistan. But Biden spent the year boasting that…

As the Covid-19 virus experiences its second life in the form of the Delta variant, the lion’s share of national attention has focused on how the surge has affected the South. America’s favorite punching bag, Florida, has received special attention. Much of the derision has been well founded: Florida currently…

Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence issued blistering statements against the Biden administration as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban following the dramatic seizure of Kabul, now termed “Biden’s Saigon.” “What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary,” Trump said in a statement shared on Twitter.…

China has been criticised by some members of the international community after refusing to cooperate with a new probe into the origins of COVID-19. A new team of specialists will examine the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The investigation will be a second fact-finding mission into the origins of COVID.…

Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, shut down claims from a heckler that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud—asserting that the allegations were "absolutely not" true. Trump and many conservative allies continue to claim that President Joe Biden and Democrats "rigged" or "stole"…

Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Thursday ramped up pressure on her Republican counterpart, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to call out members of his party who have downplayed the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and attacked the police officers who responded to the riot – most notably former…

It’s not an accident that a generation of tough guy pols emerged from New York in the 1970s and ’80s, amid the myth of an “ungovernable city” and an epic whitelash. August 12, 2021 I have some idea of what it means to be “New York tough.” When I was…

A supporter of former President Donald Trump has been sentenced to prison for shooting and injuring a black teenage girl during a pro-Trump rally. Michael McKinney, 26, was charged with attempted murder and other crimes in the December 6 incident in which a 15-year-old girl was hit in the leg.…

Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP (Getty Images) Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has launched a three-day “cyber symposium” aimed at providing incontrovertible evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump by an evil cabal of hackers and politicos. Among the numerous rightwing figures in media, business,…

Former President Donald Trump's calls to thwart the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's agenda went unheeded by 19 Senate Republicans, who joined all 50 Democratic-voting senators Tuesday to pass a $550 billion infrastructure package. The "yes" votes amounted to one of the more significant rebukes of Trump, who maintains a…