Tuesday – August 17, 2021

From the Podcast

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1833 – Canada’s Royal William begins crossing the Atlantic (the first steam powered craft to do so)

1960 – Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial after being caught flying his U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union

1962 – East Germans kill a man trying to cross into West German

1969 – Woodstock Festival ends 

1978 – A helium-filled balloon carrying 3 people crosses the Atlantic

News and The Politics out of D.C.

REPORT: U.S. REACHES A DEAL WITH AFGHANISTAN ON EVACUATIONS

BIDEN SAYS THE BUCK STOPS WITH HIM, BUT DOESN’T TAKE THE BLAME… 

BIDEN: I INHERITED TRUMP’S DEAL WITH TALIBAN

WE’RE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN CHUCK SCHUMER PRAISED BIDEN’S PLAN

TRUMP RIPS BIDEN FOR EVADING BLAME ON THE MESS IN KABUL AND AFGHANISTAN

OBAMA’S CIA DIRECTOR SAID BIDEN SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY… HE DIDN’T

JOE’S TOUGH DAY GOT WORSE AS OPEC REJECTED HIS PLEA FOR THEM TO PUMP MORE OIL

OBAMAS TURN OFF COMMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AFTER AFGHANISTAN CRITICISMS MOUNT

MILITARY BASES BEING PREPPED TO HANDLE 30,000 AFGHAN REFUGEES

FEMALE AFGHAN REPORTER TO PENTAGON PRESS SEC, ‘EVERYBODY IS UPSET, ESPECIALLY WOMEN’

AT LEAST THE BIDEN ADMIN IS DEMANDING THE TALIBAN GOV’T BE ‘INCLUSIVE’ (SMDH)

TALIBAN ALLOWED TO TWEEET… TRUMP STILL BANNED

CNN REPORTER DONS HIJAB AFTER TALIBAN TAKE OVER AFGHANISTAN

TED CRUZ CALLS OUT CNN REPORTER… THE CABLE NETWORK FIRES BACK AT THE SENATOR

MODERATE DEMS TELL PELOSI TO POUND SAND ON HER RUSH TO PASS MASSIVE SPENDING BILL

MSM URGES BIDEN TO STAND BEHIND THE FREE PRESS IN AFGHANISTAN (HOW ABOUT HERE?)

PELOSI HINTS THAT THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE MAY INVESTIGATE JORDAN AND BANKS

DHS WON’T RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR DATA ON WHERE ILLEGALS ARE BEING SENT

IT APPEARS THAT BIDEN HAS LOST JAKE TAPPER

MSNBC INTERVIEWS TALIBAN SPOKESPERSON — HE CLAIMS ALLEGATIONS ARE ‘PROPAGANDA’

PIERS MORGAN WEIGHS IN ON AFGHANISTAN, ‘DEADLY BUCK STOPS WITH BIDEN’

WE TOLD YOU… CHINA WARNS TAIWAN, THE U.S. WON’T COME TO YOUR RESCUE

YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING… ’25TH AMENDMENT’ TALK IS BACK

General News

“FRED” HITS FLORIDA AND “GRACE” COULD BE COMING TO THE U.S. TOO

HERE COME THE COVID BOOSTER SHOTS

MEANWHILE, NJ’s GOV IS OFF TO HIS 23-ROOM MANSION IN UMBRIA, ITALY

AUSTRALIA’S LATEST OUTBREAK GROWS DESPITE SERIOUS LOCKDOWNS

THIS STATE’S A.G. SAYS TEACHING CRT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES VIOLATES STATE LAW

CHRIS CUOMO RETURNS FROM VACATION, KIND OF ADDRESSES HIS BROTHER’S PROBLEMS

Other News Catching My Eye

BY THE WAY — DON LEMON IS NOT AN OPINION HOST (HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT)

NFL REF THROWS A FLAG FOR ‘TAUNTING’ — BUT, WAS IT REALLY?

‘PENISES WILL BE SMALLER’ — CLIMATE CHANGE IS GOING TO AFFECT YOUR SEX LIFE