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The question baffling the world isn't why we left Afghanistan, but rather why we did so in the most incompetent and disastrous way possible. After 20 years of occupation, Americans were certainly amenable enough to leave, but whose idea was it to remove the military and leave our own equipment to the Taliban? To say nothing of U.S. citizens stranded?

This speaker asked the question: If black lives matter to liberals, why don't black lives matter in Chicago and Baltimore and other cities where blacks are being killed almost every day? Conservatives seem to be the only ones who worry about them!

The Difference in Georgia is Less Than 10,000. I wonder how many more Biden votes they will "find". Presidential Election Results I hope President Trump is on top of this.

First, congratulations to the MSM in your election victory in 2018. We have a President who is bringing manufacturing back, renegotiating ridiculously unfair trade deals, cracking down on human trafficking, and rebuilding our military, yet you managed to convince the American people to vote against him in 2018. The Democrats couldn't have paid for better advertising than they got from you for free. I have as little love for the MSM as anyone else at this forum, but facts are facts. The MSM succeeded in making the Republicans own the problems that Democrats are guilty of, or over outright false...

Hyundai thinks this is funny. 2017 Hyundai Ioniq Commercial Hybrid Song I don't. They would never create a commercial making a joke of a man hitting and hurting a woman, and everyone knows why. So why don't those same reasons apply here? Flame me for being too sensitive if you want, but I'm sick of this. If Hyundai wants me to consider buying one of their cars, and I would consider buying one domestically produced, then apologize for this.

Well, we did it. We beat the Democrats, and got a President who will bring our jobs back. Now, what can we do to help? Buy American. I know, I know, you can save $.10 by buying a foreign made pen, but where will that savings go? It will create jobs for workers in other countries, whose taxes will pay for their infrastructure, military, space program, and benefits. That pen may have cost more if it was made in the USA, but what you get for that extra $.10 is American workers paying taxes to pay for our infrastructure, military,...

The jobs that were created skewed heavily toward lower quality. Full-time jobs declined by 150,000, while part-time positions increased by 77,000.

Here are 11 sure signs you've been hacked and what to do in the event of compromise. Note that in all cases, the No. 1 recommendation is to completely restore your system to a known good state before proceeding. In the early days, this meant formatting the computer and restoring all programs and data. Today, depending on your operating system, it might simply mean clicking on a Restore button. Either way, a compromised computer can never be fully trusted again. The recovery steps listed in each category below are the recommendations to follow if you don't want to do a...

General Motors said Thursday that its second-quarter earnings fell 85 percent, as recall costs chopped $1.5 billion from the bottom line.

The latest data from the National Association of Realtors, which was released last summer, showed that foreign buyers had scooped up $68.2 billion of single-family homes in the U.S. in the year ended March 2013. That's about 7 percent of the total U.S. market. That was down slightly from the $82.5 billion invested during the same period of 2012, but up from 2011. The fastest growth in foreign buyers was from China and Canada.

The truth: Hillary has a long, checkered career full of scandals and lies. She's all the Democrats have right now, but let's hope she's not the unstoppable political machine they make her out to be. - Tabitha In light of all the Hillary buzz and the Clinton 2016 infomercials in the form of miniseries and movies to be produced by “Inconvenient Truth” producer Courtney Sexton, it’s worth a look at what we’re actually dealing with. Is Hillary an unstoppable political force and inevitable first female president or scandal-ridden wannabe with a ton of baggage? Here are a few reasons to...

The woman whose false rape accusation sent NFL player Brian Banks to prison for five years has been ordered to pay a $2.6 million judgment.

Is Motor City getting its mojo back? After years of losing loyal customers frustrated by quality and reliability problems, domestic automakers are showing a new-found focus on customer service that is winning back skeptics – boosting sales, market share and profits.

Thanks to generous support from a foreign backer, there is renewed hope for an American attempt to revolutionize, modernize and sanitize the automobile engine. The catch? The finished product will be stamped “Made in China.”

Police said “Suave”, a Miami pimp, allegedly forced a 13-year-old runaway to tattoo his street name on her eyelids.

As of the end of November, according to the U.S. Treasury, entities in Mainland China owned about $1,170,100,000,000 in U.S. government debt, making China the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt.

What's more, the drop in the official unemployment rate, if those numbers are to be believed, was driven largely by a big upturn in part-time jobs. Workers who can't find full-time work, or forced to take huge pay cuts to land work, are not signs of forward momentum. And that's why the BLS' broader, but little noticed,measure of the unemployed — which includes discouraged workers and those working part time because they can't find full-time jobs — remained unchanged in September at a gut-wrenching 14.7%.

The facts: Romney has proposed to eliminate federal money for Planned Parenthood but not get rid of the organization. Planned Parenthood's budget is roughly $1.1 billion, and it receives about $75 million in federal financing, which cannot be used to pay for abortions.

They want us to believe Joe Paterno and his title-heavy minions — university president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz — didn’t fully grasp the depravity of Jerry Sandusky’s perversion. They, Paterno’s remaining apologists, want us to believe JoePa’s and Penn State’s sin had more to do with naivete than vanity. They’re delusional and think we’re stupid.

The Occupy movement's hatred for authority is well known. Last fall, Occupy Baltimore was condemned by the heads of three rape crisis centers after they published a pamphlet which seemed to discourage victims from reporting rape to police (preferring instead to handle such accusations as an internal matter). In a similar move last week, a group calling itself Occupy Patriarchy protested a conference against child sex trafficking and suggested that "minors" involved in the "sex industry" would be better off without the intervention of police.