SAD BUT TRUE: The Afghanistan Debacle Has Exposed The Moral Bankruptcy Of The West.

BREAKING: Capitol Police Investigating an ‘Active Bomb Threat.’

Update: The man in the truck is broadcasting live on Facebook. (Bumped.)

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Joe Biden Walks Away From His Catastrophes. Is He a Moral Monster?

WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: Appalling: Biden Scrapped Trump Afghanistan Rescue Plan. “While Biden lied to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday that ‘We planned for every contingency,’ behind the scenes Biden’s State Department had already ‘revoked the funding and the approval’ for Trump’s response team.”

This one is red hot.

KEITH KELLOG: Our Military Must Remain Focused on Its Mission. “In war, momentum on the battlefield has a quality all its own. The Taliban have it. What we need to ask is, how did this end state happen and what lesson should we learn? In the end, it was a question of will. We wanted our efforts to succeed more than the Ghani government did. Prior administrations and their military advisers wanted Afghans to begin acting like Jeffersonian democrats. That seldom works and comes at a high cost. Each nation is unique, be it Iraq or Afghanistan. Our senior leaders, especially our generals, forgot this.”

BLUE STATE MEDICAL ETHICS: Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Covid Shot or Drop Dead.

THIS ISN’T ABOUT ESTABLISHING “TRUE COMMUNISM” BUT ABOUT ELIMINATING POTENTIAL COMPETING POWER CENTERS… OK, SAME THING: Chinese president vows to ‘adjust excessive incomes’ of super rich.

GOOD: Businesses Sue NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Over His Vaccine Segregation Mandate.

MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT FLAVOR ICE CREAM DO YOU HAVE? The Taliban may have seized biometric data that can ID US allies in Afghanistan.

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Kevin Downey Jr: The Durham Report Is a Glacier: Slow Moving But Potentially Devastating. “Durham is said to have asked people questions about evidence related to the now-debunked lie that a server for the Trump organization covertly communicated with a bank in Russia, called Alfa Bank. The FBI investigated this and found it to be untrue. Durham’s prosecutors appear to be pursuing people who may have knowingly passed off this false info to the FBI, or passed it to intermediaries, who then gave it to the FBI. Anyone in the chain who knew the info was false could face charges for lying to the federal government.”

Matt Margolis: Democrat Strategist Says Dems Needs to Steamroll Their Agenda While They Still Can. “All in all, the 46th president and his allies should probably stop worrying about his approval ratings and just get as much done as they possibly can while they still control Congress.”

Yours Truly: I’m Not in a ‘New York State Of Mind’ (And You Won’t Be Either After Hearing This Bill de Blasio Cover). “Now de Blasio is in Panic Mode, trying one stunt after another to bring people back to the city he drove them from.”

TOMORROW’S CLEAN ENERGY OR PERMANENT WILL O’ THE WISP? Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of energy. “Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California said they had focused 192 giant lasers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) onto a pea-size pellet, resulting in the release of 1.3 megajoules of energy in 100 trillionths of a second — roughly 10% of the energy of the sunlight that hits Earth every moment, and about 70% of the energy that the pellet had absorbed from the lasers. The scientists hope one day to reach the break-even or ‘ignition’ point of the pellet, where it gives off 100% or more energy than it absorbs.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Even Biden’s Media Monkeys Are Finding It Difficult to Spin for Him Now. “The insidious relationship between the hacks in the mainstream media and Joe Biden has been a bit rough even on my cast-iron gut. From the moment that it was obvious that he was going to be the nominee, I knew that the MSM would be working overtime to prop him up. What we’ve endured thus far has been worse than what we saw during the Obama years. They just looked the other way a lot when The Lightbringer was in office. This year they’ve been creating a president out of whole cloth.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Conservatives May Never Have a Pop Culture Chance Like This Again. “This is a fight for our culture, a battle Andrew Breitbart warned us about a decade ago but we’re only now willing to listen.”

MIGHTY WHITE OF HIM: Bill de Blasio Explains How His NYC Jim Crow 2.0 Plan Will Work.

SHEESH: Who ‘Zoombombed’ a Family Court Hearing with Screaming Naked People—and Why?

WHEN YOU’VE LOST CHUCK TODD…: Leftists Fume After Chuck Todd Criticizes … Joe Biden.

THAT’LL SHOW ‘EM: Biden Admin’s Response to Taliban Violence Is a ‘Strongly Worded’ Letter. “The Biden administration just went full Karen. Thomas-Greenfield would have asked to speak with the manager, but that’s the United States. Or was. Perhaps someone in Beijing will answer the emails that Jen Psaki ignored on autoresponse.”

“DISGRACE”: Mike Pence Rips Biden’s ‘Disastrous Withdrawal From Afghanistan.’

STACEY LENNOX: Feckless Biden Administration Refuses to Guarantee the Safety of Americans in Afghanistan.

BUT THE LEFT LAPS IT UP ANYWAY: Taliban Guarantees Women’s Rights ‘Within the Limits of Islam.’ That’s Not Reassuring.

SWELL GUY: Biden Laughed At Suggestion The US Is Accountable For Civilian Casualties In 2010.

JEN PSAKI WILL HAVE TO CIRCLE BACK ON WHEN BIDEN’S COMING BACK: Where’s Joe? Biden Hides at Camp David While Kabul Burns.

TALIBAN SPOKESMAN: The West Has No Grounds to Discuss Freedom of Speech When Facebook Censors People.

BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY ACUMEN: Taliban Blocks Access to Kabul Airport, Taliban Cofounder Returns, Biden’s Chaos Reigns.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: The Real Lesson of Afghanistan: The ‘Journey of Jihad’ Marches On.

Fascinating piece, impossible for an excerpt to do it justice.