The Big Bugout: President Biden said yesterday that the US is on track to complete its evacuation of Afghan refugees and pull all troops out of the country by August 31st.   “It is a tenuous situation,” he said, but that more …

Covid Nation: The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, giving health authorities hope that vaccine-hesitant people will take the shots and give businesses, schools, and the states the backing to enforce vaccine mandates.   Within hours of the announcement the Pentagon, CVS, the State …

The Desperate Hours: A member of the Afghan security forces died today in a firefight that broke out at the airport in Kabul. American forces also were involved.   Hours earlier President Joe Biden said in a press briefing that he was …

The Afghanistan Mess: With Chaos and desperation growing outside the airport in Kabul, President Biden said yesterday that the US will airlift all Americans and Afghans who helped the US in the past 20 years. He said that includes women who …

Resistance: A few hundred Afghans have showed remarkable courage standing up to Taliban gunmen in the streets of Kabul and waving the national flag in protest.  As many as 200 people gathered in Kabul before the crowd was violently broken up.   At …

Graveyard of Empires: With the 82nd Airborne now in control of the Kabul airport and the American evacuation removing thousands of people a day, the Taliban says Afghan government workers and women may go back to their jobs and there will be …

Disaster: The image of the day out of Afghanistan yesterday was of a body falling from the undercarriage of an American C-17 cargo plane as it departed Kabul airport. It recalls desperate Vietnamese clinging to the skids of American helicopters and …

   After 20 years and billions of dollars spent by the US to bolster a free and democratic Afghanistan, the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace after the country’s president Ashraf Ghani fled to Tajikistan. Interior Minister Abdul Sattar …

Afghanistan Falling: The US embassy in Afghanistan has ordered staff to destroy sensitive documents and computers, a sure sign that the State Department believes the country will fall to the Taliban.   Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, a retired admiral, has kept his cool …

  The worldwide pandemic has already caused 205 million cases and over 16 million deaths.   One of the resurgent hotspots in the US is Florida, where nearly 18,000 new cases were reported yesterday, by far the most of any state. The Department …