Publisher’s Note: For the next two weeks, under our daily Executive News Summary section, we will be posting “On This Date” analysis of events we posted a year ago, in chronological order, related to the most disgraceful military exfil in American history — Biden’s deadly surrender and retreat from Afghanistan.

Selections from our analysis topics this week…

“The Rising Terrorist Threat After Biden’s Deadly Afghanistan Surrender and Retreat”

Mark Alexander: Former Navy SEAL, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) asked, “In what f***ing world was it a good idea to just hand over a country to these people?” Anyone — ANYONE — who believes that the resurgence of the Taliban and their ISIS-K and al-Qa'ida thugs would have occurred under a second Donald Trump term is so deeply delusional as to be in a state of complete denial. Likewise, anyone who believes Vladimir Putin would have dared to invade Ukraine if Trump were still president is equally delusional. Every impenitent Biden/Harris supporter voted for the Taliban takeover and Putin’s invasion; voted for the terror that has besieged millions of Afghan and Ukrainian men, women, and children; and voted for the slaughter that continues. The blood of innocents is on your hands. … Images of desperate Afghan citizens clinging to the outside of C-17 transports and falling to their deaths as those planes departed should haunt Biden et al. for eternity.

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“Good Riddance: Liz Cheney Gets Clobbered in Wyoming”

Doug Andrews: Back in Wyoming, it was a crushing 37-point defeat for Cheney, as the Cowboy State’s discerning voters clearly weren’t swayed by the laughable claim leveled by her embittered dad in a last-minute advertising blitz: “In our nation’s 246-year history,” said former Vice President Dick Cheney, “there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” Yeah, right. As for Cheney’s soon-to-be-former congressional colleagues, we think New York’s Claudia Tenney summed things up well: “Breathtakingly arrogant speech by loser Liz Cheney,” she tweeted. “Orchestrating show trials contrary to safeguards guaranteed by the Bill of Rights is not Lincolnesque. On the contrary, Cheney’s actions mirror precisely the authoritarianism our founders fought valiantly against.”

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“CDC ‘Reorganization’ Is Just Another Power Grab”

Nate Jackson: We don’t trust Director Rochelle Walensky’s plan to correct pandemic mistakes. … This is not some incredible introspective admission of guilt and promise of change; this is about building an even bigger bureaucracy and accumulating more power for unaccountable hacks. The only “pivot” here is a power grab while pretending to fix a few incorrect incentives and bureaucratic errors with a smattering of false humility.

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“Prosecutors Battle Massive Pandemic Fraud”

Emmy Griffin: Federal prosecutors are having to wade through a deluge of fraud cases to get taxpayer money back. Now Big Brother has to spend thousands of man hours sorting through the mess it created. The very intention of dispersing that money was to prevent inflation. How’d that work out?

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“Rainbow Family Feud”

Thomas Gallatin: Is a civil war brewing within the Rainbow Mafia over “transgenderism”? Try as one might, getting oil and water to mix simply doesn’t work. Yet despite that fact, the Rainbow Mafia has been trying to defy reality with its ever-expanding mix of sexual deviants, all held together under one common scrambled-alphabet banner. Lately, though, that banner has begun to fray as the obviously divergent groups are starting to chafe under an ideology that is attempting to hold together that which is a logical fallacy.

Select quotes from our daily Short Cuts section…

This week’s BIG Lie: “Democrats voted to cut the deficit to fight inflation by having the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share. Every single Republican opposed requiring big corporations to pay a minimum tax of 15%, instead of some getting away with paying $0 in federal income taxes.” —President Joe Biden

Grand delusions: “After four years of a president who relished creating chaos, Americans are seeing what it looks like to have a president and a Congress that’s focused on delivering results that make their lives better. Mr. President, you’ve restored dignity, respect, and a sense of action back to the Oval Office.” —Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer

Non Compos Mentis Award: “Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, and this legislation will help us to address all of that.” —Nancy Pelosi on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act

Getting it right: “Isn’t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it’s not gonna bring inflation down?” —ABC’s Jonathan Karl to Karine Jean-Pierre

Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris: “Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that capacity, well, we must pay attention to this issue of equity.”

Reality check: “During the 2020 election, Starbucks ran ads encouraging Americans to vote by mail. Now, Starbucks is trying to suspend mail-in ballots in their nationwide union elections due to alleged misconduct in the voting process. You can’t make it up!” —Michael Seifert

Dumb and dumber: “I agree. And I was the CIA Director.” —Michael Hayden concurring with this extreme delusional assertion by Financial Times scribe Edward Luce: “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.”

From the leftist brain trust: “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared. … Whatever [the] scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is … it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. … Trump University, as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop, in my view. Right? Now that doesn’t answer the people who say, ‘It’s still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post’s Twitter account. Like … that’s a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.’ Absolutely it was. … But I think it was warranted.” —author Sam Harris

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776