SIX PLANES in Northern Afghanistan NOW HELD HOSTAGE BY TALIBAN — Filled with Americans and Afghan SIV Holders #BidenEffect

(Jim Hoft – Gateway Pundit)  Now we know why the media was ignoring this story.

The Taliban is holding the planes filled with Americans HOSTAGE in Northern Afghanistan!

As reported earlier, several retired Special Forces and US Veterans traveled to Afghanistan to rescue and bring the people Americans home that Joe Biden left stranded. Continue reading

Like Father, Like Son? Allegations Surface Against Father of Accused Oregon Megachurch Pastor

Jon Courson would make prophecies and predictions, often at New Year’s Eve. Even though these didn’t pan out, Courson wouldn’t apologize. “That’s how these guys operate. They don’t have to give an explanation. No one ever really holds them accountable for really bad things they say.” [And do]

(Rebecca Hopkins) Ben Courson, pastor of an Oregon megachurch, recently stepped down amid allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct. Now, witnesses have come forward with allegations that Ben’s father, Jon Courson—founder of Applegate Christian Fellowship near Medford, Oregon—had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the 1980s. Continue reading

Chase Bank Unveils New ‘Reputation Risk’ Campaign, Targeting Loyal Customers For Their Political Beliefs

(Revolver)  Over the weekend a stunning image made the rounds online. The photo showed a letter from Chase Bank to Lori Flynn, the wife of Gen. Michael Flynn, informing her that her credit cards were being canceled due to the “reputational risk” she created for the company.

See the letter on the site — also tweets.

Some on the left initially suggested the letter might be a hoax, before concluding that Chase’s decision was legitimate and something to celebrate.  Continue reading

CRN Headline News – 8/30-9/4

Need to read articles you may have missed this week…

MONDAY 8/30

Rick Warren Suggests Pastors Who Open Their Churches are Egotistical, Wearing Masks is ‘Loving Your Neighbor’

Large CDC Study Doesn’t Support Mask Mandates in Schools

A Deserved ‘Moment of Truth’ for Public Schools as a Record Number of Parents Opt Out

7 Major Biden Disasters in 7 Months

Jonathan Turley Calls out Concerning Comments by Ashli Babbitt’s Shooter

TUESDAY  Continue reading

Senior Regulators Resign From FDA Over Rushed COVID Booster Rollout

CNN, similarly, observes the largest issue concerning the regulators seems to be that by arbitrarily setting a goal for boosters, the White House is “getting ahead of where the science is” and “prejudging what the FDA would say.”

(Two top regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are resigning from their positions over disagreement with the White House’s pressure to move forward with COVID booster shots without FDA approval, as well as with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) involvement in the vaccine approval process. Continue reading

White House Refuses to Confirm or Deny Embarrassing Details of Joe Biden’s Call with Afghanistan President

(Breitbart) The White House Wednesday refused to address leaked details of a conversation between President Joe Biden and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani revealing concerns about the government collapse as early as July.

“I’m not going to get into private diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday when asked about the report. Continue reading

Mohler Breaks Silence on Ed Litton Plagiarism Scandal

(Protestia)  Dr. Albert Mohler has broken the silence on the Ed Litton plagiarism scandal, addressing it by way of a student’s question at SBTS’s President’s Forum earlier this morning, who asked him how students, pastors, and churches should think about the reproachful topic.

Mohler, long believed to be the presumptive winner of the SBC Presidency on account of being the worlds most well know Southern Baptist, famously lost to Ed Litton just a few short months ago after being crushed in a rank ballot at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention…. Continue reading

3,000+ Pediatricians, Health Care Workers Sue Biden Over Transgender Mandate

“President Biden’s Health and Human Services department is grossly overreaching its authority and, in doing so, putting children’s psychological and physical health in danger. Our clients are rightfully objecting on medical, ethical, religious and conscientious grounds to this unlawful government mandate to provide gender-transition procedures.”

(Human Events)  Pediatricians and other health care workers are suing the Biden administration over a mandate that would require medical professionals to provide gender-related services regardless of any medical objections. Continue reading

Rep. McCarthy Leads GOP Roundtable On Afghanistan

(OAN)  GOP members in the House are holding Joe Biden’s feet to the fire regarding his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) led a roundtable discussion with a group of Republican lawmakers, many of whom served in Afghanistan.

McCarthy urged the Biden administration leave troops in the country until every American is evacuated. He lamented Biden did not take proper steps to leave Afghanistan, which he claimed put the lives of U.S. troops and many innocent people in harms way. Continue reading

‘Christian Evangelicals Are America’s Taliban’: Actors, Journalists Equate American Christians To The Taliban

Freeman has taken even sharper aim at other members of his own faith…He claimed, “Evangelical Christianity is the greatest threat to human existence today. It must be laid waste.”

(Megan  Basham – Daily Wire) MSNBC host Joy Reid stirred up controversy earlier this week when she compared Christian conservatives to the Taliban. But Reid is hardly the only public figure on the left making that analogy. Continue reading

Caldor Fire enters Tahoe Basin, burning down toward South Lake Tahoe, as high winds carry flames

(SF Gate)  The Caldor Fire raced down highways 50 and 89 — main arteries for travel to and from the Tahoe Basin —  as the wildfire continued to burn out-of-control Monday night. The flames burned cabins along the highways as residents of nearby Douglas County, Nevada were warned to evacuate. 

“There is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before. The critical thing for the public to know is evacuate early,” said Chief Thom Porter, director of Cal Fire. “For the rest of you in California: Every acre can and will burn someday in this state.” Continue reading

Large CDC Study Doesn’t Support Mask Mandates in Schools

There’s no evidence of more outbreaks in schools…where the solid majority of kids wore masks for an entire academic year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. These countries, along with the World Health Organization, whose child-masking guidance differs substantially from the CDC’s recommendations, have explicitly recognized that the decision to mask students carries with it potential academic and social harms for children and may lack a clear benefit.”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media)  “Consistency” may be “the hobgoblin of little minds,” but it’s also very reassuring if coming from our public health officials…. Continue reading

Republicans Introduce Articles Of Impeachment To Remove Antony Blinken From Office Over Afghanistan

(Ryan Saavdra – Daily Wire)  Republican lawmakers introduced two articles of impeachment on Friday for Secretary of State Antony Blinken following the Biden administration’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.

Rep. Ralph Norman (SC) introduced the articles of impeachment, saying that Blinken “played a vital role in this foreign policy failure and his dereliction of duty deserves nothing less than impeachment.” Continue reading

HEROES: An all-volunteer force of American VETS just saved hundreds of Afghan allies in the middle of the night via a secret op called the ‘Pineapple Express’

Photo credit: Capt. Zac Lois

(Joel Abbott – Not the Bee) The woke brass at the White House and Pentagon have zero clue what they are doing in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean your average soldier has lost his fighting edge.

A group of volunteer veterans literally flew to Afghanistan to help hundreds of Afghan allies escape the country before the Taliban could find and kill them.

Although they coordinated with the U.S. military, this operation was their own. It certainly wasn’t something ordered by the White House. Continue reading

BREAKING: Suicide Bombing Outside Kabul Airport

U.S. Military Casualties Reported in Kabul Airport Suicide Attack.

(Breitbart) A suicide bombing attack outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday has left at least 13 people killed, including children, and wounded three U.S. troops, according to reports. A second blast has been reported near the city’s Baron Hotel. Continue reading

The Photograph That Brought an End to 1918’s Mask Mandate During Spanish Flu

“The first thing you notice about [Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party’s biggest donors], other than how strikingly non-diverse it is, is that none of them are wearing masks. They’re breathing all the fresh air they want, like it’s 2019.”

(Leah Barkoukis – Townhall)  Mask mandates in America didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic. During the Spanish flu of 1918, government officials ordered similar edicts, their media and nonprofit lackeys shamed the resistant, and health agents in some cases went to fatal extremes to punish the noncompliant, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson reported Monday during his monologue. Continue reading

Canadian Pastor Who Faces 4-Year Jail Sentence For ‘Inciting’ Church Warns Americans: ‘The Enemy Is Not Hiding Anymore’

A motorcade of Calgary police pulled over Pawlowski and his brother on their way home from church. As they cuffed them in the middle of a busy highway and dragged them into police vans, Pawlowski called the officers “Gestapo psychopaths,” a reference to the Nazi secret police.

(Jon Brown – Daily Wire)  The Polish-Canadian pastor who faces a potential four-year jail sentence for holding church services in Calgary, Alberta, is warning Americans that the tyranny he saw growing up in communist Poland has spread to Western countries. Continue reading

Fifth Circuit upholds Texas abortion ban paving way for possible Supreme Court hearing

“These abortions are carried out on unborn babies as old as 22 weeks, and Texas put on evidence at trial that they may feel pain while being dismembered.”

(Bethany Blankley – Just The News) The issue of abortion may once again come before the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2017 Texas law outlawing a second trimester procedure. Continue reading

Taliban Threatens Joe Biden: Stay in Afghanistan Past August and Suffer ‘Consequences’

(Frances Martel – Breitbart)  A senior Taliban spokesman told the U.K.’s Sky News on Monday that the United States and its ally Britain will face “consequences” if they seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan to ensure the safe evacuation of their citizens.

American President Joe Biden announced this summer that he would withdraw all American troops from the country by August 31. Biden had previously announced in April that the withdrawal would end on September 11, the 20th anniversary of the jihadist attacks that prompted the Afghan War…. Continue reading

Hundreds of Australians Arrested as Country’s Anti-Lockdown Protests Ensue

(Landon Mion – Townhall) More than 250 Australian residents were apprehended by police Saturday amid the country’s anti-lockdown protest.

People across several Australian cities defied the coronavirus stay at home orders and were arrested following altercations with police officers. At least cops endured injuries from the protests and Melbourne saw the most violent demonstrations, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading