Author: J.P. Knowles

President Biden took office in January and almost immediately put a stop to the construction of a 30-foot high border fence, leaving a gaping hole at one of the most vulnerable spots at the US-Mexico border.

The 20-foot gap in the wall made it much more accessible to thousands of smugglers and migrants to illegally cross into the U.S. border patrol agents report.

“The contractors just stopped,” said Richard Barragan, a Border Patrol agent in the El Paso Sector.

Thousands of tons of steel and building materials were left right where they lay when construction was suddenly halted.

In a desperate attempt to deter the number of migrants at the mountainous site of the Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico border, Border Patrol agents began to fill in the gap using old truck tires and pieces of construction materials that were left behind when the federal contractors stopped their work.

“We have some agents who are good welders, and they put it all together,” Border Patrol agent Barragan said.

While he was still in office, the Trump administration allocated funds for the construction of the border wall however in June, the Biden administration announced plans to pull $2.2 million dollars from that fund to be spent on other projects amidst a rise in migrant border crossings.

Agents working the El Paso Sector, the area that stretches 125,000 miles between Texas and New Mexico have already detained 155,892 people in this fiscal year that will not end until Sept.30, that number is nearly triple the 54,396 encountered the entire fiscal year 2020.

In June the Department of Homeland Security said that it would redirect the construction money to the Pentagon for building projects on US military bases, describing the money allocated to the border as “just one example of the prior Administration’s misplaced priorities and failure to manage migration in a safe, orderly, and humane way”

The Trump administration allowed for the construction of more than 450 miles of the border wall, something Border Patrol agents on the ground were grateful for but something that Democrats strongly opposed.

“The wall enhances my officers’ safety,” said Gloria Chavez, chief patrol agent of the El Paso Sector. “It delays entry and allows the agent to have the advantage. Additionally, it protects the agent.”

Attacks on Border Patrol agents by smugglers and drug traffickers have nearly doubled in the El Paso Sector in the past year.

“Any infrastructure is helpful to us, ” said Barragan, surveying the makeshift construction that roughly covers the gap. “These are just some of the challenges we face every day.”

Tyson Gilbert was parked on a Tennessee highway blocking traffic, when police arrived and attempted to pull him over, Gilbert sped away

“When I pulled up behind him and turned my lights on, he took off and refused to stop. He was all over the road the whole time. He turned off on Old Liberty Road and came to a stop. He opened his door. He was naked and covered in blood. He then shut his door and kept driving,” Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Bobby Johnson reported.

Police pursued 39-year old Gilbert in his Honda Accord through two counties and at some point, Gilbert severed his penis.

“The Alexandria Police Department spiked him on Highway 70 as he was going through Alexandria” officer Johnson said.

“He kept traveling westbound into Wilson County. The THP spiked him in Watertown but he continued westbound. We finally were able to box him in and got him stopped on Highway at I-40 and took him into custody. He was then transported to Vanderbilt Hospital.” Johnson said.

Gilbert had been arrested in the past on various offenses and spent time at the Putnam County Jail in 2017.

The investigation is ongoing.

Both the American public and health officials are frustrated with President Joe Biden’s arbitrary recommendations about booster shots.

Biden announced that the booster shot would be available to the general public by September 20 even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told the White House that regulators needed more time to review necessary data before setting a date. The FDA is set to approve boosters for those who got the Pfizer vaccine, but the wait is going to be longer for those who got the J&J and Moderna shots.

The disagreement led to the resignation of two senior officials at the agency. Dr Marc Siegel described it as “a mess for the administration.”

“The delay may be minimal, but it is raising some concerns about the White House influence over scientific decisions,” according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Sunday’s “Inside Politics.”

“There is no question people feel jerked around,” is how TIME’s national political correspondent Molly Ball described it.

“But at the same time, there has been a clear inability to communicate clearly and consistently with the American people and particularly when so many people…were so excited to come out of this and that sort of jerked away,” she said. “And again, not the administration’s fault. Were people prepared and did people know what they were supposed to do next? Was there a clear national standard set?”

“The administration had been scrambling to deal with all these unexpected situations in a way that did not inspire confidence,” Ball said.

An increasing number of people are growing dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the pandemic, according to new poll numbers. The president’s numbers have also taken a hit following the botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan which led to the deaths of 13 of our military servicemen and women and left hundreds of Americans and Afghan SIV holders stranded there.

Biden is also under scrutiny over his behavior during the dignified transfer ceremony for our 13 fallen service members and for his conversations with gold star families.

The president has been photographed checking his watch during the ceremony and talking at length about his own son instead of the sons and daughters that were coming home in such a somber way.

Broward and Alachua counties in Florida are pressing forward with mask mandates for their public school systems despite facing financial penalties from the state for failing to enable parents to opt-out of the obligation, as Governor Ron DeSantis directed.

Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran revealed Monday that the state’s education department had begun withholding payments from the two counties due to their mask requirements.

Tuesday’s statements from the counties’ education superintendents confirmed that districts are standing firm on the mandate.

“I’m very troubled by the state’s action. Our School Board members made a courageous decision to protect the health and lives of students, staff and the people of this community, and a court has already ruled they had the legal right to do so. They deserve praise, not penalties,” Alachua County Public Schools Superintendent Carlee Simon said in a statement.

“We have already begun working with our colleagues in other districts to take legal action. We believe this is a necessary step to ensure that Florida’s districts have the right to act in the best interests of those they serve.”

Interim Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Vickie Cartwright stated Tuesday during a meeting with the school board that the mandate will remain in place.

“The health and the safety of our students, teachers, and staff continues to be our highest priority,” Cartwright said. “As such we will continue to mandate the mask knowing that our data, as we are looking at it, our quarantine data, is demonstrating that the use of the mask is helping to minimize the spread of Covid-19.”

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Florida, and the state is one of five that have less than 10% of their ICU bed capacity remaining.

According to a CNN analysis, more than 27,000 cases have been confirmed in Florida’s 15 largest school districts since the start of the school year. At least 45,024 pupils and staff personnel have been quarantined or placed on “stay home” orders as a precaution against suspected viral infection.

President Joe Biden has been under scrutiny for many things during his short term in office but at the forefront of all Americans’ minds is his handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Questions have been left unanswered or completely ignored, with many asking for his resignation or impeachment.

Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Byron Donalds of Florida are making sure that Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have no doubts about how they feel about the debacle that was the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

There were 13 service members that gave their lives while carrying out orders at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when an ISIS-K bomb exploded just outside the airport gate. Just one of many orders in question surrounding the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. military troops in Afghanistan that were handed down by the Commander in Chief.

On Aug 26, there was a somber transfer ceremony for the 13 fallen service members.. President Biden was in attendance seen disrespectfully checking his watch as these men and women were carried from the plane that had brought them home.

Since that heartbreaking ceremony, family members have expressed the pain and distress caused by the lack of disrespect and care Biden showed to them and to the brave servicemen and women.

Americans are outraged as well, a picture of Biden checking his watch has been spreading like wildfire around social media fueling the anger surrounding Biden’s handling of the whole situation.

Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Byron Donalds of Florida sent “a message” to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Biden. Banks has a poster prominently displayed outside his office of the picture with the words, “It’s time to bring every American home!

Donalds posted a similar photo adding that the president is “abandoning hundreds of American citizens in a country overrun by radical terrorists makes him unfit to serve as our Commander in Chief.”

“Americans never leave Americans behind – no matter what,” Donalds tweeted. “Mr. President, it’s time to bring every American home.”

The president is under pressure from lawmakers and American citizens alike to help the hundreds of U.S. citizens and Special Immigrant Visa holders that are still stranded in Afghanistan since the complete withdrawal of troops.

The president has failed to comment on his conduct during the ceremony. During a press conference on Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked directly about Biden’s behavior during the transfer of the fallen troops and she completely ignored the question.

Pentagon press secretary John F Kirby said last week that even though the military mission in Afghanistan is over, the United States will continue to get U.S. citizens and Afghan allies that were left behind to safety.

“We don’t believe the effort is concluded,” Kirby said.

A 90-day investigation by the US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The intelligence community is divided by two theories concerning the origin of the virus, one being that the virus came from a lab leak, the other being that it transferred naturally from animal to human.

According to the summary released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, both theories are plausible.

“All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and laboratory-associated incident,” the intelligence community wrote.

The two-page unclassified report was released Friday after Biden asked intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to determine how the Covid-19 pandemic began.

“While this review has concluded, our efforts to understand the origins of this pandemic will not rest,” Biden said in a statement after the summary was released on Friday.”We will do everything we can to trace the roots of this outbreak that has caused so much pain and death around the world, so that we can take every necessary precaution to prevent it from happening again.”

Biden chastised China for not being more transparent in the investigation when the intelligence community said China’s cooperation would likely be needed to reach a more conclusive conclusion.

“Critical information about the origins of this pandemic exists in the People’s Republic of China, yet from the beginning, government officials in China have worked to prevent international investigators and members of the global public health community from accessing it,” Biden said.

Although the results were not conclusive, investigators were able to rule out some theories. It was concluded that COVID-19 was not developed as a biological weapon as some Republicans had suggested last year. The report said most agencies assessed with low confidence that it is unlikely that COVID-19 was genetically engineered.

Four intelligence community agencies and the National Intelligence Council assessed, with low confidence, that Covid was likely caused by natural exposure to an animal, according to the summary. One agency assessed with moderate confidence the first human infection was most likely the result of a lab-associated incident “probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute.”

Three agencies said they were unable to reach a conclusion without additional information.

According to a source briefed on the contents of the classified report, one of the agencies that did not take a position one way or the other was the CIA.

According to the intelligence report the virus probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure no later than November 2019.

According to the summary, the intelligence community would need additional information to reach “a more definitive explanation for the origin of Covid-19.”

“The IC–and the global scientific community — lacks clinical samples or a complete understanding of epidemiological data from the earliest Covid-19 cases,” according to the intelligence community.

“China’s cooperation would most likely be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of Covid-19,” the intelligence community said. “Beijing, however, continues to hinder the global investigation, resist sharing information and blames other countries, including the United States.”

Even though the report does cite China’s lack of cooperation with the investigation, it says Chinese officials “did not have foreknowledge of the virus before the initial outbreak.”

Earlier this month intelligence agencies were working through a mass of genetic data drawn from virus samples at the lab in Wuhan that some officials believe could have been the source of the outbreak.

Biden initiated the review into the origins of Covid-19 earlier this year after US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick in Nov 2019 and had to be hospitalized.

Last month, a group of bipartisan lawmakers said they want Biden to continue the investigation into the virus’ origins even after the 90-day review is completed.

A team of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the opportunity to find out the origins of the virus may be fading as people’s immune responses fade away and evidence in the bodies of animals vanishes.

In a chilling scene, a TV presenter on the “Peace Studio” tells people not to be afraid all the while he is being held at gunpoint by Taliban fighters.

The host of the ‘Peace Studio,’ a political debate show, is held at gunpoint by Taliban fighters while telling the public that the “Islamic Emirate,” wants them to “cooperate with it” and “should not be afraid.”

The Taliban’s history of murdering TV presenters, and targeting female journalists gives cause for concern. The Committee to Protect Journalists report female TV presenters have already been taken off the air and several journalists have been beaten.

The Taliban intends to maintain public support as they face the emergence of ISIS-K who succeeded in a suicide attack that killed at least 169 Afghans.

ISIS-K views the Taliban to be lacking in commitment to devout adherence to Islam. Both groups are said to be sworn enemies and have a history of attacking each other.

Since the ISIS-K suicide bombing last week the Taliban has placed extra forces around the airport.

With the Taliban only allowing a maximum of two members per family to cross checkpoints, opportunities to leave Afghanistan are slowing down as the Tuesday deadline approaches.

A video shared on Twitter shows Taliban fighters dressed in stolen U.S. military uniforms roaming around a hangar at the now-decommissioned Kabul International Airport.

The video, which was captured Monday by Los Angeles Times correspondent Nabih Bulos, shows five Taliban members visiting a hangar previously controlled by the US and inspecting helicopters left behind following the Aug. 30 departure. Taliban men appear to be armed and wearing US military gear, like helmets and bulletproof vests.

#Taliban fighters enter a hangar in #Kabul Airport and examine #chinook helicopters after #US leaves #Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/flJx0cLf0p

— Nabih (@nabihbulos) August 30, 2021

As the imposters walk around the airport, many gunshots can be heard in the background.

According to the Times, the helicopters in the video are Chinooks.

U.S. officials enabled over $85 billion dollars worth of military equipment to slip into the hands of the Taliban. This equipment included rifles, aircraft, helicopters, and artillery. The Department of Defense asserted that it had demilitarized and rendered obsolete the equipment prior to the withdrawal of US forces.

At around 3:29 p.m., the final US flight from Afghanistan departed Kabul Airport, signaling the end of American troop presence in the country. Numerous Americans are still stranded in the nation.

President Joe Biden had committed to having every American out by Aug. 31. “Our two-decade military presence in Afghanistan has come to an end,” Biden said in a statement announcing the withdrawal’s conclusion.

On Friday former Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that in Fayette County, Texas, the courthouse would not lower their American flag.

President Joe Biden called for all flags to be lowered until Monday in honor of the 13 American service members killed in the suicide bombing outside ofay Kabul’s airport last week.

Perry explained on social media why the flag outside the Fayette County courthouse would remain “high and proud.”

We have dipped our colors and bent the knee to terrorists under @JoeBiden’s administration. No more, at least not in Fayette County, Texas. #SemperFi 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1UeTy7lrrt

— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) August 27, 2021

An Air Force veteran himself, Perry shared photos of a memorial depicting U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima along with a caption explaining his decision.

“The Fayette County Courthouse won’t be flying the American flag at half-staff today as ordered by President Joe Biden. Before he was a Judge, my friend Joe Weber was a General in the Marine Corps. He knows the best way to honor the Marines and Navy Corpsmen who were killed yesterday in Kabul is to recognize their selfless service and sacrifice by flying Old Glory high and proud. That’s what they would want; that’s what their families would want,” Perry said. “We have dipped our colors and bent the knee to terrorists under this Administration. No more, at least not in Fayette County, Texas. Semper Fi.”

Due to the seriousness of the situation, Americans and evacuees have been told they have 36 hours to leave Afghanistan, with the Kabul Airport scenario being a security danger, according to multiple reports.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby tweeted about this topic on Thursday, saying, “Evacuation operations in Kabul will not be wrapping up in 36 hours. We will continue to evacuate as many people as we can until the end of the mission.”

Evacuation operations in Kabul will not be wrapping up in 36 hours. We will continue to evacuate as many people as we can until the end of the mission. #HKIA

— Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder (@PressSecRyder) August 26, 2021

Later that morning, Kirby tweeted, “We can confirm an explosion outside Kabul airport. Casualties are unclear at this time. We will provide additional details when we can.”

As The Daily Wire reported:

The Pentagon confirmed that an explosion went off near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, which comes as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan and end a weeks-long rush to evacuate Americans and Afghan visa holders.

It is unclear whether the explosion caused any injuries or how many. The explosion happened after multiple countries suspended their evacuation operations over terror threats reported near the airport.

President Joe Biden earlier established an August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of US soldiers from Afghanistan, ostensibly in response to Taliban threats of consequences and statements that the deadline was a “red line.”

“The sooner we can finish, the better,” Biden said during an address at the White House on Tuesday. “Every day we’re on the ground is another day we know that [Islamic State-affiliate] ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport, attack both U.S. and allied forces and innocent civilians.”

“Thus far, the Taliban have been taking steps to work with us so we can get our people out,” he said. “But it’s a tenuous situation. We’ve already had some gunfighting break out. We run a serious risk of it breaking down, as time goes on.”