Month: August 2021

Wisconsin lost track of more than 82,000 mail-in ballots cast in the state in the November 2020 elections—more than four times the margin of difference separating the two presidential candidates in the state, according to a report by the nonprofit Public Interest Legal Foundation.   The legal foundation, an election integrity watchdog group, released a research
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A former minister in Afghanistan’s government is working as a pizza delivery guy in Germany, local media reported. Images show Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, former minister of communications and information technology in Afghanistan, delivering pizzas and other food by bicycle in Leipzig, Germany, Newsweek reported. Sadat was appointed as the minister of communications in the
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Here’s a sharp Points and Figures post about the political response to COVID. Money quote: “Covid is just not as serious as the politicians are making it out to be. They have another goal. Increase their power. Political entities love power. The Founders recognized that and enshrined people’s rights into the Constitution. It’s worth pointing
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Details are emerging about U.S. service members who lost their lives during a heinous terror attack Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan. One of the victims was 20-year-old Marine Rylee McCollum whose wife is expecting to give birth in three weeks, his sister Cheyenne McCollum said, according to the Associated Press. “He was so excited to be
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The U.S. has executed an unmanned airstrike targeting an ISIS-K planner on the heels of the deadly terror attack in Kabul that left many dead, including 13 American service members. “U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner,” U.S. Central Command spokeman Capt. Bill Urban, USN, said in a statement.
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Ponder that. Tom Joscelyn, who runs the essential Long War Journal, responded in shock at the ignorance. Price has been in federal government his entire adult life, but clearly doesn’t study too closely or read the Wall Street Journal, which only yesterday had an informative news story headlined, “In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Al Qaeda-Linked Haqqani Network Rises to Power.” Within the
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“Clean energy” has become a shorthand term for the broad policy debate on how to achieve environmentally safe economic growth and enhance America’s energy security. A joint study recently published by the World Trade Organization and the International Renewable Energy Agency looks at how policies that promote open trade can support cost reductions, product development,
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MSNBC viewers lashed out at PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor for criticizing the Biden administration’s withdrawal in Afghanistan but she replied that she was simply quoting White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Alcindor was a guest on MSNBC when she said that the lethal terror attack in Afghanistan appeared to be the worst day of the
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Fox News’ Chris Wallace opined that President Joe Biden could come back from the lethal terror attack on Thursday but his presidency won’t survive an attack on the homeland launched from Afghanistan. Wallace made the comments Friday on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “It’s terrible, and this is the
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The New York Times uncovered one reason President Biden isn’t facing his own “Tea Party” protest movement: Racism. “Why Biden Hasn’t Faced a Second Coming of the Tea Party,” the “Upshot” analysis by Ian Prasad Philbrick in Saturday’s news pages, claimed the Tea Party was built on racial backlash against America’s first black president, Barack
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Tthe Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project logo on a pipe at the Chelyabinsk pipe rolling plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 26, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) Today I reported on a forthcoming letter by dozens of Ukrainian anti-corruption leaders, across government and civil society, warning that President Biden’s approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is
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The last soldier of the Soviet army to leave Afghanistan was Colonel-General Boris Gromov, who marched at the back of a column of armored vehicles across the Hairatan “Friendship Bridge” connecting Afghanistan to the Soviet Union. Presumably, Gromov was not happy with the outcome of that decade-long war. Crossing back into the Uzbek SSR, he
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The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is a bipartisan, transadministrational failure. It is a humiliation. The fact is that after 20 years, after thousands of lives were lost and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on the military, police, training, infrastructure, and education, the country fell in days. Whatever your position is on the presence
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Two paratroopers assigned to First Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct security while a C-130 Hercules takes off during a non-combatant evacuation operation in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 25, 2021. (Department of Defense Courtesy Photo) With the collapse of the U.S.-supported Afghan government, there’s a question many countries will have to face soon: Whom should
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Some “medical experts” seem to think men can give birth, but during this pandemic, we should be thankful that it’s women who carry babies, because they appear to be at a much lower risk than men for severe disease from SARS-CoV-2. A new study comparing mortality rates among pregnant vs. non-pregnant COVID hospital patients demonstrates
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The fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan are a stark reminder of how much identity matters to a country. Unfortunately, America’s identity obsessions are major vulnerabilities that have been met with aggression from our adversaries and threaten the stability of our own nation. The longest war in United States history is concluding
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