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Axel Cucinelli, 12, receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as his mom, Tracy Jensen, takes a photo to of him during an event hosted by the Southeast Michigan Pull Over Prevention in partnership with the Washtenaw County Health Department at Grace Fellowship Church in Ypsilanti, Mich., August 7, 2021. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) In yesterday’s Morning
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Ahmad Massoud, son of the slain hero of the anti-Soviet resistance Ahmad Shah Massoud, waves as he arrives to attend a political movement in Bazarak, Panjshir province Afghanistan, September 5, 2019. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters) The last hope for an Afghanistan with a haven for the Taliban’s enemies is in Panjshir Valley, just north of Kabul. Resistance
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When has a president had a worse month? “April is the cruelest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, “The Waste Land.” For President Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which has now mercifully ended. When has a president had a
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Park Hye-ri, 28, a startup business program manager, puts her mobile phone outside a cell at Prison Inside Me, a mock prison facility in Hongcheon, South Korea, November 10, 2018. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters) I just read Conor Friedersdorf’s piece on Australia’s astonishing COVID-inspired restrictions and one part in particular jumped out at me. Intrastate travel within
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Dr. John Ioannidis’s title at Stanford University is a mouthful. After his name, it says, Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by Courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science. To boil it down, he is a medical doctor trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases, specializing in epidemiology, and evaluating medical
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Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said he favors eliminating his state’s income tax during a conservative conference on Friday. Taxes act as penalties and taxing income discourages people from trying to earn more, Polis argued at the conference hosted by the Steamboat Institute, a conservative think tank. The governor acknowledged that eliminating the income tax
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United States Capitol Building ( rarrarorro/Getty Images) In Phil’s cheery piece this morning on our long-term, slow-moving entitlement disaster, he says, “Right now, instead of grappling with fiscal reality, Democrats are rushing to enact an additional $4.1 trillion in new spending (a portion of it, it should be noted, with Republicans’ blessing).” The new spending
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The liberal media’s fever may have finally broken after spending the last two weeks or so heavily criticizing President Biden’s unmitigated disaster of a withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Wednesday’s edition of his show, CNN’s Don Lemon spent most of the hand-off from Cuomo Prime Time demanding people be “level-headed” and “stop beating up on” the
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The two biggest security threats to the United States in my lifetime have been the Soviet Union and Islamic jihadists. Different enemies, to be sure, but they have something in common: Dems have always been completely delusional about them. Back in the Cold War days, Dems were forever peddling a spiel about how wonderful the
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We must walk though the Darkness before we see the light Left to Right: Gavin Newsom, about to be ex California Governor, Nancy Pelosi, Queen of Congress, Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of New South Wales Australia, Joe Biden, Resident of the United States, Macron, Prime Minister of France, AOC  Princess of Hee-Haw, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister
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Donald Trump paved the way for peace. What now? November 28, 2019: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) “Fathers of things,” Kingsley Amis once wrote, “are disallowed merit but seen as the cause of
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Florida’s Board of Education is withholding the monthly salaries of school board members in two counties that defied Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates for schoolchildren, according to a statement by the board’s press office. The Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced the Florida Department of Education’s (FDOE) plans to withhold the monthly school board
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Afghans are escorted to a bus taking them to a refugee processing center upon arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, August 24, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) 1.   Scenes from the first United flight of evacuees:https://t.co/dgMdnuWZFm pic.twitter.com/LWHYML8t7O — Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) August 29, 2021 2. Josh Rogin: The U.S. government left its own journalists behind
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On Wednesday, the network morning shows sounded the alarm over Texas implementing new abortion regulations, fearing the new “controversial law” represented “one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans ever.” Hosts and reporters were particularly despondent that the Supreme Court had not intervened to block the pro-life measure. “Controversial law. One of the nation’s strictest abortion
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Private firms’ payrolls increased by 374,000, far less than the 600,000 jobs economists had predicted would be added, according to a major employment report. August marked the second consecutive month where private growth came in severely short of expectations, according to the monthly ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday. Last month, private firms added half
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Medical workers in protective suits inspect a CT scan image at a hospital in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, China, February 20, 2020. (China Daily/Reuters) I’m glad that the Washington Post editorial board has not forgotten about the questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and declared that “the need for a full and credible investigation
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