(Mizina/Getty Images) Judging from advertisements and social-media posts, this week is the inauguration of 2021’s Pumpkin-Spice Season. Never mind that actual pumpkins — you know, the ones that grow out of the ground — most likely won’t be ripening for another month or two. In many parts of the country, the outdoor temperature remains steady

After weeks of scoffing at the bipartisan effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom as a “GOP stunt,” CNN finally discovered Democrat voters are just as fed up with Newsom. On Don Lemon Tonight on Wednesday, correspondent Kyung Lah seemed shocked to learn that lifelong Democratic voters in the dark blue state were turning on Newsom and

The time has come to ask: Is Presidentish Joe Biden being blackmailed by foreign powers? It’s a troubling idea that been at the backs of many people’s minds, but it popped to the very front of mine with yesterday’s news that Biden will at least partly de-sanction Communist Chinese tech giant Huawei. First, a little

The largest New York Police Department labor union privately told members it would sue the city if officers were forced to get a coronavirus vaccine, the New York Post reported. “If the City attempts to impose a vaccine mandate on PBA members, we will take legal action to defend our members’ right to make such

U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 24, 2021. (U.S. Air Force/Master Sergeant Donald R. Allen/Handout via Reuters) As the frenetic U.S. effort to

After almost an entire week away on vacation (aside from an August 23 briefing), The Psaki Show hasn’t exactly gone swimmingly for the Biden administration and, like Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday was no exception as Press Secretary Jen Psaki had little in the way of friendly reporter questions as Fox’s Peter Doocy had the cavalry

COVID Panic Porn Theater is reopening in America, just in time to ruin school kids’ lives everywhere. My job involves spending a lot of time reading, writing, and talking about the Wuhan Bat Flu, which I’d obviously rather not do but here we are. This pandemic wasn’t apocalyptic, but you’d never know it if you’re

A female Afghan journalist told Fox News she changes her location every day while she is on the run from the Taliban. The 24-year-old woman who is concealing her identity to protect herself from the Taliban said she was told she could no longer come to work because she was female, and that the Taliban

Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened his press conference on Wednesday by speaking for about ten minutes about the number of Americans in Afghanistan who “want to leave” the country. Blinken said the State Department is in direct contact with 500 Americans trying to evacuate, and the department is also sorting through another list of

A committee in the South Korean parliament voted to recommend amending legislation that would ban Apple and Google from charging software developers mandatory fees for in-app purchases. According to Reuters, Apple and Google charge commissions of up to 30% for in-app purchases. Apple slammed the measure, arguing that the bill “will put users who purchase

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the botched withdrawal are, without a doubt, the fault of Joe Biden. He’s made a series of mistakes that have created chaos, alienated our allies, and made us less safe. But the events of the past couple of weeks are also a depressing epilogue to the already

This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news and analysis on current education and parenting topics. Click here to sign up. In my 2019 book, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom, which gained even more traction throughout 2020 and 2021

A woman reads a book to her children in Budapest, Hungary, January 28, 2020. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters) Under the Democrats’ COVID bill, most American parents will be receiving $3,000 per child this year, or $3,600 for kids under six. The money started going out last month; it’s paid in a combination of regular installments and a

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, in conjunction with the Free Speech Alliance, joined 10 other conservative leaders in demanding the International Fact-Checking Network remove PolitiFact as a fact-checker for violating IFCN’s Code of Principles. More than 40 conservative leaders have signed on to the open letter led by the Free Speech Alliance and MRC’s

Afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster. Joe Biden is down hard in the polls as a result and the media are turning decisively against him. Even CNN ran a lengthy segment Wednesday after Biden’s much-delayed speech in which a Democrat congressman flat out said that the August 31 deadline is arbitrary and there’s no way the

The Biden administration needs to expand operations allowing for the safe passage of American citizens and allies in Afghanistan, a veteran and national security council staff member under former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday. U.S. officials should work to expand the perimeter around the Kabul airport so that Afghan allies and stranded Americans

The Washington Post Company headquarters in Washington, March 30, 2012 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) David’s piece on the home page rightly points out that the backlash against humor columnist Gene Weingarten — for dissing all Indian food in a sweeping, misinformed, and rather silly statement — was more than a little overheated. The dust-up followed a familiar

Apparently, the end of a tribe that pulled out still-beating human hearts from living victims as human sacrifice is a real bummer. At least, it is according to the CW’s comic book show DC’s Stargirl. In the episode, ‘Summer School: Chapter Three,’ on Tuesday, August 24, Stargirl Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) mourns the fact that the Aztec

The Washington Post has accused The Daily Wire of spreading misinformation about the COVID vaccine by posting real news. The Post accused The Daily Wire, TMZ, the Epoch Times, and Breitbart of sharing news to “misleadingly” attract views to its platform. The Post cited an article in which The Daily Wire reported on NFL star

Joe Biden evacuated our military from Afghanistan before he evacuated American citizens. Biden left millions and millions of dollars in military weapons, equipment, and aircraft behind. Biden is poised to leave thousands of Americans behind, too. But according to the Democratic Party, Biden is doing a fantastic job. In fact, Biden has “defied expectations” and

Russia has steadily decreased the supply of natural gas delivered to Europe over the last few weeks without explanation, according to an industry analysis reviewed by CNBC. The decreased natural gas exports occurred shortly after the U.S. and Germany agreed to the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will transport gas from

Justin Trudeau gestures to a crowd in front of his campaign bus in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada, August 22, 2021. (John Morris/Reuters) In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Rondi Adamson humorously wrote about Justin Trudeau’s penchant for gendering innocuous phrases, in this case turning “recession” into “she-cession.” Not for the first time, Trudeau appears to

This might be a surprise — if you want traditional “hard news” served up in an efficient 30-minute package, the best place to find it may still be one of the Big Three evening newscasts, where more than 70 percent of the typical broadcast fits the definition of old-fashioned reporting. And, compared to cable news,

The former leader of three American spy agencies thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to joke (heh, heh)  about sending President Trump’s supporters to Taliban overrun Afghanistan because some don’t want the Covid shot. That’s a real knee slapper, General Michael Hayden. The left-leaning former head of the National Security Agency, former CIA director, and former deputy

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Crowds outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021 (Asvaka News via Reuters) My reader who works for a contractor in Afghanistan, and who is desperately trying to help his former employees dodge Taliban death squads and get out of the country, offers another update. (See here and here for background.) He reports some

As America witnessed on Monday, the Biden White House was determined to play ludicrous games with rhetoric and attempt to gaslight the American people who already didn’t trust them. The epitome of this display was featured in the White House press briefing where Press Secretary Jen Psaki got into a spat with Fox News correspondent

It did take Joe Biden long to woefully pivot from his, how shall we say, “historic” foreign policy nightmare back to the Left’s favorite topic after Trump: COVID-19. Hot on the heels the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for people 16 and up, Biden, probably relieved to be talking about anything that does not

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan falsely claimed during a White House press briefing Monday that the Trump administration had not processed a single Special Immigrant Visa for Afghan allies since March 2020. While no Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants were interviewed at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul from March 2020 through the end of

Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a media briefing at the White House, August 11, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki called it “irresponsible” to say that Americans are “stranded” in Kabul, contradicting reports from Americans stranded in the Afghan capital city, members of Congress attempting to help them, and comments by Biden