Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson recently aired a 17-minute segment of moral outrage toward people who want to bring large numbers of Afghan refugees to the United States in the wake of the recent collapse of the Afghan government. The segment is titled, “We are living through the biggest influx of refugees in history,”
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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
Afghan migrants rest while waiting for transport by smugglers after crossing the Iran-Turkish border on August 15, 2021 in Tatvan, on the western shores of Lake Van, eastern Turkey. The latest chaos in Afghanistan sparked by the recent gains of territory by the Taliban including the takeover of the capital Kabul has raised fresh alarm
American sports leagues are not the only professional leagues that are dealing with a level of turmoil between executives, players and coaches on whether or not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola (of the English Premier League) has voiced his opinion that all of his players should get the vaccine in
At the 1980 Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan expressed the foundation of his foreign policy, known as the Reagan Doctrine. “We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak,” he said. “It is then that tyrants are tempted.” It’s hard not to think about
New unconfirmed reports of explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan include a massive explosion at the Karzai International Airport where U.S. and allied military are evacuating Afghans and Americans. The blast at the airport is believed to have been either a vehicle-born improvised explosive device (VBIED) – a car/truck bomb – or controlled detonations by allied personnel
Runway at Bagram Air Base after American troops vacated it in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, July 5, 2021. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters) The Economist’s Shashank Joshi tweeted an important observation that deserves to be highlighted. President Biden was either confused or — worse — actively misleading the American people when he said at Thursday’s press conference that senior
Organize Right is a regular column with not so much a beat as a meander on the subject of organizing: how the right does it, how the left does it, lessons from its history, and its implications for today. One of the recurring aspects of right-wing culture—normal, fringe, and far alike—is the fascination with the
Less than an hour after President Biden addressed the nation early Thursday night on the deadly terror attacks at the Kabul airport, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took to the podium and continued her terrible, horrible, no good, very bad return from vacation as reporters from across the spectrum kept up the heat in
What a couple of weeks. My good friend Kevin Downey Jr. and I have been in the comedy game for a very long time and this ulcer-inducing presidency of Joe Biden’s is making it more difficult by the hour to find the humor in anything. Just a heads up, dear friends: Kevin and I recorded
President Joe Biden addresses the nation Thursday to explain how 12 members of the U.S. military and more than 90 civilians were killed in Kabul in a single day under his evacuation plan. Biden now owns the largest number of single-day military casualties since August 2011 – when his former boss was in the White
Earlier today, terrorists killed at least twelve U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman in Kabul and wounded more than a dozen others in a series of brazen suicide bombings. At least a hundred civilians were murdered. A simple question: If the policy of the United States toward these terrorists is that, in President Biden’s words,
On her hourlong freakout The Reidout on Tuesday, MSNBC’s Joy Reid smeared Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Dr. Death,” who is “pro-COVID” and “rolling out the red carpet for this ravenous virus.” Reid also slammed South Carolina and Texas for “rolling out the red carpet” for coronavirus infection and death. REID: In a disturbing flashback
Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal hasn’t just hurt his approval ratings here at home. It is also killing America’s reputation abroad. Many believed that Donald Trump had damaged the United States’ standing in the world and that we needed Joe Biden to restore our image. “Trump’s impeachment and holding the insurrectionists to account provide a
Facebook is considering creating a commission to advise the tech giant on election-related issues including misinformation, The New York Times reported. The tech company reportedly contacted several academics and policy experts to draft plans for a commission that will advise Facebook on electoral matters and potentially decide policies related to political misinformation and advertising, several
(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