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This one actually is tearing the country apart, and the cure is not apparent. Shame and blame are animating features of the Critical Race movement. The latest example of Critical Race Theory can be found in the article from Inside Higher Ed and is titled "Camera's On: Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19." Author Margaret Finders "(pronouns: she, her, hers) is former chair and professor in the department of education at Augsburg University and Joaquin Muñoz (he/him/his pronouns) is assistant professor in the American Indian studies department at the university." The authors claim that asking students to keep cameras on...

Source: Photo/Shannon Venditti GETTYSBURG -- On an overcast day, the national park that has preserved the history of one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the American Civil War is filled with people from all over the country. It is a testament to the desire everywhere not just to know our history, but also to honor the soldiers who fought and lost their lives to protect our country. They mattered, and we as a nation want them to know they are not forgotten. This week, President Joe Biden made a dark political bet that Americans would forget a...

The UK is reportedly working to keep an airport open in Afghanistan after troops withdraw on August 31 - meaning commercial flights could continue to take people from the country. It comes after Boris Johnson allied forces would "go on right up to the last moment that we can", and "we're confident we can get thousands more out" following G7 meeting today. But he added: "The situation at the airport is not getting any better,...

A 16-year-old football player from Memphis, Tennessee, who was vaccinated against COVID-19 died from the virus over the weekend, his mother told local news. ...... She said that Tatum, who attended Westwood High School, was healthy at the start of the academic year, but suspects he contracted the virus at school. ....... "He wasn't wheezing, he wasn't coughing, he was just happy-go-lucky. He was at school for three days, and he just drastically got sick. It's unbelievable," Buckner said.

The Biden administration says it does not know how many U.S. citizens are in Afghanistan hoping to leave in the face of the American withdrawal and Taliban takeover. For days, Pentagon officials said they had no ability to venture outside the Kabul airport to find those Americans and bring them to safety. Now the military says it is doing just that. "The Pentagon is ramping up evacuations from Kabul's airport by deploying American helicopters and troops into select spots in Kabul to extract stranded American citizens and Afghan allies," The New York Times reports. Defense Department spokesman John Kirby would...

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at President Joe Biden on Tuesday for 'surrendering to terrorists' ...'"Now we are learning that out of the 26,000 people who have been evacuated, only 4,000 are Americans." The 4,000 figure references reporting from Politico journalist Alex Ward. Ward wrote on Twitter that a total of 4,407 Americans have been evacuated from Kabul since the operation began. 'Total = 6,916 Total manifested since op began: 4,407 AMCITS, 21,533 Afghans, 642 TCNs. Total = 26,582,' Ward reported. He added that 128 evacuation flights were planned for the next 48 hours and that around 13,000 people...

Georgia (the ex-Soviet Republic, not the U.S. state) is now a remarkable success story. Its economy is growing at 5% per year, and the country ranks ahead of the United States in economic freedom. Yet, 20 years ago, Georgia was even more miserably poor than the rest of the former Soviet Union. So, what can America and the rest of the world learn from Georgia's progress? A lot, says my executive producer Maxim Lott. He's spent the past several months in Georgia and made a StosselTV video about it. All former Soviet states are poor because the communists had grabbed...

If you are a male or a female (or know someone who is) and have been sleeping too soundly lately, type “billions of children facing climate shock” into Google and you will discover dozens of articles from last week warning that almost half the world’s 2.2 billion children will face, as one article says, “climate-related disasters in their lifetimes, [a UNICEF] report found.” With that extremely abstract, unprovable prediction, extreme bureaucratic solutions may seem too harsh, but remember, the “consensus” among successful politicians is, as Governor Cuomo said, “...if it saves one life, it’s worth it...” (Except in nursing homes,...

Now that we have had 18 months to “slow the spread” it is time to take stock of the pandemic. We have learned many good things that the media and our pandemic managers rarely report. Most fundamentally, we do not need to be afraid of COVID-19 anymore. The media and some government health authorities are still pushing hysteria and fear, but that should not prevail. Let’s look at the good news that can calm our fears about COVID-19. There’ll be time at a later date to look at the bad and the ugly of the resolving pandemic. 1) Globally, the...

President Joe Biden said Tuesday the US is on track to complete its hurried airlift in Afghanistan by August 31, acknowledging he does not plan to keep American troops in the country any longer even as questions remain over who will be able to leave and when. In late afternoon remarks at the White House, Biden recognized the success of the mission will depend largely on cooperation from the Taliban. He said he's asked military leaders to be ready with contingency options to "adjust that timetable" if it becomes necessary. "We are currently on a pace to finish by August...

The ultimate Afghanistan nightmare would be Americans left behind there, effectively becoming hostages at the mercy of the Taliban. Yet that is precisely what an experienced Afghanistan hand predicted on CNN's New Day Tuesday morning, unless the August 31st evacuation deadline can be extended. CNN's guest was Army Reserve Major Matt Zeller, who is also a former CIA analyst. He is part of an informal network of military and intel people with previous Afghanistan experience who are now trying to help Afghan allies to evacuate. Zeller then added ominously: "At this point, if we don't do this well past August...

The Taliban is sending fighters to Panjshir, an anti-Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, as the insurgent group works to tighten its grip on the country and seize the last remaining province. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, announced in a statement on Monday that resistance forces are "surrounded," according to The Washington Post. He said the fighters were "at the gate of Panjshir." Mujahid added that the insurgent group would prefer to bypass future fighting and instead "resolve the issue peacefully through negotiations," the Post reported. A Taliban fighter, however, told the Post that the militant group decided to...

Thanks to the news out of Afghanistan, Jen Psaki’s recent admission that the executive branch has been colluding with the tech giants to suppress free speech, has apparently passed into the ether with far less scrutiny than it deserves. In fact, this is such a clear violation of the First Amendment that it defies any obvious logic or rationale. But Psaki’s announcement isn’t the first act in this play; it’s only the most recent act in the left’s years-long flouting of the rule of law. It appeared, at first, as though there might have been a major revelation in the...

Reps. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Peter Meijer (R-MI) made a secret visit to Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday where they learned that evacuations cannot be completed by President Joe Biden’s August 31 deadline, according to commanders in charge of the situation. In a joint statement, Moulton and Meijer said their surprise mission was to “conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans and our allies,” arguing that Members of Congress “have a duty to provide oversight on the executive branch.” The two representatives were also clear that they ensured their visit would not take away seats from those in need: As...

Harris is the first sitting US vice president to visit the communist country in a show of support against China She's there to support Vietnam after claiming that China is intimidating other countries with its vast claims to the resource-rich South China Sea The US suffered a stunning military defeat during the Vietnam War and scenes of helicopter rescues in Kabul this month were compared to the Fall of Saigon in 1975, at the end of the war in the Southeast Asian nation Harris avoided Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, and visited the capital Hanoi on Wednesday

...A man was sitting with his family in the outdoor section of La Cerveceria de Barrio on Ocean Drive near 14 Street when Miami Beach police say he was shot multiple times. But what happened next could make your stomach turn. “After the shooting, he was dancing on top of the guy,” said a witness, who didn’t want to be identified.

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BEIJING — China says it has established an “open and effective communication and consultation with the Afghan Taliban,” following a meeting between representatives of the group and Beijing’s ambassador to Kabul. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details about the Tuesday meeting between the deputy head of the Taliban’s political office, Abdul Salam Hanafi and Ambassador Wang Yu. But he said China considered Kabul to be an “important platform and channel for both sides to discuss important matters of all kinds.” China hosted a delegation led by senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar for talks last month,...

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Merrick Garland’s move last month to limit Justice Department probes of journalists is facing an early test from an unlikely source: a federal judge overseeing a criminal case against a talk-show host on Infowars, a right-wing website known for touting discredited conspiracy theories. In an order made public Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said prosecutors refused to answer on the record whether they had complied with the department’s updated media policy when seeking a warrant to arrest the talk-show host, Owen Shroyer, for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “The events...

Tens of thousands of Americans, Afghans and other foreigners have been evacuated from Kabul's international airport to U.S. military installations in Qatar, a key U.S. partner in the Middle East that has received public shout-outs from President Joe Biden and his top officials. But privately, Qatari officials are warning their American counterparts that the situation at U.S. facilities, where thousands of Afghan evacuees are being housed, is growing more dire,... ...In particular, Lolwah al Khater, a Qatari assistant foreign minister, told U.S. Ambassador John Desrocher that both bases "had hit maximum capacity to house in a safe and secure manner"...