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Aug 30 2021
News
An Afghanistan veteran’s jagged path from war to peace
As this veteran learned – and is proving – the journey home from war isn’t a straight line. But you can reach the destination: healing.
I’ll return to the Air Force Academy next month for a reunion. I’ll laugh with friends, retrace steps on campus, get quiet at the cemetery. I’ll experience it from a distance of 25 years since I began there.
For four years, the academy did its
Christian Science MonitorNov 16 2021
News
Biden exits three-hour Xi summit with no White House mention of China’s growing nuke arsenal
President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met via video teleconference for more than three hours on Monday night, discussing a wide slate of issues at a moment of growing international concern over Cold War prospects between the U.S. and the world’s biggest communist power.
While China‘s military muscle-flexing and advancements — including its rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal and a
Washington TimesFeb 09 2022
Opinion
These Olympics Are Not a Shelter
Sports were never a durable shelter from the world for anyone who wasn’t privileged enough, or naïve enough, to turn them into one. Every game fits into the world it inhabits, for good or ill. The Olympics are even more enmeshed in the rest of the world than other sporting events, as evidenced by the massive political operations that go into landing them for host countries in the first place,
SlateDec 18 2021
News
Appeals Court Reinstates Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Large Businesses
A federal appeals court gave the green light for President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large private employers to be implemented as it reversed a previous decision that had put it on hold. The final say over the mandate, which affects some 84 million workers across the United States, will likely rest in the hands of the Supreme Court as opponents immediately filed appeals.
SlateJan 19 2022
Opinion
Biden vowed a return to normalcy — instead, we got a year of chaos
Imagine President Joe Biden opening up the doors on his advent calendar on these final days before Christmas.
On the 21st, the doors reveal: a graph depicting the decline in Biden’s approval ratings from 55 percent in January to 44 percent today,
On the 22nd: a photograph of a helicopter hovering over the US embassy in Kabul as Afghanistan falls to the Taliban in August.
John PodhoretzFeb 13 2021
News
Democrats Want to Strip Gov. Cuomo of Coronavirus Powers Following Nursing Home Coverup
New York Democrats, in a rare reprimand of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), are demanding that the Democrat leader be stripped of his emergency coronavirus powers in response to his administration’s coverup of coronavirus nursing home death data.
Cuomo, who has generally enjoyed unmitigated praise from the establishment media and fellow Democrats throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, is
Breitbart NewsJul 30 2021
News
House Democrats repeal amendment banning taxpayer funding for abortions overseas
House Democrats on Wednesday voted to repeal a ban on U.S. taxpayer funding for elective abortions in foreign countries.
The House voted 217-212 on a State Department and foreign assistance spending bill that, for the first time in more than half a century, did not include a provision know as the Helms Amendment, which blocks fundings for abortions. The bill, which no Republican
The BlazeDec 30 2019
News
Doctors' letters tout Bernie Sanders's health, three months after heart attack
Bernie Sanders's campaign released letters from three physicians that paint a rosy picture of the 2020 Democrat's health after he suffered a heart attack in the fall.
The first letter covering the Vermont senator's health comes from the Senate's attending physician, Brian Monahan. Sanders, 78, is "in good health currently," and the doctor sees no "limitation" of his "scheduled
Washington ExaminerJul 07 2020
News
McConnell Anticipates a Fifth Coronavirus Relief Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is weighing in on the possibility of a fifth coronavirus stimulus package.
During a brief discussion with reporters, confirmed lawmakers’ intent to developing a stimulus package “based on the conditions that we confront today.”
“We will be taking a look at — in the Senate in a couple of weeks — another package based on the conditions
Independent Journal ReviewAug 16 2021
News
Chinese Media Threaten Taiwan after Kabul Debacle: ‘The Island’s Defense Will Collapse in Hours’
Chinese media outlets carried threats to Taiwan and criticisms of the U.S. during the chaotic American withdrawal from Kabul.
An editorial by the Global Times, a Chinese state-run outlet, took aim at Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party and President Tsai Ing-wen.
National Review (News)