Month: August 2021

Thousands march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women’s March in Washington, DC, U.S., January 21, 2017. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) With so many feminist advances, women should be getting happier instead of just more medicated. Over the last five decades, feminism has made a long march through American culture, culminating in the first female vice president of
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Torre degli Asinelli, Bologna, Italy (Joseph Loconte) The modern university could use some intellectual nourishment, Bolognese-style. This essay series explores Italy’s unique contribution to the rich inheritance of Western civilization, offering a defense of the West’s political and cultural achievements. Bologna, Italy — The idea of the university, of an institution devoted to freedom of
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Two weeks before ISIS-K launched an attack outside the Kabul airport, CNN’s chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward, spoke with a senior ISIS-K commander who allegedly promised to “restart operations” after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Tragically, that threat became reality on Thursday when ISIS-K launched an attack outside the Kabul airport where evacuation operations
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Rep. Peter Meijer (R., Mich.) during his 2020 campaign. (Peter Meijer for Congress, via YouTube) The Michigan congressman and Army veteran talks to National Review. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen news broke that two members of Congress, Republican Peter Meijer of Michigan and Democrat Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, had secretly flown to Hamid Karzai International
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(Luba Kolomytseva) A Firing Line conversation with Frank Meyer biographer Daniel Flynn There are times in the affairs of men when you need a Frank Meyer. This may be one of them. Meyer, an editor of this journal from 1956 until his death in 1972, was the man who more than any other was responsible
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A mother in Chicago claims that a judge stripped her of parental rights because she was not vaccinated against COVID-19. “In what all parties agree is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented step, a judge at Chicago’s Daley Center has stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot,” WFLD-TV reported.
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Comedian Bill Maher delivered a stinging message for liberals on his HBO show Friday, explaining the “lesson of Afghanistan” is that actual oppression does not, for the most part, exist in America, despite claims from progressives. Maher began his closing segment by relaying sentiment from immigrants who move to America, “All you do is b***h
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British Royal Marine Commandos and U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit work at an Evacuation Control Center (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 18, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/First Lieutenant Mark Andries/Handout via Reuters) The disastrous U.S.–Taliban “partnership” begins with a massacre. Even as suicide bombers attacked
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Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Friday that at least one Texas county courthouse will defy President Joe Biden’s declaration ordering American flags at half-staff to honor American service members who died in the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport this week. What did Biden do? Hours after the terrorist attack — which killed 13
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Only days before her death, Sgt. Nicole Gee was pictured cradling an Afghan baby at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gee was one of the 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghans who were killed in the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport. Friends and fellow service members remember Nicole Gee, who was
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Most Americans have looked at the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and considered it an embarrassment to America. But flagrantly pro-Biden journalists are energetically spinning that everything is quite hunky-dory…right up until Thursday’s suicide bombing that killed 13 Marines and 169 civilians, as they still try to separate human remains. On Wednesday, Eric Levitz of New
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks about Afghanistan, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., August 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden said Saturday that the situation on the ground in Afghanistan continues to be “extremely dangerous” and that an attack on the Kabul airport is “highly likely” in the next 24-36
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People camp out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to highlight the expiration of the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions, in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Much of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion striking down the CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium reads as if it came directly from The Federalist Papers. “We
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Comedian Andy Richter, known for his role as Conan O’Brien’s sidekick, has inadvertently exposed the unintended consequences of the controversial eviction moratorium. What did Richter say? Writing on Twitter, Richter said his son is searching for a studio apartment in southern California. According to Richter, the landlord of one perspective apartment requested six months of
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A California teacher instructed her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag after she removed the American flag from her classroom because it made her uncomfortable, according to a report. The school district has allegedly launched an investigation into the incident. The alleged teacher was exposed by the massively popular “Libs of TikTok”
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In the August 22 cover story for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, San Francisco-based magazine journalist Jaeah Lee touched on the anti-Asian-American hate crimes, but while it’s an important and valid story, it dealt very gingerly with certain aspects. Lee’s headline used one family’s story as a jumping off point: “Why Was Vicha Ratanapakdee Killed? — His
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The Pentagon on Saturday refused to release the names of the so-called ‘high-profile’ ISIS planners killed in a single drone strike Friday evening. Pentagon will not release names of the 2 ‘high-profile’ ISIS planners killed in single U.S. drone strike: Kirby — Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) August 28, 2021 Central Command said Friday night that the
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