#Afghanistan didn’t have to fall the way you let it

#Afghanistan didn’t have to fall the way you let it

“#Afghanistan didn’t have to fall the way you let it” President Joe Biden admitted Monday “the buck stops with me” — but nonetheless stood by his decision to rush troops out of Afghanistan, despite the nightmarish mess he’s leaving behind. “I am deeply saddened by the facts we now face, but I do not regret…

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#Willow Smith releases new video, Billie Eilish tour dates

#Willow Smith releases new video, Billie Eilish tour dates

“#Willow Smith releases new video, Billie Eilish tour dates” It was a big Monday for Willow Smith, who dropped a live video for her song “Lipstick” and released tour dates for her upcoming performance schedule with singer-songwriter Billie Eilish.  Smith — who musically goes by the mononym Willow — will be performing with Eilish beginning…

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#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021” The Issue: The Taliban’s capture of Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Biden’s removal of US troops. Are we the greatest country in the world with the strongest military power (“Kabul falls,” Aug. 16)? Seems hard to believe. No disrespect to our brave men and women. The problem goes…

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#State bureaucrats are hoarding federal funds meant for religious schools

#State bureaucrats are hoarding federal funds meant for religious schools

“#State bureaucrats are hoarding federal funds meant for religious schools” Unelected bureaucrats in the state Education Department have dragged their feet on spending critical COVID relief funding for Catholic and other nongovernment-school kids, undermining the efforts of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the state Legislature to deliver for all our state’s schoolchildren and potentially dumping the…

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#Pelosi’s scolding Taliban for their brutality even as her leader green-lights atrocities

#Pelosi’s scolding Taliban for their brutality even as her leader green-lights atrocities

“#Pelosi’s scolding Taliban for their brutality even as her leader green-lights atrocities” If you’re wondering how the situation in Afghanistan could’ve spun so horrifically out of control, and so quickly, consider how Democrats now running the country think. On Saturday, just as the Taliban were set to take over the country, Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually…

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#Can we export democracy and other commentary

#Can we export democracy and other commentary

“#Can we export democracy and other commentary” Intellectual: Can We Export Democracy? “Should we conclude from” America’s Afghanistan failure “that democracy cannot be exported?” asks Guy Sorman at City Journal. “Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Tunisia demonstrate the contrary. But everything depends on circumstances and local culture.” India’s “local traditions of election and deliberation…

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