President Biden he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war that has killed some 2,300 Americans, an unknown number of Afghans, and cost trillions of dollars to accomplish nothing.Biden speaks more plainly about failure than any previous president.We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result. I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two...…President Biden he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war that has killed some 2,300 Americans, an unknown number of Afghans, and cost trillions of dollars to accomplish nothing.Biden speaks more plainly about failure than any previous president.We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result. I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two...WW…

Peter Van BurenBecome a Member today for a growing stake in the conservative movement.Join here!Our cities are still littered with relics of pandemic tyranny, and the effects of such reminders will be lasting.Congress should reassert its prerogative to end wars.The intelligence community is playing for keeps, so pay attention.…Peter Van BurenBecome a Member today for a growing stake in the conservative movement.Join here!Our cities are still littered with relics of pandemic tyranny, and the effects of such reminders will be lasting.Congress should reassert its prerogative to end wars.The intelligence community is playing for keeps, so pay attention.WW…

,,,,,thatBecome a Member today for a growing stake in the conservative movement.Join here!The intelligence community is playing for keeps, so pay attention.A house divided against itself cannot stand, said Abraham Lincoln, invoking a biblical truth.The actual malice doctrine was an unjustified innovation, a departure from an older, simpler, and more wholesome constitutional tradition.…,,,,,thatBecome a Member today for a growing stake in the conservative movement.Join here!The intelligence community is playing for keeps, so pay attention.A house divided against itself cannot stand, said Abraham Lincoln, invoking a biblical truth.The actual malice doctrine was an unjustified innovation, a departure from an older, simpler, and more wholesome constitutional tradition.WW…

Let’s take on the case of the Human Barbie Valeria Lukyanova, a dose of reductio ad absurdum for anyone who thinks that a little makeup or some “work” can make everything alright for our society.Sometimes the best way to see through an argument is by employing the tool of , where you take an argument w-a-y out to an extreme to make it very clear that the whole thing is just wrong. Let’s take on the case of the Human Barbie Valeria Lukyanova, a dose of reductio ad absurdum for anyone who thinks that a little makeup or some “work” can make everything alright for our society.Human Barbie...…Let’s take on the case of the Human Barbie Valeria Lukyanova, a dose of reductio ad absurdum for anyone who thinks that a little makeup or some “work” can make everything alright for our society.Sometimes the best way to see through an argument is by employing the tool of , where you take an argument w-a-y out to an extreme to make it very clear that the whole thing is just wrong. Let’s take on the case of the Human Barbie Valeria Lukyanova, a dose of reductio ad absurdum for anyone who thinks that a little makeup or some “work” can make everything alright for our society.Human Barbie...WW…

Shakar AamerSomedays we have a little fun in this space, commenting on world events with a joke, some satire, a little snark. Today will not be one of those days.The Bush and Obama administrations have gone to extraordinary lengths to hide America’s archipelago of secret prisons and systems of torture. They at first denied any of that even existed, then used an ever-so-compliant media to call it all necessary for our security and very survival, then shaping dumb-cow public opinion with ersatz terms like enhanced interrogation to keep the word torture out of the discourse, then having the...…Shakar AamerSomedays we have a little fun in this space, commenting on world events with a joke, some satire, a little snark. Today will not be one of those days.The Bush and Obama administrations have gone to extraordinary lengths to hide America’s archipelago of secret prisons and systems of torture. They at first denied any of that even existed, then used an ever-so-compliant media to call it all necessary for our security and very survival, then shaping dumb-cow public opinion with ersatz terms like enhanced interrogation to keep the word torture out of the discourse, then having the...WW…

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi ArabiaThis post was originally published to .Saudi Arabia, one of America’s bestest friends in the fight against extremists like IS who behead people, was ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, of all countries in numbers of executed people, according to Amnesty International.The neat thing is that while the U.S. is at war with IS, screeching about how they behead, the Saudi’s just keep sending people into really fair Sharia courts and then whacking away as the U.S. sits silent.Now, Saudi Arabia is...…Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi ArabiaThis post was originally published to .Saudi Arabia, one of America’s bestest friends in the fight against extremists like IS who behead people, was ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, of all countries in numbers of executed people, according to Amnesty International.The neat thing is that while the U.S. is at war with IS, screeching about how they behead, the Saudi’s just keep sending people into really fair Sharia courts and then whacking away as the U.S. sits silent.Now, Saudi Arabia is...WW…

If America has a fast forward button on it, someone should push it ahead to November. We won’t be done with the virus until we’re done with the election. Between prudence and overreaction lies politics.We bleat about wanting decisions to be based on science, then we do the same dumb red-blue thing, even counting the corona dead differently (nothing left certain but taxes now) to make the numbers seem better or worse depending on shifty politics. Something that should not be about Trump at all is All About Trump.It’s killing us. There is no other country in the world so driven by a...…If America has a fast forward button on it, someone should push it ahead to November. We won’t be done with the virus until we’re done with the election. Between prudence and overreaction lies politics.We bleat about wanting decisions to be based on science, then we do the same dumb red-blue thing, even counting the corona dead differently (nothing left certain but taxes now) to make the numbers seem better or worse depending on shifty politics. Something that should not be about Trump at all is All About Trump.It’s killing us. There is no other country in the world so driven by a...WW…