President Biden announced he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war which 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 Democrats. I will not pass…

I have seen America’s future. It looks a lot like Hawaii.

The future includes internal travel restrictions — Americans moving around inside their own country — never before thought possible, or even constitutional. Hawaii, an American state, had to decide if they accepted American me, much as a foreign country controls its borders and decides which outsiders may enter.

Despite my two vaccinations, Hawaii required a very specific $119 COVID test, which, after me clicking Accept several times, sent my DNA information to everyone buried in the Terms of Service. For them who won’t think good, today it’s a COVID…

We ignore uncomfortable truths. The melding of the horrors of slavery and civil rights era lynchings with the killing of George Floyd, all wrapped in the Theory of Everything of systemic racism, flirts with incitement to violence. It won’t fix anything but falling MSM circulation rates, but that’s sort of the point.

Charles Blow in the NYT writes there is a direct line from disobedient slaves whipped in the 17th century to blacks lynched in the 20th to George Floyd in 2021, cranked on Fentanyl, dying in restraint after trying to pass a phony $20 bill. …

If only we’d been able to see sooner the disease wasn’t the hoax, the response was.

How do we even know now? Pigs are flying everywhere. After fanning COVID panic for a year, Democratic newsletter Salon admits it was all for partisan purposes: “Americans have been sucked into an all-or-nothing approach, with your choice of all or nothing depending largely on your partisan identity.”

Salon continues “Trump’s rejection of sensible precautions caused many of his political opponents to run hard in the opposite direction, embracing the lockdowns as if they were a point of personal virtue and inherent good, instead of a temporary and deeply unpleasant measure necessary to contain the virus. Worse, liberals were so…

Following yet another significant mass shooting (Atlanta, not Boulder or any others this week) we turn to the most important question: how it can be politicized?

That means reflexively declaring the murders in Georgia a hate crime against Asians, triggered within a mentally ill white man by remarks Trump made a year ago labeling COVID the “Wuhan Flu.” The women killed, with a mix of Korean and Chinese names, some of whom may have been American citizens, simply were first turned into generic “Asians” and then ubiquitous victim-props of, well, Trump, white supremacy, maybe all Fox viewers.

Of the eight…

New data shows the U.S. State Department was a more diverse workplace in 1986 than it is today. Despite recruiting a more diverse pool of diplomats over three decades, the Department has failed to promote them, and ultimately to retain them. Why?

The Politico article with this new data does a comprehensive job of describing how the agency that represents America does not look like America. The article, however, does a mediocre job of explaining the reasons behind the failure, and how they contribute to larger problems and group-think diplomatic failures.

State does indeed have a diversity problem. The problem…

The Texas governor announced residents will no longer be required to wear masks. Some 15 other states — Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee — also do not have mask orders in place.

Criticism of Texas (there are not enough votes in the other states to warrant much criticism) was swift. Joe Biden called the unmasking “Neanderthal thinking.” Photogenic loser Beto O’Rourke said the unmandate is a “death warrant killing the people of Texas.”

We’ve seen this all before. About a year ago when Florida reopened its…

We know what keeps America safe at night — rough men on walls stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm, duh. But what about Canada? Or say, Cambodia or Bolivia? How do they stay safe?

This is by way of trying to figure out why Joe Biden bombed Syria and derailed the resumption of the Iran nuclear accord, and why he has called off, delayed, or stalled further withdrawals from the places along the bloody trail of the old Global War of Terror. Canada (along with Cambodia, Bolivia and most others) never sent any of…