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Just Before Afghanistan Debacle, Biden Called Climate Change Our Greatest National Security Threat

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 19 2021

Remember when American presidents were criticized for showing excessive strength in the Middle East? It wasn’t long ago. When President Donald Trump made good on multiple predecessors’ empty promises by relocating our Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, establishment voices like Joe Biden expressed outrage and predicted chaos. Biden labeled it “short-sighted and frivolous,” apparently forgetting that he voted in favor of that relocation as a Senator in 1995. Then when President Trump smoke-checked murderous Iranian General Qassem Soleimani…

	The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties…
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Biden's Dithering Doomed Afghanis

	For months, President Joe Biden has opened the borders to Hispanic illegals, but he has turned a deaf…
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Why 2020 Was Unique

	There's a fascinating question in a new Fox News poll that suggests the political dynamics at work in…
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Biden Admits Green New Deal Is a Dream

	On Monday, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, ordered a "code red…
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Biden Slaps Another Bullseye on U.S. Businesses

	Should American businesses be held liable for millions of people whom they didn’t hire, don’t…
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Woke Nonsense is Warping Everyday Life

	Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as…
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The Texas Democrats' Farce Continues

	Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin…
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Biden's Unprecedented Attack on the Constitution

	Joe Biden certainly isn't the first president to violate his oath of office, but he might be the first…
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Mugged by Reality: With Police Increasingly Demonized, Murder Rates Skyrocket

	If a conservative is merely a liberal who has been mugged by reality, paraphrasing the late Irving Kristol…
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Biden Administration Should Look in Mirror Before Casting Stones Over Vaccinations

	It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation…
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"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]

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