American Thinker,
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Uldis Sprogis
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9/13/2021 9:15:41 AM
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Is China the next superpower? Is the media's depiction of the country as a ten-foot giant really accurate? That's dubious. For all its bluster on the global stage, China is a giant in trouble. (snip) Perhaps the biggest problem in China is its erstwhile "one child" policy, which created many single, self-absorbed adults with poor social skills and an entitlement mindset that included no great desire to marry young and bear the financial burden of offspring. (snip) Another problem is income disparity, with a vast gulf of differences between a tiny urban elite and the country's many urban and rural poor.
American Thinker,
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John Ellis
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9/13/2021 4:34:16 AM
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One of the strangest things about the Afghanistan debacle is that in spite of extraordinarily harsh criticism world-wide, nobody has resigned and nobody has been fired. (snip) There are three obvious cases where resignation was and still is unavoidable -- and for more than one of the reasons I’ve cited.
First, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. (snip) Second, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (snip) Third, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. snip) It has been reported that Blinken and Sullivan had reservations about what the President was doing but didn’t press those reservations because they knew what the boss wanted.
American Thinker,
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Rob Jenkins
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9/13/2021 3:19:37 AM
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As a college professor for over 35 years, I’ve gotten to know three generations of students: Gen Y (born between 1965 and 1980), the Millennials (1981-1996), and now Gen Z (1997-2012). And because I teach rhetoric, I’ve read thousands of their papers, providing substantial insight into the way they think. (snip) In comparison to their Millennial predecessors, my Gen Z students tend to be more open-minded, more interested in facts and logic, more inclined to question the status quo, and more amenable to free markets. They also take a more nuanced view of history
American Thinker,
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Andrea Widburg
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9/13/2021 3:16:31 AM
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I held off on writing about the “F*** Joe Biden” chants that began at college football games a couple of weeks ago. I had three reasons. First, I’m not a fan of obscenities because I think they cheapen speech. Second, these chants were initially small groups at Southern colleges, which really didn’t seem like a “thing.” Third, I wasn’t going to get excited until I learned whether the chants had legs. Well, it turns out they do have legs and they’re becoming large chants at multiple games (including New York baseball games). And most importantly, Joe Biden knows about them and isn’t happy.
American Thinker,
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Andrea Widburg
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9/12/2021 3:45:47 AM
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George W. Bush appeared at Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to honor those who died on 9/11. It was an interesting speech, but not necessarily in a good way. (snip) Bush said that Islamic violent extremists are the same as domestic violent extremists when it comes to their “disregard of human life.” The big question is whether Bush was referring to Antifa and BLM or to the January 6 protesters—and, interestingly, everybody assumes he was speaking about the latter. (snip) Considering that the January 6 protesters killed no one and destroyed nothing, the words are inapposite to them. They apply perfectly to BLM and Antifa
American Thinker,
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Brian C. Joondeph MD
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9/10/2021 4:37:31 AM
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President Joe Biden and his team of military, intelligence, and diplomatic advisors oversaw America’s most epic surrender, on the world stage, under the lights and cameras of international media recording it for posterity, spinning the news to mitigate American failure. (snip) the U.S. government has no idea how many Americans remain in Afghanistan. (snip) How many have made it back to America? Where are the interviews of returning Americans, telling their stories to Oprah or Ellen, or any of myriad cable news anchors and hosts? Where are the feel-good stories in People Magazine?
American Thinker,
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Patricia McCarthy
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9/10/2021 4:34:05 AM
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Thursday, President Biden delivered the most insulting, contemptuous and divisive speech by a president in US history. (snip) What is he truly worried about? The unvaccinated! In his addled mind, it is the vax resistant who pose the greatest danger to mankind. That the vaccines are failing does not alter his mindset. In his speech Thursday, he falsely blamed the unvaxxed for “the pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Most of the new cases are among the fully vaccinated, both here and abroad. It is the vaccines that are creating the variants.
American Thinker,
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Thomas Lifson
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9/10/2021 4:30:07 AM
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Last December, President-elect Biden promised no mask or vaccine mandates: [Twitter video] He broke that promise Thursday, in a speech demanding federal employees (except the 644,000 Postal Service employees – see below) receive the experimental gene therapy injections, and that government contractors and large employers require either vaccination or weekly testing for their employees. (snip) in India and the UK, where the delta variant spread earlier than here, it appears to fizzle down of its own accord. So, Biden may be seeking to claim a “victory” by taking credit for a decline that is already in the cards.
American Thinker,
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Alison Ruthless
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As the ravages of the COVID narrative continue to wreak damage, there remains a not insignificant swath of brave health care workers, from physicians to CNAs to administrative workers, who quietly but persistently question. (snip) The message is clear these days from the higher-ups in health care. Dissenters must be made to pay the price one way or another as pressure builds. Get the vaccine. (snip) Yet we are not supposed to ask questions, not supposed to doubt. It does not matter if the masks, the shutdowns, and anything else makes sense. It is not science; it is compliance.
American Thinker,
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Fletch Daniels
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9/9/2021 3:58:05 AM
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Never before in human history has a global pandemic resulted in the dismemberment of first-world economies, highly divisive universal vaccine and mask mandates, education-stunting school shutdowns, and the isolation of entire societies to the point of extreme mental health damage.
Throughout all this, the media have remained incurious as to how this historic misery happened.
Anyone with a half a brain cell already knew that a new virus that started within a stone's throw of a biosafety level 4 laboratory in an authoritarian nation likely either leaked or was released from that laboratory. But acknowledging this obvious fact immediately led to expulsion from "polite" society, or at least from social media.
American Thinker,
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Robert Jones
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9/8/2021 3:07:41 AM
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As I write this, both my wife and I have COVID. My wife came down with COVID symptoms approximately two weeks ago. My symptoms started approximately a week ago. Our diagnoses were confirmed at a local clinic.
Both my wife and I are unvaccinated. This is because we believed that we would inevitably catch COVID, and we wanted to prepare in the best way possible for that eventuality rather than rely upon an endless series of COVID "vaccines" (snip) The purpose of this article is to discuss — from a layperson's perspective — how we prepared for COVID and what we could have done better in that regard.
American Thinker,
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Andrea Widburg
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9/8/2021 3:03:48 AM
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Perhaps, at long last, the deadly reign of Anthony Fauci will come to an end. That’s because The Intercept, a hard-left publication, has revealed 900 pages of government documents definitively proving that Fauci used his position to fund gain-of-function research into bat viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (“WIV”)—and then lied to Congress about it.
Since February 2020, the wizened Fauci has been the face of the government’s response to the pandemic. In the ensuing 20 months, Fauci was frequently wrong, incredibly arrogant, and deeply dishonest. Because he was the anti-Trump, though, we were stuck with him.