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opinion
Atomic Ayatollahs Up the Ante on Biden Administration
A recently completed, confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report to the U.N. Security Council on Iran’s nuclear program claims Tehran continues to swiftly advance its atomic activities. No surprise there. In fact, the Institute for Science and International Security estimates the “breakout” time needed for Iran to produce enough fissile material for a single nuclear… -
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Biden Administration Whistles Past the Border as Crisis Worsens
The Biden administration wants you to pay no attention to that mess on the border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered a shutdown on Thursday of six points of entry on his state’s border due to an overwhelming surge in migrants. He then reversed the decision hours later, saying in a statement that President… -
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Putting a Spotlight on Biden’s Problematic Nominees for Government Posts
As debate rages in Congress over spending packages and election reform bills, Senate confirmations for President Joe Biden’s executive branch nominees continue to move forward. Some higher profile nominees—such as Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget and David Chipman as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—attracted… -
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After Biden Abandons Afghan Women, His ‘Women’s Rights’ Rhetoric Rings Hollow
In a bold act of defiance against the Taliban, hundreds of Afghan women took to the streets of Kabul last Tuesday morning, demanding that the Taliban respect their rights. In response, Taliban fighters beat them with sticks and rifles. Validating the fears of Afghan women’s rights activists, the Taliban is showing its true colors after initially reassuring… -
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Biden Risks Importing Potential Afghan Terrorists, Predators Into US
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a committee on which I serve. The secretary has a lot of explaining to do. In the past month, we have seen a catastrophic failure of policy in Afghanistan by the Biden administration. Over and over and over again, President… -
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Hail, Biden!: The President’s Toothless Caesarism
President Joe Biden demonstrated his commitment to “norms” last week by delivering a speech threatening governors, and all who oppose his will, with a unilateral edict requiring COVID-19 vaccinations. As my colleague Fred Lucas reported, Biden “directed the Labor Department to develop an emergency regulation giving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the authority to… -
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By Empowering Taliban, Biden Enables Next 9/11
President Joe Biden is doing the unthinkable. On the 20th anniversary of the dark day that terrorists struck New York City and Washington, D.C., he—more than any other world leader—is preparing the way for the next 9/11. Sept. 11, 2021, ought above all to be a day of remembrance, a reflection on loss, a homage to bravery,… -
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Catholic Charities Invites Biden to See Border Crisis in Person
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas invited President Joe Biden to witness the migrant crisis for what would be his first trip to the southern border as president. Thousands of migrants resorted to staying in dangerous tent cities in Mexican border towns after the Trump administration implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols… -
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How Is the Biden Administration Vetting Afghan Refugees?
Afghan refugees are subject to security and health screening performed by Department of Homeland Security officials before they’re evacuated to the United States or a third country for additional processing, a Biden administration senior official said. Afghans must clear biometric and biographic vetting—including iris scans, palm and voice prints, and photographs—before they’re evacuated from the… -
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Biden Depends on Taliban for Safety of Americans Stranded in Afghanistan
The Biden administration is completely reliant on the Taliban to evacuate hundreds of Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the U.S. military pulled out, two experts on the long war there told The Daily Signal. At the same time, Senate Republicans are pressing President Joe Biden for precise figures on how many Americans remain in a country… -
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Terrorist Groups Are Still Operating in Afghanistan. Does Biden Have a Plan to Keep Us Safe?
“Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation on Tuesday afternoon. But is that war over? Biden may have withdrawn the U.S. military from Afghanistan, but terrorist groups intent on attacking the United… -
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5 Ways Biden’s Leadership Failed in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden must have ignored sound military advice in abandoning Afghanistan. No person who graduated boot camp would have planned a military operation like this. There are old military adages that just can’t be ignored: “Plans are useless, but planning is everything.” “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” “They enemy gets a vote.”… -
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Fact-Checking 9 Major Biden Claims About Retreat From Afghanistan
Throughout the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which began in mid-August and wrapped up just before midnight Tuesday in that nation’s capital, President Joe Biden made many comments that later proved to be inaccurate. After 20 years in Afghanistan, the last U.S. military personnel departed, leaving the Taliban to take over completely following Biden’s… -
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House Conservatives Call on Biden, Austin, Milley to Quit Over Afghanistan Withdrawal
The House Freedom Caucus called Tuesday for President Joe Biden and other administration officials to resign in order to take responsibility for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We call upon—most somberly—the resignation of this president, Joe Biden,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republican members of the… -
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Biden Must Avoid Another Fiasco With Iran After Afghanistan Debacle
President Joe Biden opted to continue with a half-baked “peace agreement” with the Taliban that he inherited from the previous administration and the results were disastrous. Now, the Biden administration is on the verge of making a similar mistake by seeking to resurrect the flawed 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration…. -
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. John F. Kennedy vs. Joe Robinette Biden
In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact… -
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Biden Still in Excuse-Making Mode
The blame game continues. In his latest speech on the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden fingered the terrorist group ISIS-K for the bombing at the Kabul airport. He then delivered more excuses why the hole he dug isn’t getting deeper. After a 90-day intelligence review, his administration still can’t figure out if COVID-19 came out of a… -
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Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy Instincts
The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is a bipartisan, transadministrational failure. It is a humiliation. The fact is that after 20 years, after thousands of lives were lost and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on the military, police, training, infrastructure, and education, the country fell in days. Whatever your position is on the presence… -
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Biden Isn’t Using All Available Resources to Rescue Americans in Afghanistan, Lawmakers Say
Rep. Mike Waltz, a colonel in the National Guard and a decorated Green Beret, is frustrated with what he describes as the State Department’s “risk aversion,” which he blames for preventing the military from quickly locating and rescuing all Americans still stranded in Afghanistan. With the evacuation window beginning to close, the Florida Republican is… -
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For Brits, Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle Is a Betrayal
When President Joe Biden addressed the American people on the Afghanistan withdrawal last Friday, we were witnessing the death spiral of one of the most calamitous U.S. administrations of modern times. This presidency is sinking faster than the Titanic, increasingly friendless on the world stage, and looking like easy prey to America’s enemies, from Beijing to Moscow. Biden appeared confused, angry, incoherent, and…