Plus: There Are Better Ways to Fight COVID-19 Than Mask Mandates
August 30 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden vows to punish terrorists for killing 13 U.S. service members, whose bodies he met yesterday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. D-Day veterans wouldn’t understand the debacle Biden created in Afghanistan, Mike Pence writes from Normandy. Pennsylvanians soon may pay the price of their governor’s climate change agenda, Kevin Mooney reports. On the podcast, theologian Carl Trueman breaks down how we got to the transgender movement. Plus: hope for conservatives on campus, and your letters on America’s exit from Afghanistan. On this date in 1967, the Senate confirms President Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American on the Supreme Court.
Witnessing the unfolding tragedy of the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, I could not help but reflect on the differences between American civilian leadership in 1944 and now.
Ignore the hysterical reporting. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is failing to accurately justify its guidance that vaccinated people wear masks.
Since Pennsylvania is No. 2 only to Texas in oil and gas production, the final decision on the cap-and-trade proposals will have significant ramifications across state lines.
"One of the reasons why the trans issue is rising among young people is young people want an identity," says Carl Trueman, author of “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.”
Previously under Taliban rule, women could not work outside the home in most instances, leave the house without a male guardian, or receive a proper education.
“Murderers of nonbelievers is what the Taliban has been and will continue to be. ... You don’t negotiate with these kinds of people. You defeat them soundly,” writes Barry E. Stern.
