Plus: 7 Takeaways as Milley, Austin, McKenzie Testify on Afghanistan, China Phone Calls
September 29 2021
Good morning from Washington, where three of the nation’s top military leaders try to explain what happened on the way out of Afghanistan. Fred Lucas has highlights of a Senate hearing. In a personal account, former homeland security chief Chad Wolf writes about how protesters violated his family’s privacy. On the podcast, we catch up with a teacher who was fired for “misgendering” a student. Plus: the preschool and family leave giveaways in the left’s tax-and-spend spree, and the Democrats decide to draft America’s daughters. On this date in 1988, Stacy Allison of Portland, Oregon, becomes the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth.
The hearing covered how many Americans remain in Afghanistan, what military leadership had advised President Biden to do on Afghanistan, and who had known about Gen. Milley’s calls to Chinese leadership.
One study showed that the Head Start program has little to no impact on the cognitive, social-emotional, or health outcomes of participants, or the parenting skills of their parents.
Current law regarding the Selective Service requires all "males" to register; the Democrats want to change it to require all "persons" to register, thus forcing it on women, too.
This proposal would use taxpayer dollars to cover the paid family leave benefits that are already being paid for by private employers and 10 states that have their own paid family leave programs.