New York Times

Did the last missile fired by the U.S. in Afghanistan kill an innocent aid worker who was carrying water for his family and not explosives?

Tulsi Gabbard doesn't mince words:

Islamist Ideology inspired the 9/11 attack and continues to fuel terrorism around the world.

Dr. Marty Makary

The 'natural immunity is unreliable' theory has done a lot of damage

"It's OK to have a wrong hypothesis but public health leaders have pushed their theory way too long after data became overwhelmingly clear."

Althouse rips Axios/Mike Allen's "America's Civil War of 2021":

"See what he did there? He conflated civil disorder and civil disobedience! Civil disobedience is protest that takes the form of not following the rule that you oppose. Here, that would mean you don't get the vaccine. That's nothing like storming the Capitol."

Jonathan Turley 

White House Chief of Staff Admits Vaccine Mandate is a “Work Around” the Constitutional Objections

Via Squawk Box

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottleib: Fauci Funded Wuhan Gain Of Function Research On Even Deadlier MERS-like Coronaviruses

Peter Boghossian: My University (Portland State) Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.

Steve Watson:

Different ‘Pandemic Potential’ Brain Destroying Virus With 75% Death Rate Spreading In India

Don Surber: Maureen Dowd and Peggy Noonan should retire

Glenn Greenwald: "The number of people who have been criminally charged with inciting an insurrection on January 6 is exactly equal to the number of Americans who were criminally charged with colluding with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. A perfect symmetry."

American Compass:

Not What They Bargained For: A Survey of American Workers

The survey reveals that working-class Americans have become alienated from the labor movement, and perceive it as overly political. Many workers simply don't want to be part of a union that gets involved with national politics instead of just focusing on bread-and-butter issues in the workplace. The survey also highlights what workers do want: cooperative labor-management relations and concrete economic benefits.

Ric Grenell: "I know that from very first hand information. General Miller did not want to close Bagram but General Milley said that he did."

Legal Insurrection:

Fauci Lied: Documents Showcase U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Lab

Professor Richard Ebright: “The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.”

Matt Taibbi

Moral Majority Media Strikes Again

When Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stone, and others jumped on a dubious report of ivermectin overdoses, it was just the latest in a string of moral mania mishaps

News has become a corporatized version of the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which the goal of every broadcast is an anxiety-ridden audience provoked to the point of fury by the un-policed infamy of whatever wreckers are said to be threatening civilization this week: the unvaccinated, insurrectionists, Assadists, Greens, Bernie Bros, Jill Stein, Russians, the promoters of “white supremacy culture,” etc. Mistakes are inevitable because this brand of media business isn’t about accuracy, but rallying audiences to addictive disgust. 

Via Althouse

Joe Rogan: "Bro, do I have to sue CNN? They're making shit up. They are saying I'm taking horse dewormer. I literally got it [Ivermectin] from a doctor."

Althouse:

"It will always be fake feminism — 20 years ago and now and beyond — until Bill Clinton is held to account."

WSJ

Inside Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan

Red lights kept flashing.

The Intercept

Newly-released documents show U.S. funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

WSJ via Althouse:"

"A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’/The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S."

Enrollment rates for poor and working-class white men are lower than those of young Black, Latino and Asian men from the same economic background.

Dan O'Donnell (video): How did child brides end up at Ft. McCoy in Wisconsin?

 Sad if true.

National Archives Places ‘Harmful Language Alert’ On Page Hosting U.S. Constitution

Victor Davis Hanson:

In just a few months Joe Biden has wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the concocted anger directed at Donald Trump.

Voters Swing 17 Points Against Biden’s Migration Policies; Independents Even More Strongly Against

Jonathan Turley 

Did The Biden Administration Commit to a Knowingly Unconstitutional Act? New Evidence Surfaces on the Presumed Invalidity of the Farm Debt Relief Provision

Registered Democrat Trump-Hater Wore MAGA Hat and Attempted to Incite Riot Outside Capitol 1/6

Lara Logan:

Three female police officers executed in Kabul - another female police office, six months pregnant, executed by Taliban.

CNN Flashback:

Prior Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'

Gen. Milley finally says it: 

Afghan army not properly designed to defend country.

Daily Mail

Israel is planning to administer FOURTH Covid shot which could be adjusted to fight new variants as country battles wave of infections despite hugely successful vaccine roll-out

Rep. Michael McCaul (video):

Americans currently held hostage

 at Taliban airport

William McGurn via Althouse: 

"Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV."

Flashback 2018:

Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve

Just as antibiotics breed resistance in bacteria, vaccines can incite changes that enable diseases to escape their control. Researchers are working to head off the evolution of new threats.

Despite 95% vaccination rate, Cornell today has five times more COVID cases than it did this time last year