Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence

Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence. The botched withdrawal wasn’t a mistake or a one-time bad call. The catastrophe occurred due to consistent and specific inept leadership failures at the Department of Defense, Department of State, the White House, and the Intelligence Community. Failure to plan. Failure to be realistic about the strength and capabilities of the Taliban. Failure to adequately prepare and vet people to get them out of the country before the U.S. military departed. 

"I would never, ever say that I regret supporting the first Black woman vice president, ever. But the disappointment is real." "I was obsessed with the idea of this person who could undo the systemic, the systematic racism and sexism and heterosexism in government with one fell swoop, and now I’m thinking to myself, did I just make up a person in my head who could do those things?"

The thing about UFO photographs is that they are never clear. Experts and enthusiasts have been disappointed for decades by bad-quality photos and videos of unidentified flying objects. World's clearest UFO photo revealed after 30 years; it's called 'The Calvine Photo'

A look at the world’s skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower. The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit and offer 360-degree views of the city. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”

From the Babylon Bee: I wish that we could leave California Now

WHY CAN’T LIBERALS DO MATH?

I suppose the answer is, if they could do math they wouldn’t be liberals.

It is a familiar pattern: the Left sees an organization or institution that is widely respected and takes it over. It then politicizes, degrades and misuses that institution. The predictable result is that the public regard formerly enjoyed by the institution is lost.

"Another proud moment for women's sports": This trans golfer is shellacking female opponents left and right in the LPGA qualifiers

An excellent article on the attack on Salman Rushdie. We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning

He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment.

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

Censorship at a Top College for Free Speech. Claremont McKenna threatened to bar me from teaching required classes for quoting ‘Huck Finn.’

Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog?

 Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog? BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog

August 6 is the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  Millions of lives were saved.

Also worth watching, Bill Whittle's timeless lecture on the issues

New York Times guest essay trashes the south: 'Awful,' 'fury-soaked,' 'gun-littered'

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

Want to take a road trip? Here are the seven longest Interstate Highways in the U.S.

Pretty entertaining article about owning a Tesla.

Has Biden Lost It? He Never Had It. His presidency’s failure rests on a longstanding character flaw: He follows the Democratic Party wherever it goes.

How the Climate Elite Spread Misery. Most people are more worried about high gas and food prices, which green policies make worse.

How Jesus' apostles died.

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Cultists.  I was told that in the context of climate change the science is settled, that there is only one possible answer and that anything else is at least quackery and possibly felony denial.

Reports of the Choco Taco’s Death Are Possibly Exaggerated. It turns out killing the Choco Taco was what it took for the wacky ice cream treat to get its due. And it may not be frozen out for long.

A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be “acceptable” and  uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.

"Cover up Your Bumps": California State Senator Encourages Gay Orgies During Monkeypox Outbreak. We report 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, 2022, at 43 sites in 16 countries. Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men