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From the department of inevitable consequences. Following the American exit from Afghanistan, China’s move to claim the country’s vast mineral wealth is centered on a mountain south of Kabul. The mountain and the barren surrounding valley, in Logar province, a two-hour drive from the capital, contain one of the world’s biggest untapped reserves of copper. China…

The Biden administration keeps touting electric cars even though hardly anyone can afford them and the chip shortage continues because of our dependency on Asia in general and China specifically for tech components. If you loved the previous disruptions of China’s COVID shutdowns, enjoy this latest one. Mainland China is facing its worst Covid-19 outbreak…

On this week’s episode of shameless virtue signaling, guest stars, including Apple and Microsoft, took out an ad in The Dallas Morning News falsely accusing Texas of discriminating against gay people for investigating the sexual mutilation of children as part of the “transgender” movement. Here’s what Governor Abbott’s letter to the Texas Department of Family and…

China. It’s the gift that keeps on taking. And then taking some more. More than 262,000 pounds of prohibited meat products have been seized from the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport so far this year. 262,237 pounds of pork, chicken, beef and duck have been seized so far by agriculture specialists with U.S. Customs and Border…

Being an American is a wonderful thing. It means inhabiting a vast nation whose habits, inventions, and tastes shape the world. But that creates an illusion that everything in the world is about us. And it’s not. Especially these days when we often resemble a declining power. The battle between Russia and Ukraine is not…

I’m not sure that this is what the IRGC had in mind.  When President Trump took out Iran terror leader Qasem Soleimani, we were repeatedly told by Iran’s apologists in this country and by the Ayatollah’s terror state that revenge was coming. Now the revenge is finally here.  A woman is accused of stabbing her online…

The most effective form of censorship is self-censorship. And one of the unique Soviet phenomena of cancel culture is the liberal intellectual essay which bemoans cancel culture censorship and then never gets around to saying what the author is suppressing herself from speaking out about. The latest case in point is a voluminous Atlantic essay…

Chutzpah. Israel is not doing enough to support Ukraine by providing defensive aid, absorbing refugees, and taking a clear stance against Russia, Ukrainian envoy to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said Friday, accusing Israel of being “afraid” of Moscow. Israel has provided a ton of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. It voted in support of Ukraine at the…

While Biden tries to cut a deal with Iran, the Islamic terror state keeps amping up the terror with repeated attacks on Americans. As I noted back in January, “On January 3rd, two suicide drones were aimed at the State Department’s Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center near the Baghdad International Airport. Two more terror drones targeted American…

However the conflict in Ukraine shakes out, Russia’s military deterrence has suffered a severe blow.  While Americans tend to be surprised by Russia’s military incompetence, Putin just adopted the familiar stage of czars and Communist dictators of trying to win a war by throwing a whole lot of bodies and firepower at it. The track…

The second stage of mainstreaming radical ideas is saying the quiet part out loud. When it comes to Israel, that means beginning to dispense with the pretense that hostility toward the Jewish State has anything to do with the liberation of captured territories during the Six Day War in 1967.  Or, for that matter, that…