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Once again the Left, the Taliban, and China are on the same page.  Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference Thursday, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders. China’s foreign minister, meanwhile, led calls for the U.S. to unfreeze Afghan assets held abroad…

This shouldn’t be hard. The first two of the Islamic terror attacks on Israel were claimed by ISIS. I can understand that Biden doesn’t want to condemn Hamas or the PLO, which he continues to support and fund, but ISIS. Come on, man. “President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett…

Progworld, a sphere that now includes much of the media, is celebrating a vote that created Amazon’s first union. And you would have to be a prog to think that will last.  Amazon’s empire is increasingly built on outsourcing, its products and sellers to China, and its massive domestic delivery services to subcontractors. The only…

I’m not a big fan of the current prime minister, but I have to say that unlike the United States this is not a “right-wing” political sentiment.  During a wave of previous attacks, politicians who are not on the right including, famously, Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem, made similar statements. “What is expected of you,…

Remember all those classic stories about computers watching your every move. We live in that best of all possible worlds. Unfortunately, our tech overlords are human and they keep programming the computers to police our behavior and our thoughts. On that note, Google Docs will now “flag” language that isn’t sufficiently inclusive or that the…