WHAT I'M READING

I'm still into trivia. I finished reading "Uncle John's Extraordinary Book of Facts." Now I'm reading Uncle John's True Crime:  A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, & Capers.

TRENDING

"Tent cities now part of American landscape." Drudge Report

"More educated women having babies outside of marriage." Drudge

"STUDY:  People spend 100 days of lives deciding what to watch." Drudge

"ALASKA AIR passenger booted 'for being fat in sports bra.'" Drudge

HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH

"Young pot consumers twice as likely to suffer from heart attack." Drudge

ABORTION [YES, HERE I GO AGAIN.]

"DOJ will 'protect' abortion seeks in TX." Drudge. Of course they will.

"“Follow the science” has been one of the coronavirus-pandemic mantras. When it comes to abortion, the science is clear and has been for quite a bit now. In some pregnancies, sonograms begin the photo albums for the child. In other pregnancies, what the mother doesn’t get to see, the doctor uses to guide the ending of this early life. Abortion has been so successful in ending lives in America because of euphemisms and pressures. We look away. We don’t let young women see what is happening, what abortion is. Girls are told — sometimes by their mothers — that they are too young. That their lives will be miserable and never amount to anything if they embrace the motherhood that is already a part of who they are. That’s not how Mom puts it, of course, but all her hopes for her daughter are strangled by the fear of this new life disrupting plans. But do we ever want to be in the position where we are destroying life?" Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online 9/6

THE WIT & WISDOM OF CAL THOMAS

"In the matter of a new Texas law banning abortions six weeks after gestation, when a fetal heartbeat can usually be detected by vaginal ultrasound, suppose the headlines had been different? Instead of words like "most restrictive in nation" (The Wall Street Journal) and "Supreme Court refuses to block Texas law" (The Washington Post), along with four stories splashed across the front page of The New York Times that seemed to be written from the perspective of pro-choice writers, what if the headlines had instead reflected another point of view that took the side of babies and the women who carry them?

"Those headlines and stories might have read: "Supreme Court decides to protect babies, recognizing Thomas Jefferson's writing about endowed life coming from God." Or, if that's too long for headline writers, how about "Supreme Court takes side of the unborn"? Might that have changed the perception about abortion by people who are on the fence, or conflicted? Information, including sonograms for abortion-minded pregnant women, has been shown to change minds. So has compassionate counseling and adoption services at pregnancy help centers." Cal Thomas, Townhall

AFGHANISTAN [AND HERE I GO AGAIN]

"Victorious Taliban gloat over ruins of CIA's Afghan base." Drudge

"Nancy Pelosi flies to Afghanistan to lecture stranded Americans on how bad Jan. 6 was." Babylon Bee

"In the aftermath of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, there’s going to be a refugee crisis. The Taliban’s reign will be brutal, but that’s only the start of Afghanistan’s problems. As Andrew Stuttaford explained on August 24, the Afghan economy is going to collapse, and it threatens to undo all of the gains in the standard of living the country made over the past 20 years . . . 

"With the end of the U.S. airlift on August 31, no airport in Afghanistan is currently operating, the story says. Fleeing by land isn’t any easier. “The Taliban say they will allow Afghans with valid passports and visas to travel out of the country,” the story adds. “So far, the country’s passport offices remain closed. The embassies of all Western nations and India have shut down and their diplomats have left the country.”

"In the past, 90 percent of Afghan refugees settled in Iran and Pakistan, and those countries aren’t willing to take in any more. It’s unclear where they’re supposed to go instead. Our supposed moral superiors in Europe aren’t too interested . . . 

"It’s not just “difficult” to leave Afghanistan right now; it’s nearly impossible. In the rush to meet Biden’s arbitrary deadline, many Afghans who America is obligated to help have been left behind. And many more who will be seeking refuge amidst a collapse in living standards and a brutal Islamist regime will have no place to go, in the Muslim world or anywhere else." NRO, Dominic Pino, 9/6

"Sen. Lindsey Graham stunned BBC reporter Stephen Sackur after making a prediction about the United States’ future involvement in Afghanistan. “Whether you like Trump or not, whether you believe it’s Trump’s fault or Biden’s fault, here’s where we’re at as a world: The Taliban are not reformed, they’re not new,” Graham said about the situation in Afghanistan. “They have a view of the world out of sync with modern times." "The South Carolina Republican said life for the Afghan people is about to get so bad that it will make Americans “sick to our stomach.” Beyond that, under Taliban rule, the country will end up providing a “safe haven” for other terror groups, prompting U.S. action, he claimed." Leah Barkoukis, Townhall

AN ATTACK ON OUR CHILDREN

"This article is not meant to attack young people struggling with deep-seated gender confusion. To the contrary, it is meant to expose the attack on these young people. To be totally candid, it’s as if a spirit of madness has descended on our society targeting the youth in particular. It’s as if reality has been turned upside down and truth no longer matters – or even exists. And it is downright heartbreaking to witness  . . . 

"Yet everywhere you turn, this is the new normal, even something to be celebrated, from our children’s schools to Hollywood and from the Olympics (with biological males competing against females) to the Equality Act . . . 

"It’s as if a horde of demons has been unleashed and our society has fallen into deep deception and delusion. And the ultimate victims, targeted for indoctrination from their earliest years, are the children . . . Whatever the cause of this societal madness, the question that remains is simple: what are we going to do about it?" Michael Brown, Townhall 9/6

POLITICAL POTPOURRI

"Biden's negligence on Afghanistan is not a singular event but a pattern of behavior. He has been negligent in his dismissal of the crisis at the border. The dramatic surge in illegal U.S. southern border crossings -- last month alone there were nearly 200,000 -- is a humanitarian crisis that has endangered lives and communities, increased human and drug trafficking 100-fold and turned the lives of people who live along the border upside down. Incompetence denotes that Biden has no idea what he is doing. And yes, he certainly seems unsteady in numerous settings. But he has shown stubborn purpose in making the withdrawal from Afghanistan, whatever the circumstances. He has been equally purposeful in showing no responsibility for conditions at the border. That is negligence." Salena Zito, Townhall