BUT WILL THEY FOLLOW THEIR OWN SCIENCE? Large CDC Study Doesn’t Support Mask Mandates in Schools.

SHE SEEMS NICE: Woke Army Sergeant to American Civilians: ‘That Weapon Is Pointed… At You.’

POINTS AND FIGURES: Leading from fear. “Worth dissecting where we are with Covid. Instead of watching the television, or listening to blowhard politicians, it is best to look at data and statistics. Unfortunately, most people do not understand stats. Most of the stats you see in the news are manipulated in some way to drive an opinion.”

TEA LEAVES, READ AND ACKNOWLEDGED: Vice President Harris cancels plans to campaign for California Gov. Newsom.

The only thing I can’t figure out is which one decided the other stinks the most.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Almost one-third of recent college grads moved back in with their parents: survey.

OH, CANADA: PM Justin Trudeau Abandons Kabul Evacuation Operation, Leaves Canadians Stranded.

WHY FUND RACIST PROPAGANDA? ‘Deny public tax dollars for social justice education,’ researcher argues.

HMM:

MICHAEL BARONE: A Tale of Two Airlifts.

AMERICANS STEPPING UP WHEN OFFICIALDOM HAS FAILED: US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies. “With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul’s airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the ‘Pineapple Express’ to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.”

THE PRESS WILL HELP: Joe Biden Begins the Bid to Rewrite the History of His Bloody Botched Afghan Exit.

FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE NATION: Pelosi Tweets About Women’s Equality Day After Americans Killed in Kabul.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.

I THINK THE EXCUSES ARE BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE:

“Biden is a stubborn guy,” one former Obama-administration foreign-policy official told me, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk more freely. “Sometimes he does not want to hear what he knows he doesn’t like … If the problem here was mostly not hearing what he didn’t want to hear and telling everyone to shut up and go away when they told him things he didn’t want to hear, that’s not the intelligence community’s fault.”

Sorry, won’t fly. Nobody resigned in protest. Nobody even leaked that Biden was ignoring advice. And the “Intelligence Community” didn’t predict the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. Can’t pin it all on the dotard in the White House — who the “Intelligence Community” worked hard, and illicitly, to put there anyway. You guys own this disaster, all the way down.

WE COULD USE A WIN RIGHT NOW: Feds to restart oil leasing after Biden loss in court. “Many of the promises that Joe Biden made to his progressive base during the campaign were the focus of his avalanche of executive orders signed shortly after taking office. Those actions won him widespread praise from liberals and most of the mainstream press. But one by one, a lot of those plans have begun to wilt after being exposed to the realities of the world.”

That’s an apt description of pretty much everything Biden has done as POTUS.

STOP THE STONEWALL: Arizona attorney general to Maricopa: Give up election information or lose state’s $700M.

An election so free and fair that no data about it can be released.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Jill Biden Should Be Arrested for Elder Abuse. “The country typically needs to hear from the president a lot in times like this. The problem with having Biden playing the role of president right now is that he is — for a variety of reasons — incapable of inspiring confidence. Obviously, the first of those reasons is that he is responsible for all of this. The other reason is that he is just a broken shell of whatever he once was.”

GIVE THEM NUKES: Poll: American Support for Taiwan at Historic High.

TO BE FAIR, CNN ISN’T THAT INTO CURRENT EVENTS: CNN Shocked to Discover Democrat Voters ‘Frustrated,’ Want to Recall Newsom Too.

AT LEAST HE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING: De Blasio’s legacy: A mass exodus from NYC’s public schools.

BOMBSHELL: U.S. Officials Handed Taliban a List of Names of Americans and Afghan Allies.

SO NEVER, THEN? As soon as we sober up, the Irish will fight the woke attack on the Notre Dame leprechaun.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong.

CENSORSHIP: Heckler’s Veto at SUNY Binghamton May Have Violated First Amendment: The university shut down a speech by noted economist Arthur Laffer because of organized heckling by “progressives.”

The proper response to threats against speakers is to punish the threateners. Silencing the speakers only encourages more threats.