Author: Crowhill Report

If I were president, and I had put our country into the current situation in Afghanistan, I would tell America, our allies, our enemies, and the world, something like this…

Jocko Willink pretends he’s the president, and tells us what he would say.

There is an element of the left that clearly hates America.

Democrats trust the Taliban more than their fellow Americans

British Parliament Holds Joe Biden in Contempt for Afghanistan Catastrophe

Biden was going to bring back competence and respect.

But those were campaign promises, and we know how valuable those are. Mexico still hasn’t paid for the wall.

And speaking of walls … Greece completes border wall extension to deter potential Afghan migrants

This song — “Looking for Eden” by Ian Anderson on his solo album, “Walk into Light” — has always made me think of that.

NYC Restaurateurs: It’s Not Our Job to Enforce Vaccine Mandates

My first reaction to this was my irritation with the government for pushing yet another enforcement issue onto businesses, and to wonder where they get the authority to do it. Then I remembered that restaurants are already required to check ID before they sell alcohol, so … I guess it’s generally within their bailiwick.

However, (1) I don’t think it’s good practice in general to force businesses to have to do too many things like this, and (2) as the restaurant owners ask, why just them? Why not Home Depot, CVS, etc.? (In general, it seems the big boys are getting favorable treatment in the pandemic.)

As with so many of these Covid things, this seems rather “seat of the pants.”