The author of ‘The Kite Runner‘ has a message for anyone worried about Afghanistan

Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini’s novels show readers around the world a side of Afghanistan that goes beyond war and terror.
His debut best-seller “The Kite Runner” was published in 2003, two years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US operation in Afghanistan. Millions of people were captivated by the tale of Amir and Hassan, two young boys from opposite ends of society whose lives take very different trajectories after the Soviet invasion.
His subsequent novels, “A Thousand Spendid Suns” and “And the Mountains Echoed,” both also set at least partially in Afghanistan, achieved similar success.
The world’s attention is once again on Afghanistan after the Taliban’s stunning takeover. For Hosseini, watching the situation unfold over the last week has been utterly gut wrenching. Continue reading

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Parent Kila Posey recently requested of her child’s principal, Sharyn Briscoe, that her second-grader be put with a specific teacher that Posey knew would be a good fit. Her husband works as the school psychologist at Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Requesting a specific teacher is one of the privileges that comes with his job. However, the response the couple received was quite disturbing.
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It’s been quite some time since I’ve put my proverbial pen to paper, although a lot of folks have been after me to do so. The reason I haven’t is that, although there has been no shortage of topics, the Good Lord has simply not called upon me to do so, but that has changed. Four days ago… Wait a second… When I say what I’m about to say, many of you might say, “Why didn’t you just go see a doctor?” To you, I would say, “Because I refuse to be made into a false statistic.” And no, I don’t trust doctors any more than the government these days; knowin’ what I know about “COVID-19” and its ramifications, I’d be a double-dyed fool if I did. But I digress…
Mr. Shaw may have overstated the problem with science a bit, but there are consequences when science moves ahead without limits, without mores, without God. And if there was ever a time in our history when we needed boundaries, it is now. There is a bad cocktail out there, and it’s found in combining the Far Left with science.