Greg Walcher: Forests burn, bureaucracy fiddles – let's act now to save these national treasures

The French historian François-René de Chateaubriand wrote that environment precede civilizations, and deserts follow them.   Looking out this summer at smoke that covered half the country, and mudslides that buried major highways like I-70 in us-regions, we should wonder if we really want that to be America’s legacy, too. It is not inevitable.  …

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Reps. Scalise, Mast: Biden's Afghanistan exit is a disgrace and it's one of many avoidable disasters

Heartbreaking images of men horrifically falling off planes, women desperately throwing their children over barbed-wire fences to U.S. soldiers, Americans stranded behind enemy lines in fear for their lives, Taliban militants chanting “Death to America!” Those were the immediate images after President Biden haphazardly withdrew U.S. troops from conflicts without a basic plan in place…

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