Plus: Fleeing People Cling to, Fall From Planes Departing Airport in Kabul
 
 
August 16 2021
 
 
NEWS
McCarthy Calls for Probe of Biden Policy Amid Collapse in Afghanistan
By Andrew Trunsky

Calling it a “mistake that will haunt us for decades,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demands congressional probes into what the administration and intelligence agencies knew and did.
NEWS
Fleeing People Cling to, Fall From Planes Departing Airport in Kabul
By Ailan Evans

Video from Kabul’s international airport shows desperate people falling from departing American flights while thousands try to leave the Afghan capital as the Taliban takes over.
COMMENTARY
Biden Wants to Cut Funding for Border Security Assets, Infrastructure by 96%
By Terence Jeffrey

Congress previously approved $1.5 trillion for border security assets and infrastructure. The president now is asking that lawmakers approve only $54.3 million.
COMMENTARY
Here’s Better Way We Actually Can Lower Drug Costs and Help Patients
By Peter Pitts

Price controls inevitably equal choice controls, just as they do in Europe and Canada, reducing access to lifesaving medicine and stifling development of new treatments and cures.
COMMENTARY
Silenced! What’s Happening Now in Cuba?
By John Stossel

The real reason for shortages and suffering in Cuba is communism.
NEWS
ICYMI: Pro-Amnesty Groups Supplied These 5 Players on Biden’s Immigration Team
By Fred Lucas

The groups, bankrolled by billionaires such as George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg, acted as farm teams for five officials who run President Biden’s immigration policy, The Daily Signal has learned.
 
     
 
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