Plus: Biden Needs to Admit His Failures on Afghanistan
August 18 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden is beset by crises. Our Fred Lucas reports on coronavirus-infected illegal aliens at America’s southern border as well as on a top Senate Democrat with “tough questions” about how we left the Taliban in control of Afghanistan. On the podcast, an Israeli venture capitalist describes how the Book of Genesis can guide us today. Plus: the president should own up on the Afghan debacle; a court restores a Trump border security policy; and what to do about high gas prices. Thirty years ago today, officials of his own government put Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest in a coup that will speed the communist state’s end after nearly 70 years.
Today’s crisis mismanagement looks like an instant replay of Iraq, Syria, and Libya—where we got ISIS, a genocide, and a dead ambassador as payback for bad calls by the White House.
The judge rules that the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and Section 1225 of immigration law when it canceled the Remain in Mexico policy.
Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli venture capitalist and author of “The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis,” says biblical stories contain wisdom applicable...
The Democrat chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee calls for an investigation into the Biden administration’s execution of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Amid high gas prices this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the Biden administration is “engaging with relevant OPEC+ members” to increase oil production.
As I have known since I studied the Soviet Union and communism at the Russian Institute of Columbia University, truth has never been a left-wing value.
