Month: July 2021

What the Nazis Had in Common With Every Other Collectivist Regime in the 20th Century

July 29 marks an infamous centennial. One hundred years ago—on July 29, 1921—Adolf Hitler assumed the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis. It became his vehicle to power. Note the formal, official name of the party. It was not the National Capitalist German Workers Party. It was not…


Starmer Demands August 7 End to England’s Self-Isolation Rule After Wales Move

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has challenged the Government to match Wales by bringing forward the date on which fully vaccinated people in England can avoid isolation. Wales’s Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed August 7 as the day when double-jabbed adults can escape isolation if they come into contact with a positive coronavirus…


Photographer Captures the Moment a Meteor Appears to Shoot Into Mouth of Volcano in Indonesia

An Indonesian photographer recently captured a stellar streak of light, alleged to be a meteor, on camera in the skies above Mount Merapi volcano on the island of Java. Gunarto Song, a travel and landscape photographer, visited the site on the night of May 28 to capture photos of the mountain under the light of the…


Key Inflation Gauge Posts Fastest Annual Price Gain In 30 Years

Consumer prices, excluding the volatile food and energy components, soared well beyond the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target in the year to June, reaching levels not seen since 1991 and reinforcing concerns about inflation. The so-called core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, which excludes food and energy and is the Fed’s preferred method for gauging…


Biden Reveals His True Goal: To Ban Most Guns

Commentary If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he again clarified his position last week. “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon — whether it’s a —…


Biden Admin Won’t Rule out Future Lockdowns or School Closures If CDC Recommends It

The White House on Thursday signaled that it would be open to lockdowns and school closures if such policies were recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). When asked at the White House about whether lockdowns or closures are a possibility, deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested that if CDC and other…


China Ambushes Top American Diplomat

Commentary Once again, China’s regime went out of its way to insult Biden administration diplomats. The mauling this time took place in the Chinese city of Tianjin, on July 26. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the most senior Biden administration official to visit China, was the victim. Beijing used the meeting with Ms. Sherman,…


Djokovic Loses to Zverev at Olympics, Ending Golden Slam Bid

TOKYO—With his Golden Slam bid over for at least another three years, Novak Djokovic rested his head on Alexander Zverev’s shoulder as his German opponent and friend consoled him. “I told him that he’s the greatest of all time,” Zverev said. “I know that he was chasing history.” Djokovic, the top-ranked Serb who had seemed…


Israel Announces Booster Pfizer Shots for Those Over 60

The Israeli government announced it will offer a third shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to citizens over 60 years old, amid ongoing efforts to slow the spread of the more contagious Delta variant of the CCP virus. Naftali Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, announced in a statement on Friday that President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal were among the…


The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion

Commentary In the April issue of the conservative journal First Things, the esteemed natural law philosopher John Finnis wrote an essay titled “Abortion Is Unconstitutional.” Finnis’ basic argument was that the traditional conservative or originalist stance on abortion and the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision—namely, that the Constitution is “silent” on the…