Commentary U.S. and Western influence over the critical Red Sea/Suez Canal sea lines of communication (SLOC) is now estimated to be at its lowest ebb in more than a century, even when the USSR had a period of presence during the Cold War. Russia and China, although suffering from their own strategic constraints, have made…
The Latest vs. the Greatest: ‘Elemental’ (2023) and ‘Small Town Girl’ (1953)
Commentary After a few years of pathetic output, largely due to the pandemic, Hollywood is finally having a big summer. This year will be particularly prolific for Disney, which has several major pictures coming out during the summer months, both animated and live action. Among these is “Elemental,” the latest Pixar film characterizing inanimate objects…
Cory Morgan: Instead of Demonizing Food Retailers, Feds Should End Anti-Competitive Supply Management System
Commentary A recently released report from the Canadian Competition Bureau confirms what grocers have been saying all along: There is no “greedflation” happening in the retail food market and profit margins for retailers are low. And although the bureau did note that consumers would be better served if there were more competitors in the retail…
Wildfires in Canada: Global Warming or Socialist Forests?
Commentary Thanks to wildfires in eastern Canada, the air quality of New York City and other northeastern cities in the United States has been an utter disaster. The weather in the Big Apple has surpassed, in terms of haze, smog, and general hazardous air quality, perennial disasters such as Delhi, India Virtually all media talking…
A Call to Moral Excellence
Commentary As a businessman and a father, I contend that the most important step on the road to success is the act of becoming virtuous. You may well respond, What, then, is virtue? This question has been asked for over 3,000 years by philosophers from Socrates to Aquinas. Men like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Virgil…
‘Kissinger’s Betrayal’: New Book Explains Why South Vietnam Fell
Commentary Analyses of the U.S. failure in Vietnam seem to have a target-rich environment for obloquy and blame for strategic malpractice. There are two fundamental debates: first, whether the United States could have won the conflict; second, who was to blame for the loss. Often blamed are President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert…
What Will You Use as Money If the Dollar Dies?
June 30, 2023
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Commentary The U.S. dollar could someday go the way of all paper-currencies past and be consumed in a hyperinflationary fire. It seems unlikely but it is possible. In some ways, given the reckless policies of the past three years, we should be perhaps surprised that it hasn’t happened yet. If the dollar loses its status…
Fed Pauses: More Hikes to Come
Commentary Federal Reserve (Fed) Board Chairman Jerome Powell has made himself and Fed guidelines clear. Although the board voted in June to pause the pattern of raising interest rates, policymakers are not finished with their anti-inflation efforts and will likely raise rates again before they are done. Powell explained that the June pause was just…
Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America
June 30, 2023
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Commentary On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something…
Americans Have Never Been Less Threatened by ‘Extreme Weather’
Commentary “Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard,” is the first claim in this Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat—and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature…
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