Commentary On April 25, Falun Gong practitioners mark the 24th anniversary of their peaceful protest against repression in China. On that day in 1999, approximately 10,000 practitioners of the spiritual practice appealed to the central government in Beijing for relief from slanderous comments on state-controlled television and publications, and for the release of approximately 45…
The CCP Harms Itself With the Persecution of Falun Gong
April 25, 2023
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Time Is Ticking for Jim Chalmers to Make His Mark as Treasurer
Commentary Australia’s federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is a young man in a hurry. While his mentor was Treasurer Wayne Swan, for whom he worked between 2007 and 2013, he appears to have Paul Keating’s trajectory in mind—treasurer to the prime minister. But Keating’s rise was meteoric. Winning office in only March 1983, he had done…
We Were Soldiers’ Wives Once … and Young
Commentary My Life As An Army Wife When growing up in the 1950s in rural North Carolina, I never had any association with the military, having never spent time around military bases or having much contact with military people or their families. In early 1963, I had my first real exposure to military life, when…
Peter Menzies: Canada’s Descent Into Military Penury and Ungrateful Freeloading Is a Disgrace
Commentary Flying low over the desert at night, their helicopters’ lights out, U.S. Navy Seals zipped in and out of Khartoum on April 23 to safely extricate its diplomats from a country on the edge of destruction. The United Kingdom pulled off a similar operation, while countries such as France, Germany, Spain, and Italy have…
China Daily’s Hypocritical Lecture on US Human Rights Problems
Commentary China’s state-run media attacks on the United States are the essence of hypocrisy. China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) regulates and administers state-run print, news, and internet enterprises. All such outlets are carefully managed to ensure that all information conveyed echoes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) narratives, policies, and diktats, especially those…
Tucker Carlson’s Departure Means Fox News Doomed to Irrelevance
Commentary Was he fired or did he quit? Maybe it doesn’t make a difference. Maybe, in fact, it was likely a long time coming. We may never know in the world of nondisclosure agreements, but, in an act that can only be seen as corporate suicide, Fox News has let Tucker Carlson go, on April 24,…
US–NATO Tanks—Will They Make a Significant Difference?
Commentary Western tanks will “burn like all the rest,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. The statement by Pesckov must be viewed in the context of the dozens and dozens of articles speaking glowingly about how great Leopard and Abrams tanks are, how easily they will dispatch Russian tanks, and how they will ensure victory for…
Design Flaws in Military Weapon Platforms Harm National Security
Commentary In recent military news, the rollout of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) has run up against design and operational challenges. The ACV is meant to replace the well-used Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV), a less complex weapons platform in service since 1972. The ACV has been tested since 2019 at Marine Corps…
Don’t Worry Too Much About the Bomb
Commentary With daily news about Russian attacks on Ukraine and the building threat of similar strikes by communist China on Taiwan—any of which could escalate to conventional, tactical nuclear, or strategic nuclear war with the United States—more folks are starting to worry. A Washington Post columnist asked readers to effectively throw Taiwan under the bus…
The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology
April 24, 2023
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Commentary It’s likely true: no executives at Anheuser-Busch knew what the Bud Light marketing people were planning when they decided to deploy an absurdist and deeply offensive transgender TikTok influencer to sell their beer. But soon after it happened, public disgust became rather obvious. The crisis began but for weeks, the company was in denial….
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