Tag: Opinion

Was Nashville Shooter a Pagan on Testosterone?

Commentary NASHVILLE—Several weeks out from the horrific murders of three children and three adults at Nashville’s Coventry School, important information, including but far from limited to the perpetrator’s “manifesto,” still are being hidden from the public. Some of this is due to the reluctance—or is it fear?—of the Nashville Police Department that had behaved so…


The Ideological Capture of the CBC  

Commentary Elon Musk’s Twitter has dropped the labels “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” from several media corporations, including the CBC. Nevertheless, calling the CBC government-funded is merely stating the obvious. Last year, the Canadian government provided over $1 billion in funding to the CBC, or about 70 percent of annual operating costs. But as Edward R. Murrow famously…


Insane Deficit Spending Is Immoral

Commentary In “Armageddon,” Bruce Willis blows himself up on an asteroid to save his daughter and all of humanity. (Sorry for the spoiler, but the movie is 25 years old.) That theme—parents providing for, and sacrificing for, their children—is the deeply moral and moving story that Americans used to love. I say “used to,” because something…


Where Did All the Biden Illegal Immigrants Go? Hard-Up Sanctuary Cities Are Only Part of the Answer

News Analysis In New York City, if the newcomers aren’t put up at the luxury cruise terminal that served the QE2, they could get $700-a-night midtown hotel accommodations with iconic Manhattan views. In Chicago, they found themselves whisked to suburban lodgings. In Denver, officials refer to them discreetly as “guests” and you needn’t bother inquiring about their inns or addresses. The…


West Virginia AG Morrisey Takes on the Woke and the Swamp

Commentary As attorney general of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey has been a scourge of the administrative state, combatting what he perceives to be federal government overreach into the life and commerce of the Mountaineer State. On April 4, Morrisey announced that he is joining a crowded field seeking the Republican nomination in West Virginia’s 2024 gubernatorial race….


Scientific Consensus—A Manufactured Construct

Commentary In a recent interview, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was challenged on his scientific views about COVID-19 and he said “I’m only interested in consensus”—words that would have Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei rolling in their graves. The appeal to “scientific consensus” is fraught with problems, just like “The science is settled” and “Trust the…


The False Messaging on Vaccines Given to Pregnant Women

Commentary The mRNA vaccines were released globally in early 2021 with the slogan “safe and effective.” Unusually for a new class of medicine, they were soon recommended by public health authorities for pregnant women. By late 2021, working-age women, including those who were pregnant, were being thrown out of employment for not agreeing to be…


Tibetan Police Mass-Collect DNA and Lawmakers Say US Firm Is Helping

News Analysis Legendary actor and humanitarian Richard Gere recently made a splash during a visit to Capitol Hill. Sporting a floppy, now pure-white mane of hair, the 73-year-old Gere flashed his still-boyish grin to members of Congress, staff, and visitors who flocked to see him, many snapping photos with the Golden Globe winner which they…


Is Hong Kong on the Same Level as Others?

A judge reminded the witness that he could only tell what he had seen with his own eyes, not what he had heard from others. The questioning then started, and the prosecutor asked the witness, ‘When, where, and by whom were you born?’ The witness thought for a moment and said, ‘I can’t tell you…


Disney Is Going to Lose (Again) to Florida and Ron DeSantis

Commentary The first round of the “Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis v. The Walt Disney Company” fight, held last spring, ended in a clear DeSantis victory and Disney defeat. Following Disney’s vocal opposition to Florida’s commonsense Parental Rights in Education Act, misleadingly dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Florida passed a law to abolish the…