Tag: Opinion

The Air Force Needs Fewer Leaders and More Wrench-Turners–Here’s How to Get Them

Commentary There is a mega-corporation here in the United States where the CEO tells every employee that they must move up within the company and eventually achieve top executive status. Every entry-level role is expected to advance within a specified timeframe, and if you aren’t able to meet the advancement schedule you are summarily terminated….


Trump Needs Right Ally to Fight Our High-Tech Overlords

Commentary BOSTON—Tucker Carlson’s latest interview with Elon Musk, as dramatic as the revelation that supposedly private Twitter direct messages (DMs) were accessible to government spies may be, is just more evidence of what many of us have known for some time. We live in a new form of totalitarian state that our representatives, thus far,…


Read the Label! It’s BioNTech’s Vaccine, Not Pfizer’s

News Analysis As COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates gradually fade into the past, now is a time of reckoning, and for the overwhelming majority of the opponents of the COVID-19 measures there is no question who, above all, should be made to pay: namely, Pfizer, the manufacturer of the eponymous vaccine that became the standard…


The WHO’s Updated Abortion Care Guideline and Its Implications for Member States

Commentary The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that babies should be killed up until the moment they emerge from the birth canal, without delay, whenever a pregnant woman requests it. Through its updated abortion care guideline released in 2022, the WHO expects all Member States to implement this policy. This article is not about whether…


Biden Is Emboldening China to Invade Taiwan

Commentary Originally published by Gatestone Institute China just substantially reduced a three-day no-fly zone it had declared northeast of Taiwan. The zone, originally scheduled to run from the 16th to the 18th of this month, was scaled back to just 27 minutes on the 16th. China’s Maritime Safety Administration said the closure was due to “aerospace activities.”…


Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy

Commentary Every schoolkid knows—or used to know—that the United States has three branches of government. At least that’s what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of government. That’s because Congress—the legislative branch—has for decades delegated lawmaking authority to the unconstitutional fourth branch of the U.S. government: independent regulatory agencies. By some estimates,…


How Many Democrats Feel Betrayed?

Commentary Interesting conversation with a Massachusetts liberal grandmother of a certain age—a long-time benefactor of many causes—who has real fire in her gut and there was no point in stopping her once she got going. I’m going to paraphrase. “The whole point of being a liberal was to defend the working class and poor against…


It’s Worse Than Socialism—It’s Schwabism

Commentary It’s now 50 years since Klaus Martin Schwab, a mechanical engineer and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), launched the first-ever Davos Manifesto, a call to leaders to imagine a better world, one where all humans, the rich and the poor, lived in complete and utter harmony. However, as many readers are all…


The Biden Administration’s War on Parents

Commentary With the War on Wrongthink having escalated in the wake of the sham indictment of President Donald Trump, the conviction of a political memester for a literal thought crime, and the revelation that at least one Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office had sought to cultivate sources within Catholic churches on grounds that domestic violent…


The Politics and Sentimentality of Descent

Commentary The emphasis President Joe Biden places on his Irishness is simultaneously bogus and sincere: for it is a strange fact of human psychology that if you repeat something to yourself often enough you come to believe that it must be true, especially if it’s to your advantage, and then you begin to have the…