Tag: Opinion

Did Musk Just Mortally Wound State-Funded Media?

Commentary In the age of tailored internet news based on individual predilections and tastes, blogs of every specialty and complexion numbering in the thousands, and cable channels catering to whichever way one leans ideologically, taxpayer-financed media organizations have been dinosaurs for decades. The argument that has long been made for having the federal government sustain…


Recession Looms as 5 Percent CPI Provides No Relief

Commentary The rising cost of living, tightening credit, slowing consumer spending, along with declining real wages and retrenchment in the jobs market, are each conspiring and threatening to move the U.S. economy into recession later this year. Despite lower headline Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation is still taking its toll on American families. Just released…


ANALYSIS: A Close Look at the Cases Against Trump (And Why They Don’t Amount to Much)

News Analysis Last week’s politicized indictment of former president Donald Trump was the latest in a yearslong effort to target him that began with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s fabricated Russia collusion plot in 2016. But it is not the only legal case Trump is dealing with. There are at least three additional ongoing investigations…


ANALYSIS: You’ve Heard of the Legal Cases Against Trump, But Do They Actually Have Merit?

News Analysis Last week’s politicized indictment of former president Donald Trump was the latest in a yearslong effort to target him that began with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s fabricated Russia collusion plot in 2016. But it is not the only legal case Trump is dealing with. There are at least three additional ongoing investigations…


The Biden Economy and How It Could Be Fixed

Commentary The following is adapted from a talk delivered on Feb. 22, 2023, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Indian Wells, California. Just about everybody on Wall Street knows, despite what you read in the financial press, that the Biden administration’s economic policies are driving our economy into a recessionary ditch. In a…


Fifth-Generation Warfare: The Battle for Your Heart and Mind

Commentary “All warfare is based on deception.”—Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” Much has been written on the various generations of warfare, from the ancient phalanx, to gunpowder, to mechanized warfare, to the decentralized warfare of recent years. Al Jazeera describes fifth-generation warfare in this way, “In the modern era, wars are not fought by armies or…


Modernization, Not Money, Is the Key to America’s Survival

Commentary We are missing some fundamental realities that threaten American survival. Our national security systems are obsolete. Our domestic systems are bloated and self-serving. Our bureaucracies are slow, cumbersome, and avoid accountability. Bureaucratism has replaced professionalism. Process and activity have replaced achievement and success. Because our systems cannot succeed, they become expert at avoiding responsibility…


Joe Biden Genuflects to Transgender Activists

Commentary President Joe Biden recently declared that he wants to make it illegal to ban transgender athletes competing in Title IX college sports. Biden and many Democrats believe that this proposal would provide fairness to LGBT athletes. However, several female athletes have publicly raised red flags and stated that this move could essentially demolish women’s…


China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Must Be Stopped

Commentary On March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill, authored by Representative Chris Smith, targets the Chinese Communist Party’s state sponsored forced organ harvesting by imposing sanctions or severe criminal penalties on individuals who fund, sponsor, or facilitate this inhumane…


The Big Shift in Iowa

Commentary Iowa Republicans owe their Democrat colleagues a big thank you. The Democrats’ extreme positions have crippled their own party’s position in the state. That’s the conclusion I reached after talking with more than 30 Republican leaders during a two-day visit to the Hawkeye State. I have been going to Iowa for nearly 40 years…