Commentary The Information Age, for all its wonders in the vast and instant access to any topic imaginable, is really quite a paradox. Accessible information should ideally lead to greater knowledge and understanding. Yet, information is not always true or accurate, causing confusion and misleading recipients. Journalists and news organizations, therefore, bear a duty to their…
Tragically, US Travel Restrictions Remain in Place
March 31, 2023
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the New Post-ESG Realism
Commentary As regular as the turn of the seasons, each January sees Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, publish a lengthy letter on the state of the world and its implications for finance and investors. This year, January turned to February, and still no letter. Instead, February saw Tim…
The Immigration Conundrum
Commentary If the United States wants to recapture its former economic strength, it will need more workers and to find ways to make all workers more productive. Without a larger, more effective workforce, the country will have to settle for slower growth than previously, something like the 1.8 percent a year projected recently by the…
Serious Harms of the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Systematic Review
Commentary Recently, my colleague and I completed a systematic review of the serious harms associated with COVID-19 vaccines. My co-author Peter Gøtzsche, is a Danish physician with four decades of research experience, publishing 97 papers in the “big five” (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine) and 19 Cochrane reviews. My…
Left-wing Violence Chic
Commentary A transgender Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass murdering. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a nano-second after the news was…
The Reopening Racket
Commentary At this time, three years ago, the nation was in shock and shambles, with businesses and churches closed, Main Street boarded up, people huddling in terror in their homes, and everyone dealing with travel restrictions between states. Parents had left work to care for their children because the child care facilities and schools were…
International Organizations Have Become Communist China’s Little Helpers
Commentary In pursuit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s global hegemony goals, China’s communist regime has mounted a huge campaign over the past two decades to gain control of international organizations. The campaign has involved influence peddling and bribery on a grand scale, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to infiltrate, gain control of,…
Brian Giesbrecht: Russia’s Nervous Neighbours
Commentary We don’t know how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will end, but whatever the outcome, the world will be changed forever. Already, the post WWII consensus—often called the Pax Americana—that has kept the world relatively peaceful is rapidly breaking down. China, Russia, and Iran have come together in a triumvirate that directly challenges that consensus….
Following Tragic Nashville Mass Shooting, Remember Solzhenitsyn’s Wisdom on Good and Evil
Commentary Americans once again are reeling from a mass shooting. This one claimed six innocent lives, including three children. The violence erupted at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, after a shooter armed with three firearms descended on the Christian school and began spraying bullets indiscriminately. Among the dead were three 9-year old children and…
The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home
March 31, 2023
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Commentary When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come. Today, a decade after IRS officials…
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