Tag: Opinion

Mandatory Awards: ‘No Thanks … Oh, It’s Either That or an Article 15?’

March 15, 2023
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Taken from the Air National Guard Yellow Ribbon webpage: “The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 established the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP) to assist National Guard and Reserve members as they transition between their military and civilian roles. By providing deployment cycle information, resources, and programs, YRRP addresses the unique challenges facing the Guard…

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California Tobacco Ban Would Treat Adults Like Children

March 15, 2023
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Commentary Every now and then I get together with some friends and smoke cigars. Of course, I’m aware of the health effects of tobacco. In 1967, when I was 12, the first political thing I ever wrote was a speech against tobacco use, given before my seventh-grade class at Franklin Junior High School in Wayne,…

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It’s Time to Truly Follow the Science, Starting With a Comprehensive Review of Masking Evidence

March 15, 2023
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Commentary As a researcher grappling with public health challenges for over four decades, I’ve become dismayed that, at least when it comes to COVID-19, intuition or ideological bias often appear to impede rigorously following the science. The pile-on backlash against a recently published “gold standard” systematic review of the evidence for masking further highlights this…

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The Southern Border Is a Hybrid War Zone

March 15, 2023
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Commentary The March 12 incident on the Paso Del Norte Bridge confirms the U.S.-Mexico border is once again a war zone. The March 12 Incident is an outrage that demonstrates the United States is currently under continuous hybrid war assault. The hybrid war’s current weapons: deadly drugs (fentanyl), human trafficking (to include child sex and…

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Biden Admin’s Banking Busts

March 15, 2023
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Commentary The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and Signature Bank on Sunday, is a saga of utter government incompetence. Call these bank collapses Biden administration’s Banking Busts. The Biden administration has been obsessing on woke causes while banks teeter toward insolvency. Three days before Silicon…

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Tyranny Thy Name Is Emergency

March 15, 2023
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Commentary In the last few days, the federal government has embarked on a disastrous path as regards banking and finance. Their actions guarantee a worsening of the problem whether in the near term or down the line. These “emergency” actions have effectively created a moral hazard that could wreck the entire sector and the whole…

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Biden Administration Supports Global Tax That Favors China

March 15, 2023
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Commentary America is scraping the financial bottom of a debt crisis while overloaded with high taxes and navigating between the shoals of inflation and the sandbars of recession. President Joe Biden’s administration, meanwhile, wants to have all the pros without acknowledging any of the cons—by taxing more, spending more, growing the debt and, inscrutably, inventing…

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Don’t Fear Central Bank Digital Currency, Embrace It Instead

March 15, 2023
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Commentary Last week, South Dakota Republican governor Kristi Noem rejected a bill (HB1193) to update the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) with her own unique “brand” of veto. The veto came because Noem opposed the bill’s language outlawing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but allowing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which is issued by governments. Noem…

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Customer Outrage as Seafolly Goes Woke

March 15, 2023
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Commentary I didn’t expect to wake up and find myself as the face of the Daily Mail’s Seafolly scandal. Twice. But it has taught me an interesting lesson about the progression of the Woke-outrage narrative, which turns the aggressors into victims during the click-bait cycle. I was a long-time customer of Seafolly, an Australian women’s…

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Why Set up the PBO If the Government Won’t Use It?

March 15, 2023
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Commentary Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office’s (PBO) latest report (pdf) has revealed that the Labor government, who set it up, did not even use it to cost its 2022 election promises. The report notes that “There appears to be a disconnect between the Treasurer’s 2016 speech recommending the bill to parliament, in which he outlined his…

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