Tag: Opinion

The Question of College

Commentary Student debt debates have among other things enlivened conversation about the nation’s long-standing emphasis on college. With so many graduates unable to repay the cost of their education, questions naturally have arisen about whether college effectively serves the economy’s skills needs and, accordingly, whether many now in college might do better with some other…


Big Lies, Big Data, and the Rise of Bigger Brother

Commentary The Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright recently discussed a new “international socialist conspiracy” that has taken the world by storm. “Fringe forces of the far left,” he noted, “are plotting to take away our freedom to be stuck in traffic jams, to crawl along clogged ring roads and trawl the streets in search of a parking…


Government Should Control Spending, Not Dip Into Our Retirement Nest Eggs

Commentary The announcement by the federal government that it intends to change the tax structure on superannuation (pension funds) should be of concern to all Australians. Indeed, it should be concerning to all Australians as it is arguably retrospective. We are once again seeing a federal treasurer targeting a soft target (superannuation) in an attempt…


Media Outlets Should Encourage Parents Advocating for Their Children’s Education

Commentary After witnessing the stunning recall of three trustees in a very progressive San Francisco Unified School Board in February 2022, many in the media began to marvel at the political power disenchanted parents and public school advocates were capable of wielding. After all, San Francisco has the fewest number of children per capita of…


The Dark Side of ChatGPT

News Analysis OpenAI is a research organization founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2015 as a challenger to Google. The original mission of the venture was to create artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity as a whole. The most notable part of OpenAI is a function called Chat GPT. It’s a chat…


Republican Dances the China Two-Step With Democrats

Commentary The latest shock of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in the United States is photographic evidence of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) published in a Daily Caller series. The photos show her associating with two CCP-linked organizations. Rather than ask Chu to correct herself, the Democrats are as usual, claiming racism. Remember, the CCP is…


The Calamitous Consequences of Weakening the Criminal Justice System

Commentary They say that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. That could be one way to describe Minnesota Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, a one-time House progressive who in 2020 and 2021 voted to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that would have made it significantly easier to hold federal,…


‘Her Highness and the Bellboy’ From 1945: Royalty and Romance

Commentary “Her Highness and the Bellboy” from 1945 is an MGM film produced by Joe Pasternak starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, and June Allyson. It has become an obscure film, but it was a big hit for the studio upon its original release. Although made at the height of World War II, the film includes…


Fini Flights, Walkarounds, and Building Trust in the Air Force (or Anywhere!)

Commentary This article was spurred by a LinkedIn post I once read by Michelle “Mace” Curran, a former U.S. Air Force (USAF) Thunderbird pilot. In that post, she accurately describes the trust relationships between crew chiefs and pilots. She focuses on the fact that one reason for the trust was that she had the same…


Why Republicans Seem So Marginalized in Washington

Commentary Last year, we were treated to astonishing hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 protests on Capitol Hill. The Democrats running the show portrayed an insurrection, sedition, and even an attempted coup d’état. The theater was selective and manipulative but it was very effective and implausibly so. It made it impossible to publicly suggest that…