Tag: Opinion

‘Key to the City’ From 1950: Gable Goes Back to San Francisco

Commentary In 1936, Clark Gable made a very successful film called “San Francisco.” Starring alongside Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy, he played a tough nightclub owner on the Barbary Coast around the turn of the century. His character runs for public office to clean things up in the low rent district. Fourteen years later, he…


Declare Narcotraffickers a Terrorist Threat to National Security 

Commentary Officially recognizing narcotrafficking as a national security threat and narcotraffickers as international terrorist organizations would allow the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to coordinate securing the U.S. southern border and arresting those who enable narcotrafficking. In his State of the Union address delivered on Feb. 7, President Joe Biden identified…


‘Latinx’ Is Linguistic Tyranny

Commentary Forty-five years ago, after two months of U.S. Army boot camp in beautiful, bucolic Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., in late April 1978 I arrived at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., to learn Russian. It was a time of increasing Cold War tensions. Communism was on the march. South Vietnam fell to communist…


China’s Military Aid to Russia: Finally Breaking Decades of America’s Engagement Policy?

Commentary At the annual Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned his Chinese counterpart, Chinese Communist Party Central Foreign Affairs Office Director Wang Yi, against providing “lethal support” to Russia in its war against Ukraine. This was the first meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. officials since the Chinese spy balloon was…


Cory Morgan: China’s Interference in Canadian Elections: Where’s the Outrage?

Commentary Electoral integrity is the cornerstone of a functional democracy. Citizens must feel confident that whether their preferred candidate won or lost, the process was at least fair and uncorrupted. If citizens lose faith in the integrity of their elections, the foundation of democracy will crumble. People are rightly upset when stories of domestic malfeasance…


US Venture Capital Investment Drops 65 Percent in 2022, Lowest Level Since 2013

Commentary Venture capital investment is down in the United States. The fundraising environment has become not only tougher for people in venture capital funds but also for entrepreneurs looking to raise capital to build a business. Prequin is a service that tracks all kinds of data in venture capital. According to its numbers, venture capitalists…


In California, ‘Tax the Rich’ No Longer Just a Slogan

Commentary At New York’s Met Gala last year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez infamously wore a white gown with “Tax the Rich” emblazoned in red across it. The irony that she wore it at an event not open to the common people she purports to represent, and that she started selling “tax the rich” sweatshirts on her website…


China’s Rapid Advances in Satellite Technology Strengthens ‘Kill Chain’ for ‘Carrier Killer’ Missiles

Commentary The Chinese spy balloon allowed to traverse the United States may have gathered some useful intel, or as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stated in a TV interview, it may have been “redundant.” Regardless, it was a further demonstration of the Biden administration’s weakness in dealing with China. But the threat posed by balloons pales…


Dr. John Campbell Leads the Charge for a Global Reckoning of Everything COVID

Commentary There isn’t one single thing more important in the corporal world right now than the information being dispensed by Dr. John Campbell. Why? Because it concerns the dead, informs the suffering, and is critical for the future well-being of humanity. I truly believe that, and Campbell’s nearly 3 million YouTube subscribers would certainly agree….


CCP Pandemic Data Sources Contradict

Commentary China is the country of origin of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has significantly impacted the world since the first cases were reported in December 2019. As of Jan. 8, 2023, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) only reported a cumulative total of 5,272 deaths since 2019, and the regime downgraded the…