Commentary Cheer up, boys and girls of summer. Baseball spring training begins this month. As a fan of both New York baseball teams since age 11 (my Mets fan pastor calls this “schizophrenic,” but I remain undaunted), I’m among millions who especially value those home-grown players who develop into stars and remain with one team…
Michael Zwaagstra: School Trustees Must Be Able to Speak Freely
February 15, 2023
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Commentary Are school trustees politicians? The answer seems obvious. Trustees are elected by the public, held accountable by voters, and conduct their business in open board meetings. This certainly sounds like a politician’s job. Not only that, but many school trustees use their position as a stepping stone to higher political office. For example, Ontario…
The DEI Invasion of Public Universities: Tax Dollars Fund Useless Bureaucrats and Indoctrination
Commentary At the University of Michigan, one of America’s top public research institutions, the average tenured professor makes $93,000 a year, according to data from Salary.com. That’s after a probationary period of around six years as an untenured “assistant professor” proving one’s research and teaching chops—plus the four to seven years it typically takes to…
Inflation: It’s About Much More Than the Price of Eggs
Commentary At the end of January, as America’s egg shortage deepened, news broke that U.S. border patrol agents had been seizing record amounts of eggs from travelers passing into the United States from Mexico. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, U.S. customs reported a 108 percent increase in seizures of eggs and poultry. Is…
Doctors and Nurses Are Not Racists
Commentary Doctors and nurses are not racists. They’re everyday heroes. But left-wing activists and their media allies, including The New York Times, blame healthcare workers for the poorer health outcomes of black patients. That’s a cheap shot and a lie. On Sunday, the Times published a front-page story based on an analysis of U.S. census…
Social Security Reform About Principles, Not Accounting
Commentary Per CNN and other media outlets, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran his first campaign for Congress in 2012, he expressed support for “privatizing” Social Security. They predict, with little surprise, that this should provide red meat for attacks from former President Donald Trump and from Democrats, should DeSantis announce a presidential run. If…
UK Has Not Yet Lost to Her European Competitors
February 14, 2023
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Commentary There has been prejudice against the European economy. Previously we have discussed the unreasonably bearish outlook on it compared to the rest of the world, such as the U.S. and especially China. Such prejudice is not exactly fake news but is shaped by popular biased views or outlooks, especially by so-called experts. These are…
Another Feminist Victory: Back to Winner-Takes-All Custody Battles
February 14, 2023
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Commentary Last week, a television crew from the Japanese public broadcaster came to Sydney to interview family law specialist Justin Dowd, former president of the New South Wales (NSW) Law Society. Japan is considering moving away from mum-custody towards “joint parental authority”,—which recognizes that it’s in the children’s best interests to have both mum and…
Newsmax Versus DirecTV and America’s Censorship Regime
Commentary Almost daily now, Americans see new evidence of a mass, public-private censorship regime—part and parcel of something resembling an American social credit system in which those who submit to ruling class orthodoxy are rewarded, and those who run afoul of it are railroaded. So when news broke recently that DirecTV was booting center-right network…
North Korea’s Penultimate Threat: Mobile Solid-Fuel Rockets
Commentary After nearly two decades of striving, North Korea, with plenty of Chinese help, has finally reached the stage of world-class nuclear terror in service of the hegemonic ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Eleven years after North Korea’s April 15, 2012, revelation of a mockup of a liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) traveling…
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