Commentary It was a Friday afternoon, and I was driving through the city of El Cajon, Calif., where I’m the mayor. I was lost in my music playlist when I was jolted back to reality by a phone call. My phone screen told me it was the worst kind of call—one from my city attorney….
China’s Xi Is at a Breaking Point—Will He Resist or Surrender?
Commentary Russia’s foreign ministry recently announced that Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia in the spring and possibly in February, but the Chinese side has not confirmed. On Dec. 30 last year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi held a video call, Putin extended an invitation to Xi, and Russian media reported on…
Burning a Heretic at the University of Lethbridge
February 3, 2023
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Commentary University of Lethbridge president Michael J. Mahon’s recent cancellation of a talk by Frances Widdowson marks yet another failure of Canadian universities to maintain open academic environments where candid speech and robust discourse are encouraged. Dr. Widdowson is a noted scholar of aboriginal issues whose views diverge from the mainstream narrative concerning Canada’s treatment…
Outsourcing Investment or Taking More Risk?
Commentary In 2022, the S&P 500 Index returned -19.64 percent. If you run the same numbers and include dividend reinvestment, the sting was a little less, with a return of -18.32 percent. Not great, for sure. Those kinds of returns have people asking questions about how they are invested. To be clear, if you get a return of…
Veterans: Don’t Believe the Hype
February 3, 2023
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Commentary Hype versus information: Do you know the difference when you see it? Do you know when you hear it? How do you know? Are you sure you know? Do you know that hype is designed to activate an uncontrolled primal response? In the parlance of ever-growing psychological messages rocketed at the public, can you…
Australia Day Must Stand Against the Tide of Cancel Culture
Commentary Now that most of the musket smoke has been blown away after the Australia Day (or “Invasion Day”) celebrations, it’s time to take stock and survey the battlefield. People will tell you that the gazetting of Australia Day as a national public holiday is only a relatively recent innovation, and that is partly true—1988…
Blindsight Is 2020
Commentary Why would a 66-year-old woman object so strenuously to policies designed to keep her safe? My book “Blindsight Is 2020,” just published by Brownstone Institute, takes on the question. The book grew out of my deep concerns about the pandemic lockdowns, mandates, and what I call COVID culture. I’m honored to share a few details…
The Biomedical Security State, British Edition
February 3, 2023
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Commentary First, by way of contextual backdrop, let me offer a quick recap of some relevant developments, which I describe in more detail in “The New Abnormal”: November 2021: As reported by the New York Times, the Israeli government issued emergency pandemic legislation permitting Shin Bet (their equivalent of the CIA), to access mobile phones and extract track…
GOP Right to Deny Ilhan Omar a Committee Seat
Commentary Poor Ilhan Omar has been denied a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope,” the congresswoman told CNN’s Dana Bash this week. “I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. That has been…
You’re Being Lied to About the War in Ukraine
Commentary This isn’t a surprise to any honest observer of international politics. It has therefore been frustrating to hear voices that many of us trust repeating the same tropes about “evil Vladimir Putin” and the “fight for democracy.” Likewise, as if reading off reports straight from the U.S. State Department or a CNN teleprompter, they…
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