Commentary The runoff election victory of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bad news all around. The list of losers is long: Western and Eastern Europe, NATO, U.S. security interests in central Asia and North Africa. Financial markets aren’t pleased with Erdogan’s reelection. On June 2 the value of the Turkish lira hit a new…
MS-13: From El Salvador to Your Neighborhood
Commentary MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes—beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them. Demonic acts. If you think these crimes won’t happen where you live, keep reading. The gang’s rule is “kill, rape, control.” Members are required to kill. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards….
Disney Works to Destroy the Values That Built Its Company
Commentary In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas, found Texas’ anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. This is a free country, the Court proclaimed, and individuals can engage in whatever private consensual sexual activity that they wish. But freedom is not the value that LGBTQ activists seek. They will not rest until their values and…
Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work
Commentary A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during the Obama administration about the mindset of government toward skilled trades. His argument was that skilled trades were the key to saving our economy, not those jobs that require…
Why Banks Are Fighting ESG Regulations in the States
Commentary For the last few years, the mirage of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has been exposed for what it is: a backdoor attempt to use Americans’ investments to fund far-left political goals. Corporations’ ESG commitments are preventing investment in natural resources such as oil, gas, and coal, even as Americans are pounded by higher…
San Francisco: It’s a Good Thing Homelessness Only Happens Between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M.
Bleeding hearts, that’s the term used to describe the typical liberal. They just feel so much, and are so compassionate, that their hearts bleed for those who are suffering. Well, San Francisco has a surplus of bleeding hearts, which is why the city’s newest program, created to help the homeless, is perfectly named, the Homeless…
RFK Jr. and the Assassination of Free Speech
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been heavily censored on social media, except for, most recently, Twitter. Are these moves by Meta an attempt to meddle in a free and fair election? Although Kennedy is a Democrat, his ideology is far from today’s woke leftism. RFK Jr. advocates questioning mainstream narratives and educating…
R R Reno Examines the Perils of ‘Permanent Revolution’
Commentary Over the course of our lifetime we have been speeding toward one of the most dysfunctional and hopeless episodes in modern history. According to Catholic scholar Rusty Reno, our present condition wasn’t just brought on by misguided ideologies. In the June/July edition of First Things Magazine, Reno said we are suffering from a “general…
How to Reverse Course in California
Commentary It’s common knowledge that more people are waving goodbye to California than folks who are arriving in the once Golden State. For some, California is peachy keen just as it is. It has pleasant weather, many sights to see, and an array of career opportunities. However, it also has droughts, earthquakes, and fires to…
We Need Truth Commissions to Restore Faith in Public Health
Commentary Two blazing political controversies are destroying our trust in the integrity of medicine. One is, thankfully, mostly in the past—the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The second is ongoing and growing increasingly bitter: How to best care for children who “feel” that they aren’t the sex they were born. These are different debates, but they share…
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