Tag: Opinion

Pride Month Disaster: Is Target the Next Bud Light?

Target has come under fire for its pride-themed clothing line for children and for partnering with a designer who features Satan and hate for heterosexual people in his work. These recent decisions have caused customers to push back with their wallets. Target has since reached its lowest stock price since the pandemic, taking a $12.7…


Immigration, Population Growth: Nuances Amid Hyper-Polarization

Commentary Immigration has been an important and divisive issue in most Western societies for years now. Complicating this issue is that fertility rates have been dropping in developed nations for decades. The media and public have just caught on to the reality of fewer babies in the last few months. There are many nuances to…


America Needs a Transfusion – Part II

Commentary In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful…


My Mom and Justice Clarence Thomas

Commentary Former Attorney General and U.S. Senator John Danforth recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal about how he was interviewed by PBS for a documentary about Justice Clarence Thomas. Given Danforth’s close relationship with Justice Thomas over the years and believing the PBS documentary would present a balanced story, Danforth agreed to do the…


California Education Leaders Should Copy the ‘Mississippi Miracle’

Commentary “‘Mississippi miracle’: Kids’ reading scores have soared in Gulf South states,” AP just reported. It noted educators in other states with low test scores no longer can say, “Thank God for Mississippi.” That’s a cliché also in California, where journalists are wont to say of low test scores, “California is nearly as bad as…


California Should Copy the ‘Mississippi Miracle’ in Education

Commentary “‘Mississippi miracle’: Kids’ reading scores have soared in Gulf South states,” AP just reported. It noted educators in other states with low test scores no longer can say, “Thank God for Mississippi.” That’s a cliché also in California, where journalists are wont to say of low test scores, “California is nearly as bad as…


China’s Ambition to Acquire VTOL Aircraft 

Commentary The Chinese military’s ambition to acquire and build vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) combat aircraft dates back to the early 1970s. After 40 years of espionage and indigenous development, China’s Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) may have a fighter program to fulfill that ambition. In the 1970s, Britain carried out a lengthy public policy debate…


Cory Morgan: Unrealistic Energy Sector Emissions Caps Will Kill the Canadian Economy’s Golden Goose

Commentary Canada’s economy may manage to escape going into a recession despite economists predicting it would over the last few months. Higher-than-expected growth in the national GDP in the first quarter of 2023 has dampened speculation of an economic contraction. This has led to speculation the Bank of Canada will be raising interest rates again…


Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20 Percent’ Federal Union Growth

News Analysis President Biden has vowed to be the “most pro-union president in history.” And one sector over which he has a lot of control is said to be bucking the decades-long trend of union decline in a big way: The ranks of unionized federal government employees swelled by nearly 80,000 to about 497,000 dues-paying…


The Chinese Regime Is Committing Muslim Genocide, Biden and Islamic States Must Act

Commentary The Biden administration’s efforts to sustain a dialogue with Beijing must be questioned in light of the Chinese regime’s gross and consistent human rights violations against its own people. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) consistently violates human rights and has done so since it came to power in 1949, the intense focus on…