Commentary “If you buy a car,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, “you are expected to pay the monthly payment. … It’s that simple.” Is it? Now, obviously, those who argue that the president can cancel millions of student loans by decree aren’t in a position to offer lessons on personal…
US Needs G-7 Support to Defeat Communist China’s Aggression
Commentary Europe’s position on China has long been soft, which is a problem for U.S. foreign policy since channeling Beijing away from territorial aggression and human rights abuse requires coordinated action against China’s economy by as many as possible of the world’s largest economies. Recent moves by Germany, France, and Italy show progress in this…
Why Elite Libertarians Failed so Miserably on COVID
Commentary A priest friend of mine has been writing for three years against his fellow clerics who went along with the COVID regime, shut their churches, masked their parishioners, and then pushed shots on those who didn’t need them. He said that they forgot the first principle: be not afraid. And the second principle too:…
Gerry Bowler: Government’s Attempt to Erase Canada’s Past Follows the Path of French Revolution, Communist Regimes
Commentary Revolutionaries often don’t know when to stop. In France of the 1790s, radicals, not content with creating a constitutional monarchy, abolishing feudalism, and establishing a bill of rights, attempted to create a whole new kind of human–utterly rational, uprooted from old loyalties and places, fitted to be a citizen of a new kind of…
What the Trump Town Hall Reveals About CNN
Commentary Mayday! Mayday! Network overboard! CNN, which apparently had originally scheduled its Donald Trump town hall event to go for as long as 90 minutes, cut the event at less than 70 minutes as if terrified the 45th president might be reelected right there by proclamation. That wasn’t exactly what the network had in mind. Their…
ANALYSIS: Why Was EcoHealth Alliance’s Grant Reinstated Despite Group’s Apparent Failure to Comply With NIH Conditions?
News Analysis The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a grant that had been terminated by President Donald Trump in April 2020. However, a document first obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveals that the NIH’s conditions for reinstatement have not been met. The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was…
California ‘Carbon Neutrality’ Won’t Reduce Global Temperatures
May 11, 2023
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Commentary You might want to trade in your Tesla for a 2023 V8 Dodge Charger Hemi 870 horsepower gas guzzler. It turns out California will have practically no effect on reducing global temperatures no matter what you and other residents do—including how much carbon you use in your life of fun in the Golden State…
Xi Jinping: With Unlimited Power Comes Unlimited Challenge
Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And yet the threat to his—and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)—ability to retain power faces challenges of an enormity and imminence that Mao never knew. These…
Managing California’s Cannabis Industry Requires Vigorous Law Enforcement
May 11, 2023
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Commentary Let me confess that while I served in the California State Senate, I tried my best to expedite the state’s efforts to assist the birthing efforts of the legal cannabis industry’s efforts to get established and functioning. As vice chair of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, I can remember long meeting sessions to…
The Supreme Court Might Curb the ‘Deep State’ by Overruling the Chevron Case
Commentary The Supreme Court will not be announcing its decisions in most of this year’s big cases until June or early July. But the court recently agreed to consider a case that could trim the power of the “deep state.” The “deep state” is a web of federal administrative agencies, career politicians, lobbyists, and compliant…
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