Tag: Opinion

The Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Dance

Commentary The Joe Biden-Kevin McCarthy debt ceiling dance entered a new phase Tuesday. President Biden continued to stonewall and insist on an unamended debt ceiling increase (as I wrote in a previous column, calling Biden’s plan “clean” is totally misleading. Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin accurately characterized the Biden position as “It’s not rational, it’s not…


The Trouble With the Center

Commentary In April, 1978, when I was college sophomore, I went to hear a night-time guest lecture by Michael Harrington, the sociologist and author of the influential 1960s book, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States.” The book profiled various impoverished American demographic groups who missed the 1950s wave of prosperity. Though Harrington was a…


Weaponizing Death

Commentary Recently, there has been a spate of horrific murders. The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype. They can be clearly either mentally ill or simply innately evil. They can kill for revenge, for ideological purposes, out of hatred, for notoriety—or for no known reason at all. They are…


SCO Expansion Extends CCP Diplomatic and Military Reach

Commentary The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding by absorbing pariah states, such as Iran, Burma (also known as Myanmar), and Belarus, while increasing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military and economic reach around the globe. In early May, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait became official dialogue partners of the SCO, enhancing the…


How Do We Improve Global Maritime Security?

Commentary Once again Iran’s robed dictators are launching attacks on oil tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. In the last two weeks of April, Iranian forces boarded and seized two oil tankers. One tanker carried crude destined for the United States, so its seizure constituted a direct attack on American maritime commerce. Iran’s…


Is Inflation the New Normal?

Commentary Today finally ends the federal state of emergency for COVID. Along with that ends the terrible travel restrictions that have stopped the unvaccinated from visiting the land of the free. It seems incredible that we could ever become used to this. But it happened. And it went on for three years. This should serve…


ANALYSIS: Will Chicago’s New Mayor Be Able to Fix the City’s Crime Problem? Experts Weigh In

News analysis Following his upset win last month, Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, will be sworn in as the 57th mayor of Chicago on May 15 and be faced with increasing crime and below-par public education trends—and it will only get worse, according to experts who spoke with The Epoch Times. Johnson, 47, defeated Paul…


Social Media and the Scourge of Suicide Contagion

Commentary The kids of America are not OK. Although the mental health crisis plaguing younger generations is very much global in nature, it’s particularly bad in the United States. Suicide is the now second-leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 15 and 24. Close to 20 percent of high school students have…


Jobs Growth Is Strong Until Recession Begins

Commentary The latest released U.S. nonfarm payrolls continue on the upside to the surprise of the market, with a month-on-month (MoM) increase of 253,000 jobs beating expectations of 180,000 and the previous month’s 165,000. Despite the trend has been declining from 400,000 at the beginning of the year to over 200,000, which is not low…


What Women Really Want

Commentary American poet Carl Sandburg once wrote, “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” However, this view is not shared by doomsayers in the United States and Western countries who push “depopulation,” believing the world is overpopulated. Their response to this “crisis” is to advocate for unhindered access to birth control and abortion….