Tag: Social Issues

Chinese Winery Hiring Two US Nobel Prize Winners to Lead R&D Fails to Impress Investors

Recently, Qinghai Spring, China’s famously pricey liquor company, said it had hired two American Nobel Prize winners as co-chief scientists. Qinghai Spring announced on July 14 that, during a three-year term, the scientists will not only be responsible for the company’s scientific research, talent training, recommendation and introduction of high-level talent, but will also attend…


UC Regents Demand Report on Impacts of UCLA Move to Big Ten Conference

LOS ANGELES—One day after discussing the matter behind closed doors, the University of California Board of Regents demands a full assessment of UCLA and USC’s planned move from the Pac-12 Conference to the Big Ten’s influence on the UC system July 21. The assessment will be conducted by the UC system president Michael Drake and…


Mass Shootings Are a ‘Societal Problem, Not a Gun Problem’: Former FBI Agent

On the heels of another deadly mass shooting, people are looking for the culprit of the problem and searching for solutions. The number of mass shooting incidents reported and verified this year has surpassed 325. Fifteen of these incidents resulted in death. The most recent occurred on the Fourth of July, when Robert Crimo III…


Pro-Life Movement ‘Will Not Relent’ Until Sanctity of Life Is at the Center of American Law: Mike Pence

Former Vice President Mike Pence praised the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in a recent speech in South Carolina, outlining steps that he hopes will be adopted by several states to further the pro-life cause. In a July 20 speech at Florence Baptist Temple in Florence, South Carolina, Pence said he believes with…


Louisiana Coroner Warns Counterfeit Pills Are Making US Dangerous for Teens, Plaguing His Community

South Louisiana’s coroner has warned that deadly counterfeit pills are making America dangerous for teenagers and that fake medications are plaguing his community. “This is probably the most dangerous time to be a teenager here in America,” Dr. Charles Preston, the coroner in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, told Fox News. “Teenagers think they’re getting one drug for…


Reports of Depositor Accounts Being Frozen, as China’s Banking Crisis Spreads

Bank depositors in several Chinese provinces have reported their bank and credit accounts have been frozen, actions seen as being related to bank runs in Henan and a nationwide mortgage boycott. Experts say this all indicates that China’s economy is in a very precarious state. Mainland Chinese media Securities Daily reported on July 18 that…


The Fatherlessness Crisis in the West

Commentary Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the West. In the United States, for example, there are 18 million children who live without a father at home. Across Australia, thousands of fathers are unable to re-connect with their children and are being told in mediation sessions or by divorce lawyers that there is no hope…


Man Found Guilty in Slaying of Retired St. Louis Police Captain Amid Riots in 2020

A man has been found guilty in the murder of David Dorn, a retired St. Louis, Missouri, police captain who died amid riots in 2020. Dorn, 77, was shot and killed in the early hours of June 2, 2020, outside his friend’s pawn shop in north St. Louis after he arrived there in response to an alarm….


Protecting Boys From Sextortion

Commentary There’s an intriguing photograph of the four people who head up Australia’s Digital Platforms Regulators Forum. A row of smiling women. The control of our county’s high tech online world is firmly in female hands, with not a skerrick of gender diversity to be seen. This would be fine if we could be assured…


Georgia’s Abortion Ban Takes Effect After Appeals Court Overturns Injunction

Georgia’s abortion ban took effect on July 20, immediately after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court order. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stayed the injunction that was issued in 2020, after issuing a ruling finding that the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade and a…