Tag: Viewpoints

Evidence Overwhelmingly Pointed to Leak From Wuhan Lab From Day One

Commentary A recent assessment from the U.S. Energy Department found that the COVID-19 virus likely emerged from a Chinese laboratory. News of this development has caused major media organizations to sharply pivot in their coverage of the origin of the pandemic. Previously, any information about a lab origin was rigorously avoided, but now corporate media…


America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription

The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma.” I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks I’ve had several ambulance rides…


The Day the Sunrise Was a Curse

Commentary March 17, 2020, was the first day of the end of civilized life, the one for which Western peoples had been fighting for one thousand years. It was the first full day following the lockdowns that ended all rights and liberties, including even the right to have friends for dinner or go to community…


US Real-Time Intel Helps India Deal China a Defeat

Commentary In December 2022 I wrote a column titled “India and China Clash on the Roof of the World.” The Himalayan terrain and history where the incident that occurred Dec. 9, 2022, is obscure and complex. However, conflict between Asia’s two giants has global significance. The clash rated headlines throughout east Asia and the Pacific—headlines…


Sex Ed Is Getting Too Extreme

Commentary The facts of life haven’t changed, but sex education is entirely different now from what you likely learned in school. Sex ed in middle school now includes graphic lessons on anal sex, oral sex, and masturbation, with stick figures to illustrate body positions. Supplemental reading in middle school libraries includes “Sex, Puberty, and All…


Biden’s Job Is Running US, Not Israel

Commentary Widely reported in the press is that President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern about judicial reforms that are currently being considered in Israel. We must wonder why Biden, who demonstrably cannot run our own country, feels behooved to tell others, particularly one as successful as Israel, how…


Treasury Holdings by China Is More an Economic Decision Than Political

Commentary One of the recent news warnings about the status of the U.S. dollar was the continuing slash of U.S. Treasury securities holdings by mainland China. It’s latest holding in January was US$859.4 billion, a year-over-year drop of 17 percent compared with that of US$1,033.8 billion in January 2022. Seventeen percent is undoubtedly a significant…


The Coercive Control Con Job

Commentary Talk about a meltdown. The explosive reaction from Liberal troops seeking votes for New South Wales (NSW) Attorney General Mark Speakman at the voting centre in his local electorate was not unexpected. The cause of their wrath was a group of women, from Mothers of Sons, who were entertaining queueing voters with their spoof…


Reflections on Capital Punishment: Brutal or Proportionate?

Commentary What is the usefulness, morality, and appropriateness of the death penalty, especially as a deterrent and a consequence of carrying out atrocious crimes? Published last year, “The Boys of Biloxi” is John Grisham’s new vintage legal thriller novel that deals with an important and perennial issue: the use of the death penalty as a…


LAUSD Strike Demonstrates Massive Union Power

Commentary The Los Angeles Unified School District shuttered school doors March 21 after a strike by Local 99 members of the Service Employees International Union, which represents non-teaching employees. The United Teachers of Los Angeles, which represents teachers, joined the strike. The district’s 420,000 students are at home for the expected three-day duration of the…