Tag: Viewpoints

The Biggest Gun Confiscation in Australia’s History

Commentary A disarmed population is defenceless in the face of impending tyranny. The American Founders mistrusted government armies and believed, on the basis of English history and their own colonial experience, that governments are prone to use their weapons to oppress the people. They believed that whenever governments plan to destroy our inalienable rights to…


Left Now Insists: ‘Transwomen Are Women’

Commentary Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was accosted last week after her speech about transgender athletes at San Francisco State University. Gaines became an outspoken critic of transgender athletes competing in female sports after being forced to compete against and share a locker room with Lia Thomas, who was born male and identifies as female….


Digital Money Plus Electric Cars Equal Fascist America

Commentary The administrative state is moving faster to cement its totalitarian rule over the United States of America than we can to keep pace. They are doing this because they realize the majority of our people oppose their wishes, but if they are able to impose them by fiat before that opposition forms and reacts,…


The Federal Reserve Makes Bankers Rich

Commentary The Federal Reserve creates booms and busts that make banks richer and leave citizens holding the bag. In March 2023, the U.S. Treasury approved the provision of at least $300 billion worth of loans to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and other banks. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assured the public that this was not a…


Treating California’s Fentanyl Crisis as an Epidemic

Commentary More than the rest of the country, California continues to suffer large numbers of fentanyl deaths. The Feb. 15 update on the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, run by the state government, shows the numbers for 2021, the last full year data are available. There were 7,175 deaths related to any opioid overdose, of which 5,961…


Avoiding the Demographic Danger Zone

Commentary In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson writes, “The implications of permanently slumped population growth are wide-ranging. Shrinking populations produce stagnant economies. … Whether by accident, design, or a total misunderstanding of basic economics, America has steered itself into the demographic danger zone.” It has been said by many over the years…


Ageism in America Is Bad, TikTok Is Making It Much Worse

Commentary In February, just a few months after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Eli Lilly over alleged age bias, the American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis found itself at the center of yet another age discrimination lawsuit. A senior sales rep at Eli Lilly alleged that the company had been attempting to weed…


In the Culture War, Don’t Forget Culture

Commentary Dylan Mulvaney has peppered our news feeds for the last several weeks, first showing us how trans-women love KitchenAid mixers, then hitting Bud Light cans, and now modeling sports bras for Nike. Although pushing cultural agendas is nothing new for the left, the Mulvaney craze has conservatives paying closer attention. For decades, the left’s…


Muslims Turning the Tide in the School Culture Wars

Commentary In a slap to Muslim girls at Stuyvesant High School, the school is cancelling single-sex swim lessons, even though swim instruction is required to graduate. That forces the girls to choose between preserving their modesty and getting a diploma. Count on Muslim families to fight back and likely prevail. Nationwide, Muslims are taking up…


The ADHD Problem Is Bad—Widespread Cannabis Use Will Make It Many Times Worse

Commentary Carl Sagan once called the illegality of cannabis “outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” If the great astronomer was alive today, one assumes that he would be very happy indeed. After…