Tag: Viewpoints

The US Dollar Will Stay the World’s Reserve Currency

Commentary There has been a lot of worry about the burgeoning partnership between Russia and China. Russia’s economy is very small, and it cannot afford to fight the continuing war in Ukraine. It needs China to help, and China is more than willing to buy energy products from Russia. The trading is being executed in…


Pregnancy Problems, Maternal Mortality at All-Time High

On Oct. 29, 2022, Whitney Reising Oliver died. She was 22 weeks pregnant with her first child, a little boy she and her husband had named Felix. Their unborn son also died. “Whit was so excited to be a mother and raise baby Felix in Chicago, IL—the city she loved, alive with her favorite art,…


A Credit Crunch Is Inevitable

Commentary Federal Reserve data shows $174.5 billion of deposits left the banking system in the week after the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Most of the money went to money-market funds, as Bloomberg shows that assets in this class rose by $121 billion in the same period. The data shows the challenges of the banking system…


Why Taiwan Matters to Us All

Commentary Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is meeting with U.S. House Speaker McCarthy on April 5 before travelling to Latin America. European states like the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom are also continuing to deepen political engagement with the independent island. At the same time, we’re getting another round of fire and brimstone from…


Barbara Kay: Condemnation of Good-Faith Research Into Residential-School History Must Stop

Commentary On April 1, a new website was launched by the Indian Residential Schools Research Group (irsrg.ca) whose mission is to share with the public historical materials concerning the residential-school system, materials that uphold “the highest standards of research, evidence, and logic in the pursuit of the truth, wherever that may lead. Most importantly, we…


Indictment Against Trump Is Chance for Unity Against Government Weaponization

Commentary In a singularly inglorious moment that even the left has condemned, former President Donald Trump is now reportedly facing a 34-count indictment at the hands of a politically weaponized prosecutor’s office. It’s a mistake of historic proportions. New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, like fellow Democrat, New York Attorney General Letitia James, both campaigned…


John Robson: We Have to Demand an End to Government’s Ethical Lapses

Commentary The Trudeau administration seems to have “jumped the shark” in choosing as interim ethics commissioner a close relative of a minister already caught violating the Conflict of Interest Act on behalf of… a relative. Columnist Andrew Coyne exclaimed “They are just trolling us now,” and it feels like appalling misjudgment on their part. But…


Why California Schools Shouldn’t Keep Secrets from Parents

Commentary Over the last decade, California has been on a crusade to erode parental rights. By misinterpreting Education Code Section 221.5, commonly referred to as Assembly Bill 1266, the state is inducing teachers to withhold information from parents about their children. Specifically, it is permitting this bill to be used by teachers as a basis…


Census Map Shows Dramatic California Exodus

Commentary Sometimes a map tells a dramatic story. That’s the case for the following map released March 30 by the U.S. Census Bureau. It shows net domestic migration for the United States, by county, for 2021-22. Each red dot shows 100 people leaving. Each blue dot shows 100 people arriving. For a larger version, click…


Trump Indictment Fundamentally Transforms America to Third-World Nation

Commentary The indictment of former president and current Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump by a leftist New York County district attorney, Alvin Bragg, borne of a wholly contrived, baseless, and unprecedented case that every other Trump-hating authority declined to bring, is an utter abomination. It’s an outrageous assault on the rule of law that “normalizes”…