Tag: Viewpoints

The Founders and the Constitution, Part 2: John Adams

Commentary Unlike the other Founders profiled in this series, John Adams of Massachusetts didn’t attend the 1787 Constitutional Convention. He was America’s ambassador to England when the convention met, and he didn’t return home until the ratification process was well underway. His contribution was in laying the groundwork for the Constitution, both when in Massachusetts…


Growing Display of Tribalism by Australian Mainstream Media

Commentary How on earth can an unwanted gate-crashing by ugly neo-Nazis of a rally so derail the message of the rally and have its participants so tainted to have someone expelled from a parliamentary party? It seems surreal, but it is happening right here in Australia. Courtesy of the bulk of the mainstream media engaging…


Tribalism in Media Paves the Way for Mob Rule

Commentary How on earth can an unwanted gate-crashing by ugly neo-Nazis of a rally so derail the message of the rally and have its participants so tainted to have someone expelled from a parliamentary party? It seems surreal, but it is happening right here in Australia. Courtesy of the bulk of the mainstream media engaging…


Author Explains How to Use the Constitution to Fight Union Power

Commentary For 36 years, all but three as a private-sector journalist, I’ve been fighting for the democratic rights of Californians against the powerful, non-democratic public-employee unions. It’s been wearying. There have been few victories. It was especially painful when I was state Sen. John Moorlach’s press secretary, 2017-20, and saw the unions attack him with…


Lawyer, Author Explains How to Use the Constitution to Fight Union Power

Commentary For 36 years, all but three as a private-sector journalist, I’ve been fighting for the democratic rights of Californians against the powerful, non-democratic public-employee unions. It’s been wearying. There have been few victories. It was especially painful when I was state Sen. John Moorlach’s press secretary, 2017-20, and saw the unions attack him with…


Why California’s Schools Are Losing Their Teachers, Part II

Commentary In February this year, the newsletter The Peanut Gallery stated: “In March of 2022, Yana, a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, and her mother fled to escape Russia’s invasion and went to San Francisco, where Yana’s aunt lived. This January [2023], Yana began attending eighth-grade classes at Marina Middle School despite speaking little English. While she’d…


Silicon Valley Bank and the Soft Pivot of Our Weak-Kneed Fed

Commentary Old habits die hard for the folks over at the Federal Reserve, who immediately rung in the 2023 financial crisis with what will in due time be recalled as the fifth round of quantitative easing, the Fed’s preferred term for monetary expansion. It’s now apparent that the Fed currently finds itself between a proverbial…


Kowtowing to the CCP: Former Taiwan President Ma Doing It Again

Commentary Ma Ying-jeou, a former Taiwan President and former Kuomintang Party (KMT) Chairman, has a long history of kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He plans to lead a KMT delegation to China with former aids and several dozen students. During the 12-day trip beginning on 27 March, he will visit five cities: Nanjing,…


​The Epidemic of Teen Depression: A National Scandal

Commentary Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported a huge increase in the percentage of American high school students suffering from depression. The numbers are grim: “In 2021, 57% of high-school girls reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared with 36% in 2011. Thirty percent reported they seriously considered attempting…


Fauci Smears Republicans Who Don’t Like to Be Told What to Do

Commentary The documentary of Anthony Fauci on American Masters from PBS, funded by your tax dollars, keeps paying high returns. The film follows the highest-paid government employee, and now its most well-heeled pensioner, to Ward 8 in Washington, D.C. (Anacostia) where he condescends to residents who have a pretty good sense of what’s what. In…