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…
Treasury Holdings by China Is More an Economic Decision Than Political
March 22, 2023
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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
March 21, 2023
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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…
Confronting Civilizational Challenges
Commentary Never before has humanity seen laid before it such an endless field strewn with earthly wealth at the very moment of realization that the treasure has become devoid of meaning. Humanity at the peak of its prosperity is always reminded of the transience of its fortune—and then humiliated by the realization that wisdom evaporates from…
China’s ‘Peace Plan’ for Ukraine Could Pave the Way for Russian Aggression
Commentary Nature, according to Aristotle, abhors a vacuum. The old Stagirite, writing in his “Physics,” was thinking about how the physical universe operates. But a cognate idea can be found in many who later noticed that what we might call political and social reality operates according to a similar economy. Readers of Rabelais’s “Gargantua and…
Finland and NATO: Into a Deeper Escalation in Europe
Commentary In his recent speech in Warsaw, U.S. President Joe Biden stated that one of the consequences of Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine was that neighboring Finland applied to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Now this has become a reality, after the Finnish parliament voted in favor of NATO membership with an…
Bill Gates Plots a Global Pandemic Prison State
March 21, 2023
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Commentary An epic disaster like the COVID response, one might suppose, should inspire some humility and rethinking on how public health could have gone so wrong. They had their run at it but created a global disaster for the ages. This is more than obvious to any competent observer. The next step might be to…
Fighting ‘Donorism’: Will DeSantis Fall Behind Ramaswamy?
Commentary The question “Will Ron DeSantis soon fall behind Vivek Ramaswamy?” may be premature—for now—but Donald Trump is already using that possibility in a TruthSocial posting that taunts the Florida governor. (DeSantis’s criticism of the potential Alvin Bragg indictment of Trump over the Stormy Daniels payment, it should be noted, was less than full-throated.) “Ron…
Brian Giesbrecht: Bishop Grandin Played an Honourable Part in Manitoba’s History and Shouldn’t Be ‘Cancelled’
Commentary Winnipeg is close to saying goodbye to Bishop Grandin. Soon, the streets, and anything else that bears his name, will be erased from Manitoba’s history. Before that step is taken in historical revisionism, city councillors might at least pay respects to the man who was once considered to be a founding father of this…
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