Commentary What happens when one zombie eats another? All the disgusting and fetid zombie parts of the consumed simply move to the consumer. The same is true of zombie banks. When one zombie bank—full of death and corruption but better at hiding it due to superior cosmetics—eats its more visibly ill and compatriot zombie bank,…
When One Zombie Eats Another: Why UBS’s Rescue of Credit Suisse Changes Nothing
March 21, 2023
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The Founders and the Constitution, Part 1: Introduction
Commentary This series of essays focuses on those American Founders who exercised the most influence on the original Constitution as amended by the Bill of Rights. Each essay thumbnails the life and contributions of at least one individual. The essays also will tell you more about “the supreme Law of the Land.” Before proceeding with…
In Michigan, a Modicum of Justice for a COVID-Exploiting Teachers’ Union
March 21, 2023
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Commentary America’s teachers’ unions exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to maximum effect, leveraging school lockdowns for which they lobbied to pursue political demands stretching far beyond their salaries and benefits—and helping drive a $190 billion windfall in taxpayer dollars to K-12 schools. The public bore that cost, in children’s learning loss and mental health struggles; in the burdens the closures…
Reparations Are a Statist Cudgel for Bludgeoning Property Owners
March 21, 2023
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Commentary San Francisco’s panel on reparations has issued a recommendation that qualified black residents in that city receive $5 million in reparations for the financial effects of slavery and/or racial discrimination. There was never slavery in the city of San Francisco, but the panel nevertheless suggested that city inhabitants must atone for racial discrimination. Such calls for…
Your Daughter for a Rat?
Commentary There are various degrees of acceptable insanity, but in general you would not want a person who thought a toad had the same intrinsic value as your mother to manage her Alzheimer’s disease. You would not want a person who equated the value of your daughter with that of a rat to decide whether…
Latest Border Encounter Numbers Expose Biden’s Ports of Entry Bait-and-Switch
Commentary As expected, the Biden administration has started using its port parole program shell game to feign “lawfulness” and distract from the true numbers of illegal aliens entering the United States each month. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Wednesday, March 15, reported the lowest number of southwest land border encounters since January 2022. Taken at face value, that may…
Wisconsin Is the Most Important Race in the Country in 2023
Commentary Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus tweeted seemingly out of nowhere last week about the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race coming up next month. In her breezy post, she listed fair maps, abortion rights, and control of Congress as the key reasons to get involved. For added measure, she embedded a cheerful video of herself in the…
How Concentration of Powers Undermines the Rule of Law in Australia
Commentary Over the last three years, the Australian government has exercised coercive powers over its citizens on a scale never previously attempted. At some moments, it took oppressive control over almost every aspect of our personal lives: where we could go, whom we could meet, what we could do even within our own homes. Australians…
The Role of Newsom’s Diversity Mandates in SVB’s Failure
March 20, 2023
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Commentary In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, many are questioning whether the bank was distracted by woke policies over its core mission of protecting depositors’ money. A lot of evidence has already come to light that it did. We must also examine the role California Governor Gavin Newsom played in the bank’s…
Cory Morgan: Is the Jig Finally up for the ‘Upper Levels’ Who Ignored CSIS Warnings on CCP Interference?
March 20, 2023
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Commentary The trickle of information on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in Canadian affairs has turned into a torrent. Current and former intelligence officials are coming out and reporting a pattern of government indifference to CCP interference in domestic affairs that spans back decades. Governments and political leaders have managed to ignore the problem with…
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