Tag: Viewpoints

How to Honor Our Officers During National Police Week

Commentary I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies, at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorating National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy signed the proclamation, in 1962, designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and establishing the week in which this occurs as National Police Week. It…


The Great Underestimation of DeSantis Starts to Unravel

Commentary This past weekend, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) reminded voters, and a skeptical press that have spent an inordinate amount of time writing his political obituary before he even launched his candidacy, that he not only possesses the promise and nimbleness needed to be a candidate for president but that he also has the staff…


Shred the White Collar and Put on the Blue

Commentary In 1936, John Maynard Keynes, who was the most influential economist of the 20th century, wrote in his popular treatise (“The General Theory”) of his ultimate solution for permanent growth and high employment without business cycles. He called for the government to drive interest rates to zero. This would spur massive borrowing and then…


Justice Stands Between Freedom and Tyranny

Commentary Integral to the integrity of our society, based as it is on the rule of law, is the behaviour and competence of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Revelations and accusations about the behaviour of the Australian Capital Territory’s DPP should send alarm bells ringing for all Australians. His behaviour and professionalism have come…


NY Times Publisher, Ironically, Demands Return to Journalistic Independence

Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly…


What Durham Didn’t Tell Us

Commentary The FBI is fatally corrupt. The justice system is totally broken. That’s what we can conclude from the Durham Report. Special counsel John Durham’s report hammers home two separate points time and again: the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign entirely without reason or any underlying predication and the FBI protected Hillary…


Going Nuclear in Asia: More Than Just Building a Bomb

Commentary Could America’s Asian allies go nuclear? This is a recurring scenario, given continuing concerns in Tokyo, Seoul, and even Canberra that Washington’s security commitment to Asia—and particularly its promise of extended nuclear deterrence—may be less than dependable. In articles (found here, here, and here), the argument is made that countries like Japan, South Korea,…


EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Pentagon Report Forensically Dismantled Fauci-Led Natural Origin Study

News Analysis Researchers at the Department of Defense wrote a devastating takedown of the Proximal Origin study, which was used by Dr. Anthony Fauci as proof that the COVID-19 virus had come from nature.  The takedown, dated May 26, 2020, was written in the form of a working paper called “Critical analysis of Andersen et…


Why I Won’t Be Reading the Durham Report

Sometime around early afternoon on May 15, I heard that the Durham Report had finally made its appearance. I was surprised. I had forgotten all about it. I had also pretty much forgotten about its author, special counsel John Durham, ever since he failed in his attempts to convict some minor miscreants in the Trump/Russia…


The Asymmetric Nature of Expensive Air Defenses Versus Cheap Drones

Commentary Putting geopolitics aside for the moment, the Russia–Ukraine war has been a testing ground for some of the West’s most sophisticated weapons and has yielded some interesting insights into modern warfare. Ukraine’s U.S.-trained army, flush with tens of thousands of Western-provided anti-tank guided missiles and other advanced NATO weapons, had great initial success in…