Commentary Revolutionaries often don’t know when to stop. In France of the 1790s, radicals, not content with creating a constitutional monarchy, abolishing feudalism, and establishing a bill of rights, attempted to create a whole new kind of human–utterly rational, uprooted from old loyalties and places, fitted to be a citizen of a new kind of…
Gerry Bowler: Government’s Attempt to Erase Canada’s Past Follows the Path of French Revolution, Communist Regimes
What the Trump Town Hall Reveals About CNN
Commentary Mayday! Mayday! Network overboard! CNN, which apparently had originally scheduled its Donald Trump town hall event to go for as long as 90 minutes, cut the event at less than 70 minutes as if terrified the 45th president might be reelected right there by proclamation. That wasn’t exactly what the network had in mind. Their…
ANALYSIS: Why Was EcoHealth Alliance’s Grant Reinstated Despite Group’s Apparent Failure to Comply With NIH Conditions?
News Analysis The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a grant that had been terminated by President Donald Trump in April 2020. However, a document first obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveals that the NIH’s conditions for reinstatement have not been met. The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was…
California ‘Carbon Neutrality’ Won’t Reduce Global Temperatures
May 11, 2023
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Commentary You might want to trade in your Tesla for a 2023 V8 Dodge Charger Hemi 870 horsepower gas guzzler. It turns out California will have practically no effect on reducing global temperatures no matter what you and other residents do—including how much carbon you use in your life of fun in the Golden State…
Managing California’s Cannabis Industry Requires Vigorous Law Enforcement
May 11, 2023
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Commentary Let me confess that while I served in the California State Senate, I tried my best to expedite the state’s efforts to assist the birthing efforts of the legal cannabis industry’s efforts to get established and functioning. As vice chair of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, I can remember long meeting sessions to…
The Supreme Court Might Curb the ‘Deep State’ by Overruling the Chevron Case
Commentary The Supreme Court will not be announcing its decisions in most of this year’s big cases until June or early July. But the court recently agreed to consider a case that could trim the power of the “deep state.” The “deep state” is a web of federal administrative agencies, career politicians, lobbyists, and compliant…
The Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Dance
Commentary The Joe Biden-Kevin McCarthy debt ceiling dance entered a new phase Tuesday. President Biden continued to stonewall and insist on an unamended debt ceiling increase (as I wrote in a previous column, calling Biden’s plan “clean” is totally misleading. Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin accurately characterized the Biden position as “It’s not rational, it’s not…
The Trouble With the Center
Commentary In April, 1978, when I was college sophomore, I went to hear a night-time guest lecture by Michael Harrington, the sociologist and author of the influential 1960s book, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States.” The book profiled various impoverished American demographic groups who missed the 1950s wave of prosperity. Though Harrington was a…
Weaponizing Death
May 11, 2023
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Commentary Recently, there has been a spate of horrific murders. The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype. They can be clearly either mentally ill or simply innately evil. They can kill for revenge, for ideological purposes, out of hatred, for notoriety—or for no known reason at all. They are…
How Do We Improve Global Maritime Security?
Commentary Once again Iran’s robed dictators are launching attacks on oil tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. In the last two weeks of April, Iranian forces boarded and seized two oil tankers. One tanker carried crude destined for the United States, so its seizure constituted a direct attack on American maritime commerce. Iran’s…
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