Tag: Viewpoints

Why Turkey’s May 14 Election Really Matters

Commentary Turkey’s May 14, 2023, national elections are critical, foremost for Turkish citizens. Their democracy is at stake. But that isn’t the only reason Turkish and European media call next week’s vote the most important in 100 years. The election, which pits the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the much more moderate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, also…


Don’t Buy Into Sharpton’s Attack on McDonald’s

Commentary Racism is abhorrent. So are shakedown artists who cry racism to rake in cash. The Rev. Al Sharpton publicly threatened McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski on April 27, using the same language his National Action Network (NAN) has used for three decades to squeeze cash out of major corporations. Sharpton referred to “multiple accusations of…


NYC Moves to Combat Ageism—The Last Acceptable ism in America

Commentary New York City (NYC) officials recently collaborated with the Department for the Aging and the Department of Education to launch a new curriculum designed to curb age discrimination in the city. The goal is to educate kids, to teach them that aging shouldn’t be viewed as a disease. Instead, it should be viewed as…


​The EPA’s Assault Against Consumer Sovereignty

Commentary If the term “consumer sovereignty” is unfamiliar to you, don’t feel bad; you have lots of company. Writing seven or eight decades ago, the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) used the phrase “consumer sovereignty” as a synonym for “free enterprise” or “free-market economy.” In some ways, “consumer sovereignty” is superior to its…


The State Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want

Commentary The words of C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece, “The Screwtape Letters,” help me understand the ethos of the era we are living in when “feelings” are held as superior to the wisdom of hundreds of known generations before us: “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and,…


Equity and the Race to the Bottom

Commentary Over the last few years, the rallying cry of “woke” activists has become “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (often abbreviated to DEI). There is little reason to object to such principles on the surface. After all, America was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Unfortunately, the meaning of words can change over time….


David Krayden: Beijing’s Intimidation of MP’s Family Shows Regime’s Arrogance and Years of Weakness From Ottawa

Commentary  Conservative MP Michael Chong has every right to be “profoundly disappointed” to discover his family in Hong Kong was under surveillance by communist China and the Trudeau government did nothing about it. Another disconnect between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Another example of incompetence, cowardice, and pusillanimity towards China—that country…


‘Salt of the Earth’—The Stories That Make America

Commentary OXFORD, Pennsylvania—Despite the wealth of information at our fingertips in the information age, there is a glaring emptiness that plagues us in our storytelling. We remove nuance and replace it with sensationalism. We shun original stories because they stray too far from the pack. In the process, we miss the beauty, pain and magic,…


By Not Firing Tucker Carlson, Fox News Takes Lead in ‘Cancel Culture’

Commentary I’m so old I remember … I think it was about two weeks ago … when Fox News was a leading opponent of cancel culture. Tribunes of the free press and the First Amendment filled the airwaves with coverage of the dirty dealings, revealed by Elon Musk, between Twitter and government intelligence agencies in…


Who Turned the Lights Out? Joe Biden

Commentary Does the radical climate change agenda know no end? Earlier this year, it was gas stoves—and then lightbulbs. Then, a few weeks ago, President Joe Biden’s administration announced much less gas cars after 2032. Even though about half of Americans say they don’t want an electric car and only 6 percent of drivers are…