Commentary The weekend brought us the news that JPMorgan bought the failing First Republic bank, with numbers that are truly mind-boggling and further shore up JPMorgan’s megabank status. For many readers, this came across as fancy high finance and nothing much to concern us, especially since the numbers are essentially incomprehensible to the regular person….
Barbara Kay: ‘Doomography’: The Trend of Plunging Fertility Rates Is Eroding Societal Well-Being
Commentary With an estimated 1.4 billion people, India’s population has drawn even with China’s, and will soon surpass it, as China’s population is in decline and aging, while India’s is growing and young. A startling 20 percent of people worldwide under the age of 25 live in India. Environmental alarmists will see nothing in this…
The Unreported Tucker Carlson Story
Commentary The business of cable news and commentary isn’t just business; it goes to the core of how the First Amendment operates in the 21st century. Fox’s most popular primetime host, Tucker Carlson, was shown the door a week after Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in a defamation suit. Texts from…
Myth Busted: Hypersonic Missiles Make Great Bunker Busters
Commentary Reports have been circulating on Twitter and some news services that Russia’s new “super weapon” has destroyed an alleged shadow NATO bunker in Lviv, Ukraine, buried 300 to 400 feet underground, killing “dozens” of people. An analysis of the claim, such as that provided by Newsweek, shows the claim to be false. Still, podcasts…
Yes Is for Bringing Australia Together and Moving Forward
Commentary Through the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australian communities forged the first ever national consensus on how they want to be constitutionally recognised—they asked for a constitutionally guaranteed Voice in their affairs. Not a veto, just a better say in decisions impacting their communities. This was a simple yet profound request. It was…
Can Elon Musk Save the Diminishing Value of Twitter’s Blue Check Mark?
Commentary The Bible says, “Thou shall not covet,” but for years I secretly coveted something many had: Twitter’s blue check mark. I know it sounds silly, but I longed to be verified. When I started Twitter, I didn’t care; but at some point I realized verification would boost my “personal brand,” which would lead to…
Crowding-Out: The Fed May Be Killing the Private Sector to Save Government
Commentary The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet reached its all-time high in May 2022. Since then, it was supposed to drop at a steady pace and shed $3 trillion by 2024. The normalization of monetary policy was built on the idea of a soft landing for the economy. However, the Fed may be killing the private…
New LAUSD Contract Slights Students, Taxpayers
May 1, 2023
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Commentary The unfortunate students of the Los Angeles Unified School District! The new contract the district worked out with the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union says it’s to help the kids, but it’s really only to help the union and its members—with the taxpayers picking up the tab. The UTLA’s website boasted the…
Michael Zwaagstra: Alberta Election Will Impact Schools in a Big Way
May 1, 2023
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Commentary The Alberta election campaign is now underway. Polls indicate that it will be a tight race between Danielle Smith’s UCP and Rachel Notley’s NDP. With the NDP well ahead in Edmonton and with most of rural Alberta locked in for the UCP, the election will almost certainly come down to Calgary, where the UCP…
Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship
Commentary As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees. It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking…
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