Category: Opinion

COVID-19 May Just Bring Back Competition Between the States

Commentary Australia is a federation, although for decades now it has been hard to notice. But COVID-19 may have changed everything. In a functioning federation, like the United States, states revel in competition and distinguishing themselves from each other. While California appears to be going woke and broke at the moment, Florida is where “woke…


COVID-19 May Bring Back Competition Between the States

Commentary Australia is a federation, although for decades now it has been hard to notice. But COVID-19 may have changed everything. In a functioning federation, like the United States, states revel in competition and distinguishing themselves from each other. While California appears to be going woke and broke at the moment, Florida is where “woke…


Moments of Movie Wisdom: Printing the Truth in the Wild West

Commentary If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you value The Epoch Times’s commitment to truth and tradition. It’s almost as hard today to find reliable, honest news sources as it is to find decent entertainment. Thankfully, just as The Epoch Times offers an alternative to the mainstream media for truth-seekers, movies made during Hollywood’s…


Hong Kong Students to Study Poorly Presented National Security Questions During Summer Vacation

Commentary In early June, Hong Kong’s Education Bureau (EDB) issued a circular to the primary and secondary schools about the third anniversary of the national security law. Apart from recommending relevant online games and teaching resources, it advises the use of a “summer self-learning kit” so that students can make good use of the summer…


Groups Protest at Drag Story Hours in California, Part II

Commentary Continued from Part I A friend named Meryl Azar and I were walking back to our cars at the end of the last protest at the drag story hour at the Santa Rosa downtown library when we were approached by two gray-haired women. The women asked us why we were there protesting and what…


Michael Taube: Why Is It So Difficult for a Conservative to Be Elected Mayor in Canada?

Commentary Olivia Chow was elected Mayor of Toronto in the June 26 byelection. The former NDP MP/city councillor earned 269,372 votes (37.16 percent), edging out former city councillor Ana Bailão (235,175 votes, 32.46 percent). The two conservative candidates, former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders (62,167 votes, 8.59 percent) and former Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey…


The Supreme Court Saves a Republic on the Edge of Extinction

Commentary Cue Diana Ross—the Supremes are back! Okay, not those Supremes. Those other Supremes known as SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the Unites States). You can tell they’re doing the right thing because the gang at The View is having conniption fits—or so I’m told, since I never watch it. To carry forth the Diana Ross…


Canada’s Bill C-18 Is an Inadvertent Blow to Censorship

Commentary The Liberal government’s recently passed Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, requires that tech giants like Google and Meta negotiate deals with Canadian media companies like Bell, Postmedia, and Torstar for the right to link to their Canadian content. To Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s dismay, the tech giants are refusing to play…


Groups Protest at Drag Story Hours in California, Part I

Commentary On Fathers’ Day weekend, as part of June Pride Month, four public libraries in Sonoma County, California, chose to hold “Drag Story Hours” with a “Drag King named Vera” as the presenter. The events on Saturday were in Petaluma (where the largest number of parents and children attended—132 in total at room capacity) and…


TikTok Lawfare Against America

Commentary As is well known, TikTok is a national security threat because communist China has laws that give it access to the data of its almost 1.7 billion global users. Yet naive teenagers around the world download the app on their smartphones, thirsty for the latest kid craze trend. TikTok’s algorithm then channels these users more…