Category: Viewpoints

The Wagner Revolt Leaves Losers Worldwide

Commentary A suspect deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin ended the short-lived but stunning Wagner Revolt. Revolt it was. The Wagner force took Rostov, a major city and the site of the Russian Army’s headquarters for the Ukraine War. A Wagner flying column with tanks and mechanized infantry rolled toward…


Every City in the Inland Empire Ranked According to Financial Health

Commentary Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California have 52 cities. A number of their residents work in Orange County and make their commute using the Riverside Freeway, its express lanes, or the Metrolink rail. As housing costs tend to be higher the closer one comes to the coast, moving to the Inland Empire…


Nuclear Games in Russia Destabilizing the World

Commentary The nuclear posture of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the world is becoming less stable by the day. For starters, Russia has confirmed that it has moved tactical nuclear weapons into neighboring Belarus. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the weapons would be used only if the Russian state or territory were threatened. That criterion…


On Abortion, Republicans Should Look to Abraham Lincoln

Commentary With one year since the Dobbs decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, how should we be thinking, as a nation, about this crucial issue? Commentary in the press is conveying that Dobbs was an unpopular decision and that it has strengthened sentiment in the country for legal abortion. Per Gallup,…


California Climate Policies Only Empower China

Commentary California politicians and influencers like to boast how the state is “poised to become the world’s fourth biggest economy.” Yet they obviously remain ignorant about what’s really going on across the globe. Consider this story in the liberal-progressive Financial Times, hardly a bastion of conservatism: “China’s dominance of solar poses difficult choices for the…


China’s Saboteurs Are Coming to America

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland. “The jungle is filled with Chinese marching to America,” said war correspondent Michael Yon to Gatestone. Chinese migrants are entering the United States on foot at the southern border. Almost all are desperate, seeking a better life for themselves…


All the People Say: Power to the Consumers

Commentary Brendan Whitworth, CEO of Anheuser-Busch, has finally granted an interview on the Bud Light controversy. He managed to get through the interview without saying anything meaningful beyond the usual corporate cliches. What remarkable talent it requires to be subjected to a 9-minute interview and say nothing about the only reason for the interview: the…


Politicians, Not Airlines, Are Delaying Your Flights

Commentary Like a DC-10 chasing its own tail, the deregulation of air travel is never able to progress nearly as far as it should, despite staggering successes, because politicians who want to control passengers’ lives are so good at blaming the airlines for the government’s failures. At the beginning of the year, the Biden administration…


Ottawa’s Payday Loan Crackdown Will Help Canada’s Black Market

Commentary The poor you will always have with you. (Matthew 26:11) Another thing that will always be with us: lenders making high-interest, short-term loans to the poor, who will then struggle to pay them back. This leads to yet another eternal condition: impractical moral judgments about such loans. In this year’s federal budget, the Liberals…


Book Review: ‘Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition’

Commentary Enacted together in 1965, Medicare is the U.S. federal government-managed health insurance program for citizens 65 and over, while Medicaid is the de facto welfare program for low-income adults, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. While 36 million people were enrolled in traditional Medicare in 2021, the program’s actuaries already envision this number…