Category: Viewpoints

Real Estate Crosscurrents

Commentary After months of decline, May’s report on homebuilding showed a surge in activity. This news gives evidence of the emergence of the crosscurrents that inflation often brings to the residential real estate market. On one side is the depressing effect of rising mortgage rates. Running counter is the attraction of real estate as an…


​​DEI Comes to the State Department

Commentary DEI (which stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion to its proponents and discrimination, exclusion, and intolerance to some of its critics) is now spreading to the U.S. State Department. Actually, it’s something of a surprise, given how obsessively identity conscious the Biden administration is, that this initiative didn’t occur earlier. Was that an oversight?…


Drugs and Propaganda: Drastic Things Are Happening in Canada

Commentary According to Aldous Huxley, the tyrant of the future will use drugs and propaganda to convince the individual to “love his slavery.” In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Huxley explained as follows: “You have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs, as I foresaw in…


Why California’s Schools Are Losing Their Teachers, Part IV

Commentary Operating schools is a business, not something governments do. Public sector enterprises and public sector employees are less creative than the private sector, almost by definition, and are not capable of running a school district. This is why until 1890, when progressives created what we have today (amalgamated public school districts), all U.S. schools…


A Genealogy of Corporatism

Commentary It’s not capitalism. It’s not socialism. The new word we are hearing these days is the right word: corporatism. It refers to the merger of industry and state into a unit with the purpose of achieving some grand visionary end, the liberty of individuals be damned. The word itself predates its successor, which is…


California Is Cooperating in China’s Eco-Scams

Commentary One of the persons with the best insights into what’s going on inside the People’s Republic of China is Winston Sterzel and his YouTube channel. He lived there for 13 years until leaving in 2019 after he received death threats. On June 15, he shared a video of a massive field of electric cars…


Green Monkeys, You Say? BioNTech’s mRNA Factory and the Marburg Virus

Commentary Citing microbiologist Kevin McKernan, The Epoch Times reports that green monkey DNA has been found in mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. This has led D.D. Denslow to note in a viral tweet that green monkeys were the source of the infamous 1967 Marburg virus outbreak. Well, as so happens, the production facility of BioNTech, the legal manufacturer of the so-called…


Our Nation’s Long Dark Night of the Soul

Commentary Forty months ago began the lockdowns that set in motion a grim trajectory of misery for Americans and the world. It was the long dark night of the soul, in the words of St. John of the Cross. It was a challenge to everyone and everything. Do you really believe in freedom and human…


Who Owns BioNTech?

Commentary So, now that it has been established that the main profiteer in the COVID-19 “vaccine” gold rush of the last two years is not Pfizer, but rather the still astonishingly little-known and previously tiny German firm BioNTech, it would appear that something needs to be said about who owns BioNTech. As shown in my…


Central Bankers Prepare for Long Battle With Inflation

Commentary On the longest day of the year, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services welcomed Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to address its concerns around inflation and weakness in the U.S. economy. Powell warned Congress that the fight against inflation is far from over, that the battle will be a long, hard slog, and…