Commentary After losing at the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden has floated another student debt relief scheme. Lawyers and judges will take a while to decide if this new approach passes constitutional muster, no doubt, until after the 2024 election. But while the legal gears turn—slowly as ever—the political-economic implications will emerge immediately and be…
Credit-Card Debt, Socialist Threat
Commentary In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church, reflecting Plato and Aristotle, considered money lending charging interest to be a grave evil, for reasons ranging from the metaphysical to practical concerns regarding exploitation of the poor and personal responsibility. While there was never an absolute prohibition of providing credit stated in either the Old or…
How Does Your Southern California City Rank on Fiscal Health?
July 20, 2023
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Commentary Keeping track of your personal finances is important. But, we should also pay attention to the financial well-being of our local cities, as it can impact the community. Until now, we’ve looked at Southern California cities in six counties: Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Imperial. As the city of Huntington…
FBI Allegedly Aided Russian Censorship Efforts
Commentary Just 10 days after federal Judge Terry A. Doughty issued a stirring Independence Day injunction freezing government speech policing efforts in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, an appellate court temporarily stayed his order, restoring the fed-led censorship apparatus. That means the Biden administration can resume the speech-stifling activities that induced social media companies…
The Cult Religion of Transgenderism: Part II
July 20, 2023
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Commentary Continued from Part I After hearing three expert witnesses agree that transgenderism is a religious cult, I decided to pursue this idea further by researching three of the most famous cult religions and comparing them to the characteristics in transgenderism to see if they match up. First of all, let us define a cult….
Is America Irredeemably Racist?
Commentary The United States, we’re told, is a country defined by white supremacy and white grievance. An increasing number of Americans, according to Wesley Lowery, author of the new book “American Whitelash,” resent the idea of racial progress. This, I contend, is a point of view that’s completely detached from objective reality. Lowery’s book has…
The Rise of Totalitarianism: Banks Denying Services Based on Political Views
Commentary When the Berlin Wall fell, I naively supposed that freedom was now secure, that never again would the spectre of totalitarianism return to Europe. I failed to take into account what I should have known, that the thirst for power is at least as great as that for freedom. Freedom and power are forever…
Climate Change Is the New COVID
Commentary Listening to National Public Radio (NPR) just now (why do I do this?), the lead item was about flooding in Kentucky. It seems that it rained a lot and some streets became impassable. Fascinating right? But why is this bit of local news a top-of-the-hour blast from government radio? You know why: the whole…
Climate Engineering to Fight Global Warming? What Could Go Wrong!
Commentary Two years ago, a documentary, “The Dimming: Exposing The Global Climate Engineering Cover-Up,” was released by Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch. The documentary claimed that climate engineering had been going on for decades, and there had been a massive cover-up. In fact, Yahoo Finance reported in 2019 that “Bill Gates backs plan to tackle…
Data With Chinese Characteristics
July 20, 2023
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//Commentary// China released its latest GDP figure showing strong 6.3 percent year-on-year growth in the second quarter. There is, of course, a low base effect in play, given the 0.4 percent year-over-year growth in 2022Q2. A simple way to adjust such an effect is to sum the two numbers that differ by four quarters. The…
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