Category: Viewpoints

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Strategic Victory

Commentary The great debt ceiling negotiation of 2023 is over. People will argue over how much the House Republicans got and how much President Joe Biden got in the final details of the legislation. What people cannot refute is the narrow House Republican majority’s historic achievement of leading the debate in a city dominated by…


Welcome to Major League Baseball’s Struggle Sessions

Commentary The Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on crosses—that’s just “inclusivity.” Orthodox Christians with opinions, on the other hand, will be compelled to engage in ritual public humiliation and beg…


How Jews Were Scapegoated During the Pandemic

Commentary It was common in the Middle Ages for Jews to get the blame for the spreading of disease. In the 14th century, Jews were accused of poisoning wells, infecting the water with something terrible that was then transferred to the whole community. There was of course never one shred of evidence of this. The…


A Decision That Will Reverberate for Decades to Come

Commentary Ben Roberts-Smith. A name that will be etched in the memory of Australians for decades to come and one suspects in the law journals forever. Winning a Victoria Cross on the battlefield is no “every participant wins a prize” award. It is an honour bestowed on the truly brave who have acted against the…


Los Angeles Dodgers to Honor LGBTQ Anti-Christian Group

The Los Angeles Dodgers invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of LGBTQ people dressed as hedonistic nuns, to be honored in an upcoming pride game. The group uses extravagant Christian imagery as a form of mockery to scorn religious beliefs. This would never be tolerated if directed at Muslims or Jews, but our…


Despite Pushback, Wokeness Getting Worse Before It Gets Better

Commentary Ron DeSantis declared that Florida is where “woke goes to die.” He certainly has played a key role in identifying it as a problem and pushing back, fighting it in schools and within big corporations. But has America turned the corner on wokeness, or is it still getting worse before it gets better? In…


‘Ghost Guns’ Ruling Is a Pointless Attack on Second Amendment Rights

Commentary The term “ghost guns” is an outrageously inaccurate, but effective, epithet against American’s Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms.” It just means home-made guns, which are become easier than ever to make due to continuous improvements in 3D printing. The latest development for these guns came in California on May 30, when…


Clueless CEOs Will Regret Playing Ball With Beijing

Commentary A year before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one James M. Lindsay, then senior fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution, now director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, lamented of the ongoing aftermath of the Cold War that “at the very moment that the United States has more influence than ever on international…


Orange County Cities’ Financial Rankings for 2022 Are Here

Commentary By late April, five of Orange County’s 34 cities had not posted their Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFRs) for the year ending June 30, 2022, on their websites. They are usually completed by December of the same year. By the end of May, the last one was finally posted. The city of Laguna Beach’s…


Global Debt Soars Again

Commentary Global debt levels soared by $8.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2023, climbing to $305 trillion, nearly the record high set in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Institute of International Finance. This means almost 335 percent of GDP. Rising debt is a burden on growth, and soaring public debt means…