Category: Viewpoints

Why Faith and Family are the Cure for Loneliness

Commentary A few weeks ago, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an alarming report (pdf) on the state of loneliness in America. While expressing great concern about the toll loneliness takes on a person’s mental health, the report goes on to ignore two of the best antidotes for curing the problem: family and faith. According to…


New Yorkers Demand Answers After Uncovering Hidden Anomalies in Voter Database

Commentary New York Citizens Audit (NYCA) has just made a huge leap from being a volunteer organization advocating for election integrity, to having their findings validated in a peer-reviewed article published in the current edition of the Journal of Information Warfare (JIW). “The Caesar Cipher and Stacking the Deck in New York State Voter Rolls”…


Cut Housing Costs in California by Repealing Prop. 39 From 2000

Commentary One of the defects in California’s political system is how not just the public-employee unions, but the super-wealthy can manipulation the system. They use democracy to short-circuit democracy. A good example is billionaire Reed Hastings, chairman of the board at Netflix. He has long been involved in California’s political process, especially on education. Nothing…


Debate Over Public Safety in San Clemente Continues After Marines Beaten

Commentary During the Memorial Day weekend, on the San Clemente Pier, a large group of teenagers attacked and beat two non-uniformed United States Marines who simply requested that the crowd discontinue igniting fireworks. The irony of beating enlisted soldiers on this May weekend is not lost on the residents of Orange County. A video of…


The Founders and the Constitution, Part 12: Benjamin Franklin

Commentary Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on Jan. 6, 1706, the youngest son among a tradesman’s 15 children by two successive wives. He had two years of formal education. At the age of 12 he was apprenticed to his older brother James, a printer. Five years later, he ran away to New York. He…


Congress Must Save the Marine Corps

Commentary I was completely unaware of the crisis building in the United States Marine Corps until I received an article from Bing West “Marine Corps No More?” West is a distinguished military historian who served in the Marines and wrote an extraordinary book, “The Village,” about a year spent reclaiming a Vietnamese village from the…


Chris Christie’s Achilles Heel

Commentary Apparently, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to run for president in the Republican primary, throwing another hat in the ring that will soon have so many they could open a store. (Who’s Ryan Binkley? Ditto Perry Johnson?) A super-PAC with the name “Tell It Like It Is” was formed for Christie,…


One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court: My Close Encounter With Ontario’s Human Rights Bureaucracy

Commentary In Summer 2021, my son was disqualified from applying for a free computer programming course because of his race. With my curiosity sparked by his frustration, I have experienced an ongoing series of bureaucratic burlesques while arguing against such obvious racial discrimination. “SummerUP” is a summer program funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education…


US and China Wage Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific

Commentary Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have changed, as have some of the regional and global actors. Great Power rivalry definitely isn’t ancient history in the Pacific and East Asia. However, communist China is now the expansionist power, not imperial Japan. The United States is still…


Abandoning the Working Class for Freeloaders

Commentary The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want taxpayers to support people who refuse to get off the couch and get a job. That’s the major reason Democrats and Republicans in Washington were locked in a stalemate for weeks over hiking the debt ceiling. The…