Commentary The headline in the New York Times seems terrifying. “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The article explains that they “are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive…
Global Climate Agencies Publish Dubious Emissions Calculations, Tighten the Noose Around Energy
July 17, 2023
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Commentary The International Energy Agency (IEA) is again demonstrating its usefulness in creating whips for Western governments to flagellate themselves with. Last time, it was their Net-Zero report, which recommended building no new fossil-fuel-fired power stations. Ever. It was released the day before Australia approved a new gas-fired power station. This time, it is the…
Another California Teacher Confronts the Education Mafia
July 17, 2023
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Commentary Increasingly, public school administrators and boards—controlled by unions—are pressing teachers to adopt woke and sexualized ideology. They threaten—and implement—punishments for anyone resisting, as teacher Sean Redmond is learning. Mr. Redmond, 34, teaches in California’s Garden Grove Unified School District. He and some other teachers were not keen to adopt grooming techniques being pushed by…
Is Inflation Over? Ask Your Pocketbook
July 17, 2023
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Commentary There was much rejoicing last week as June’s headline CPI (Consumer Price Index) came in at 3 percent, the lowest level of overall price level growth since March 2021. Financial media declared that the United States has entered “disinflation mode” and that the season of post-pandemic inflation was nearing an end. The previously scorned…
Anthony Furey: We Must Act Now to Stop the Decline of Our Cities
Commentary During my recent run to become mayor of Toronto, one line I heard from a lot of people was that they were considering moving out of town if Olivia Chow won the election. The challenges on our streets have become so dire on a number of fronts—crime, affordability, gridlock—that an exodus from the cities…
California Education Board Dumbs Down Math Instruction
July 17, 2023
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Commentary I’m just shaking my head about this one. America is in a tough, high-tech competition with Communist China. California, especially Silicon Valley, is leading that fight. And what does the state Board of Education do? Dumb down math education. According to EdSource, the new California Mathematics Framework, passed July 12, is 1,000 pages long….
Abominable RFK Jr. Anti-Semitism Accusation a Harbinger of Things to Come
Commentary It was sometime around 8 a.m. on July 15, the morning after I had interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for our Presidential Roller Coaster 2024 series, when the following New York Post headline popped up on my iPhone: “RFK Jr. says COVID may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews” What in the Sam…
Why US Citizens Should Not Accept 3 Percent Inflation
July 17, 2023
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Commentary The recent University of Michigan survey’s reading of one-year inflation expectations rose to 3.4 percent in July from 3.3 percent in June. The five-year outlook also increased to 3.1 percent from 3.0 percent in the previous month. There is a mainstream narrative that is spreading throughout the financial media: We must accept 3 percent…
US Operating in Syria Involves Much Bigger Stakes Than a Year Ago
Commentary Increasingly aggressive harassment by Russian pilots of U.S. drones operating in Syrian airspace suggests that the recent deployment of F-22s to protect America’s Syrian operations has failed to intimidate Russia. Indeed, in the weeks since the two F-22s arrived on the scene, Russian pilots have become increasingly aggressive in harassing American MQ-9 Reaper drones….
Michael Taube: Why Sir Wilfrid Laurier Should Remain on the $5 Bill, Now and Forevermore
Commentary Many Canadians were understandably frustrated when the twin scourges of cancel culture and wokeness erupted during COVID-19. Yet, few probably remember an announcement that just preceded the pandemic and surprisingly fit with this negative tone of what was to come. The Bank of Canada unexpectedly announced a plan in early 2020 to remove Sir…
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