Tag: Viewpoints

Holding the Line on Parental Rights in California

Commentary Parents, where do you draw the line? Do you want to be in control of the upbringing of your children, or are you willing to turn those responsibilities over to the state? How much ground are you willing to cede to a capricious government bent on eliminating your God-given rights as a parent? Erosions…


SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Only First Step Toward Restoring Civil Rights

Commentary In a free society that champions equality, judging people on their merits rather than on their skin color would be an uncontroversial practice. So, that America’s ruling class recoiled in horror at the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which barred affirmative action in admissions at schools receiving government largesse,…


Who is Funding ‘Drag Story Hours’ at California Public Libraries?

Commentary Continued from Groups Protest at Drag Story Hours in California Part II On the evening of July 5, about 30 concerned parents and grandparents showed up at the Sonoma County commissioners meeting held at the Rohnert Park Library. About 20 of us spoke and stated why we were so opposed to their sponsoring and…


San Diego in Last Place in Regional Fiscal Rankings

Commentary California has 482 incorporated cities. Providing a financial ranking of these cities makes for a large graph. So, establishing areas is a good first start. And using a comparison from 2019 to 2018 gives a foundational beginning, as many cities have been very delinquent in obtaining and releasing their annual comprehensive financial reports (ACFRs)….


Lessons From the 1980s Can Help US Weather Current Rising Mortgage Rates

Commentary The Bank of Canada, as well as other central banks of Western nations, continues to raise interest rates. This program began in the summer of 2021 after it became apparent that the unprecedented expansion of the money supply due to the lockdowns has manifested in, at one point, almost double-digit inflation. The United States…


Brian Giesbrecht: The RCMP Failed Canadians at Kamloops

Commentary The RCMP has a long and honourable history, and has served Canadians well. RCMP top brass and regular officers have always insisted on doing their job in their own way. They have robustly specifically resisted all attempts by politicians to interfere in their clear mandate to enforce the law. However, in May 2021 at…


Technology: The God That Failed

Commentary The stock market was in the doldrums when Nvidia came along with ChatGPT and revived the techno-optimism of year’s past. A new innovation! Intelligence that is better than humans! People will be losing jobs to machines! The singularity is on the way! Resistance is futile so might as well buy the stock. That was…


President Biden Touts ‘Bidenomics’

Commentary President Joe Biden’s speech earlier this month told Americans that they have a mistaken view of the economy. Although the average of polls shows that only some 38.3 percent of American voters have confidence in the president’s handling of the economy, the president thinks he is doing a great job, and his speech aimed to…


Creating Pandemic Panic: A Simple Meat-and-Potatoes

Commentary While many things elevated the COVID-19 pandemic from mere disease into a world-altering narrative—statistics, media hype, the visuals of masking, lock-downs, etc.—the saga essentially rested on two basic metrics: Determining the scale of the outbreak measured predominantly by PCR tests and “COVID deaths” driving understanding of the disease’s severity as captured through death certificates….


Creating Pandemic Panic: A Simple Meat-and-Potatoes Recipe

Commentary While many things elevated the COVID-19 pandemic from mere disease into a world-altering narrative—statistics, media hype, the visuals of masking, lock-downs, etc.—the saga essentially rested on two basic metrics: Determining the scale of the outbreak measured predominantly by PCR tests and “COVID deaths” driving understanding of the disease’s severity as captured through death certificates….