Tag: Viewpoints

Badly Managed Cal State Should Not Raise Tuition

Commentary I feel sorry for college students today. Tuition and other costs keep going up and up. The latest: California State University is proposing at a tuition increase from $174 to $462 a year, plus future increases. Current tuition is $5,742 a year. So in fall 2024 the cost could be as high as $6,204,…


Who Is the Ministry of Truth?

Commentary Americans have always been scrappy individuals willing to take enormous risks on something new in order to capitalize on future success. This was in the DNA of our Founding Fathers, and it continues to this day as we live the “American Dream” of building something out of nothing and ensuring prosperity for future generations….


Russiagate: The Scandal That Became Business as Usual

Commentary Special Counsel John Durham may have issued his final report last month, but the Russiagate scandal is far from over. This is not because there is no more to learn about the years-long effort by the Democratic Party, the FBI, CIA, and major news outlets to advance the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump teamed…


Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns

Commentary It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of…


New York Times Avoids Tough Questions for Gov. Newsom

Commentary Good thing we have The Epoch Times covering California, because the New York Times just isn’t doing the job. It just conducted a puffball interview with Gov. Gavin Newsom that didn’t include a single tough question: “A Conversation With Gavin Newsom About the ‘California Effect’: Conor Dougherty of The New York Times spoke with…


Why 1994 Matters in 2024

Commentary As Speaker Kevin McCarthy continues to lead the House successfully, I often get asked how his speakership is similar to my own—and what I think he should do to keep building his success. Fortunately, this is exactly the topic of my new book, “March to the Majority.” When my long-time friend and advisor Joe…


Cory Morgan: The Online News Act Is Nothing but a Cash Grab Foisted on Social Media Platforms

Commentary The standoff between the Trudeau government and large social media platforms over the Online News Act (Bill C-18) is heating up. Meta and Google are both musing about cutting off links to Canadian news sites in response to the proposed shakedown, and it is making news providers dependent upon internet traffic nervous. In today’s…


Biden Pretends to Defend His Economic Record

Commentary The Wall Street Journal, as if participating in some kind of inside joke, published an opinion piece ostensibly by President Biden, in defense of his economic record. It’s a dark comedy. Actually worse. It seems to symbolize that to this administration there is no longer truth and no longer lies. It’s all just propaganda….


Is the Jobs Market Strong?

Commentary Not too long ago, talk of recession dominated the financial headlines. Much of the flow of economic information still points in that direction. The dramatic interest rate increases orchestrated by the Federal Reserve (Fed) count as one such consideration, as does sluggish consumer spending and a clear reluctance by businesses to spend on new…


Beijing’s Existential Vulnerability

Commentary The two facts about China most important to the interests of freedom in the world (one, if you will, the enemy to the other) are: 1) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is succeeding in its stated goal to become the dominant power on the globe by midcentury; and 2) another Tiananmen Square massacre, the 34th anniversary of…