Tag: Viewpoints

David Krayden: More Absurd News out of Calgary: Pro-Life Protest Now Being Targeted

Commentary Just what is happening to this country? The Calgary city council has approved a bylaw amendment that will fine pro-life groups up to $3,000 if they distribute uncensored images of aborted babies to people’s homes. Now the city wants to hide and censor those pictures and further cancel the pro-life protesters. Do you remember when…


We Can Celebrate Women’s Success Without Downplaying Men’s

Commentary The crowd in the open-air tourist bus gazed up at the massive granite wall towering over us in the Yosemite Valley. This was El Capitan, the setting for the movie Free Solo’s nail-biting documentary of Alex Honnold’s infamous climb. The bubbly female ranger working as our tour guide had a clear agenda for outlining the…


SEC Lawsuit Against Coinbase and Binance Sparks Controversy and Political Maneuvering

Commentary Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fired a bombshell at the cryptocurrency industry. It is suing Coinbase, a publicly traded company which the SEC approved after going through its business plan to publicly list for trading two years ago.  It is also suing Binance, a crypto currency exchange that is domiciled in Hong…


And Now the Problem of Exploding Hand Sanitizer

Commentary As COVID-19 blazed its path across the world, it sparked an insatiable demand for hand sanitizer, creating a frenzied market that had more in common with a gold rush than a public health measure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stepped in, relaxing regulations to meet this spiraling demand. However, this decision, akin…


Deep State Rot and Corruption Festers with Russiagate Unpunished and Receding

Commentary As special counsel John Durham’s report demonstrated in stark detail, our national security and law enforcement apparatus has grown hyper-politicized and been weaponized against its perceived opponents. Since virtually none of the powerful perpetrators of Russiagate—one of the greatest and gravest scandals in American history—have been held to account for it, including by the…


Framing Millian

The Epoch Times presents the third part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of Truth over News on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. Why have Steele’s dossier lies been so successful? Why have they persisted? To understand…


Bank of Canada Raises Rates Amid Shifting Economic Landscape

Commentary The Bank of Canada has elected to raise its policy rate to 4.75 percent. The market in the form of the yield curve had estimated a 40 percent to 45 percent chance that the Bank would raise the key rate. Economists had put the probability at only 20 percent. Yet again the market outperforms…


Turkey Chooses Dictatorship, to the Detriment of the Free World

Commentary The runoff election victory of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bad news all around. The list of losers is long: Western and Eastern Europe, NATO, U.S. security interests in central Asia and North Africa. Financial markets aren’t pleased with Erdogan’s reelection. On June 2 the value of the Turkish lira hit a new…


MS-13: From El Salvador to Your Neighborhood

Commentary MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes—beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them. Demonic acts. If you think these crimes won’t happen where you live, keep reading. The gang’s rule is “kill, rape, control.” Members are required to kill. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards….


Disney Works to Destroy the Values That Built Its Company

Commentary In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas, found Texas’ anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. This is a free country, the Court proclaimed, and individuals can engage in whatever private consensual sexual activity that they wish. But freedom is not the value that LGBTQ activists seek. They will not rest until their values and…