Commentary A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during the Obama administration about the mindset of government toward skilled trades. His argument was that skilled trades were the key to saving our economy, not those jobs that require…
Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work
Why Banks Are Fighting ESG Regulations in the States
Commentary For the last few years, the mirage of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has been exposed for what it is: a backdoor attempt to use Americans’ investments to fund far-left political goals. Corporations’ ESG commitments are preventing investment in natural resources such as oil, gas, and coal, even as Americans are pounded by higher…
San Francisco: It’s a Good Thing Homelessness Only Happens Between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M.
Bleeding hearts, that’s the term used to describe the typical liberal. They just feel so much, and are so compassionate, that their hearts bleed for those who are suffering. Well, San Francisco has a surplus of bleeding hearts, which is why the city’s newest program, created to help the homeless, is perfectly named, the Homeless…
RFK Jr. and the Assassination of Free Speech
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been heavily censored on social media, except for, most recently, Twitter. Are these moves by Meta an attempt to meddle in a free and fair election? Although Kennedy is a Democrat, his ideology is far from today’s woke leftism. RFK Jr. advocates questioning mainstream narratives and educating…
R R Reno Examines the Perils of ‘Permanent Revolution’
Commentary Over the course of our lifetime we have been speeding toward one of the most dysfunctional and hopeless episodes in modern history. According to Catholic scholar Rusty Reno, our present condition wasn’t just brought on by misguided ideologies. In the June/July edition of First Things Magazine, Reno said we are suffering from a “general…
How to Reverse Course in California
Commentary It’s common knowledge that more people are waving goodbye to California than folks who are arriving in the once Golden State. For some, California is peachy keen just as it is. It has pleasant weather, many sights to see, and an array of career opportunities. However, it also has droughts, earthquakes, and fires to…
We Need Truth Commissions to Restore Faith in Public Health
Commentary Two blazing political controversies are destroying our trust in the integrity of medicine. One is, thankfully, mostly in the past—the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The second is ongoing and growing increasingly bitter: How to best care for children who “feel” that they aren’t the sex they were born. These are different debates, but they share…
Why Elon Musk’s ‘Everything App’ Should Worry Us All
Commentary When it comes to the creation of powerful platforms, China is best known for TikTok, a highly problematic app that stands accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But WeChat is China’s most sophisticated creation, by far. In many ways, WeChat is a super-app. With over 1 billion users,…
WHO Pandemic Treaty Is a Threat to Liberty
Commentary Critics of a proposed pandemic treaty say it would cede U.S. autonomy to the China-led World Health Organization (WHO). Mainstream media say it would not. Since February 2022, WHO members have been working on a pandemic response accord that would exist under the Constitution of the World Health Organization. The draft accord will be…
The Paper of Record Fronts for the Deep State
Commentary There was hardly time in the day but I simply could not pull myself away from the discussion between Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., yesterday on Twitter Spaces. I was there mid-afternoon with nearly 70 thousand others listening to a live conversation on every topic from foreign policy to economics to civil…
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