Commentary The number of federal employees belonging to a union jumped by 20 percent, or nearly 80,000 individuals, in just one year, according to data recently touted by the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. Don’t let the name fool you. As a rise in federal employees seeking legal representation shows, the task force…
Biden Administration’s New Mortgage Policy: Unjust and Dangerous
Commentary One of the essential lessons most of us are taught early in life is the importance of developing a sense of financial responsibility. Work hard to earn a good paycheck. Don’t spend more than you can afford. Save for the future. Eventually, following these steps will land you in a position where you can…
What’s the Matter With Texas Republicans When It Comes to School Choice Legislation?
Commentary This has been the year for school choice all over the country. At least six additional states joined Arizona and Florida to give parents the funds to send their children to private and charter schools. Surprisingly, deep-red Texas is not among these states—at least not yet. Currently, there is no school choice in the…
Are Investors Underestimating Probability of Even Higher Rates?
Commentary Most investors and Wall Street research analysts believe the Federal Reserve will pause its hikes, keeping the benchmark interest rate unchanged, in June and that a rate cut is likely later in the year. Just take one look at the yield curve. It is still inverted with the one-month rate higher than the six-month…
‘Woke’ Behind the Scenes, Fox News No Longer Worth Watching
Commentary Forget about boycotting Fox News for blocking Tucker Carlson, as bad as that was. We’re past that stage. A leaked company handbook—the contents of which were published by The Daily Signal on May 22—reveals that Fox and presumably its parent News Corp. are on the other side of the ideological struggle gripping this country…
The Bud Light Fiasco Rocks the World of Marketing
Commentary It was not supposed to be this way. The idea within Anheuser-Busch was that its traditional buyers were a given, a clan to be taken for granted. The whole point of marketing, as it is taught in the high-end schools (as if professors know about this stuff) is that reaching new and underserved markets…
Corporate Espionage, Chinese Style
Commentary Some consider the very first case of international industrial spying to be the 18th-century letters of the missionary superior general of the French Jesuits, François-Xavier d’Entrecolles, describing the manufacture of the exquisite porcelain of Jingdezhen in southeast China, where what are recognized as the finest ceramics in the world trace their origins to the sixth…
Why the Debate Over the Debt Ceiling Is Critical
Commentary Let’s get one thing off the table. Putting aside the Biden administration’s fear-mongering, the U.S. government will not substantively default on its debt in June 2023. The game of high-stakes chicken being played right now with congressional leadership will resolve before it is too late. In brief, the administration and Democrat leadership want to raise…
The Dark Truth About Finland’s Happiness
Commentary When it comes to TV shows, they really don’t make them like they used to. Today, finding a new TV series actually worth watching is incredibly difficult. Sure, we have unlimited options, but many of these options are, for lack of a better description, thoroughly underwhelming. All hope is not lost, however. Rainn Wilson,…
5 Critical Points About America’s Speech Police
Commentary Recently I testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability for a vital hearing titled “Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enables the Silencing of Dissent.” That hearing centered on the role of DHS sub-agency CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in censoring the speech…
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