Political Commentary & Opinion

The senseless and completely unjustified killing of George Floyd—an unarmed black man—by a white police officer in Minneapolis last Monday should shock the conscience of America. While I understand the frustration and anger, I do not condone the violence spreading across this country in response to Floyd’s horrific killing. Rioting tearing apart Minneapolis and cities coast-to-coast will never…

Remember the old public relations maxim: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”? Try telling that to Beijing. Having loosed a pandemic, China finds itself (quite deservedly) deluged with bad publicity. Yet, oddly, the regime seems to think the best way out of its image nightmare is to make it worse. Well, alrighty then. If that’s its play, the U.S. ought to spend more…

Canadian courts on May 27 cleared the first hurdle for the transfer of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, to the United States. Meng is alleged to have informed various banks that Skycom Tech was an independent company, rather than a subsidiary of Huawei. That was intended to facilitate its access to international…

President Donald Trump stepped up to declare houses of worship “essential places that provide essential services” to the American people. “The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important, essential places of faith to open right now for this weekend,” he said. The president raised eyebrows by declaring that he will…

Sue Ellen Browder, author of “Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement,” was a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine during the sexual revolution.  It was not until years later that she realized how the sexual revolution had strategically targeted the women’s movement to alter its message from female empowerment and opportunity to…

The tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has circulated all over social media in the past two days. It is exceptionally difficult to watch. The facts leading up to what the video captures have been recounted by numerous media outlets. Minneapolis police officers arrived Monday evening to arrest Floyd, 46,…

Harvard professor of psychology Steven Pinker tweeted last week: Belief in an afterlife is a malignant delusion, since it devalues actual lives and discourages action that would make them longer, safer, and happier. Exhibit A: What’s really behind Republicans wanting a swift reopening? Evangelicals. Before responding to Pinker’s remarkably ignorant tweet, I want to praise…

As states across the country begin the process of reopening, Americans continue to battle over the methods governors and local authorities have used to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, many states and localities have set up arbitrary and, in many cases, absurd rules that do little more than aggravate citizens and almost nothing to stop…

Business has a bad reputation in some quarters. For many, corporations are synonymous with greedy, soulless institutions that value profits over people. Are there bad actors in business? Yes. Are there corrupt businesspeople and companies that engage in unethical business practices? Again, yes, just as there are corrupt and unethical people in all walks of…