Opinion

News Analysis Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has proven himself a polarizing figure. Depending on who you speak to, Rosenstein, appears to occupy one of three rather varying roles. According to some, Rosenstein is part of the problem, actively working against President Trump’s Administration. To others, he occupies a slightly more grey area, compromised but […]

Commentary Someone really likes reporter John Solomon of The Hill. While many in the media are chasing stories based on false narratives, trying to nail down a smoking gun for the supposed Trump—Russia election collusion they so desperately believe in, Solomon is over there in a corner breaking news that contains actual evidence. When somebody high up in […]

Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, reminded us in the sixth century BC, “Let reality be reality.” That seems to be precisely what U.S. Vice President Mike Pence did on Oct. 4, when he delivered a comprehensive policy speech on China at the Hudson Institute. This speech was historic because no top official from previous […]

General data protection regulations (GDPR) sound like something the average person needs to know nothing about. On the contrary, these rules affect us on a day-to-day basis. For the last 20 years, most jurisdictions have had similar requirements regarding corporations maintaining the privacy of their consumers’ data. The differences were more to do with flavour […]

Liberty is a delicate idea and institution. While people say they want freedom, will fight under the banner of freedom, and sometimes even die for its preservation and advancement, determining what it actually means to be free and to live in a free society seems elusive and controversial. What it means for a society to […]

In my last article, we talked about the development project, what it meant to the low-income community that would host the project, and the care we took to keep big, project-killing environmental NGOs on the sidelines. Getting the project approved, even without the environmental NGOs stepping in, took a lot of effort. The state permitting authority was extra […]

Commentary Supreme Court confirmations weren’t always such a close-run thing. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out in criticizing the conduct of the Kavanaugh hearing, her own confirmation (1993) was supported 96–3, and Antonin Scalia’s (1986) by 98–0, that is, by large bipartisan majorities, although they differed strongly in their approach to the Constitution itself. They were also known […]

There is one way President Donald Trump can prove beyond a doubt American exceptionalism in the land of the free. He can bring the U.S. economy back to the top of freedom rankings, akin to the nation’s performance in the 1980s and 1990s. If that is his goal, there is a precise and rigorous yardstick […]

As of now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has introduced three mixed-ownership reforms (mixed reforms) across 50 experimental state-owned enterprises — termed the second round of public-private partnerships. The 19 experimental companies involved in the first two reforms were directly led by the central government, but the third time was different, as it mainly […]

Commentary Oct. 12 is the traditional date on which Americans celebrate Columbus Day. It commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492. In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison marked the 400th anniversary of that date with “a general holiday for the people of the United States.” Colorado Gov. Jesse F. McDonald proclaimed the first annual Columbus Day in 1907. […]

Commentary The Communist Party USA is involved in campaigning on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona. According to Joelle Fishman, head of the Communist Party’s powerful Political Action Commission, the party has injected itself into races “in two states where a Republican seat can be flipped: AZ (Flake open), TX (Cruz).” While […]

Commentary Totalitarianism in the 20th century was dominated by two ideologies: communism and fascism. Much to the dismay of those believing communism is the antithesis of fascism, these ideologies are two sides of the same coin. Both were based on absolute control over every aspect of society, from economic to social. The fact that communism […]

Commentary Gen. George Marshall appeared Dec. 7, 1945, before a joint congressional committee on the subject of the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, which occurred exactly four years earlier. The legislators had many questions for Marshall, who had been the U.S. Army’s chief of staff. When asked about his “movements” on the […]

The American people were just treated to several weeks of angry demonstrations that demanded they must believe all women who claim they have been sexually assaulted or physically abused. These coordinated protests by political activists began right after the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Suddenly, […]

In the bizarre lion’s den atmosphere of the Kavanaugh hearings, the full human meaning of partisan politics at the present time has never seemed so clear—we have witnessed what happens when a Christian understanding of justice and mercy no longer guides our leaders. Every human soul is a mix of good and evil, and if […]

While the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court justice, with 49 Republican senators voting yes and a lone Democrat joining them, the aftermath is grim for both parties, although the Democrats are chiefly responsible for the mess. The U.S. Senate is supposed to be a body of elder statesmen—well-informed […]

Dear Vice President Pence, My name is Jennifer Zeng. I am a journalist, a writer, and a Falun Gong practitioner living in Washington. I watched your landmark speech on U.S.–China relations on Oct. 4 and was very much impressed when you said, “More journalists are reporting the truth without fear or favor, and digging deep […]

The good news is that “Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet.” As reported by Ben Steverman on Bloomberg.com, U.S. Census Bureau data show that millennials’ divorce rate is so much lower than baby boomers’ divorce rate that the overall divorce rate has plunged by 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. The evidence […]

Commentary The most important fact about the tawdry, sordid Supreme Court confirmation “hearings” was that the brouhaha wasn’t about Justice Brett Kavanaugh personally. Rather, it revealed the desperation of the Democratic Party to prevent a Supreme Court majority comprising justices who believe in the original intent of the Constitution—in other words, who believe that the Constitution means what […]

There is a French phrase, “sauve les meubles” (save the furniture), that implies there has been a disaster (house fire) but still enough time to protect some of the family valuables. It describes a lower-level crisis than one prompting “sauve qui peut” (every man for himself; save yourself, if you can). One gets the impression […]