Perhaps one of the best-turned phrases of recent memory comes from a 2019 Wall Street Journal article. In it, political scholar Joshua Muravchik opined that “Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried—even where it succeeded.” Since about 1900, the United States has flirted with socialism. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama … Read more
Animal rights activists never stop trying to establish the notion of equality among men and animals. To them, animals must be considered as persons, even though they do not have the rational and cognizant faculties of humans. They are instinct-driven and thus do not have the light of reason from which rights are derived. One … Read more
The ongoing collapse of the Cuban electrical grid is not a typical power outage that most countries experience but the result of decades-long systemic neglect, underinvestment and reliance on obsolete technologies. Most Cuban power plants were built in the seventies and were expected to last 20 or 30 years. However, they are long overdue for … Read more
Lying nearly 650 miles above the Arctic Circle, Svalbard, Norway, boasts beautiful mountains, glaciers and fjords. It is also the home of hundreds of polar bears and a hot spot to view the Northern Lights. This Norwegian archipelago, with fewer than 3,000 residents, is fast turning into a geopolitical hot spot thanks to aggression from … Read more
The House Committee on Homeland Security has raised concerns about cellular modems found on Chinese-built cargo cranes installed at U.S. ports. The committee fears China might use these devices for espionage A subsequent Congressional report demonstrated that Chinese crane manufacturer ZPMC had designed remote access to its cranes via these modems. While some ports have … Read more
Nothing kills good relationships faster than selfish individuals talking about themselves. Even outgoing people who suffer this vice end up suffering from loneliness. Loneliness is not just a personal issue; it is also a societal crisis of epic proportions impacting Americans. A study by Cigna Insurance revealed that in 2019, a staggering 58 percent felt … Read more
China is engaged in a new war with the West. The arms are not tanks and guns but trade. The tactics call for flooding and dumping cheap, subsidized products upon the West at prices no competitor can match. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to prop up the faltering Chinese economy by supercharging its manufacturing … Read more
Economist Friedrich von Hayek once pointed out that pricing’s charm stems from its unplanned emergence without deliberate human creation. Prices make complex processes easier by offering a standard unit of exchange. They smooth out interactions in the face of hurdles like rising transportation costs, material shortages and consumer preferences. However, this delicate price mechanism can … Read more
Polar bears used to dominate climate debates, with their images appearing everywhere. Fake scenes of polar bears in a zoo, not the Arctic, appeared in Al Gore’s dramatic 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth. We were told the bears were on the road to extinction. Today, we can no longer find them on posters, T-shirts, advertisements, … Read more
California’s leftist legislature will now have the power to regulate the gasoline sales profits of the state’s oil refiners. Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law allowing the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a state gross gasoline refining profit margin and impose penalties for surpassing it. Chevron, the state’s biggest oil refiner, criticized … Read more
