British wit Samuel Johnson described second marriages as “the triumph of hope over experience.” So is Wall Street’s enthusiasm for sinking billions more of our money in Chinese Communist e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba. After all, the company is a case study in the dangers of investing in China. Its founder, Jack Ma, ran afoul of Chinese dictator Xi…
British wit Samuel Johnson described second marriages as “the triumph of hope over experience.” So is Wall Street’s enthusiasm for sinking billions more of our money in Chinese Communist e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba. After all, the company is a case study in the dangers of investing in China. Its founder, Jack Ma, ran afoul of Chinese dictator Xi…
British wit Samuel Johnson described second marriages as “the triumph of hope over experience.” So is Wall Street’s enthusiasm for sinking billions more of our money in Chinese Communist e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba. After all, the company is a case study in the dangers of investing in China. Its founder, Jack Ma, ran afoul of Chinese dictator Xi…
The indictment of former President Donald Trump in New York yesterday coincided with a number of other recent, politically charged developments, including successive assaults on red state legislatures by so-called “transurrectionist” individuals, that fit a troubling pattern. They all seem calculated to change the subject. What we should be focused upon is the fundamental transformation…
If elected president, Senator Barack Obama promised a “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.” In the course of what’s been called his third term, a nominal Biden administration dominated by Obama’s staff is in the process of fundamentally transforming the world. Reflect, for example, on the Middle East at the end of Donald Trump’s…
The Biden administration has a plan for the next pandemic or other “public health emergency of international concern”: Make it worse. In fact, one might, like Lenin, say “The worse the better.” That would be the effect of surrendering our sovereignty over declaring and responding to such events to an unaccountable proto-world government doing business as…
Have you noticed the peculiar reporting about the mass murder at a Nashville elementary school yesterday? It’s striking as much for what is not being said as what is. Consider, for example, how this shooting would have been covered if a practicing Christian had attacked a school or other venue populated by so-called “transgender” individuals, instead of…
In February 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation’s governors they’re being targeted by Chinese Communist Party influence operators. Now, even Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence is piling on: “Beijing [is] redoubling its efforts to build influence at the state and local level to shift U.S. policy in China’s favor because of…
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify today before the House Energy Committee. According to a prepared statement, he’ll tell lawmakers that his company, “ByteDance, is not an agent of China or any other country.” And it stores “American data…on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.” In fact, like all Chinese and other companies…
Among the most dangerous of Joe Biden’s many assaults on our freedoms is a so-called Central Bank Digital Currency initiative. The banking crisis spawned by his administration’s disastrous spending and inflation is accelerating its plan to replace cash with government-controlled digital dollars that will enable the feds to control us, too. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned yesterday that…
Today, Chinese emperor Xi Jinping visits Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Xi promises a “new chapter” in ties between the two countries. That’s ominous since the “chapter” they opened thirteen months ago in Beijing apparently greenlighted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In the intervening period, the Russians have – with China’s underwriting and arms –…
Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan described the totalitarian communist enemy that threatened to destroy our country as “the Evil Empire.” That famous presidential depiction of the Soviet Union was key to the strategy he successfully pursued to “leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.” Tragically, we face today another Marxist-Leninist regime busily…
Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan described the totalitarian communist enemy that threatened to destroy our country as “the Evil Empire.” That famous presidential depiction of the Soviet Union was key to the strategy he successfully pursued to “leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.” Tragically, we face today another Marxist-Leninist regime busily…
The Biden administration has finally declared the Chinese company that owns the application known as TikTok must be sold to a U.S. one or stop operating in this country. Of course, the real owner of TikTok – and every other business in China – is the Chinese Communist Party. Accordingly, Byte dance does what it is told by the…
Yesterday, two Russian fighter aircraft intercepted and destroyed an expensive unmanned American aircraft in international air space over the Black Sea. This was not, as the Pentagon would have us believe, an incident caused Kremlin pilots’ recklessness or unprofessionalism. Rather, it was a deliberate act, designed to discourage the U.S. military from conducting legal and…
Where could the collapse of two prominent regional banks – and the response to their failures – leave us? The Biden administration has effectively insured depositors’ entire accounts, not just the $250,000 supposedly guaranteed. That’s obviously unsustainable if the banking industry continues to be rocked by instability. So, there is increasing speculation that the federal government…
Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0. Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability,…
Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0. Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability,…
Evidence is accumulating that the Chinese Communist Party is poised to add a shooting war to the pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” against America in which it has long engaged. Increasingly shrill rhetoric about the United States – including Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s recent comment that conflict is “inevitable” if we do not change course – is…
The Marx Brothers had a famous routine in which, when they were engaged in an obvious flim-flam, an incredulous observer was asked: “Who you gonna believe – me or your own eyes?” That question occurs in the wake of a congressional hearing on Tuesday examining whether the so-called COVID-19 virus came from nature or was…