[aggregation-styles] The Guardian Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows: that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal. Part of the reason for this...
Opinion: Iran’s Nobel Laureate Is Done With Reform. She Wants Regime Change.
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Shirin Ebadi, Iran's Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights lawyer, has had enough. For years she represented her country's dissidents in the Islamic Republic's corrupt courts. She spoke out for the rights of women, minorities and students abroad. But she never called for the end of the regime she...
The Post Says: Give It up, Mr. President — For Your Sake and the Nation’s
[aggregation-styles] New York Post Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade. We’re one week away from an enormously important moment for the next four years of our country. On Jan. 5, two runoff races in Georgia will determine which party will control the Senate — whether Joe Biden...
Opinion: California’s Self-Inflicted Mental Health Crisis
Nine months into California’s pandemic restrictions and no one knows how things will end. Are most of us going to succumb to “poverty... depression ... (and) suicide” brought on by being locked down? Or will history validate those who insisted that the only course was to “cancel everything”? No one...
Anti-Vaxxers Think This Is Their Moment
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic For almost as long as humanity has had vaccines, it has also had propagandists who try to scare people out of using them. Among the many medical questions contemplated in the journal The Lancet in the late 1890s and early 1900s—“Grey Hair and Emotional States,” “In Praise...
A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them
[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal California’s Legislature is considering a wealth tax on residents, part-year residents, and any person who spends more than 60 days inside the state’s borders in a single year. Even those who move out of state would continue to be subject to the tax for a...
Opinion: With Surging Gun Sales Comes Increased Risks
California, we have a problem. Gun sales are surging and a good number of these gun purchases are in direct response to the fear of the pandemic and social unrest, according to a recent UC Davis study. Approximately 110,000 Californians have purchased a gun since March including an astonishing 47,000 first-time buyers. The...
How It All Went So Wrong for Gavin Newsom
[aggregation-styles] CNN Back in April, near the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, I wrote a piece with this headline: "Gavin Newsom may be the most underrated governor in the country right now." Newsom had acted quickly to issue a stay-at-home order for his state -- he...
Opinion: The Final Gasp of Donald Trump’s Presidency
[aggregation-styles] New York Magazine Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron,” a senior adviser to the president told me. In width and in word, in soaring skyscrapers and Brioni suits and arena rallies and various euphemisms for great (yuge, bigly), the man has been defined by...
Opinion: Another Green Subsidy Bust
[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription Move over, Solyndra. Another green boondoggle from the Obama era has failed, and taxpayers are out as much as $510 million. Late last week Judge Karen Owens approved a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization by Tonopah Solar Energy. Tonopah operated the Crescent Dunes solar...
