1. Robert Marbut: Government Botches the Catastrophic Homelessness Crisis
2. John Lott: When Protecting Criminals' Rights
Comes at the Expense of Victims
3. Scott Powell: Why the "Red Wave"
Turned into a Ripple
4. Kenneth Rapoza: What's So Great About Free Trade?
5. Daniel Greenfield: Only Nixon Could Go to China;
Only Biden Could Bow to China
6. James Hirsen: David Zucker's Serious Warning
Government Botches the Catastrophic Homelessness Crisis
By Dr. Robert Marbut, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and Former Director of the Federal Interagency Task Force on Homelessness
In the last two weeks, I have been in Los Angeles, New York
City, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. studying the
catastrophic homelessness crisis and its nexus with untreated mental illness
and substance use disorders (in particular fentanyl and meth). The one
thing all the cities have in common is how easy they make it to use drugs, whereas
the cities that are doing much better, focus their efforts on treatment and
recovery. As a matter of public policy, we should make it easy to get treatment
while making it harder to misuse drugs. These problems linked to homelessness
are increasing in America despite untold sums of government money spent to
address this complex problem. Our new report from Discovery Institute makes
it clear that Congress and the Executive Branch need to focus more on untreated
mental illness and substance abuse to reduce homelessness, drug overdoses, jail
overcrowding, and misuse of emergency rooms. [more...]
When Protecting Criminals' Rights Comes at the Expense of
Victims
By John Lott
It took four years and nine months before Nicolas Cruz was
finally sentenced for the murder of seventeen people in the horrific Parkland
massacre. So much of the legal system focuses on fairness to the criminal; but
the damage to the victims and their families as they wait for trial is
tremendous. Those who have to testify or give victim impact statements
must continually think about what they will say at trial. There is also
uncertainty about the verdict and whether the murderer
will be punished. In the Parkland case, the victims were denied the
closure of Cruz receiving the death penalty. We have seen the
consequences of trial delays firsthand. [more...]
Why the "Red Wave" Turned into a Ripple
By Scott Powell
The red wave many pundits predicted dissipated in large measure
because the vote fraud and election chicanery that was unleased in 2020 went
unchecked and uncorrected. In contrast, Florida's election reform stands out as
a national model, manifest in orderly elections where the results are known
within six hours of the polls closing. Democrat strongholds have an endless
supply of mail-in ballots and others ready to be harvested and cast for
candidates put up by the Democrats - a party that is demonstrably undermining
America on at least a half dozen critical fronts. It is important to know that
the United States will not survive as a free and independent nation unless
honest elections are restored. The legitimacy of the U.S. comes with elections
that provide both the voice and consent of "We the people." In an
increasingly dangerous world with multiple formidable adversaries, Americans
cannot afford a weak government with questionable legitimacy that directly
ensues from vote fraud. [more...]
What's So Great About Free Trade?
By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America
What's so great about free trade? Well, according to the
International Trade Commission's own admission – it makes big
multinationals bigger, guts most of the domestic mid-supply chain companies
that served those giants, and wreaks absolute havoc on non-college educated,
blue-collar labor – especially women and minority men. The other aspect of free
trade is consumer choice and cost. We live in a consumer society, after all,
and thanks to our trade with Mexico and China, American garages, basements, and
side table drawers are full of gadgets and toys priced to perfection. Writing
in her new book "Homecoming," Financial Times columnist
Rana Forohoor explains that one of the reasons why discount stores like Walmart
and the Dollar Tree exist is because American consumers – having lost
middle-class wage-earning blue-collar jobs to offshoring – have had little choice
but to turn to the corporate discount stores. These people have all been
downsized. [more...]
Only Nixon Could Go to China; Only Biden Could Bow to China
Biden spent over three hours meeting with Chinese President Xi
Jinping who, hopefully if the meeting went well, offered Hunter Biden a job. During
their joint opening remarks, a reporter asked if Biden would press Xi about
China's lack of human rights. A Chinese Communist thug quickly pulled her
back and then pushed her to the door. Biden said nothing while an American
reporter was attacked in front of him. In his opening remarks, he failed to not
only mention human rights, but Taiwan, despite pledging several times to defend
it, the persecuted Christians of Hong Kong being crushed under the Communist
boot, the Communist concentration camps and labor gangs, the shipments of
fentanyl that are killing Americans, and the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Biden mentioned absolutely nothing of relevance to
America's national interests. [more...]
David Zucker's Serious Warning
By James Hirsen
David Zucker, best known for the legendary spoof flick "Airplane!"
"Naked Gun" and "Scary Movie" franchises happens to be one
of our culture's current reigning experts on all things funny, and he's
sounding an alarm bell for all to hear. Lucky for us he has joined the ranks of
other comedy greats who have issued similar warnings: Dennis Miller, Jerry
Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Gilbert Gottfried, Mel Brooks, Adam
Carolla, Steve Harvey and John Cleese. The giants of humor are all saying
pretty much the same thing - that Tinseltown's head honchos and their
like-minded fellow residents of the New Woke Hollywood are virtually strangling
comedians, comedy writers and comedy itself. [more...]
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