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US has tools to contain China, preserve global order

National Columnists

The United States is confronting an existential threat — but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America’s global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the emerging geopolitical alignment linking China, Russia and Iran. This threat does not imply that China is preparing a direct attack on the United States. Rather, it reflects what will happen as America retreats from the world stage. Russia will expand its influence throughout Eastern Europe. China will ...

Minn. fraud scandal should not have happened

National Columnists

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last five years. As of this writing, 87 individuals have been charged in connection with the scheme, with 61 convictions already secured and more charges continuing to be filed against these fraudsters. The bulk of the fraud scheme centers around two ...

Girls’ wrestling is fastest-growing sport

National Columnists

When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to play football. However, his parents had some strong feelings about that sport. Wrestling was a sport in which he competed during middle school, high school and college. It was a passion for the sport he never really lost because, as he says, it shaped his character and his adult life. When he and his wife, Corrine, got married and started having children, Fallon always believed he might ...

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

National Columnists

After stripping its citizens of the right to self-defense, locking down millions under COVID-19 totalitarianism and treating freedom of speech like a roadblock to socialist utopia, Australia has decided to take its already well-established love of government overreach and crank it up another notch. Starting this week, the Australian government will enforce a total ban on social media for everyone under the age of 16, with platforms that fail to comply facing tens of millions of dollars in fines. Predictably, the pundit class and advocacy groups applauded the government with the usual ...

How to end Obamacare, improve coverage

National Columnists

Few people lie awake at night worried about the federal debt. So the Republicans’ plan to allow “temporary” COVID-19-era enhanced subsidies for Obamacare to expire because of their exorbitant cost won’t win many votes. It will save Uncle Sam money. A staggering 93% of premiums are currently paid directly by the federal government to the insurance companies, reports the Paragon Health Institute. But will it win votes in the coming midterm elections? No. Obamacare is an utter failure. It was supposed to bend the cost curve. But premiums for a family of five can exceed $50,000 a ...

We are at crossroads with grading

National Columnists

The recent Harvard report on grading practices has drawn a lot of attention from colleges and universities across the country, particularly for its claim that grade inflation remains a critical issue. The rising number of A grades assigned to students has prompted calls to return to traditional in-person exams and other lecture components, such as calling on students. However, much of the public perception regarding Harvard students’ large proportion of A’s, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beth McMurtrie, is “unsympathetic, painting Harvard as a college full of ...