Opening the Canvas magazine, as is my wont on a Saturday morning, I was initially disappointed to see Sarah Daniell’s smiling face missing from her editor’s article on page three. I find a smiling face something of a tonic going into the weekend. Especially this weekend, as in
You know we live in a Clown World when yesterday’s silly comedy is today’s news. In the 2002 body-swap comedy, The Hot Chick, Rob Schneider plays a middle-aged man magically placed into the body of a cheerleader. A Twitter user recently posted the pillow-fight scene from the movie
Ben Shapiro newsbusters.org Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the top conservative podcast in the nation. Shapiro is the author of seven nonfiction books, including The New York Times bestseller Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation
Stella Paul brownstone.org Stella Paul is the pen name of a writer in New York who has covered medical issues for over a decade. In 2021, she lost her husband in a locked down nursing home in New York City where he had been brutally isolated for almost a
John W. Diamond Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute Rice University Convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are preparing for a potential default on U.S. debt.
Hillary Clinton famously declared that Trump’s supporters were “deplorables”. But the Durham Report has finally been released and it proves categorically and unequivocally that it was her campaign that were the deplorables, peddling deliberately false information to create the lie that Donald Trump was a Putin puppet. Special counsel
Can Ron DeSantis stop winning? I hope not. Sure, DeSantis is running a distant second to Donald Trump in polling for the forthcoming Republican presidential primaries. But he’s racking up the big wins that are making the big differences, as Florida governor. From pulling the pin early on Covid
Michael endoftheamericandream.com Christianity is rapidly becoming synonymous with “hate”, and that puts us in very dangerous territory. Because once a certain class of people becomes classified as a “hate group”, they become targets. Unfortunately, Christians are already being systematically targeted right now. Matt Taibbi and his colleagues just put
mises.org In history classes (in public or private schools, colleges, and others), state propaganda and mainstream history, a historical fiction has been spun that allegedly debunks any notion of noninterventionism. This is the myth of American isolationism. The assertion usually goes that America was extremely isolationist prior to World
ronpaulinstitute.org One of the interesting aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that the regimes in both countries have resorted to conscription to get soldiers to “serve their country”. One would think that if a war is just, citizens would not have to be forced to fight in it. With
libertynation.com There is a word with which we have all become acquainted over the past few years. That word is disinformation, and, as many politicians assert, it is indeed a danger to democracy. When voters are misinformed, they make bad decisions – and sometimes those decisions are catastrophically bad. Unfortunately,
Have you heard the latest shocking revelations about the Biden family and its corrupt business dealings? Well, you’re a BFD reader, which already means you’re a more-discerning news consumer, so you might have. But not if you were to rely on the mainstream media. Certainly not the local
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Some months ago, this blog reprinted the final chapter of my autobiography, Incredible Luck. The chapter was headed “Does democracy have a future?” and dealt with the inherent temptation for elected governments to bribe voters with their own money. I quoted the great 19th century French
Katherine Drabiak mercatornet.com Katherine Drabiak JD is an Associate Professor of health law, public health law and medical ethics in the Colleges of Public Health and Medicine at the University of South Florida in the United States. Recently, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a report advocating for
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
Mark Oshinskie brownstone.org Mark Oshinskie is an attorney, athlete, artist, agricultor, and advocate. In April, 1978, when I was college sophomore, I went to hear a night-time guest lecture by Michael Harrington, the sociologist and author of the influential 1960s book, The Other America: Poverty in the United States.
