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Why the FCC should discipline ABC

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by American Thinker Now that Jimmy Kimmel is back, will Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr follow through on his threat to discipline ABC, a move President Trump would welcome? For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here. In Brief by Probe Media Conservatives universally […]

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Inside the microplastic nightmare

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by the Financial Post Junk Science Week series In Brief Microplastics permeate our environment and bodies, with studies revealing individuals ingest between 78,000 and 211,000 particles annually through consumption or inhalation. A joint Canadian government study underscores their ubiquity, present in indoor/outdoor air, tap water, waterways, soil, and even food […]

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China & Geopolitics

The Jews are indigenous to Israel, the Arabs are the colonists 

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Israeli Jews are widely cast as colonists who immigrated to “Palestine” over the last century and then displaced Palestine’s indigenous Arabs.  This narrative has things backward. The Jews are indigenous; the Arabs are the colonists.   Israel and its capital Jerusalem were founded by King David, a […]

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How to solve our housing crisis in one fell swoop

By Lawrence Solomon This is the unedited version of the opinion piece published by the Financial Post on June 21, 2024. For the edited piece, see the publisher’s website here Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made increasing housing for Canadians a top priority by committing to “the most comprehensive and ambitious housing plan ever seen […]

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Donald Trump goes after the libertarian vote

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by the Financial Post On both sides of the Canada-U.S. border the Libertarian Party is stocked with utopian dreamers whose principled pursuit of freedom makes them hopelessly unelectable. Knowing this, American Libertarians have chosen as headline speaker to their 2024 National Convention the presidential candidate whom they are counting on […]

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Gaza 2035—Netanyahu’s path to peace, following the Gaza war

A three-stage plan over the next decade or two could catapult Gaza into a manufacturing center and international trading hub. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary The Biden administration for months has demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provide a vision for how Gaza would be governed and […]

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Why Communist China is determined to weaponize Ebola

India would be the country most at risk of a major Ebola bioweapons attack. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary Since the world’s first Ebola outbreak in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1976, the world’s bioweapons chiefs recognized the importance of exploiting the Ebola […]

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Did Hamas succeed too well?

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate If Iran’s goal in unleashing Hamas on Israel was scuttling the looming Saudi-Israeli peace deal, as is widely believed, it may have succeeded too well, raising the specter of an immediate backlash so severe as to threaten its grander, long-term plans for regional dominance and Israel’s […]

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Freedom & Health

We need better regulation of medical mistakes

Strip the College of Physicians of the power to regulate physicians. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by the National Post, August 25, 2023 According to the National Safety Council of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction is America’s most dangerous industry. It is responsible for a thousand deaths a year. But research from scholars at […]

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Israel’s accelerating democracy

Following the greatest repudiation of the left in Israeli history, right-wing lawmakers are aggressively honoring their election promises.