In a recent New York Times piece, guest essayist Heather Kaye writes complacently about how her children were, “co-parented by the Chinese government.” 

Ironically, Kaye praises the “moral, history and culture lessons on pulling together for the sake of the … nation”—the very elements leftists have pushed hardest to eliminate from American schools.

But what’s creepiest is her relief in ceding responsibility for her children to the Chinese state. She even considers its censorship a benefit—she doesn’t have to monitor the children’s internet use.

From Hillary Clinton’s favorite maxim—“it takes a village to raise a child”—to MSNBC commentator Melissa Harris-Perry insisting “We have to break through this idea that kids belong to their parents,” the sentiment isn’t a new one. It’s the old Marxist way: Children belong to the state.

But it’s un-American, and it’s repugnant—at least to this mom.

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2022 was a down year for markets, which is a bad sign for the economy. 

Investors, unlike pundits and politicians, have skin in the game. If they are wrong, they suffer real economic consequences.

So markets are better forecasters than economic experts – yes, better than people like me. 

When risk-sensitive investments are down much more than safer ones, that's a serious recession signal. 

The S&P is down roughly 20%. Stocks are down more than bonds. Risky bonds are down more than safe ones. Large tech companies are down about twice as much as the S&P. Consumer discretionary companies (vacations, jewelry, eating out) are down much more than consumer staples (groceries, cleaning supplies, toothpaste). 

Investors are betting on necessities. 

When the best performers of the year are recession hedges, inflation hedges and tax shelters, it says a lot about where things are headed.

For America, it's not good.

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We hear a lot about the science deniers today….
 
But: Who are the real science deniers?
 
Well, unfortunately, in 21st-century post-Roe America, there are people who deny the basic scientific reality that the entity in the womb is an unborn human being.
 
There are also equality deniers, people who deny that all human beings are created equal and endowed by their Creator with an unalienable right to life.
 
But the message from science is clear and unequivocal:
 
The fetus in the womb is a human baby. 
 
And philosophically, morally, that human being should be treated equal because that unborn human being is our equal.
 
It seems obvious, yet abortion advocates contort logic and their own conscience to deny the evidence.
 
It’s not an overreach of government to protect the natural right to life of every human being, born and unborn.
 
The science tells us this. Our own minds and hearts tell us this.
 
To believe otherwise is to deny science and our own humanity.

I’m Ryan Anderson.

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“Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs.” This startling charge was leveled by 20 state attorneys general in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, after a memo from the FBI’s Richmond field office came to light.

The memo was withdrawn amid a storm of criticism, but it warned of extremists being drawn into “radical-traditionalist” Roman Catholic organizations known primarily for their love of the Latin Mass.

This is an urgent opportunity for Wray to address the growing distrust of the FBI. He must know blanket denials of partisan behavior by the bureau’s staff won’t convince much of the country. 

Quality control has obviously slipped, and Wray must firmly and forcefully bring hammers down on those ideological outliers and political partisans operating inside the bureau. 

They may not be many, but they're doing immense damage. 

Congress should give Wray the power to do just that.

The erosion of trust in the FBI is at a crisis level—and Director Wray must do more than express regret.

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Four unidentified flying objects have been shot down over America … since last Friday. But it took until Monday afternoon for The White House to start telling Americans what was going on.

Canadians heard from their defense minister on Saturday. Here, no one but press flaks have been made available to reporters. Even congressmen and governors have complained about being left in the dark.

People were left to wonder if there had been further Chinese encroachments or whether we were finally experiencing the alien incursion of science fiction lore.

Finally, on Monday afternoon, the White House ruled out alien invasion but shared scant more information.

So, yet again: the Biden White House fails to inspire confidence. Worse, its silence registers a lack of care and outright contempt for the American people. We’re not entitled to state secrets, but we do have a right to know what is flying over our country—and why.

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The social panic over “disinformation” reached a new low last week. An exposé in the Washington Examiner revealed that Microsoft had blocked advertisers from sponsoring hundreds of conservative websites, based on secret blacklists created by a company calling itself the Global Disinformation Index. Without any data—and indeed without any attempt at engagement—GDI smeared hundreds of conservative sites and writers and attempted to put them out of business.

Included in those blacklists were most of Salem Media’s sites—Townhall was rated “reprehensible/offensive,” while others—such as Hot Air—got tagged as “false/misleading” without any evidence. Most hilariously, GDI’s public report hailed Buzzfeed as one of the most reliable sources even after its publication of outright disinformation in the Steele dossier, while rating the libertarian Reason Magazine’s site as one of the highest risks for disinformation.

Microsoft has retreated rapidly from GDI after this exposé, but not before the McCarthyist tactic got exposed for what it is—an attempt to deplatform conservatives and punish dissent.

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The new employment report showed a gain of roughly half a million jobs in January, and immediately “Biden boom” started trending on Twitter. 

Not so fast. Yes, that’s a lot of jobs added in one month, but one month does not make a boom. For most of the past year job growth has been weak, and the economy faltering. Real wages fell and people's saving fell along with them. Credit card debt mounted up. People who were out of the workforce saw their savings and credit depleted, read headlines about layoffs and got worried enough to go back to work. 

Usually new jobs are a sign of a growing economy, but the growth data points to a stagnant economy right now. It's good that people are going back to work, but there's a difference between job growth from an actual boom and hard times driving people back to work. 

This is no boom.

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“Why can’t they just go to another baker?” That’s the question many are asking after the most recent setback for Jack Phillips.
 
Several years ago Jack won 7 to 2 at the Supreme Court in a case involving his decision to not create custom wedding cakes celebrating same-sex relationships.
 
Now he’s lost at the Colorado Court of Appeals over a different cake: a happy “gender transition” cake, with pink batter and blue frosting—meant to symbolize and celebrate someone who claims to be a woman on the inside but a man on the outside.
 
But the Colorado Court ruled against Jack, “We conclude that creating a pink cake with blue frosting is not inherently expressive.” Baloney.
 
The activist who asked for this particular cake went to Jack on purpose and told him what the cake was meant to express.
 
That’s why the activists won’t go to another baker. They want Jack to bend the knee. At some point the Supreme Court will need to put a stop to this.

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Even if you are like the vast majority of Americans who did not watch the recent Grammy Awards, you probably do know that a non-binary man and a transexual presented a song titled "Unholy" in a performance resembling a Satanic ritual, and then up popped the logo for Pfizer! 

The spiritual and cultural rot of this is obvious to see. But from a more mundane business point of view, this has to be one of the worst branding decisions in the history of branding. 

Big Pharma has had a bad couple of years in the eyes of many Americans. Pfizer in particular has gotten in hot water with various undercover video released by Project Veritas. Now Pfizer's brand is associated with Satanic trolling. Who made this decision? 

It's long past time for major American companies to stop taking the goodwill of middle-America for granted, to stop pandering to the sexual identity of the month club, and stop trampling on Christian sensibilities. 

Do you have Pfizer stock in your retirement account? If you do; you're the boss. 

It's time to speak up. 

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Joe Biden had big ambitions. His State of the Union was designed to persuade dubious voters—only 37 percent of Democrats want him to run again!—that he deserves a second term.

But the American people aren’t stupid. A recent Washington Post poll found 60 percent of Americans believe Biden hasn’t made progress in creating good jobs. They remember when he took office, inflation was lower, gas was cheaper, streets were safer, and our border secure.

Sadly for him, Biden ultimately was Biden. He boasted, he shouted, he misled, he took the cheap shots—preaching unity while accusing opponents of secret plans to cut social security and Medicare, and threaten democracy. Calling for a ban on resort fees while barely mentioning the border crisis and China’s global ambitions.

Biden’s refrain was “Let’s finish the job!” Given his track record, it’s not clear Americans will take him up on the offer.

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