Society & Culture

The Obama administration announced that it will allow wind turbines to kill or injure two American icons, the endangered bald and golden eagles. This can now be done without the fear of prosecution for up to 30 years.

The term genderqueer has appeared out of thin air and is supposed to mean that a person is attracted to male or female, both or neither. It is a self-identifying label that also means that one is neither male nor female but an androgynous hybrid or rejection of both. If this seems confusing—it is.

What do California and Venezuela have in common? State-controlled or regulated resources.

With more than 54 years of consistent economic failure to their credit, Cuba’s communist dictators, the Castro brothers, are now about to show the world how to do business by building a new deep-sea port in the small town of Mariel, 30 minutes from Havana.

During the sixties, catchy phrases such as “it’s forbidden to forbid,” circulated among the protesters that filled universities worldwide.

Communist North Korea is in the news again for something it does well—practicing hypocrisy and tyranny. This case involves nine young men between the ages of 15 and 23 who heroically endured severe hardship that included frostbite, malnutrition and regular beatings during a four-year effort to escape the dreadful conditions in their homeland.

To frack or not to frack is the question, and liberals would like everyone to be against fracking based on arguments that the practice destroys the environment. Unfortunately, this emotional and sensational appeal is made by environmentalists who twist the facts to further their anti-civilization agenda.

Vietnam, another behemoth with clay feet, is frightened that its population might have something to say contrary to the Communist “paradise” in which they live. Freedom of speech in Vietnam is so free that its 30 million Internet users now risk severe punishment or death if they share opinions or news articles contrary to the party line on their Twitter or Facebook accounts.

Article 35 in China’s constitution, states that “citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.” This article appears to be right out of he American constitution, that is—until it comes time to put it in practice.