Dear Reader: Welcome back to our complimentary Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). Book #2 takes Billy’s story to an even larger global stage. It leaves the violence of late 19th-century Kansas behind as Billy is thrust into the …
Dear Reader, Beginning in May 2025, many of you joined me on a weekly journey through the early, flinty life of William Fitzroy Raglan Battles in Book #1 of my trilogy. The response to Billy’s episodic memoirs was incredibly rewarding, and I’ve frequently been asked what happens next to the …
It’s time to evaluate how New York City’s first communist mayor is performing his job as commissar of the Big Apple’s five boroughs. If I were grading Zoran Mamdani’s first six and a half months in office, I would give him a D-minus. I cannot honestly say he has failed …
Dear Reader, Beginning in May 2025, many of you joined me on a weekly journey through the early, flinty life of William Fitzroy Raglan Battles in Book #1 of my trilogy. The response to Billy’s episodic memoirs was incredibly rewarding, and I’ve frequently been asked what happens next to the …
In its decision to reject President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship by ruling that he does not have the power to unilaterally overturn the longstanding principle that guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States, the Supreme Court is sanctioning the nation’s path to self-annihilation. How might …
In the 1960s, when I joined the U.S. Army, the communists that we opposed were in places like North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and, of course, Vietnam. That is no longer the case. Today, the communists we were once trained to kill are here within our borders, not …
Here’s a question for you: Can a nation so bitterly divided reunite and enjoy its 250th birthday this July 4th? Here’s another: Is patriotism in America dead—a quaint relic of another time when Americans (both Democrat and Republican) were proud of their country? And here’s one more: Just what is …
I have often heard the phrase: “Democrats hate our country.” Somehow, it always seemed a bit too imprecise and all-encompassing to condemn an entire political party for having such an unpatriotic conviction. After all, my parents and most of my family were Democrats, and I know they loved their country. …
As ballots in California’s “jungle primary” continue to dribble in, it appears that incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. City Council member Nithya Raman will be battling it out in November for mayor of the City of Angels. Why Bass and Raman? Blame California’s ludicrous jungle primary, in …
What follows is drawn from a story I filed to the Chicago Tribune a few days after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Last Thursday, on June 4, I posted my recollections of that terrible day on my Substack homepage. If you have not read that piece, I hope you …