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 …
During President Trump’s state visit to China last month, I wondered if he would be allowed to stroll through Tiananmen Square, a place that 37 years ago was awash with the blood and bodies of thousands of Chinese students and workers who were engaged in anti-government, pro-democracy demonstrations. That night, …
Considering the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued threats against Taiwan, its menacing alliance with Russia and Iran, its unsuccessful attempts to dominate in Venezuela, Brazil, and a few other Latin American nations, and the thousands of spies and military operatives China dispatched to our nation during the feckless Biden Administration, …
I read an essay the other day stating that a new Department of Labor report on men found that the American labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. This means close to one-third of all men of working age are not included in the …
A while back, I published a post about a poll that asked the question: “Who writes better? Men or Women?” What a hazardous, if not lethal, question. The poll was produced by Grammarly.com, a proofreading software program for word processors such as Microsoft Word. As you might expect, its conclusions …
Recently, I received an email from a reader reminding me that while America will celebrate its 250th birthday this July 4, this year is also the 135th anniversary of the murder of 297 Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These …
In a recent email exchange with one of my Substack subscribers, I was asked if I think the independent media (such as the Substack community I am building) can provide a “de-escalation” space that legacy media has largely abandoned. I am not optimistic about today’s independent media. Most of its …