Fifty years ago today, I was scrambling aboard a U.S. Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy helicopter along with some 70 or so other terrified people as we were evacuated from Saigon as it fell to invading Communist North Vietnamese troops. April 29, 1975, is a day I will never forget, …
(NOTE: Tomorrow and Wednesday, I invite you to join me as I relive the last 24 frantic hours in Saigon as it fell to Communist North Vietnamese troops on April 29-30, 1975–an event I covered for the Chicago Tribune in 1975. I hope you’ll stop by. Fifty years ago, I …
Political violence in America, including assassination, is being applauded and embraced as virtuous activism by leftist Democrats, according to a recent academic study. The study, entitled “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence,” was conducted jointly by Rutgers University and the Network …
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement. Newspapers today are barely recognizable when contrasted to the five highly competitive and spirited dailies that covered Chicago 50 years ago. The Chicago Sun-Times, …
Beyond the fact that U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is, without doubt, a Hollywood casting director’s spot-on image of what an undertaker should look like, the judge is pushing the limits of judicial authority in issuing a temporary restraining order halting the government’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua …
Whenever Texas Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett opens her big mouth and disgorges violent and bigoted blather, I am reminded of something author and philanthropist Orin Woodward once said: “Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.” Without a doubt, Jasmine Crockett has been making a lot of strange noises …
The numbers don’t lie, and all of us have seen them. In a recent NBC News and Hart Research poll, just 27 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably. A CNN poll revealed that only 29 percent of the respondents had a favorable outlook toward the Democrats. In both …
It has taken me a few days to formulate a response to the pathetic and callous display by Democrats during President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week. As I watched every Democrat remain mutely planted on their asses in the House chamber as a 13-year-old boy …
At a time when prices for everything from eggs to gasoline are high, I thought it might be interesting to share a list of commodities and services that are actually much cheaper than they once were when compared to dollar values and wages in the past. Will this take the …
After spending 13 years as a professor, Department Head, and College Dean at the University of Illinois, I learned a lot about higher education, its benefits, and its faults. Don’t get me wrong. The University of Illinois is a first-rate institution. It is home to world-class faculty and facilities, including …