Will Elon Musk save Twitter and Restore Free Speech? That’s the $43 billion question the world is asking since Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered that amount to buy Twitter. As a Twitter user myself, I certainly hope so. Like a lot of people, including some 217 million daily Twitter users, …
I spent 28 years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. It was a great career—one that I’m proud of. I won my share of major journalism awards and was nominated a couple of times for a Pulitzer Prize. But prizes or, for that matter, money was …
I don’t know who wrote this little treatise entitled “I Never Cared,” but I think it reflects the feelings of millions of Americans today who are fed up with those who want to destroy our way of life, who promulgate the culture of victimhood, who demand that men and boys …
We hear a lot about how “white privilege” is a dominant issue in America today—that, and the racism such alleged privilege portends. According to the white privilege zealots, whites are prosperous and reside at the top of the economic heap, while minorities in America are struggling and barely surviving at …
I am pleased to share this interview that I did a while back with Sarah Creeley of the Online Book Club. I hope you find it thought-provoking. Today’s chat with Sarah features Ronald E. Yates, author of The Lost Years of Billy Battles, Book #3 of the Finding Billy Battles …
I am reposting this slightly updated article by journalist Shari Goodman. She makes many inconvenient, but valid points in this piece about the irrationality and absurdity of “white guilt”–of which I (and millions of other “European-Americans”) have none. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The inane notion of “victimhood” in our country is …
In the past week or so the NYT, the Washington Post, and CNN seem to have found some measure of journalistic integrity and are issuing long-overdue mea culpas for their collective decisions to protect a cerebrally diminished Joe Biden at all costs while ignoring the palpable misconduct of the Biden …
From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans. Why? Part of the answer is attributable to the media—both news and entertainment. Have you noticed, for example, that in almost EVERY film and EVERY commercial, there MUST be at least one or two of …
The other day I read a story that said the New York Times was lamenting the steady decline of freedom of speech in America. I did a double-take. Was that correct? Or was this a typo? I checked out the editorial in the Times. Sure enough, the editorial board of …
