Please join the Finding Billy Battles Lost and Found Virtual Blog Tour that is currently running through June 17. Along the way I will discuss such topics as The Rules of Writing (there are none), The Awful English Language, Thoughts about the Art and Craft of Writing, Elmore Leonard’s 10 …
Travis Yates is not one of my relatives, at least not one that I am aware of, but given the anarchy and insanity that is gripping and devastating our country today, I would be proud if he were. Yates is a cop in Tulsa, Oklahoma who has been ruthlessly attacked …
Protestors across the country are calling for America’s police departments to be defunded and even abolished. Are they serious? Yes, apparently they are. Let’s just imagine the consequences of such an extreme and irrational move. The most vulnerable communities in our cities would find themselves without police protection. That doesn’t …
I spent 30 years working as a journalist, first for the Kansas City Times and then with the Chicago Tribune. I dealt in facts, not rumor, hearsay, or opinion. I dropped my membership in the Democrat party because I didn’t want to be influenced by any political organization. To this …
Today, ForeignCorrespondent is reposting a commentary by Victor Davis Hanson, historian, columnist, and professor. In this post, he demonstrates how China is taking advantage of the global pandemic to further undermine democracy in Hong Kong, bully its Asian neighbors, and thumb its nose at the United States. No more nice-guy …
My introduction to Hong Kong was via the 1960 film The World of Suzy Wong, starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan. The movie was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by British author Richard Mason. It is a classic East meets West story in which a British …
As they used to say on the old Monty Python TV show: “Now for something completely different.” After weeks of battling his backyard squirrels, Mark Rober decided it was finally time to design and build the perfect squirrel proof bird feeder, which goes to show that sometimes self-isolating can bring …
Is Twitter a content publisher or a social media platform? Twitter insists it is a social media platform, but by adding a fact-checking label to posts by President Trump it is behaving more like a content publisher. On May 26, the president expressed concern in a Twitter post about mail-in …
Was the shutdown of the American economy necessary to deal with the coronavirus? It’s a question we are hearing more and more often these days. Let’s look at some facts. First, 80% of the U.S. COVID-19 fatalities occur in the 65 and older group. Federal health officials apparently assumed that …
I spent nearly 30 years of my life working as a journalist. It was an honor to be a member of what some have called The Fourth Estate. I began my career in the Windy City at the Chicago Tribune. At the time, Chicago was probably Journalism’s toughest and most …