Today, I am reposting a commentary by Erin Geary, who describes herself as a “Renaissance Woman.” Her commentary originally appeared in the blog produced by John Kass https://johnkassnews.com/. I am particularly focused on Chicago because I lived and worked there for many years as a Chicago Tribune reporter and editor–in …
Today, I am turning my blog over to Mike Ford, founder of the American Free News Network, former U.S. Army Colonel, and US Military Academy graduate (class of 1980). In the commentary that follows, Mike explains that a column he wrote in 2021 for a news outlet about the January …
A new Department of Defense reports that almost 80 percent of American men between the ages of 17 and 24 are unfit for military service. When I saw that, I did a double-take. Eighty percent of American men are not fit for military service. Is that even possible? And then I …
Today I am posting a commentary by Andrew Gutman, a New York City parent who, in 2021, pulled his daughter out of the Brearley School, an all-girls private school in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, to protest the school’s woke policies regarding race and gender. Gutman wrote a scathing …
During my almost 30-year career as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, about one-third of the stories I produced had to do with business–specifically, international business. I wrote a lot about the theft of intellectual property rights and American competitiveness–or the lack thereof. I witnessed the hollowing out of …
Today, I am reposting a commentary from John Kass that appeared on his blog https://johnkassnews.com/. John is a former Chicago Tribune colleague and columnist who now produces a popular blog and podcast that deal with the “Chicago Way.” John possesses a keen eye and knows Chicago as well as any …
I have been a fan of the Dilbert cartoon strip since it began syndication in hundreds of American newspapers back in 1989. The strip is a sassy but candid look into the management and machinations inside the walls of corporate America. Its lead character, Dilbert, is a hapless butt of …
I have been thinking a lot about the dramatic rise of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives since I read an article about A.I. replacing reporters and editors in American newsrooms. The idea that A. I. could be used to write news stories and columns in newspapers instead of reporters …
If you watched Super Bowl LXII, you might have seen two $20 million ads promoting Christianity and Jesus Christ that were sponsored by the religious craft store Hobby Lobby and other anonymous donors. One of the two “He gets us” ads portrayed Jesus as a refugee in an attempt to …
Once upon a time, Chicago was a city where newspapers, radio, and television news shows competed furiously with one another for news. When I started at the Chicago Tribune right out of the University of Kansas, Chicago had five competing newspapers and the world’s best training ground for reporters—the City …