[Yesterday, I posted about the Ken Burns documentary/biography on Ernest Hemingway that is currently airing on PBS and the pilgrimage I made to Hemingway’s house in Key West, Florida. Hemingway lived in the house in the 1930s during the apex of his career as a novelist. In this post, I …
PBS is currently running a new three-part documentary about Ernest Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick which explores the famous author’s own image-making. In the documentary, we see Hemingway as a “man’s man–” a battle-hardened war veteran, a big game hunter, a deep-sea fisherman, a brawler, a boozer, a …
I don’t know who E.P. Unum is–though I do know that handle stands for E Pluribus Unum. Those Latin words are the traditional motto of the United States and mean: “Out of many, one.” So, whoever is writing under the name of “E. P. Unum” is paying homage to one …
Today, I am reprinting a commentary on the damage Critical Race Theory is doing to children in our schools and to our nation as a whole. It is written by Roger L. Simon, a novelist, and screenwriter. I have posted on Critical Race Theory before with my own thoughts about …
Like a lot of Americans, I subscribe to Mike Huckabee’s newsletter. I was going to write my take on Biden’s woeful press conference (Biden love-in is probably a better description), and I still might, given that there probably won’t be another such festive jamboree for another three or four months–if …
I recall when I was in middle school, junior high, and high school learning about our distinctive system of self-government and the necessity for the active informed civic participation of American citizens. Those classes had a variety of names: American history, History of the U.S. government, and social studies were …
A few days ago, Florida Governor Ron Desantis took the bold step of announcing that the decidedly racist, anti-white orthodoxy called Critical Race Theory will not be allowed to indoctrinate his state’s school children. “Let me be clear: There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race …
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America where “digital book burning” and book banning are suddenly acceptable, where Dr. Seuss has been canceled, and where books that question “transgenderism,” the legitimacy of “critical race theory,” “cancel culture,” or the bogus 1619 project are censored and banned. Is this the …
I think I was in the second grade when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin uttered these words to political opponents and federal bureaucrats during Senate hearings: “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” It was the early 1950s—the era of so-called “McCarthyism” …
Today I am posting a commentary from former California Assemblymember Steve Baldwin. Steve is an astute political observer and author who served as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy in Washington D.C. FYI, this Steve Baldwin is NOT the younger brother of Alec Baldwin. However, he is my …