Do you remember Andy Rooney? Between 1978 and 2011 he was a mainstay of CBS’s 60 Minutes. His homespun commentary at the end of every 60 Minutes broadcast was always filled with irony and prickly wit. Here are just a few examples: “I had one typewriter for 50 years, but …
Today, I am providing a link to a talk that Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Kimberly Strassel gave recently at Hillsdale College on why we are seeing a resurgence of socialism in America. I have my own opinions about why this is happening and after watching Strassel’s …
I was very sorry to hear today that the cancer that Rush Limbaugh had been fighting for the past year finally won. With Limbaugh’s death America lost its most powerful conservative voice since the death of William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008. I first heard Rush Limbaugh on radio back …
Usually, I don’t care what happens in Hollywood. After all, it is the epitome of La La Land, where up is down, right is wrong, and leftists are always right. But yesterday, I read that Lucasfilm fired actress Gina Carano for a social media post that her critics insisted was …
When I was in college I read George Orwell’s gloomy and ominous novel, “1984” and while it was eye-opening, I never once considered that the totalitarian world it portrays was one that could ever materialize in America. Today, I’m not so sure it couldn’t. In fact, it seems to me …
Today, I am publishing a speech delivered at Hillsdale College by Christopher Cladwell, author, editor, and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He provides a compelling explanation for the extreme hostility and divisiveness that is ripping our nation apart–the worst I have seen in my lifetime, and I lived through …
According to the dictionary, a fable is a usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans. With that thought in mind, I would like to share with my followers the following short fable about catching wild pigs …
We knew it was coming. America’s powerful big tech monopolies moved over the weekend to silence conservative voices and online platforms. The first casualty in this war of words was Parler—a place where conservative Americans went when they found their commentaries censored by Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other social media …
I wasn’t going to blog about what happened in and around the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. Folks from all sides have already weighed in with their comments—both efficacious and flawed. However, in the aftermath of that shocking event in which five people have died, I just can’t keep silent. …
During a 27-year career as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, I covered Asia, including Communist China. I was in Tiananmen Square in 1989 when the ruling Chinese Communist Party sent troops and tanks into the square to slaughter thousands of student and anti-corruption demonstrators who had …