I have updated this previously posted story to include the latest numbers and facts about books and the publishing industry. For those who may have missed it the first time around, I hope you enjoy it. For those seeing it for the first time, I hope you will find it …
Today, I am posting a Q & A with pollsters Arie Kapteyn of USC’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research and Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group. In 2016 both men foresaw a Trump victory, while other pollsters were predicting a Clinton landslide. They say in 2020 most polls …
I am honored to announce that The Lost Years of Billy Battles has won an NYC Big Book Award. Here is the Press Release announcing the award. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Author wins national recognition with the NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD®! The NYC BIG BOOK AWARD has recognized The …
With the 2020 election a little more than two weeks away, I found myself speculating on how informed the American electorate is. Given a biased mainstream media, I wondered if American voters are able to make an informed decision when they mark their ballots. A few years ago during an academic …
Ernie Meggisen says he is a Canadian. I have no reason to doubt that. The other day I received a commentary he wrote for a Canadian newspaper. I’m not sure which newspaper, but that is beside the point. As I read through his commentary I was struck by his view …
Well, what do you know? The World Health Organization has urged world leaders, including those in the United States, to stop using lockdowns as the primary control method against the spread of the China Virus, aka, the novel coronavirus or Covid-19. This is a dramatic turnaround by the W.H.O. and …
For those who have had enough of living under house arrest, losing jobs, and being targeted with dictatorial decrees and dictates from public officials and bureaucrats, here is an alternative assessment of Covid-19 and how we should deal with it. It’s called The Great Barrington Declaration. It comes from thousands of …
After three days of treatment for the China virus at the Walter Reed Medical Center, President Trump was back at the White House this week with a new message for Americans. In a video posted Monday shortly after his return, the president implored Americans not to let the virus “dominate” …
Like millions of other Americans, I tuned in to round one of the Presidential Debates moderated by Fox’s Chris Wallace. It was unlike any other presidential debate I have ever seen—and I have watched every presidential debate since the JFK vs. Nixon debate in 1960 when I was just a …
For the past three and a half years I, along with millions of other Americans, have watched the mainstream news media essentially self-destruct in their obsession to remove Donald Trump from the White House. I saw glimmers of this kind of mania when George W. Bush was president from 2000 …