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 …
Today, on this Memorial Day, I am posting an opinion piece that appeared recently in The Hill, an American news website, based in Washington, D.C. The author, Grady Means, argues that our nation’s embrace of “identity politics” has fragmented our country and eroded portions of the U.S. Constitution. As an …
Today, I am reprinting a fascinating article from Foreign Policy Magazine. It reveals just how Vietnam’s Communist Party has been able to control the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 virus. Simply put, it has done so by using intimidation, censorship, and repression. These are not the kinds of tools …
I am reposting this column that appeared in Wednesday’s Riverside Press-Enterprise. It was penned by Gloria Romero, former Democrat Majority Leader of the California State Senate and a professor of gender studies at California State University, Los Angeles. @GloriaJRomero. It is refreshing to see a Democrat acknowledging the blatant hypocrisy of …
(NOTE: Tomorrow and Thursday I invite you to join me as I relive the last 24 frantic hours in Saigon as it fell to Communist North Vietnamese troops on April 29-30, 1975–an event I covered for the Chicago Tribune in 1975. I hope you will stop by) Forty-five years ago …
I am reposting the article below by Nicholas J. Kaster, which recently appeared in the American Thinker. In it, Kaster refers to Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek, who, upon accepting his Nobel Prize in 1974, said: “I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, to a pretense of exact …