Is Lori Lightfoot the nation’s worst big city mayor? Please allow me to answer that question. YES! WITHOUT A DOUBT! She has taken a great city—a place I where earned my chops as a reporter—and turned it into a crime-filled cesspool. Way to go, Lori! But don’t take my word …
A while back, I posted a commentary about the similarities between government overreach in America and the methods the Nazi Party used to control Germany beginning in the 1930s. With the critical midterm elections just a few days away, I took a look at that post and decided it might …
I am reposting a commentary from Clare M. Lopez, who is the Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy and a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research. In her excellent and cogent observations, she explains the strategy by socialists and communists to …
A while back, I wrote a blog post that discussed how people in the past predicted the future, and I promised a sequel. Here it is, with another sequel to follow. Back in 1895, several prominent newspaper editors were asked to speculate on what newspapers would look like in the …
Congratulations, Joe Biden. New Census Bureau numbers show that a record 1.8 million illegal immigrants are living in the United States since you gained access to the White House. What does that mean? Well, it means we are seeing a surge in the ratio of foreign-born to native-born residents, reports …
Today, I am reposting a commentary I published a while back about socialism. As we rush toward the 2022 midterm elections, I can only hope that the infatuation some Americans have for the failed system called socialism has subsided. We shall see. Please read on. We are hearing a lot …
At the request of a faithful follower, today I am re-posting a column that appeared a while back in The Economist, one of the U.K.’s most prestigious magazines. Written by an unnamed foreign correspondent, it takes a sardonic and self-effacing view of foreign correspondents by suggesting that Harry Flashman, Victorian …
And now for something completely different. When I was teaching journalism at the University of Illinois, I used to get on students for using, or I should say, misusing words—especially slang or words that have no business being in anybody’s vocabulary—especially university students. I created a list of those words …
Sometimes a picture or a meme can express our feelings better than words. Sometimes it takes both images and words. Here then, are a few images and words that I will wager express what a lot of us are feeling these days of $7 per gallon gas (at least here …
Because a portion of my blog is dedicated to writing, from time to time, I like to post about the English language. So join me for a few English grammar lessons. Not to worry. We aren’t going to diagram sentences here. Do you remember doing that in elementary and middle …