A long time ago, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Kansas editor named William Allen White wrote an editorial in the Emporia Gazette entitled “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” In it, he railed against obtuse populist politicians and visionless citizens who he was convinced were running Kansas (my home state) into the ground. …
Anybody who writes, whether amateur or professional, at one time or another, will suffer from the dreaded condition known as WRITER’S BLOCK. It is an unavoidable component of the writing life. Many writers have devised distinctive remedies for this constipation of the brain. They range from running as far away …
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As the 2022 midterm elections draw ever nearer, the slurs and mud-slinging are picking up. Liberals are calling conservatives domestic terrorists and white supremacists. Conservatives are calling liberals leftist lunatics and depraved communists. Pretty nasty stuff, right? Not really, not when you look at the kind of mudslinging gutter politics …
Given the mood of our country today, I am resurrecting one of my commentaries I posted a while back about white guilt and those terrible creatures known as “white men.” (Spoiler alert: I am one. Gasp!) White men, after all, are the ones that committed the unpardonable sin of writing …
I recently received the following commentary via e-mail, and it resonated with me because of the indisputable truth it reveals. Why are so many Americans hesitant to show their patriotism these days? What are they afraid of? The answer, I submit, resides in the unequivocal assaults and unwarranted disparagements against …
The following commentary is from one of my fellow contributors to the American Free News Network https://afnn.us/ who writes under the nom de plume “EagleHasLanded.” In it, he (or she) takes Joe Biden and the ruling Democrat Party to task for not only refusing to enforce our nation’s laws but …
Now, THIS is disgusting. But more than that, it demonstrates the sorry state of the leadership in today’s “woke” military. A retired three-star general has been suspended for replying on Twitter to a Jill Biden tweet regarding abortion. Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky is a former top spokesman for the …
In an era where there is a lot of complaining about “toxic masculinity” (a bogus term as far as I’m concerned), Hollywood has unilaterally decided that men in today’s films need to be “feminized” or cerebrally castrated to satisfy the “wussification factor” spreading throughout America. What do I mean by …
I have been writing, in one form or another, for most of my life. I learned the techniques and skills of writing by toiling for almost 30 years in the relentless and stressful world of journalism. I was in some pretty good company. Ernest Hemingway began his writing career as …