(NOTE: Tomorrow and Wednesday, 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’ll stop by. Fifty years ago, I …
Political violence in America, including assassination, is being applauded and embraced as virtuous activism by leftist Democrats, according to a recent academic study. The study, entitled “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence,” was conducted jointly by Rutgers University and the Network …
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement. Newspapers today are barely recognizable when contrasted to the five highly competitive and spirited dailies that covered Chicago 50 years ago. The Chicago Sun-Times, …
Beyond the fact that U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is, without doubt, a Hollywood casting director’s spot-on image of what an undertaker should look like, the judge is pushing the limits of judicial authority in issuing a temporary restraining order halting the government’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua …
Whenever Texas Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett opens her big mouth and disgorges violent and bigoted blather, I am reminded of something author and philanthropist Orin Woodward once said: “Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.” Without a doubt, Jasmine Crockett has been making a lot of strange noises …
The numbers don’t lie, and all of us have seen them. In a recent NBC News and Hart Research poll, just 27 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably. A CNN poll revealed that only 29 percent of the respondents had a favorable outlook toward the Democrats. In both …
It has taken me a few days to formulate a response to the pathetic and callous display by Democrats during President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week. As I watched every Democrat remain mutely planted on their asses in the House chamber as a 13-year-old boy …
At a time when prices for everything from eggs to gasoline are high, I thought it might be interesting to share a list of commodities and services that are actually much cheaper than they once were when compared to dollar values and wages in the past. Will this take the …
After spending 13 years as a professor, Department Head, and College Dean at the University of Illinois, I learned a lot about higher education, its benefits, and its faults. Don’t get me wrong. The University of Illinois is a first-rate institution. It is home to world-class faculty and facilities, including …
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I spent a lot of time in what could only be called roach hotels. It wasn’t out of choice but necessity. I often had no option where I slept at night. You were happy to have a roof over your head in war …