Flag Day Today is Flag Day. Big deal, you might say. Who cares? And anyway, just what is it and why is it considered a holiday, albeit a minor one? Here is a little history about Flag Day along with 13 surprising facts about the American flag and how to …
It is unsettling and sad to witness what is happening in our great country today. Never in my lifetime—and I’m older than Methuselah in dog years—have I ever witnessed such a sprint to socialism by an occupant of the White House. What bothers me about Joe Biden’s distressing embrace of …
If you haven’t yet met Tatiana Ibrahim, let me introduce her because I can guarantee you that our corrupt leftist news media will not. Ms. Ibrahim is a mother of a high school-age daughter who finally had enough of the racist and dishonest anti-white garbage children in her town were …
There was a time when rational people agreed that there were certain immutable laws of nature that were based on facts, common sense, and verified scientific data. For example, for millennia, humans have known there is a biological difference between men and women. We knew that only women had the …
I recall interviewing a World War II-era Japanese admiral in 1975 about the war, which at the time had ended just 30 years before. “The Japanese military felt confident it could defeat America on the battlefield and at sea because America was considered a “mongrel” nation—a nation of many races …
I have no idea who put this together, but it showed up one day in my mailbox and I thought I would share it with my followers. It talks about a different time in America. Some say it was a simpler time without the complications, apprehensions, divisions, and violence our …
The other day I was thinking about some of the most interesting people I met and worked with during a 27-year-career as a reporter and foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune. One of the first names that popped into my head was Anne Keegan, a one-of-a-kind reporter, and columnist for …
There are only a few places outside of my actual home that I ever felt I could call “home.” One was the U.S. Army Security Agency, where I spent almost four years on active duty. Another was the University of Kansas, where I earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. However, …
Today I am sharing some obscure knowledge with you, as well as a short and dubious yarn. Just what’s needed for a Friday morning. Enjoy! Yesterday I got my permit to carry a concealed weapon. So, today I went over to the local gun shop to get a 9mm handgun …
California is in trouble. For the first time since a prospector struck gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1849, California has recorded an annual net loss in population. The state’s population, which has for years been inching toward the 40-million mark, actually dipped by 182,083 people last year as Californians packed …