Fresh bite on a vintage motto
Rising beef prices have replaced the old quip “Where’s the beef?” into a sharp expression of Americans’ economic frustration and cultural loss.
Greg Maresca
Days of Infamy
America’s “days of infamy” include not just 1941 and 2001 but the 1983 … that was a brutal marker of Iran’s decades‑long theocratic terror campaign that makes a nuclear Iran intolerable and demands a president willing to end the mayhem.
The calculus of impunity
When NYPD officers can be swarmed and assaulted in a snowy Manhattan and the reaction is a collective shrug, something deeper is off. The downplaying of that attack isn’t a quirk of winter news, it’s another sign of a growing culture of impunity built on masked anonymity, weak prosecution, and political rhetoric that treats accountability as optional.
Shredding the climate crusade
Repealing the EPA’s “endangerment finding” ends years of costly, fear‑driven climate regulation and restores sanity to federal policy.
From legacy to liability
Local journalism still survives on trust and community, which is exactly what the Washington Post squandered.
Generation Skeptical
Teenagers overwhelmingly distrust mainstream journalism, viewing it as biased, misleading, and less credible than the social‑media personalities who now gorge at their information buffet.
Cruising into March Madness
Winter clings to February, but March Madness is already stirring beneath the ice in Lewisburg, PA. For Navy, the possibility of their first NCAA berth since 1998 feels like an old tide turning at last….
When health care turns deadly
MAID accelerates a cultural shift that recasts killing as healthcare, pressures the vulnerable amid rising costs, and erodes human dignity by normalizing death as a medical option as America moves toward her 250th birthday.
Bubble Wrap America
A snowstorm highlights how modern society’s comfort and overprotection contrast sharply with the more self‑reliant past.
The CFP punts on expansion
The CFP confirmed the playoff will stay at 12 teams for 2026 after months of debate produced no agreement on expansion.
Faith, fury, and flash mobs
This column looks at the recent MN leftist activism that is undermining religious life, immigration enforcement, while adding to the political chaos.
August delusion to January absurdity Preseason polls aged like dead fish in the Miami sunshine
The NCAA preseason football poll, touted as a reliable predictor, was a major dud. As it turns out on Monday night two unranked teams — Indiana and Miami — will play for the national championship.
Call it college football’s improbable season, or is it?
The Cultural Chasm
A recent Institute for Family Studies survey underscores how conservatives place a higher value on marriage, parenthood and faith than leftists leading to stark differences in family, wellbeing, and demographics.
2026: No charge required
With a swelling population of senior citizens paired with a dwindling supply of children, America is aging faster than a smartphone battery during a three‑hour Zoom call.
The NCAA’s eligibility circus
With college football finally shuffling off stage like an aging rock star, college basketball has decided to crank up the speakers and throw the kind of house party that makes the neighbors call the cops.
Eligibility, international intrigue and NCAA drama; The pro-to-college pipeline
It was a headline that I had to read twice: An NBA draft pick deciding to walk away and play college ball instead. Being an NBA draft pick wasn’t enough for James Nnaji.
2025 Rear -View Awards
If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was a year where irony is produced by algorithms and politicians think diplomacy is a TikTok trend. To toast our survival is the annual Rear-View Awards, the only column where irony is not just a category, it is the entire piece.
Power, wealth, and surrogacy; Biology’s international fault lines
A striking headline can distill an entire saga into a single timeless line without a plot or nuance; just pure drama etched in ink.
The Paradoxical Patriot ; The political odyssey of Frank S. Meyer
President Harry Truman famously said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” In Daniel J. Flynn’s latest tome, “The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer” fits that bill.
Unheralded and Autonomous
Take the military academies out of the college football equation and what remains is a host of systemic challenges that threaten the game’s integrity and long-term stability.