Why Trump Wants to Cut Funding to NPR and PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are back in the news again, and the news isn’t good.
Ronald E. Yates
The Left’s Embrace of Assassination Culture
Political violence in America, including assassination, is being applauded and embraced as virtuous activism by leftist Democrats, according to a recent academic study.
April 29 1975, The 50th Anniversary of The Fall of Saigon: A Personal Remembrance
Fifty years ago today, I was scrambling aboard a U.S. Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy helicopter along with some 70 or so other terrified people as we were evacuated from a place called Saigon as it fell to invading Communist North Vietnamese troops.
Reflections on Newspapers, their Past & Future—and My Career at one of them
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.
Jasmine Crockett—Queen of the Democrat Party Trash Talkers
During an online telephone interview, Crockett called for a “Tesla Takedown. “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
Rogue Judges Declare Lawfare Against Trump
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is, without doubt, pushing the limits of judicial authority in issuing a temporary restraining order halting the government’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members.
Petulant Democrats in an All-out Favorability Freefall
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.
Today’s Democratic Party is a Heartless, Soulless Gang
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. Here it is
In the USA, some Prices are Lower, but so are Expectations
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 sting out of today’s sky-high …
The Department of Education: A Wasteland of Rot & Corruption
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.
The Roaches are Running for Cover from the Exterminator-in-Chief
During my career as a foreign correspondent, I spent a lot of time in what could only be called roach hotels. Time and again, I would turn on the room or bathroom lights and watch as scores of cockroaches skittered into cracks and drains.
Trump’s plan to restore Hollywood’s Golden Age is a Daunting Task
Lost among the burst of executive orders emanating from Donald Trump’s felt tip permanent marker was his decision to appoint three iconic actors—Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone—to serve as his special envoys to Hollywood.
Their mission, Trump said, is to return Hollywood to its former Golden Age.
Trump’s Common Sense Executive Orders: What’s Not To Like?
As promised, on day one of his administration, Donald Trump took pen in hand and signed a mound of executive orders in a flurry of cursive penmanship.
After Joe Biden‘s Perverse Reign of Devastation, a Muckraker’s Thoughts on a New Era Common Sense
Looking back on the last four years, I feel like I have been mucking a giant pile of manure out of a barn since 2020. The more I shoveled, the higher the pile of manure got. There didn’t seem to be any end to the execrable crap being dispensed by the Biden crime family and …
Study Reveals DEI is Ineffective & Harmful
A new study by Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has revealed what most of us have long suspected—DEI pedagogy is ineffective and doing more harm than good.
The Left’s War on Truth
Journalism in 2024 is nothing like the journalism that existed when I joined the Chicago Tribune in 1970 as a green college graduate.
Paul vs. Tyson 2024: A Pathetic Vestige of Douglas vs. Tyson 1990
Well, wasn’t THAT something? Last Friday’s bout was like watching an exasperated grandfather chase his bratty grandson around the living room.
Why the National Association of Scholars Opposes the Cult of Transgenderism
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to reign in the transgender zealots who, for the past four years, have managed to contaminate once-rational minds
Jogging With the Greatest
Now that the election is over (at least I hope so) I thought it might be a good idea to post something that, as they used to say on the old Monte Python TV show, is “completely different.”
The Mainstream Media are in a Financial and Credibility Tailspin
Newspapers are losing record print circulation, morning and nightly network news shows are hemorrhaging viewers, and cable news outlets are losing audiences at a record rate. So what’s going on?