As we focus on the Middle East, terrorists are infiltrating the homeland

While we are preoccupied with Israel’s newly declared war on Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists in the Middle East, we should also worry about the 160 mostly young males listed on America’s terror watch list who were stopped this year, by Federal agents from entering the U.S.—the highest number ever.

Small Town Life and Values: The Latest Target of the Woke Mob

Having grown up in two small Kansas towns, I guess I should be distraught and maybe remorseful. Why? Because when an award-winning Country-Western singer writes a song about life and values in America’s ubiquitous small towns and is immediately attacked and canceled, he must have done something wrong, right? Wrong! Actually, all Jason Aldean did …

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Today’s Journalism: Experience & Honesty Not Required

Good journalism, somebody once said, is a nation talking to itself. That’s “talking to itself,” not yelling, screaming, shrieking, talking over one another, and generally engaging in verbal bullying. Yet that is just about all we see on prime-time television, especially cable television. Prime-time cable TV outlets such as Fox, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, etc., continue …

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The End of Affirmative Action: It’s About Time

During the 13 years that I was a professor, department head, and finally a college dean at the University of Illinois, I was always puzzled by the “unwritten rule” that guided admissions to the university in general and to my college in particular. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally ruled 6-3 that race-based …

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Father’s Day: A Lament

Yesterday was Father’s Day, and all over America, the concept of fatherhood was feted. Well, almost everywhere. There was that Angel Soft ad that ran a couple of years ago in which adults wish their single mothers a Happy Father’s Day. It’s bad enough that fathers have become so devalued in our society; why then …

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