Blog 3 Columns

‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2022
The other day I was revisiting the 1984 flick Red Dawn when I had one of those revelations that leave me feeling a bit stupid and more than a bit stunned. The film’s storyline is pretty simple: It’s the Cold War, and Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua launch an attack on
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Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan. 6 0
- Politics
- January 7, 2022
“Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.” That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last. On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of
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How to Change the Minds of Those You Disagree With 1
- Culture
- January 7, 2022
If your mission is only to prove your own self-importance and knowledge, then go ahead and argue. But if your mission is to persuade and present the truth, then Ben Franklin’s suggestions may just change your world.
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‘Authoritarianism’ May Be Necessary to Fight Climate Change, Cambridge Study Argues 0
- Politics
- January 7, 2022
A recent study published in American Political Science Review, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University, begins with a teasing question: “Is authoritarian power ever legitimate?” For many, the answer is clearly no, concedes the study’s author—Ross Mittiga, an assistant professor of political theory at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. But Mittiga,
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Saddling Up and Riding with Justice and Truth 0
- Culture
- January 6, 2022
A French correspondent, fluent in English and a brave anti-vaxxer, recently wrote to me, “So it’s 2022. Some are saying it will be 20-20-Too.” Heaven forbid that is the case. As we all know, the last two years have brought many trials and challenges. Americans
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Patients Threatened by Reparations Medicine 0
- Culture
- January 6, 2022
If you’re white and middle class, the push for health care “equity” could kill you. Prominent medical organizations and the Biden administration are pushing for rules that will move “disadvantaged” populations to the front of the line for scarce medical resources—think vaccines, ventilators, monoclonal antibody treatments. That means everyone else waits longer, in some cases
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Associated Press = Associated Propaganda 0
- Politics
- January 6, 2022
If nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed. As a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, I cannot emphasize
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It’s 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020’s COVID Playbook 0
- Culture
- January 4, 2022
It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. Fear of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus is leading school officials across
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The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 2021 0
- Culture
- January 3, 2022
In a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, scolds—and everything besides COVID-19, which we give a blessed rest in this list! No. 1: WHY CAN’T YOU BE GOOD LIKE ME? A Beaverton, Oregon, man screamed at a lady for leaving her kid in the car while
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‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time 0