Blog 3 Columns

The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty 0
- Culture
- May 25, 2021
There’s a new censorship scandal afoot: it involves school yearbook pictures, a little too much skin, and some lousy Photoshop skills. Blond, smiling ninth-grader Riley O’Keefe was one of the “victims” of some aggressive photoshopping of her yearbook pictures by high school administrators. O’Keefe’s original school picture featured a gray sweater over a low-cut black
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Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas 0
- Politics
- May 25, 2021
When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run
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Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters 0
- Culture
- May 24, 2021
Only those of very hard hearts can fail to admire Beth, the heroine of Walter Tevis’s magnificent novel, and now a popular television series, The Queen’s Gambit. We love the idea of her, a girl who makes good, starting off from very modest beginnings. She overcomes alcohol and drug addictions and rises to the very top
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The ‘Woke’ Are Sleeping on China 0
- International
- May 24, 2021
Every day I read online about systemic racism, transgender issues, President Joe Biden’s latest faux pas, and other American social ills. All well and good. I’ve written about some of these same issues as well. But are we elevating the trivial at the expense of the significant? Many of our citizens are focused on the
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The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0
- Culture
- May 21, 2021
“The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was the headline of Martin Indyk’s May 14 article in Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate
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Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?0
- Politics
- May 21, 2021
When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have
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Turning America’s Sighing Into Singing 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2021
“I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman once wrote. Today I hear America sighing. In a survey conducted in January 2021, 45 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans, and 59 percent of Independents believed that the country was heading the wrong direction. In addition, 13 percent of Democrats, and 17 percent of Republicans and Independents were unsure
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Minneapolis Ignores the Real Problem Underlying Increase in Violent Child Deaths 0
- Culture
- May 20, 2021
The city that witnessed the death of George Floyd is seeing more deaths this year, only this time they aren’t those of a full-grown man arrested for passing a counterfeit bill: they are the deaths of children caught in crossfire. The most recent death was that of six-year-old Aniya Allen, who was shot in the
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Remote Work’s Impending Transformation of Middle America 0
- Culture
- May 19, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a great deal about America and Americans. Most have acquiesced to anything and everything government bureaucrats asked for in the name of public safety. Masks have been donned, churches have been shuttered, and many of us stayed at home for months, working remotely. This last item may end up being
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The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty 0