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  • NYT’s Groupthink Will Remain Unshaken Post-Election

    NYT’s Groupthink Will Remain Unshaken Post-Election0

    What will change tomorrow? Who can say? Will we wake up to the smile of a victorious Joe Biden (likely)? A chastened and contrite Donald Trump (unlikely)? A messy and disputed election (O, please, God, no!)? What will not change is the groupthink at America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. Let’s wind the clock

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  • Obsession: How the Media Keep Us Ignorant

    Obsession: How the Media Keep Us Ignorant0

    Many people of all political persuasions, including myself, find much of the mainstream news opinionated and biased. Negative media coverage of President Trump, for example, ran as high as 99 percent in May. This slanted news does serious damage to our republic. It’s divisive, but it also causes ignorance. Two days ago, I met a

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  • Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent

    Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent0

    The U.S. economy grew by a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter of the year as employers continue to restore jobs and the country continues to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Department figure released Wednesday reflects the rate of decline in U.S. gross domestic product during the third quarter, from

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  • Will Black Americans Deliver Trump a Second Term?

    Will Black Americans Deliver Trump a Second Term?0

    Will black Americans not only reelect President Trump, but also write a new chapter of American political history? Yes, that’s quite a question – one of cosmos-bending proportions. And so are the figures undergirding that statement. According to Rasmussen, black Americans plan to vote for President Trump in larger numbers than in 2016. That’s not surprising. Yet,

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  • A Biden Supporter Explains Why Trump May Win

    A Biden Supporter Explains Why Trump May Win0

    I was in Washington DC this time four years ago – a week before the 2016 election. The mood was eerie, not in the least because of all the morbid Halloween decorations. With skeletons hanging from trees, carved pumpkins on porches and fake gravestones littering front yards, the suburban vistas felt strangely like a scene

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  • The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

    The Triumph of Justice Amy Coney Barrett0

    “There is a tendency in our profession,” Judge Amy Coney Barrett declared at the outset of her Senate confirmation hearing, “to treat the practice of law as all-consuming, while losing sight of everything else.” But, Barrett added in her Oct. 12 opening statement, “I never let the law define my identity or crowd out the

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