My passion for professional baseball began when I was ten. In 1954, my parents signed me up with a Little League team at the U.S. Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The six teams in the league were named after major league teams back home in America. I ended up on the team named […]
Last week, I received an email from a friend. As a former U.S. Army intelligence officer during the Cold War, he carried out clandestine collection operations for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Germany, and later worked as an international war correspondent for the Associated Press. He’s served on numerous corporate boards and is a military […]
“I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” So tweeted virtue-signaling Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette, whose three-sentence message had one purpose: to help the political party she supports mainstream the absurd idea that white people should be ashamed of their skin color and, by extension, ashamed […]
Elvis Presley’s 1969 hit, “In the Ghetto” provides a prescient glimpse of what would later happen to generations of young black men who lived out their short lives on the mean streets of America’s urban ghettos. As his first big hit in more than eight years, “In the Ghetto” played a key role in resurrecting […]
Who cares about urban school children? Not Democrats and teachers unions. Why are America’s prisons filled with so many young black men? Are they inherently bad? Too shiftless to succeed? Too stupid to learn? Actually, none of the above. Most black men who do time were cheated out of a decent education by the inexcusably […]
Democrats and Republicans alike say they’re fully committed to seeing that every child receives a quality education. Bipartisan agreement notwithstanding, school children in urban America have gotten the short end of the learning stick for a long, long time. How can anyone defend the following statistics? In 2010-2011, public schools in the nation’s capitol spent$29,345 […]
A friend of mine who traveled China from the 1970s until recently described what the country was like 30 years ago: Its cities were sprawling, impoverished places with dirt roads and low-rise structures. With few automobiles in the country back then, the Chinese people got around mostly by rickshaws and bicycles. The country had only a […]
It’s next to impossible to turn on the TV and not see another story declaring with utmost certitude that President Trump is a racist. Is he? You decide: For 14 years, NBC made Trump host of its prime-time television series, “The Apprentice,” something the network would never have done had there been even a hint […]
Pandemics can temporarily set a free society on its heels; a cheerleading press can kill it for good. Trump told governors this morning they are on their own: “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with […]
During his farewell address from the Oval Office, Ronald Regan referred to the country he loved as “that shining city upon a hill … a magnet for all who must have freedom.” A century and a quarter earlier, Abraham Lincoln, on the verge of signing the Emancipation Proclamation, sent a letter to Congress in which […]
Yesterday, a protest was held in Aurora, Colorado demanding abolishment of (1) U.S. borders and (2) the Immigration & Customs Enforcement administration. Over the last three years, thousands of similar anti-ICE, anti-border demonstrations have been held across America, all of which have been supported by leading Democrats. Here is a link to a video posted by […]
Earlier this week in Atlanta, three minority males in their mid-teens were shot dead while attempting a violent armed robbers of a homeowner. This type of incident is why I bought AR-15s for my sons five years ago. Below is what I emailed to a Democrat friend who thinks no one has any business owning […]
After America being led for eight years by its first black president, here are a few headlines about the deplorable state of affairs in our inner cities near the end of Barack Obama’s second term: Only 7% in Detroit public schools proficient in reading 8th graders in DC finish dead last in science proficiency Black unemployment […]
When Kiara appeared in this 2014 video, she was a 30-year-old mother of four in Baltimore. An exceptionally attractive, well-spoken and intelligent young woman obviously capable of making a success of herself, Kiara, now 35, has been on welfare since she was 18. When asked in the video if she felt bad about not working, she […]
Dear Greta – Congratulations on making a carbon-free trip to New York. You are setting a great example for people who believe fossil fuel use is destroying the planet. While I fully support your right to protest, I hope you’ll allow me to explain why I’m skeptical of the cause you embrace. I’m not a […]