The Great Academic/Sports Double Standard
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes And why Pawan Dhingra has it wrong about extracurricular learning. Starting in elementary school and continuing through high school, aspiring athletes are encouraged by parents, coaches, and society at large to spend considerable hours training and practicing outside of the school day and off-campus, oftentimes at the additional cost of […]
China’s Xenophobic Plan to Shut Out the World
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes On August 11, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and the central government’s State Council issued what the official Xinhua News Agency called “an outline on promoting the building of a rule of law government from 2021 to 2025, on the basis of the successful implementation of a previous 5-year […]
Can Anyone Be Trusted About Global Warming?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Certainly not large numbers of greens, politicians, climate bureaucrats, economists, elites in business and Hollywood, and left/right reporters and commentators. A few decades ago, I headed an influential environmental group in the competitive media centers of New York City and northern New Jersey. To establish trust with the press, the […]
Biden Ruins America’s Most Important Relationship — India
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes President Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has ruined, perhaps for decades, America’s most important bilateral relationship of this era. New Delhi was one of the staunchest supporters of the American-backed Afghan government and was working alongside Washington in the war against the Taliban and other insurgents. For instance, Indian intelligence […]
Essential Marxist Reading for Liberals and Conservatives
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes A review and overview of The Cult of Smart, by Fredrik deBoer, All Points Books, 276 pages. Fredrik deBoer is the author of The Cult of Smart, a book that unwittingly explains the sharp left turn of the Democrat Party and a growing number of young Americans. It also shows […]
Tucson v. Arlington on Immigration and Amazon
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Musings and questions from a left-wing socialist who is also a right-wing supremacist. Americans are so divided on immigration and other issues that one risks being typecast as either a left-wing socialist or a right-wing supremacist for daring to send something around that one side or the other dislikes. Given that […]
Tucson Keeps Missing the Bigger Picture
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes That’s especially so on immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage. The Tucson establishment often misses the bigger picture in the pursuit of transitory feel-good measures. Take the subjects of immigration, Amazon, and the minimum wage—subjects that I don’t have ideological or partisan heartburn over but do care that Tucson is […]
A Reflection on Indigenous Peoples Day
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a much better name for the day, one that captures the true spirit of today’s America October 11 was Indigenous Peoples Day. It used to be called Columbus Day before it became woke. Unlike some of my fellow Italians, I don’t have heartburn over the demise of Columbus Day. […]
Student Loan Indebtedness and Social Justice
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: It should be remembered that the federalization of the student loan programs in the United States was accomplished by a Senate amendment to Obamacare late on Christmas Eve in 2009 when the Senate had a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority (58 Ds and 2 Independents) and voted Obamacare into existence. The […]
Anything To Get Trump Syndrome Has Consequences
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes As the reader likely knows, there was an assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump while campaigning in Western Pennsylvania. It is typical of such events that initial news stories must be modified so we don’t have the full truth yet, and possibly, we never will. The […]