Everybody with any common sense whatsoever knows that there is nothing real about “reality television.” It may be unscripted, but that does not make it real in any reasonable meaning of that word. It is produced, staged, edited and packaged. …
Roll Call yesterday carried a story about a case SCOTUS is about to hear. The essence – “AT&T and Verizon have contested determinations by the FCC that they violated consumer privacy rules and owed $57 million and $47 million, respectively.…
We are in a post-Christian era, no doubt. But in recent years the church has moved from simply being viewed as irrelevant to being viewed as dangerous and has come under active attack. I wrote about it Tuesday and again yesterday. In both…
I find it impossible to make much sense out of things right now. The ceasefire is apparently based on the immediate opening of the Straits of Hormuz, but from what I can tell at the moment, they are not all that “open” at this juncture about 10…
In 1991, when I visited the Soviet Union (Yes, that Soviet Union – the bad guys) I ended up in a long discussion with water quality officials in what was then known as Leningrad, now St. Peterburg, on over-regulation. They talked of how they…
I became a regular, as opposed to occasional, listener of The Hugh Hewitt Show on 9-11. The host speaks with embarrassment of the job he did that day, but I searched all of media as events unfolded and he was the only one that 1) was willing to…
Palm Sunday – the beginning of Holy Week. We usually look at Holy Week with the end of it in mind and it all shines with the hope of salvation and resurrection. But suppose you were one of the people that laid palm fronds in Jesus’s path as He…
Yesterday we talked about failure as a teacher. In that post we linked to a study on how grade inflation is actually harming the life-time earning of students. This picture gets darker, however. San Francisco has, for the last twelve years,…
Salena Zito, yesterday, on HotAir, “It points to an even larger problem, not just on Capitol Hill but among reporters and civilians. Our relationship and understanding of our military, and military families, is broken.” What lies at the heart…
I am more or less retired. My investments are therefore meant to take care of me, not grow for my future. But it took a lot of years to get here and during those years I was truly investing in the future – like most everyone else in the world.…
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