December 8, 2018

The Vision Thing: A Past President's Achilles Heel

George H.W. Bush, the nation’s 41st President died last week, at age 94, the longest-lived in American history, although Jimmy Carter will break that record if he lives for another five months.  The mainstream media, most of whom treated B...

February 11, 2018

Missouri mainstream media desperate to ignore bad news

Last week, in between stories of a looming second government shutdown, continuing exchanges of accusations concerning Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, and the Nancy Pelosi DACA filibuster, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a once great America...

January 28, 2018

Violence, crime and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a formerly great American daily newspaper, darkly warned its readers that the greatest threat facing the USA in modern times is the grave danger of conservative white supremacists who” …seek out, h...

June 7, 2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist finds no more 'thoughtful' conservatives left

Last week, Leonard Pitts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning star columnist and op-ed writer at the venerable Miami Herald, penned a column that could be judged only as harsh and vitriolic, even by his own standards.  Those...

October 18, 2016

The Russians Are Coming...Back

Last week a story appeared, tucked in the back pages of American newspapers that are concentrating almost entirely on our leap year election ritual. Vladimir Putin, the Frank Gorshin-lookalike, former KGB agent, and current Russian dictator, once aga...