July 25, 2024

The legend of bagging Vance

As the spool of the American political landscape continues to unravel weekly, keep in mind that you are at this epoch of history for good reasons. After Jill Biden...er, Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election, it raised the question: wa...

June 22, 2024

Showtime in Hotlanta

On Thursday, June 27, the political season kicks off in earnest.  The presidential debate that will occupy that evening certainly is unique in history.  Both candidates are presidents, one a former, the other holding the office....

June 14, 2024

Our D-Day

It was the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and the West’s leadership was on full display at the solemn observance in Normandy, France, but there wasn’t a Reagan or Thatcher to be found.  Those heroic veterans who survived the eight dec...

May 31, 2024

Doing right by Pennsylvania students

In his initial run for Pennsylvania governor, it was Josh Shapiro’s support of educational scholarships that helped get him the commonwealth’s top job in Harrisburg. Once the ballots declared Shapiro the winner, the new governor, whose ch...

May 26, 2024

Kicking back

On the field, middle linebacker Dick Butkus was one of the most intimidating players in NFL history, but it took a placekicker to become the most feared player off it.  Who knew that a modest commencement speech by Harrison Butker, the Kansas Ci...

March 31, 2024

It begins with Sunday

Crime, open borders, inflated prices, gender ideology, critical race theory, male athletes competing as women — the list goes on and on in these divided states of Biden.  According to one of Biden’s campaign commercials, all this suc...

March 8, 2024

Fasting from faith

Between the new year and Easter, you can count on two things: the Christian liturgical season of Lent and the Pew Research Center publishing its annual national religious poll.  For the legion of political junkies, there can never be too ma...

March 1, 2024

A new movie about a generational heroine

When Hollywood produces a film about Italian-Americans, it usually is of a certain vintage, and the purveyors of such art are usually their descendants.  In a change of pace, enter the talented duo of director Alejandro Monteverde and scree...

February 16, 2024

Midtown money grab

It is hard to argue with the month of June with school letting out, the summer solstice, and baseball in full swing. Then there are those daily bus trips to New York City that Flyover Pennsylvanians enjoy. What’s not to like as you wander ar...

February 9, 2024

Is AM radio obsolete?

Every sequence of time has its golden epoch. For radio, more specifically on the AM side of the dial, its half-century run from its advent at KDKA in Pittsburgh in the 1920s to the late 1970s. AM was king -- the internet of its era. My AM salad da...

January 26, 2024

Giving Peacock the bird

As the NFL bread and circuses brigade marches blindly toward Super Bowl Sunday, the league finally tipped its hand when it streamed one of its wildcard playoff games between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins.  Perhaps you were o...

January 19, 2024

Still standing in Wokesylvania

The woke mob’s list of statue teardowns is historically unprecedented in American society: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Columbus, and Theodore Roosevelt among others.  Destruction of religious statues, especially out...

January 12, 2024

The Supreme Court tackles taxation

Moore v. U.S. will decide if the federal government can tax unrealized capital gains not yet received under the 16th Amendment. The justices agreed to hear the Moores’ appeal as the couple wanted their $14,729 refund that the Ninth U.S. Circuit...

December 29, 2023

2023 Rearview Awards

As the days begin to lengthen and 2023 is one for the history books, the time for the annual Rearview Awards is upon us.  Books of the year: Drew Thomas Allen’s: America’s Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 20...

December 22, 2023

The plight of the Christmas card

The horde of cards was as commonplace as ornaments and lights on the Christmas tree.  They would arrive daily (except on Sunday) at a half-dozen a clip.  Initially, it started as a trickle but once the calendar sank deeper into De...

December 16, 2023

Buyout sweepstakes

Nationwide politics consists of two dynamics: Left vs. Right.  Fundamental issues?  Forget it. Rather, what are your preferred pronouns and desired bathroom, and most especially, who should be playing for college football’s national c...

November 24, 2023

Your pro-abortion friends in Pennsylvania

As Ohio was celebrating the enshrinement of abortion into its state constitution, Pennsylvania’s state Legislature went about trying to create its own abortion haven.  The difference was that at the state house in Harrisburg, their vo...

November 17, 2023

Barbarian buckeyes

There she stood, proudly sporting a high and tight haircut with a dyed dollop of blue on top to match the surgical mask she was wearing while celebrating Ohio’s election victory that enshrined abortion into their state constitution.  The t...

November 3, 2023

The Hamas needle in the US heartland haystack

We had a respite — well, at least it seemed that way, as terrorism’s many concerns took a back seat to the ongoing invasion of our southern border, Ukraine, and Bidenomics, among a surfeit of other issues.  Then it surfaced agai...

October 13, 2023

A swampy mess in Vatican City

While addressing a South American youth gathering in 2015, Pope Francis defined his pontificate when he told them to go out and “make a mess.” And a mess is what he has emanating from the Vatican. Enter the Synod on Synodality, where b...

October 5, 2023

Golden pyramids

With $480,000 in cash lined into jacket pockets and a closet safe holding 13 gold bars with a Mercedes convertible parked in his garage, such an individual in mob circles would be known as “a good earner.”  As it turns out, he is no ...

September 29, 2023

Unsuited for the Senate

For over two centuries, the United States Senate had the reputation as the “world’s greatest deliberative body” where formal dress within the upper chamber was the protocol. This changed when Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chu...

September 22, 2023

A symphony of crickets

It was a symphony of crickets throughout the media after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Missouri v. Biden regarding collusion against free speech. The landmark decision was treated like a Biden address when the teleprompter malfunctions ...

September 14, 2023

The media should apologize to the Catholic Church...but won't

When the news percolated, it was nothing short of a Category Five media hurricane.  It was over two years ago that the Canadian government declared that thousands of indigenous children were buried in unmarked "mass graves" at res...

September 7, 2023

The shot seen round the world

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much does that infamous mugshot of Donald Trump rate?  Taking advantage of what Trump believed an opportunity, he posted the photo to the social media platform X after its release. The numbers back ...

August 31, 2023

Learning about the Constitution

During Joanne Stehr's rookie campaign last autumn for state representative from Pennsylvania's 107th District, one request by her ensuing constituents stood out. "People requested a class on the Constitution," said the first-term...

August 24, 2023

The Gekko-ization of college sports

When Penn State commenced play in the Big Ten in 1993, it was the first year I joined the media proletariat in covering the team's gridiron exploits.  They finished 6-2 in conference play while their nonconference games were against Mar...

August 19, 2023

An end to twenty years of biking to work

After 4,230 trips cranking it out on two wheels over a 22-year ride to the daily grind that concluded Friday, there were some lingering considerations that needed to be pumped up and aired out. The bicycle we know today has been around since the G...

August 17, 2023

Religious persecution in a first-world country

In February, an FBI whistleblower from their Richmond, Virginia field office leaked a report about spying on "radical-traditionalist Catholics," labeling them as "potential domestic terrorists." FBI director Christopher Wray cl...

August 2, 2023

'Bidenomics,' or doing your economy from the basement

Each year, nearly 1,000 words are added to the English lexicon, according to Atkins Bookshelf and others.  Some are portmanteaus, which blend the sounds and meanings of two separate words. The portmanteau of the moment and for leftists i...

July 27, 2023

Who's upset about the Hollywood strike?

Maybe you noticed that for the first time in 63 years, both the writers and actors' unions are striking together.  With TMC, Netflix, and the summer weather, perhaps not. Most of us minions have other pressing concerns like paying ou...

July 21, 2023

On the educational plantation

Ever since Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro put the kibosh on his campaign promise that would have assisted students shackled in poorly performing public schools with $100 million in Lifeline scholarships, plenty of ink has been spilled arguing his...

June 28, 2023

OceanGate Jeopardy

Every now and then, whether by design or not, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle covers a story like no other — a figurative dam break of reporting. Enter OceanGate's ill-fated submersible: Titan. YouTube screen grab (cropped). When...

June 16, 2023

Canadian smoke signals: It ain't 'climate change'

Canada is our chief trading partner and without fail their leading import in 2023 will be that smokey haze that descended upon a chunk of the nation like a three-day fog thanks to colossal forest fires. It was a perspective event underscoring that de...

June 1, 2023

You can't spell 'blasphemy' without LA

The Los Angeles Dodgers are making plenty of news, none of which is for their play on the baseball diamond.  Rather, the Dodgers have sold their souls to the whims of the woke.  Headlines resulted after the Dodgers announced they ...

May 25, 2023

COVID response still causing chaos at Arlington Cemetery

On January 24, 2022, less than a month after Robert "Jazz" Jasinski celebrated his 60th birthday, his six-decade run on this third post from the sun came to an abrupt and unexpected close.  It would not be until May 23, 2023 that ...