Jerry and Judy Horton, in 2017 (Jay Nordlinger) I have a couple of links to throw at you: to a Q&A and a Music for a While. The Q&A is with John U. Bacon, the veteran journalist and book-author. We are old friends and classmates, from Ann Arbor, Mich. He became the coach of our high-school

I have to admit I haven’t followed the Gabby Petito story. There always seems to be a story that captivates the country for a period of time, thanks to the media choosing to cover it rigorously, and this felt like another one that the gatekeepers of the mainstream media felt deserved 24/7 coverage. Of course,

Well, congratulations Politico! It only took you nearly a year to finally recognize the validity of a major news story that most other media outlets already admitted was valid. The story in question was the October 2020 scoop by the New York Post about emails and other scandalous material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Not

The construction industry is struggling to recover from the pandemic due to difficulties hiring workers and severe supply chain shortfalls, a report found. Construction contractors project revenue to remain stagnant and below pre-pandemic levels over the next 12 months even as the economy-wide recovery continues, according to the report published Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber

Jose Espinoza, 27, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Vaccine mandates are a fraught subject at the intersection of the twin conservative values of public order and private liberty. They are complicated by the fact that there is more than one kind of mandate.

It must be white guilt week for network television shows as the fall season gets underway. Even in the world of superheroes, the white characters are taken to task for not being woke enough for their black counterparts. The struggle is real. In the episode of The CW’s Supergirl titled “Blind Spots,” which aired on

Another set of bombshell documents has dropped related to EcoHealth Alliance and the research it intended to do in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In a grant proposal for EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak requested more than $14 million from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue

An American flag on canvas with additional surface and depth enhances the artwork. Organize the American flag on canvas to ensure that beautiful artwork is everywhere in your home, but displaying it most effectively may be in the living room or hallway so everyone can see it. Become a great artist with your memories. An

A meteor streaks past stars above Leeberg hill during the Perseid meteor shower in Grossmugl, Austria, August 10, 2018. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters) A new paper in Nature collects the scientific and archaeological evidence of a massive meteor explosion in the atmosphere, destroying an entire city in around 1,650 B.C.; the authors speculate that this may match the

Four star generals and the process of their promotion, then and now, are worlds apart. On September 1, 1939, Brigadier George C. Marshall took the oath of office as the 15th U.S. Army chief of staff, a post he held until November 1945. When the ceremony ended, General Marshall confided to his aide de camp,

Senators met today for a bipartisan session of beating up Big Tech firms for a multitude of controversies — especially the mistreatment of teens. Republicans and Democrats agreed in a rare show of bipartisanship that social media has hidden its harmful side effects much like Big Tobacco.  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) scorched Facebook and Instagram’s

Americans are misinformed about the risks of COVID. That’s a fact. Earlier this year, a Franklin Templeton/Gallup study found that when people were asked what “percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized,” more than a third, 35 percent, said the risk was 50 percent. It’s actually somewhere between

Parents across the U.S. have spoken out against ideology and curricula they don’t agree with, often in viral moments caught on video criticizing school boards’ decisions on masks, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, reopening and critical race theory. “When something happens where people feel like they can no longer control what’s going on in their schools, they

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press briefing at the White House, March 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in congressional testimony on Tuesday that “approximately three percent” of the 60,000 Afghan evacuees already brought to the United States “have been individuals who are in

Back when things were more innocent, before people were justifying violence against anti-BLM shopkeepers and before our government was kicking people out of jobs for choosing not to take a COVID shot, there was a debate on whether the character of James Bond should become a woman. Ah those were simpler times, weren’t they? Well

Just in case you think that things can’t get worse and then they do, here’s the story of why the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) will soon ration sales of popular brands of liquor. Thanks to unnecessary and damaging COVID lockdown restrictions affecting global supply chains, starting this week PLCB will ration sales of certain

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that its second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine increases protection by 94% after two months of receiving the initial shot. The Phase 3 study found that Johnson & Johnson’s two-month booster shot gives 100% protection against severe cases of COVID-19, and 94% against moderate symptomatic cases in the U.S., according

Democrats have finally found some spending that they can oppose: NEW: A little bit of drama with the Dem passage of the CR/ Debt ceiling in the House. A group of progressives have told leadership they will not vote for the bill if it includes $1b in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. The flap has

Fresh off an unfunny stint hosting the Emmy Awards on CBS, Cedric the Entertainer premiered a new season of his show The Neighborhood on Monday, September 20, and it was another embarrassing stroll down white guilt lane. In the episode, “Welcome to the Family,” Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and his white neighbor Dave (Max Greenfield) discover they are distant

We often lament the seemingly rapid passage of time, especially as we get older. Our kids grow up too fast. Vacations are over too quickly. All the good stuff is a blur. via GIPHY Joe Biden’s kinda/sorta presidency is not flying by, however. I am writing this on September 20, 2021, a mere seven months

President Joe Biden’s executive action requiring most U.S. workers to get vaccinated hurts working class Americans the most, according to polling and vaccination data. “Unfortunately, this disproportionately harms people of lower socioeconomic groups,” Jeffrey Singer, a health policy expert at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation when asked about Biden’s vaccine mandate.

[embedded content] General H. R. McMaster and military historian Victor Davis Hanson are both senior fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In this frank, no-holds-barred conversation, they discuss the United States’ mission in Afghanistan: how it began, how it was conducted, and its ignominious end. McMaster and Hanson debate what worked and what

A person watching a video of General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander, as he speaks during a news briefing from the Pentagon on August 30, 2021. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) Before Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, confirmed on Friday that an Aug. 29 drone

Parroting the Biden White House’s use of “horrific” to describe the images coming out of Del Rio, Texas Monday, ABC and CBS drew viewers’ attention to the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. But no, they weren’t talking about the nearly 15,000 Haitian illegals living under the international bridge in squalid conditions. They were spreading misinformation

Joe Biden’s approval ratings, which have trended downward for the entirety of his presidency, have tanked in the past month. The biggest influence on his poll numbers in recent weeks has been his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan—which has prompted calls for his resignation and impeachment. Investigations are ongoing, yet after an initial sharp decline, Biden’s

Hundreds of people are attempting to get back money and valuables seized by the FBI after it raided deposit boxes they rented, the Los Angeles Times reported. “It was a complete violation of my privacy,” Joseph Ruiz, an unemployed chef and one of 66 box holders who have filed court claims saying the seizure was

Nikole Hannah-Jones interviewed on CBS This Morning, July 17, 2021. (CBS This Morning/via YouTube) Sean Wilentz is a proud liberal and sometimes a hard-edged Democratic partisan. But he is also a distinguished Princeton University historian whose academic work is broadly respected across the political spectrum. That has not stopped some progressives from attacking his work

If a Biden blunder is too big to ignore completely, the liberal media will do the next best thing: move on as quickly as possible. On Friday afternoon, the Pentagon conceded a horrific addition to the President’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan as an August 29th drone strike that was touted as killing ISIS terrorists actually

Pfizer has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and generates a “robust” antibody response in children aged 5-11. This announcement comes days after a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel rejected its COVID-19 booster for people 16 and older, citing increased risk of heart inflammation (myocarditis) for young males linked to the vaccine. “The

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