Popular culture reflects American moods and values. Sometimes it precedes changes in public opinion and, in many ways, helps shape it. In the late 1960s, a wave of lawlessness and crime swept the nation. The […]
President Joe Biden gave a “Soul of the Nation” speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia the Thursday night before Labor Day. Biden might as well have called it his “soul-less” speech and delivered […]
Ronald Reagan would charitably say of Democrats: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” It is actually much worse. Modern Democrats […]
On Oct. 12, 1993, CBS “On The Road” host and UNC alum, Charles Kuralt delivered a fawning paean to the liberalism of UNC-Chapel Hill on its 200th anniversary. Many UNC leaders and alums view Chapel […]
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover investigated John Lennon of the Beatles for being a subversive element to the United States. Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson worried Lennon would hurt LBJ’s reelection chances in 1968. […]
We took our grandson to Krispy Kreme the other morning for the requisite grandparent bonding. He wanted a yellow one; a plain one and a chocolate one so we figured we could get a half-dozen […]
A lot is being made of top PGA golfers jumping to the LIV Tour for monumental amounts of money. It brings to mind conflicting thoughts: 1) Shouldn’t any American be free to make as money […]
University presidents may not realize it yet but the debate about the realignment of college football conferences will force them have to deal with a question none of them wants to answer ― is a […]
Thomas Paine wrote in The American Crisis: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to […]
There is hardly anyone in America who is a true dyed-in-the-wool socialist. They may talk as if they believe America would be better off if it became socialist but very few actually act out their […]
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