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December 6, 2022
Elon Musk’s Censored “Twitter Files” & Miranda Devine’s “Laptop from Hell”
I was getting ready to post today on Elon Musk’s release of damning emails regarding the Biden crime family. Then I read the column below by former Chicago Tribune colleague and columnist John Kass. John left the Tribune a little more than a year ago, the victim of “cancel culture” ...
December 4, 2022
Are American Voters Uninformed or Simply Stupid?
During the Obama administration, MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the chief architects of Obamacare, said the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of media transparency” were critical to the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Needless to say, Gruber’s comments ignited a firestorm of outrage. But ...
November 30, 2022
The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction: Part 3
During a recent “virtual book tour” with several book bloggers, I was asked what three lessons I learned while writing my Finding Billy Battles trilogy. It was a good question because it caused me to stop and think about the fiction-writing process in a way I never had before. Here ...
November 29, 2022
The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction: Part 2
When I was signing copies of my Finding Billy Battles trilogy at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books recently, I was asked several times how I conduct research when writing historical fiction. I explained that researching the Finding Billy Battles trilogy began with my memories. I grew up in Kansas ...
November 28, 2022
The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction: Part One
Those of us who write historical fiction are faced with a plethora of unique challenges. In fact, there are so many that it would be difficult to deal with all of them in one post. So I will break the challenges down into several parts, which I will share with ...
November 27, 2022
Journalism in Crisis: The War on Dissent
As those who follow my blog know, I spent most of my life as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor with the Chicago Tribune. After almost 30 years as a professional journalist, I entered academia as a professor of journalism and dean of the College of Media at the University ...
November 23, 2022
Celebrate Thanksgiving with a fact feast
I received this interesting little note from USAFacts and thought I would share it with my followers and subscribers. I found it interesting. I hope you will also. Today is Thanksgiving, and USAFacts has been busy cooking up dessert. The 7 days of pie buffet has returned for a wide-ranging, ...
November 21, 2022
Jogging With the Greatest
I posted the following piece a few days after the death of Muhammad Ali on June 3, 2016. When I was teaching journalism at the University of Illinois, I used to tell the story of how I went jogging with Ali on Chicago’s South Side in 1974. My students always ...
November 18, 2022
How Google Stopped the Red Wave
Today I am reposting a commentary that appeared in the Epoch Times. It is written by Robert Epstein, Ph.D., former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and currently a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. I hope you will check out Dr. Epstein’s observations. They are based ...
November 15, 2022
Joe Biden’s Curious Love Affair with China
Most Americans would prefer to think of China as a friendly nation with a different political and economic perspective of the world. That’s certainly how the current occupant of the White House sees China—at least, that is what he says publicly. Privately, he may have other reasons for viewing China ...
