Talk about a blow to the solar plexus. Straight to the heart of the matter. Joe Biden set his feet and aimed at his opponent’s 42-inch mid-section. “We are living in the era of a second lost cause,” Biden said in one of the most powerful speeches in memory.
Only one poll mattered in 2023: by John Young
For one who labored decades in the land of ink stains and deadlines, the dying days of December are a good time not to be there. Not because of the industry’s struggles or the issues of the day. It’s because of the annual waste of space on the “Top Stories of (insert year).”
All hat, no medical credentials: by John Young
Fiction has led legislatures to create inhumane and dangerous policies like those that forced a brave Texas woman to appear before a judge for permission then have to rush to another state to have a medically necessary abortion.
Trump’s denials sound like admissions: By John Young
Trump’s denials sound like admissions.
He billows nonsense like an uncapped geyser. He launches white lies like a legion of snowblowers. When it comes to shamelessness, Donald Trump is a warp-speed, high-velocity offender. Who can keep up?
Don’t allow apathy to prevail in 2024, by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. The disbelief in the room was audible. I had just informed students in my college mass media class that – yes – a felon could be president. A multiple felon. A sentence-serving felon, as long as the felon is 35 and a citizen. Check your Constitution. Check […]
Eye for eye, extremism for extremism, by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. Until through our consumptive excess we no longer fit into Earth’s plans, religion will reign as the most destructive force on the planet. So much suffering: so many moral precepts stamped by – and corrupted by — mortals. Consider the war raging in which many more will […]
Split screen: the statesman and the mob boss, by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. The day Joe Biden made an arduous and risky flight to Israel, I rubbed my eyes to read the account of another president’s mission to a remote land. This one was to North Dakota. Enroute to a campaign rally in Fargo, N.D., then-President Donald Trump had the […]
Court-adjudicated as baloney by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. From the unearthly tint of his reverse mullet to his cowhide smile. From his claim of obscene wealth – “I’ll finance my own campaign” — to the countless followers he conned out of countless dollars to “Stop the steal.” From a phony foundation to a fraudulent “university.” […]
Don’t go making God your foil: by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. I’ve never felt sufficiently schooled to ascribe to a higher being that which lower beings do, or fail to. Occasionally, however, an event screams out, “Attention: Message from God.” Such is the Sept. 10 flood that erased from this earth much of the Libyan city of Derna […]
Another big GOP lie: ‘Economy’s a wreck’ : by John Young
Click on the video to activate live chat. The only useful thing to deduce from polls more than a year away from the next presidential election is this from Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin: “We have a deficit of accurate, reliable information in the electorate.” She’s right. A ghastly chunk of today’s voters simply don’t […]
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