Thursday, December 25, 2025

Mistakes in the news are not fake news

And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.

Setting the historical record straight for the critics of the New York Times project...

Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619...

The Values of Failing

“I do think that failure is a valuable part of life. We learn from it, benefit from it, and sometimes, have to reconcile ourselves to it.”

Ants at a pandemic picnic

Now, we see cities throughout Amerika with bars and restaurants open, and millions of us mingling face to face, beer to beer, with no masks.

What can we do to start civilizing our richest?

Worldwide, ever more of us are realizing we need a ceiling on what our greediest can grab.

Not exceptional. It’s strange.

Here are examples where America is different from other countries...

TV news and its long dark night of the soul

Tunnel vision and faulty polls blinded television to what was happening during the election. But that’s not all.

Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina

In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?

Fox News host: “Police brutality was exaggerated”

Greg Gutfeld: “Police brutality was exaggerated. I believe it's exaggerated...”

Arizona teacher who spent $2,000 of her $31,000 salary on school supplies speaks out...

Zoe Hyde: "I had to get markers, crayons, pencils, tissues. All those supplies that you think are part of the education environment, I had to buy myself."