Predictions that “rural America is on the rebound” have been just as common in Republican circles as Democratic confidence that big cities are the future of America. The cloudiness of both parties’ crystal balls should be a caution on the hazards of predicting America’s political future. However, a recent article…

What’s happened with our Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and Ukraine? A year ago, he was saying “the most important thing we can do” was to arm the Ukrainians resisting Russian attacks. Today, he’s saying this: “The truth is that Joe Biden, and, let’s face it, congressional Republicans, have spent over…

The Chinese so-called “weather balloon,” for better or for worse, after crossing American airspace from Alaska to the Atlantic, has exposed serious limits on the ability of the United States to intercept or even detect foreign surveillance activities on American soil, or in this case, above it. We’ve now seen…

The attempts to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are over, but it’s worth noting that both of the senators who will represent Missouri next year, incumbent Senator Josh Hawley and Senator-elect Eric Schmitt, wanted to remove him as head of the Republicans in the Senate. It’s no secret that…

The Commission for Social Justice of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America sent me an announcement last week of the successful fight in court against a decision by the city of Philadelphia to enclose an 1876 statue of Christopher Columbus on Marconi Plaza in a plywood box…

What would happen if a conservative media outlet reported on the sexual assault years ago of an African-American woman who is now running for Congress after she pleaded, repeatedly, that the outlet not do that? I think we all know the answer. That media outlet would be blasted for re-victimizing…

Sick of “woke” politics? Take a stand for Columbus Day by sharing this meme from the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America, and consider making a donation to the Commission for Social Justice of the OSIA. #PreserveColumbusDay Too many Americans don’t know their history because they were never…

Some comments are in order on the Italian elections a few days ago which will probably lead to Giorgia Meloni becoming the head of the Italian government. The election this past weekend was the most recent in a wave of recent European elections in which hard-right conservative parties made surprising…

Nearly all obituaries I run at the Pulaski County Daily News come from funeral homes. There are reasons for that, and a recent obituary in The Florida Times-Union in which an adult son attacked his father for being, among other things, “narcissistic” and an “abusive alcoholic” whose death proves that…