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…

I haven’t written much for many years about Eric Greitens, the former Missouri governor who was forced out of office and is now running for the US Senate. Now that people far outside Missouri are blaming our state for harboring people who think like him and post online videos promoting…

When the history of President Joe Biden’s administration is written, one key factor will be how a president who billed himself as a traditional blue collar Democrat managed to alienate the single most important example of traditional blue collar Democrats in the United States Senate. The attached article from the…

Liberal policies on “defunding the police” and “ending the prison pipeline” via “decarceration” may sound good to liberal voters in wealthy suburbs that don’t suffer from serious crime, but in major urban areas all over America — including a key center for America’s liberalism, San Francisco — liberal voters who…

If you’re going to belong to an organization, you need to support its purposes and follow its rules. That shouldn’t be difficult to understand, and in the secular world, it’s not. Who would think it makes any sense for a person strongly opposed to environmental issues to join the Sierra…