Having the opportunity to write a weekly column, I was ready for the first four – a month in column time – without trepidation. Pursuing a weekly topic to write an 800-word essay after that was another story and something I would have to adjust to and quickly. My initial word limit inflation of 800, which had nothing in common with Bidenomics, was soon dropped to 700.
If you had told me that I would readily accept this column writing gig and be grateful for the opportunity while a university student, I would have thought you were loco. During my collegiate tenure, the question: “Where’s your drafts?” was always met with a tinge of disgust. For me, drafts came by way of faulty doors and poorly insulated windows. I was too much of a winger, a habit that was nearly impossible to break.
I preferred the radio newsroom writing model. It is where clear, concise, and correct copy was king. Provided you couldn’t tell the story in a brief four sentences, you needed to become a disc jockey ventriloquist.
Before the calendar adds another year to its eternal collection, there were a plethora of possible columns that due to time and space considerations never received the proper love. Employing the radio model pared down even more – here are a few commentaries that never got past the on-deck circle.
Placating Chinese President Xi Jinping will not change China’s goals or actions. The best defense for the West is to work together against China’s nonstop bullying. U.S. CEO’s applauding Xi recently in San Francisco is akin to the LGTBQ+ community supporting Hamas. If only the Biden Administration took China as seriously as abortion pills and transgender surgeries for minors, then Taiwan would have less to worry about.
Why does the world apply a special standard of conduct to Israel? The talk about a two-state Palestinian-Israel solution dates back decades, but what many fail to realize is the fact that the Palestinians already have two states: Michigan and New York.
As anti-Semitism metastasizes like an aggressive cancer across many college campuses, President Biden put Kamala Harris in charge of his “national strategy on Islamophobia.” So much of leadership is making the right call at the right time. Biden continues to amaze.
What do you think Walt Disney would say if he saw what his company now calls “family entertainment?”
The Texas Rangers who won their first World Series in the organization’s history were also the only Major League Baseball team that did not celebrate a “Gay Pride Night.”
Inflation is down slightly unless you possess this constant habit of buying and eating food.
The 2024 Big Ten schedule has USC’s first year in the conference traveling nearly 15,000 miles through the air with nary a peep from environmentalists from sea to shining sea.
Surveys reveal that those who support teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools don’t understand its principles. Too many believe CRT embraces the assumption of color blindness.
Does anyone believe Joe Biden, or anyone throughout his administration, wants this mumbling and shuffling octogenarian president debating any one at any time? Nike is rumored to be making a new line of clown shoes called Bozo Bidens.
Government spending still does not grow our economy, while American weakness does not lead to peace. Higher taxes still do not create prosperity for all, while the Federal government believes it is an expert on climate change when it can barely grasp the devastating effects of inflation. All the while, the feds are focused on purposely breeding turmoil to advance its power base.
According to Variety, a remake of the Wizard of Oz is in production. In today’s America if Dorothy were to encounter men with no brains, no heart, and no courage, she wouldn’t be in the city of Oz, but wandering the halls of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington D.C.
On Veterans Day we salute those who sacrificed to keep this country from turning into exactly what it is today. Recently on that bastion of leftist diatribes “The View,” Hillary Clinton warned that if Donald Trump is elected in 2024 it will end America as we know it.
If only that were true.
