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Friday afternoon National Review reported on a series of text messages between Jay Jones, the Democrats current nominee for Virginia attorney general, and his former state legislative colleague, Republican Carrie Coyner. In the text messages, sent just three years ago, Jones expressed a desire to see Todd Gilbert, at the time the Republican House Speaker in […]

I've been applying for some communications openings lately. I tend to emphasize my 15 years of experience in the news media when talking about how businesses (or public agencies like school districts) should respond when some controversy turns the public's and the news media's attention on them. This is something that went through my mind […]

It's tough to write this. When I first saw tweets about the attack on Charlie Kirk Wednesday afternoon, I was waiting for 5th period to start and students—mainly sophomores—to make their way into the classroom where I was substitute teaching. After taking roll, passing out worksheets and offering a few minutes of instruction into how […]

Tuesday Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino published a column that made an interesting claim. According to Cerabino, an effort to determine how much illegal immigration was costing Florida taxpayers in uncompensated care at hospitals in the state cost more to collect than it did to provide the care itself! “Governor DeSantis continues to put Floridians first […]

I could put up a post a day on fact-checker PolitiFact fact-checking poorly. Bryan White over at Politifactbias.com put up a post on their failure to properly fact-check an analogy just last week, and then compounded it by surprise consulting a bunch of partisan experts to validate their predictably lame ruling. But it's this fact-check last […]

It's taken me a while to digest what happened in southern Israel on October 7. I realize it's not really informative or productive to publish a blog post that consists of little more than outrage and expletives over what was the largest single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. In the days and weeks […]

One of the news media types I follow on Twitter/X published a link to a Gannett job posting for a job posting for a "Beyoncé Knowles-Carter Reporter." Talk about a headfirst dive into fluff and folly. I understand entertainment news and reporting is a thing, even if it isn't my thing, but a having a […]

About a decade ago, lawyer and National Review writer David French was someone I generally agreed with. He worked as a lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom and before that, the Jay Sekulow's ACLJ. But, like a lot of people on both the right and the left, it appears that he was broken by Donald Trump. […]

Earlier today, Reveal News' Andy Donahue tweeted out some screenshots promoting his organization's "The Weekly" newsletter. The case being argued at SCOTUS tomorrow is just as big a threat to our democracy — if not bigger — than election-denying candidates. Here’s the rundown from The Weekly @reveal newsletter: pic.twitter.com/yj3KUr2Kfc — Andy Donohue (@add) December 6, […]

In a midterm election where inflation over the past year has topped 8 percent, gasoline prices top $5/gallon in California and are nearly $4/gallon in most other states, well over half of those polled say the country is on the wrong track, and Joe Biden's job approval at just 42 percent, the Republican Party fell […]