How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...
Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...
The Irrational Fundamentalists Editor, There’s a subset of Christianity known as Christian fundamentalists where around 80% support a corrupt and criminal Republican administration. As long as this administration supports in some way the Christian fundamentalist agenda of anti-abortion, anti-homosexuality, anti-trans sexuality, and anti-same sex marriage, they will vote Republican and ignore the corruption. But why are they against most abortions and sometimes against all abortions? They invoke the sanctity of life and quote the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill,” yet, ...
The Orwellian 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Trump has created — the legal equivalent of twirling the combination lock on Fort Knox and driving off with gold bars — purports to be righting a wrong. The bogus (and badly written) "settlement agreement," which is laughable as there was no true ...
On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...
Celebrate Pride Month Dear editor, For the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and allies, the month of June includes remembrance of both tragedy and celebration. Among the many acts of violence committed against this community was the Pulse nightclub massacre on June 12, 2016, when a gunman opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring 58 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in a country that has experienced far too many such events. But June is also a time of celebration. In New York City on June 28, 1969, riots broke out after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn. Over the ...
