A True Mountain Poet by Jeemes Akers
“And I have walked the hollows hereIn the still and breathing nightAlong the creek bed roads and winding paths. I have heard the jewelled drip of dewOn dead leaf beds, […]
Worry About Climate Fearmongering, not Climate Change by Paul Driessen
No wonder children are experiencing more anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts America’s teenagers and young adults are experiencing a “troubling rise” in anxiety, depression, emergency room visits, suicidal thoughts and […]
The Electoral College Workaround That Isn’t by Michael Smith
The National Popular Vote Compact isn’t reform, it’s an obvious coordinated end-run around the Constitution that strips states, and their citizens, of their last real power. When Virginia’s chameleon governor, […]
What You Need To Know About Minneapolis by Paula T. Weiss
One of these is the Minnesota state flag. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
“The Antifan Girlfriend:” Five Years Later by Paula Weiss
Five years ago last month, I self-published The Antifan Girlfriend (TAG), a novel about a librarian whose life changes when she hands a book to an illegal reader in 2089. […]
Big Things in a Small Town by Jeff Workman
Into The Blue is about finding joy in simple pleasures. One of those pleasures is a small town. My wife and I have owned a camper van for several years. […]
The Virginia Way Is Dead by Paula T. Weiss
When I moved to Virginia from Minnesota in 1995, I was impressed by the calm surface of local politics. My new home, Northern Virginia, had moderate Republicans and Democrats representing […]
The Siren Song of the Jihadist: Mamdani and the New New York by Paula Weiss
Illustration is “Treacherous Attack by Saracens–Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis Royal” courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. The candidacy of Zohran Mamdani is an affront to the memory of every […]
Where Publishers Fear To Tread by Michael Jay Friedman
Moral panic, anyone? Back in the 1950s, Americans convinced themselves that comic books were subverting our nation’s youth. The Seduction of the Innocent, proclaimed a famed psychologist cited in Brown […]
The President Who Would Be a Grandmother a short story by Paula Weiss
How I got here, in the Oval Office, I do not really know. Sometimes I am afraid to be in this historic room, at this historic desk, feeling like an […]