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Dave Portnoy said he “smelled a rat.” Portnoy, the head of Barstool Sports, had been approached by a writer at the left-wing website Slate who wanted to write a piece about him. Despite the writer being “very complimentary,” Portnoy knew what was up.

Rolling Stone magazine is a joke. Its editorial slant is always far Left, and it has been busted more than once for unethical reporting.

Donald J. Matthews, a remarkable man of integrity, generosity, and unwavering faith, died peacefully on June 5th, at the age of 89, in Thousand Oaks, CA.

After the fall of affirmative action, liberals and conservatives want to eliminate benefits for children of alumni. Could their logic lead to reparations?

I recently saw two films back to back that both reveal how America has gone from a country of confidence, common sense, and humor to one of bitterness, academic theory, and resentment.

 

On Saturday, Aug. 5, voters in Fenwick Island will go to the polls to choose between eight candidates to fill four seats on the town council. The candidates are Janice

Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”

In the great film Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin has an epic scene in which he tries to motivate a group of salesmen. People “are sitting out there waiting to give you their money,” Baldwin says. “Are you willing to take it? Are you man enough to take it?”

Rich Cohen may have been right. Writing in Vanity Fair in 2017, Cohen announced that “Generation X might be our last, best hope.” Sandwiched between the crazy liberal boomers and the insane social justice warriors of the millennials and Generation Z, Generation X, those born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, may offer the realism and humility required to lead America through its current storms.