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by | Nov 12, 2022

Nashville was on the short list (with Milwaukee the alternative) to host the 2024 GOP convention, but our Democrat-besotted city council would have none of it and so turned its back on a financial windfall. A local PR firm dumped…

by | Oct 30, 2022

It can be said of the remarkable gumbo of New Orleans that not only is there no other city in America like it, there’s no other city in America even remotely like it. Something of the same can be justly…

by | Jun 5, 2022

I live across the street from a high school, and every weekend I get an earful of whatever music is popular among the young and reckless. For about a year, it was nothing (thank you, Gov. Northam), but ever since…

by | Mar 11, 2022

Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s talented sister, died Thursday morning at her home in Austin, Texas. A post on Willie’s Instagram said she “died peacefully and surrounded by family.” No cause of death was given, although she had been recently hospitalized….

by | Feb 11, 2021

The people who control American pop culture hate Americans. That sounds stupid, and of course it is, but it’s certainly true. Take, for example, country singer Morgan Wallen. And, while we’re at it, actress Gina Carano. In Wallen’s case, the…

by | Jan 19, 2021

News has just reached me, puzzling news indeed, that Garth Brooks will be performing Wednesday at Sleepy Joe Biden’s inauguration. Good thing I was sitting down when I read about this truly eccentric career move. If Garth is gathering Wednesday…

by | Dec 13, 2020

Country music fans (count me in) are mourning the loss of one of the great ones. Country Charley Pride lost his battle with COVID Saturday in Dallas. He was 86. Pride, who had a rich baritone country sound, enjoyed a…

by | Sep 24, 2019

Dwight Yoakam had me in tears Sunday night. I was watching the new Ken Burns PBS documentary series about the history of country music, and Yoakam quoted a Merle Haggard song, “Holding Things Together,” which is about a man trying…

by | Dec 7, 2018

In my last article I wrote on the need for climate change and diversity on American college and university campuses to counter and offset the truly “McCarthyite” suppression of ideas and opinions that now poison the contemporary American college and university experience. Inter alia, I also…

by | Dec 6, 2018

It must have been horrifically awful for homosexuals, as they then were known, in the 1950s. If their orientations or preferences were exposed, they were finished. Their jobs were over. Their marriages were over. Their very lives often were over….

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