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College admission tests make much-needed return

Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores. Even if the test isn’t racist today, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT tutoring. My new video shows anti-SAT ads from activist groups like FairTest that said, “Real learning is not standardized, so why judge children just by test scores?” During Woke I, FairTest won. Most colleges stopped ...

Thirst for fame can prove deadly

The tragic deaths of Hayden Panettiere and Jason Arday can be tied to the same phenomenon. It’s not new but has accelerated in today’s influencer culture: youth’s hunger for fame. Panettiere was an accomplished actress who, buried in depression and addiction, died from an apparent drug overdose at 36. Arday was a serial fabulist who talked his way into becoming the youngest black professor at Cambridge University. When his fabrications came crashing down around him, he took his own life. “Fame is the thirst of youth,” the poet Byron wrote over two centuries ago. He asked ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To leaders and staff of the Niles-based Cafaro Company for having their expansive Eastwood Mall Complex ranked as one of the “Top 10 Retail Center Experiences” in the United States. Chain Store Age, a national magazine, released its new rankings last week, placing Eastwood at No. 7. From its beginnings in the late 1960s, the complex has grown to cover 3 million square feet with more than 200 businesses today. In so doing, it has wildly bucked trends toward downsizing and even demolition of enclosed shopping centers. Clearly leaders of Cafaro, the largest privately-owned ...

For the love of God, don’t allow children access to your guns

No parent in his or her right mind would allow a child to play with a chainsaw or a blowtorch. Even the thought of allowing children access to dangerous tools like those or others is ridiculous. But some parents and guardians of young children continue to leave guns within easy access of those they are supposed to protect. We read about the bloody results of that carelessness or indifference or watch it on TV all too often. On Aug. 15, 2025 — almost exactly one year ago — a 3-year-old boy in Struthers died when he got his hands on an unsecured handgun and accidentally shot ...

Why can’t we fix the oil problem?

“We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can’t do if we do it together.”- President Joe Biden I am not in the habit of favorably quoting the former president, but he was right when he said this. Why, then, are we still beholden to Iran and Saudi Arabia for so much of our oil needs? A Wall Street Journal headline says: “Gulf States are Resigned To Iran Control of Strait (of Hormuz).” Must we also be resigned to an unending dependence on Middle East oil? Presidents since Jimmy Carter have said we must overcome that dependence and loosen their grip on our ...

Mainstream Dems taking back the wheel?

You couldn’t find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. “Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have made her up. Hong lost the Democratic primary but left behind some sobering thoughts. She finished second by only a hair and against a sterling Democrat with relevant experience. The winner, David Crowley, is the Milwaukee County executive and an African American born into poverty. Crowley will face off against ...