Category Archives: Media

Antifa’s special brand of hate

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s progressive bona fides won’t be established until the downtown Nordstrom closes and is turned into a homeless shelter. By then he will realize that being progressive isn’t part of his job description. Nordstrom was one of the many downtown businesses – large and small – that closed Saturday because of a […]

America’s Sectarian Violence

In the seconds after the El Paso, Texas massacre was announced, how many Trump haters secretly rejoiced: Yes! Gun-loving Texans got a taste of their own politics! In a Walmart, no less! Then, reality: Oh, that’s a border town. A lot of Hispanics live there, especially immigrants who are here illegally. And Walmart – yes, […]

‘Whitey on the Moon’

Too bad Gil Scott-Heron didn’t live to see the 50th anniversary of humans landing on the moon. He could have revisited his angry song-poem from 1970 called “Whitey on the Moon,” where he seethes about all the money being spent on America’s space program, while black Americans are trapped in housing projects: A rat done […]

Shredding the Public Safety Net

Hell’s coming, but it isn’t coming for Oregon legislators. It’s coming for some unlucky, ordinary Oregonians who will encounter violence – courtesy of lawmakers who sided with criminals in the recently concluded legislative session. At least, we can still call them “criminals.” Among the laws passed this session in the Oregon legislature was one requiring […]

This is Not a Good Life

One of the most frightening episodes of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” was the tale of Anthony, a 6-year-old boy with mental powers that allowed him to read other people’s minds and act on them with his thoughts. Anthony could turn a cat into a rug. He could make a rat devour itself until it […]

Settling for Headline Justice

As a soldier in the #MeToo Army, Erica Naito-Campbell was not ready for battle. The granddaughter of a prominent Portland, Ore., developer, Naito-Campbell accused two black civic leaders of sexually assaulting her, detailed in a convincing news story that later led to felony charges. But after a one-week trial, Charles McGee and Aubre Dickson were […]

These White People Are Crazy

It’s one of the most common ways to try and get someone to relax and talk: You schmooze with them. Journalists do this all the time with people – especially persons who might be hostile. Even one of America’s most famous journalists – Mike Wallace of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” – was caught joking once […]

A Season of Hate and Prayer

The Salvation Army is praying for President Donald Trump. It isn’t working. “God is slow to answer sometimes,” explained Cheryl, who works in the Happy Valley, Ore., office of The Salvation Army. I usually send a check to The Salvation Army during the holiday season. On the back of the return form there is a […]

The Media Gaslight Themselves

A gunman kills 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, and journalists in Portland, Ore., turn against a newspaper columnist who dared to write something laudatory about an activist who supports Donald Trump. This progressive corner of America is becoming so irrational that the press – the one institution with constitutional protection to ask questions – […]

Portland in a Daze Over Protests

Blue wave or red wave – somebody’s headed for an ass-kicking in Portland, Ore. on Election Night. Will it be the dark-skinned black Jo Ann Hardesty, a community organizer who won’t be satisfied with police reform until a cop is killed? Or will it be the light-skinned black Loretta Smith, a county commissioner whose skin […]