Common Sense Corner

Back in the day, one of the more prominent members of New York City’s chattering class, film critic Paulene Kael, was at the famous Algonquin Hotel discussing the 1972 election,

Never heard of Karen Piper? She is a retired University of Missouri professor (the alma materof my 97-year old mother). While most (sane) Americans looked in shock at the horror

Facts are facts, and opinions are opinions. As the saying goes, people are entitled to their ownopinions, but not their facts. According to the numbers, the mainstream media is no

AI? It stands for artificial intelligence. Think of it as Google search on steroids. When you ask aquestion, these platforms, let by ChatGPT (a Microsoft product), instead of providing a

For many Americans—from a variety of backgrounds and racial-ethnic heritage—the recent coverage by the mainstream media (MSM) of two deaths involving violence seems to be far more about political agendas