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March 8, 2025
‘People used to care about each other’In the Bloomfield section of Pittsburgh, pockets of old-timers inform those who will listen, running businesses and reflecting several generations of living in our Little Italy. Bloomfield Groceria is one of those businesses, run by 75-year-old Ri...
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February 22, 2025
The world is too much with us“The world is too much with us; late and soon Getting and spending… We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” – William Wordsworth It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than f...
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February 11, 2025
I was a serf for the CFPBI was the federal government’s unpaid serf; I once serfed as an unpaid contractor for, of all places, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Naturally, they ripped me off! Thankfully, The Donald recently shuttered the in...
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January 30, 2025
Going Plainfolk Native: The Amish, Mennonites and other traditionalists might teach us a lotTo save our culture, maybe we all need to go a bit native—Plain Folks Native. As an adolescent, after attending a Camps Farthest Out (CFO) family Christian camp at Messiah College with my family, I stayed with family friends made at the evan...
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January 19, 2025
Hal Lindsey Was Right: The End Is NearHal Lindsey’s recent death resulted in little mention from the conservative press; perhaps it’s an indication of how he’s regarded in conservative circles and if so, it’s a shame. I think the guy who in the early 1970s pred...
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January 12, 2025
Claiming the good in your townI’ve complained a lot in this space about the Steel City, but I haven’t said enough about the stuff I like here in my hometown, where I was born. I’m sure some folks wonder why I won’t give old Pittsburgh a break and say so...
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January 6, 2025
Don’t call me YinzerWe’ve turned our towns into tourist traps, and made ourselves into court jesters, all for money and vanity. I’m from Pittsburgh and have lived here my entire life, but I’m not a “yinzer.” It’s funny, because man...
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December 23, 2024
Bring back our ‘Mounties’Bring back Pittsburgh’s Mounties, you big dummies who call yourselves “leaders” in Pittsburgh! Your cost-cutting measures are a bunch of horses***. In addition to approving a 2025 budget that slashes the already undermanned Pitts...
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December 20, 2024
Should historic infrastructure blueprints be for sale?I have opined here at American Thinker that probably the best thing that could happen to U.S. Steel would be a takeover by the more successfully run Nippon. I stand by that view, but wonder if we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater in such ...
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December 18, 2024
Make America bountiful againThis past summer I ran into a cement contracting crew doing work in my part of town, men I knew from working with them as a young man decades ago. The entire crew of workers were American, in an industry in which at least 35–50% or more of work...
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December 16, 2024
Blue city blues in the Land of Wink and NodVisitors to the tourist trap formerly called Steel City should know what happens in Pittsburgh not only stays here, but may not have happened at all, legally speaking. That is, offenses intentionally not prosecuted—though illegal—will ...
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December 12, 2024
Courage inspires courageAfter spending most of the previous three decades as a freelancer for various legacy media and business publications, about three years back I began writing for a “conservative” publication, with the first of many personal essays pu...
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December 1, 2024
Rusted RootsDuring the presidential race, both sides declared opposition to a pending sale of legacy steelmaker U.S. Steel to Japan-based Nippon. The United Steelworkers and Rust Belt politicians on both sides of the aisle have pre-cast Nay votes on the would-be...
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January 17, 2024
Smelly Kelly at KiskiRecently my alma mater announced it’s going coed. Being the oldest of few surviving all-boys boarding schools, with its teachers catechized in “intersectionality” for the arrival of girls, it seems the Kiski we knew is gone. Perh...
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December 20, 2022
Help vaccine-injured folks, and help yourself at the same timeMaybe you've read of the often life-threatening plight of Americans who've been injured by COVID-19 vaccines, and you want to help. Please start by giving generously to React19, an organization that represents more than 20,000 COVI...
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December 4, 2022
I'm sick and tired of video-chattingI trust my toaster, but I don't take orders from it. Nor do I let my microwave micromanage my affairs. My TV's bossy, constantly telling me to vax and mask and I'll be saved, but I ignore it. I have an OK face but...
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September 20, 2022
Vax-injured advocates meeting with FedsA group of advocates for people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday through Wednesday of this week to discuss the scope of the problem and the need for compensation for vax-injured people ...
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September 16, 2022
For Pittsburgh Steelers fans, the feeling is fadingWe're eking by in postmodern America, where everything's commodified, transactional, and blasphemed — even our formerly sacred sports teams. Here in Pittsburgh, that, of course, is the Steelers. Many of us in PoMo Pittsbur...
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August 16, 2022
Thank you, Mr. KendiI want to personally thank Ibram X. Kendi, the intellectual King of Woke, for reminding me of my past. Before the ideas of unconscious bias, systemic racism, equity, and Critical Race Theory were required doctrine, I hadn't thought o...
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July 13, 2022
Black and yellow privilege disenfranchises PittsburghersHow do you like your sports plutocracy, Pittsburgh Steelers fans? Hopefully well, since you financed it by paying for sports teams' football stadium. That's hundreds of millions and counting — though some of us olde...