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Good Morning, Graduates!
University of Central Florida campus.
You may have read about the commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida last week. Gloria Caulfield was repeatedly booed and shouted down by the graduates for sounding too wide-eyed and b...
Radical Left?
People stage a “No Kings” rally in New York on March 28, 2026, in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and attacks on Iran.
All right, granted, it’s a dark, frightening time in our gathering police state led by an evil co...
Just Musing Was I
Civil rights advocates call on SCOTUS to uphold a fair and representative congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais at the Supreme Court on March 24, 2025.
Just musing today, on a walk, was I.
When Henry the Small White Dog and I set out...
Criminal Masterminds
Believe it or not, this image does not depict an actual bear.
You’ve got to hand it to criminals. When it comes to obtaining money unlawfully — which is obviously more attractive than legal employment, alarm clocks, tax withholding, tyrann...
The Ketchup Incident
Uh oh.
Yeah, so, two things: One is that over 35 years in radio and TV, there have been countless thousands of mic checks. Others say “1-2-3. Testing. 1-2-3.” I’ve always spoken the Gettysburg Address. Don’t know why, but that’s how I do....
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Bob hosts Bully Pulpit after 12 years with NPR and 20 co-hosting On the Media. He’s hosted Audible’s The Genius Dialogues and Slate’s Lexicon Valley. Also: TV analyst for three networks, columnist for three major newspapers and author of 6 books.
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