Triad Today

During this 50th anniversary month of the Apollo moon landing, I watched a number of NASA-related movies, and while most of them were top-notch productions, it occurred to me that hardly any of the actors actually looked or sounded anything like the real-life astronauts they were portraying. Tom Hanks, for example, neither looked nor sounded like […]

A couple of weeks ago in this column I advocated against setting off fireworks. This week I may be ignoring my own advice by stating the following: Transgender athletes need a reality check, and the transgender community needs to be more tolerant of others. Let’s begin with the reality check. An increasing number of males […]

My Republican father went to his grave in 2010, still blaming me for the outcome of the 1992 election. “It’s your fault that Bill Clinton got elected,” he would say. Dad was referring to my support for Ross Perot, a self-made Texas billionaire who ran as an independent candidate for president against Clinton, the Democrat, […]

Following the first round of debates between and among 20 Democratic candidates for president, Donald Trump proclaimed that the 2020 race was already over. It may be the first thing he has ever said that isn’t a lie. That’s because with the exception of a few comments by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, nearly every word […]

Next week we celebrate our 243rd anniversary of independence from Great Britain. A few weeks earlier, we celebrated Memorial Day, where we honored men and women who had made the ultimate sacrifice. I’m as patriotic as the next guy, but over the years I have come to dread these and other holidays, and I can […]

Last month, Abigail Disney, granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy Disney, appeared on Capitol Hill before the House Financial Services Committee, for a hearing on workers’ rights. Ms. Disney’s Congressional testimony followed her very public criticism of Disney CEO Bob Iger’s $65 million dollar per year salary, which is a whopping 1,424 times […]

The Justice Department recently announced that it was planning to investigate giant tech companies for antitrust violations, but what it should really investigate is how those companies violate the public trust, especially Facebook, who has repeatedly had dirty hands when it comes to a variety of ethics issues, ranging from privacy to politics. On the […]

Forget Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. Tony Kornheiser is the hippest septuagenarian on planet Earth, and he’s even seen on Uranus (I’ll get to that joke in a moment). So how does this veteran sportswriter and co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption stay so young and hip?   TK: I work with young people every […]

Earlier this month during a CNN town hall, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris broke bad on companies who pay their female employees less than males doing the same job. If elected president, Harris would enact a mandatory federal “Equal Pay Certification” program, under which companies who don’t comply, would pay hefty fines. Said Harris, […]