Helen Ubinas
If it’s not guns, Helen Ubinas is shooting at racism
For some reason (the reason is Trump and Musk) journalists find the axing of government employees sinful.
Culture
Far Left writers go bonkers in laying blame for attacks
I’m having a chuckle about a couple of chuckleheads from the Left — the Inquirer’s Will Bunch, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte — coming out with the, um, imaginative theory that the New Orleans and Las Vegas whack jobs who committed unrelated and dissimilar crimes were linked by a common motive
Journalism
Will Bunch accidentally shows his true colors
I rarely quickly return to a subject unless it is really warranted, and with Will Bunch it is. I had my say less than two weeks ago, but I had to return for a smaller bite today. As many of you know, Bunch is the resident Chicken Little of the
Journalism
Will finds not a bunch of things to like about America
I had two guilty pleasures when I was still a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer Daily News. One was reading Christine Flowers’ weekly column. The other was looking at Will Bunch’s column. Note I said “looking at,” not reading. The “why” is simple. Dogs eat vomit. I don’t.
Culture
Whose America do you live in?
When I saw that headline in last Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, I thought, yessssss! Finally, they get it. Then — uh-oh. Who is the “we” Will Bunch is talking about? When he writes about America, his column is the predictable porridge of pessimism and grievance. In this one, the world is
Race Relations
The myopic viewpoint of the woke
Here is an example of how you can be blinded when you view everything through the prism of race. My former colleague Will Bunch recently wrote a heartfelt column about the declining number of African-Americans going to college. Such a decrease might be worrisome, and Bunch helpfully published a graph
Politics
Will Bunch’s blind spot(s)
Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch is a guilty pleasure for me, as is Christine Flowers, kicked out of the inquirer, but now published in the Delaware County Daily Times. Bunch is my connection to the Looney Left, Flowers to the Wing-Nut Right. I agree with her maybe half the