A little bit of everything
Richard E. Vatz is professor emeritus of political rhetoric at Towson University and author of The Only Authentic of Persuasion: the Agenda-Spin Model (Authors Press, 2022) and many other works, essays and op-eds. He is a Distinguished Professor at Towson University and has won a number of teaching awards.
War correspondents particularly interest me due to the voluntary life-threatening danger in which they put themselves and the difficulty of reporting, especially live when it is possible.
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There is a time-honored expression regarding war: “Truth is the first casualty.” This is indubitably true, especially in a world with so many sources of information, all of whom have their own agendas, independent of telling the truth, even if it takes some time to establish that truth.
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There is one candidate, the only one in recent months to whom I have made a contribution but with whom I have no ties, who represents a presidential candidacy I can support strongly: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina (2011-2017) and the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 through December 2018.
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I have no doubt that Speaker McCarthy disappointed you in ways that made him less than a perfect Speaker, but your nuclear reaction destroyed so much of that which surrounds conservative causes, plus your alignment with utterly self-centered irresponsible Republican congresspersons, such as Rep. Gaetz, can be interpreted as nothing but utterly reckless.
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I have been interested in presidential elections, political fights, and political rhetoric since 1960, and through 2012 in every presidential
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Kyle Gibson has been immersed in innumerable charities country-wide and is the vice president of Big League Impact; he has hosted fundraisers throughout major league cities and through his philanthropy has raised nearly half a million dollars. Personally, he has donated his own time and money, including $100 for each of his strikeouts this year – ever heard of such a great conflict of interest?
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As you no doubt have been following to the extent that there is any new information, Baltimore City experienced a mass shooting on July 2 at Brooklyn Homes in a South Baltimore block party amid its continuing killing fields. So far, as of August 11, two have perished and 28 were wounded.
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I should just like to offer a few reflections on the passing two weeks ago of Towson University’s most charismatic
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Imagine that you are reading about the latest violence in Baltimore or Maryland, adding to the ever-continuing homicides and non-fatal violence, or the general miseries of youth therein.
Imagine also you are driving along in your car, as I was the other day, listening to a talk radio show that is castigating “Cancel Culture” and referring to other hosts on that same station who, the host maintains, were as appalled and repulsed by the “Cancel Culture” as he.
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