I usually don’t engage with the news of celebrity deaths. Sure, it’s often sad or in the case of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, tragic, but I have so little engagement with TV and movies that there’s just so little attachment to begin with even as millions of the living leave this mortal coil daily. […]
A Contrarian View of Christmas and the Grinch
One benefit of being old is to see history move from one point to the next, in this case, cultural history. When I was young, I’d listen to my father bemoan the commercialism of Christmas. That was before Christmas was being stuffed in favor of ‘Happy Holidays’, or any iteration of the season, as long […]
There is a Conservative Disease Goin-Round
There is a strange disease affecting conservative leaders and it’s a serious one. There’s a small but very well-defined group of them that were once solid, reliable, based, and respected for years. It’s not that they never held contrary views or that they all agreed on one conservative canon, it’s that they filled a place […]
The Case of the Somalian Crime Syndicate Must Be Addressed More Forcefully
In the past few weeks, the scale of corruption surrounding the Somalian population of Minnesota and a couple other upper Midwest states has hit the front pages. They’ve been bilking billions $ from the US taxpayer and an assortment of other alleged crimes and felonies. Suddenly, Tim Walz is described as ‘toast’. Fortunately, Trump is […]
An Early One Year Trump Report Card and Action Plan
This site, Northeast Reader, has been in existence since 2016, coinciding closely with the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term as President. I was not a fan back then, but rather, a skeptic that occasionally found things I agreed with. Later, I began to see his appeal and aptitude, yet still backed off full support. […]