John Ziegler
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After 10 Years of Investigating the Penn State Scandal, Here Is What the Case Taught Me About the Modern Media
Ten years ago this week, a spectacular news media-induced firestorm was ignited in State College, Pennsylvania, after former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on numerous charges of child sex abuse. As a result, Sandusky and three previously highly-respected school administrators eventually went to jail, Penn State’s legendary head coach Joe Paterno […] → Read More
20 Years Later, One of the Lost Legacies of 9/11 Is That of National Unity
There is little doubt that the darkest day in modern American history occurred twenty years ago today. At that time, one of the few silver linings to come from the haunting dust clouds of death on September 11, 2001 was the remarkable, and even in that era rather rare, national unity with which the United […] → Read More
The Covid Resurgence Has Made Gavin Newsom Suddenly Vulnerable to Being Recalled
About two months ago, I wrote, rather confidently, that while California Governor Gavin Newsom more than deserved to be recalled in September’s special election, that he would not be removed by our very liberal voting populace. While I still wouldn’t yet bet on it happening, there is now a rather strong case he will not […] → Read More
The Real Reasons Why NBC’s Olympic Ratings Are a Disaster, and Why It Matters
Japan’s Olympic Games still have a week to go, but from a television ratings perspective we already know that they are a relative disaster for the NBC network. So far, ratings are down about 40% from the previous summer games in 2016, and have lost more than half of the audience from the 2012 games […] → Read More
Some Much Needed Perspective on the Rising Covid Cases the Media Isn’t Providing
One of the most underrated aspects of human behavior is how much expectations dictate our perceptions of reality. Largely because none of us have ever dealt with a pandemic before, and therefore we have no experience on which to draw comparisons, this has been particularly true when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus. Since […] → Read More
Congratulations Liberals, You Have Finally Destroyed Major College Sports
Cyndi Lauper: “Money… Money changes everything.” One of the strangest of our many human failings is the apparent pathological need to destroy anything truly extraordinary. The increasingly obvious demise of our formerly great nation as a whole is an excellent example of this, but it is hard to beat what a coalition of mostly extremely […] → Read More
Why Freedom Lost So Decisively to the Fear of Covid
On Memorial Day, we honor those who died in service to this country, presumably with a primary goal of protecting the freedom which once made the United States of America unique. This year, it is instructive to take a look at how those hard-earned freedoms fared when faced with the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. […] → Read More
One Month Later, Looking at CDC Director Rochelle Walensky's Prediction of 'Impending Doom'
Everyone who is in public life in a capacity where they are expected to make predictions, no matter how smart or steeped in expertise, will inevitably get some big ones wrong. Not all prophecies are created equal, however, and some misfires, especially the more dramatic ones, demand some level of accountability, or else the entire […] → Read More
The Ratings Collapse of The Oscars Is Not Just About Wokeness
It was easier to predict than even CNN’s post-Trump viewership decline, but, as expected, last night’s Oscars telecast on ABC was a ratings disaster. Not only was it the least watched Academy Awards ceremony in modern history, the audience was less than half of what it was last year — which was already a record-low […] → Read More
The Case That Our Reaction to Covid Has Divided America More Deeply Than Even Trump
The reaction to the candidacy, and ensuing presidency, of Donald Trump was clearly the most divisive topic in America since at least the 1960s. About half of our country was certain that he was the worst thing that has ever happened to our democracy, while almost as many people fervently believed that he was the […] → Read More
A Year Ago, Gavin Newsom Changed the USA, and Here is Why He Now Rightly Faces a Recall Election
A year ago this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom made, what I called at the time, the most impactful state-based decision in modern American history when he shut down California. By locking down our nation’s largest and most influential state in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and continuing to do so under dictatorial “emergency powers” which […] → Read More
Dear News Media: Being Skeptical of Science ‘Experts’ is Not ‘Anti-Science’
Of all the many frustrating aspects of being an anti-Trump conservative, none has been more maddening than being reflexively labeled as “anti-science” because of what the former president has done to the “conservative” brand. Somehow during the pandemic, being skeptical of edicts from scientific or medical “experts” has been successfully equated in the liberal news […] → Read More
The 'Conservative' Case for Trump’s Impeachment Conviction — And Why He’ll Be Acquitted
This week, the second impeachment trial of now former President Donald Trump will begin in the Senate. Barring some sort of “black swan” event, he is not going to be convicted because too many Republicans will vote to acquit him, which is bizarre because the truly “conservative” argument for his conviction may be even stronger […] → Read More
When Faced With the Challenge of Donald Trump, Nearly Everyone Failed
It is a truism of life that you never really know what really you have, whether it is in love, friendship, sports, career, or politics, until it is severely → Read More
Trump's Ban from Social Media is Further Evidence America is Destined to Split Up
No rational person is defending the horrendous scene that unfolded at the Capitol last week, and very few are excusing President Donald Trump's outrageous role → Read More
A Prediction for How and Why Trump Will Lose
Trump must navigate too many obstacles successfully in order to win. → Read More
The News Media’s Covid/Lockdown Narrative Has Checkmated Trump’s Re-Election Bid
Thanks mostly to massive fragmentation, which then facilitated a forfeiting of their credibility in order to artificially juice a badly broken business model, → Read More
The Case That Neither Trump Nor Biden is Worthy of a Non-Swing State Vote
As a "Never Trump" conservative (a real one, not someone who took that position to the extreme in exchange for liberal Twitter love and appearances on CNN or → Read More
The Conservative Argument Against Mask Mandates is Stronger than the Media Pretends
As I predicted near the start of the pandemic, the response to the virus has caused America to be more clearly divided between "red" and "blue" factions than at → Read More
How 'Flatten the Curve' Turned into 'Shut Down Forever' Here in California
On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom did something which, if anyone had predicted it five months ago, they would have been mercilessly mocked. Acting → Read More