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Can't Keep Quiet: 100 Columns and Counting Apr. 16, 2025
This is the 100th Raffel Ticket weekly column I've written. How the heck did that happen? The underl... Read More
Newspapers Then and Now: Why Good Columns Stand the Test of Time Jan. 31, 2025
When Bob Hill was writing newspaper columns, it was a different era. But after our conversation, I r... Read More
Can Our Elections Be Made Even More Vapid? Some Are Banking On It Nov. 06, 2024
Many people feel that America's political campaigns have become vapid PR hustles with little connect... Read More
At Newspapers, Non-Endorsements Should Be a Non-Issue Oct. 31, 2024
SAN DIEGO — You know how they say that teachers make the worst students? A similar contradict... Read More
I Quit: Hatred Doesn't Need My Help Oct. 18, 2024
Not everything you try will be right for you. But you'll never know if you never try, and you'll lea... Read More
Diners and AI May. 17, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is a huge concern among people in my business because first of all, we think... Read More
Abortion-Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women Feb. 21, 2024
Here's our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting t... Read More
The Children of Buddha Dec. 01, 2023
Buddha says don't fight back. Christ says the same thing. Both are widely ignored. In Israel, on the... Read More
The Goody-Goodies Are at It Again Aug. 24, 2023
WASHINGTON — They are coming at us once again. Who? The Goody Two Shoes crowd that claims to h... Read More
We Can't Tolerate Assaults on Free Speech Aug. 22, 2023
Emancipation of slaves. Women's suffrage. Civil rights. Freedom to worship, ignore or denigrate God.... Read More
The Little Lights in Marion, Kansas Aug. 18, 2023
My wife, Deborah, born and bred in a New England city of 100,000, rolls her eyes a little when I tal... Read More
When the First Amendment Dies Aug. 17, 2023
When the freedom of speech and of the press die, it will happen by a thousand small cuts. Last Frida... Read More
Raid of Kansas Newspaper Is a Chilling Example of What America Must Not Become Aug. 16, 2023
If there has been one overarching theme to the tumultuous politics of this era, it is the repeated r... Read More
He Said What? Mar. 03, 2023
Here's another lesson from the really boring frontlines of real, small-time journalism. Because I do... Read More
Bias, Envy and Hatred Nov. 30, 2022
Today, big media has an agenda. Fox and most talk radio push right; most other media spin left. For ... Read More
'-30-': An Ending, but Not the End Oct. 25, 2022
When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in Nove... Read More
The Media Has Tried and Failed to Sell the Left's Crazy Agenda Jul. 22, 2022
Every reasonably honest observer knows the corporate media has a liberal bias. That bias is displaye... Read More
What Can't the Newspapers Put on Page One? Jul. 15, 2022
Way back in the 20th century, we learned in journalism classes that a news story assembles the facts... Read More
Never Admit Anything Apr. 06, 2022
President Joe Biden says he never talked business with his son. Maybe he didn't. Maybe that Ukrainia... Read More
How Sarah Palin May Save Defamation Law Feb. 11, 2022
How easy should it be to sue a newspaper or other news outlet for defamation? Thanks to a 1964 Supre... Read More
