Search results for: “Greg Maresca”
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Annual Review Highlights: Greg’s Awards, Part II
Annual Review Highlights: From clueless protests to Pete Rose’s bold promises, Greg catches 2024’s quirks, controversies, and cultural shifts.
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Mr. Softee’s America
On the eve of another overhyped winter storm, America once again revealed how far it has drifted from grit to padding. Mr. Softee’s America is not really about snow—it’s about softness. Greg Maresca skewers a culture that panics at inconvenience, fears scraped knees, and treats mild hardship as a constitutional crisis. From rubber-matted playgrounds to…
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It’s Snow Joke
The season’s first snowfall slammed the Northeast this week, and Pennsylvania got hit like it owed Mother Nature money. Before dawn on December 2, winter crashed the calendar with a sloppy, cinder-covered mess that turned roads into obstacle courses and bicycles into ice sculptures. As PennDOT scattered its trademark mix of salt, grit, and stray…
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Never and Somehow Again: Once a Marine… Still One
In Never and Somehow Again, Greg Maresca reflects on life after the Corps — the small freedoms cherished, the routines abandoned, and the traditions that never quite fade. From the humor of a Marine’s “never again” list to the quiet nostalgia of routines rediscovered, Maresca captures the paradox of service: you can leave the Marines,…
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Uncle SLIC’s Lingering Loans
School’s out, but the Student Loan Industrial Complex (SLIC) is still in session—and hemorrhaging taxpayer cash. With $1.8 trillion owed and 8 million borrowers bracing for resumed interest, Greg Maresca warns that America’s debt-fueled college racket is reaching its breaking point. For decades, Uncle Sam’s blank checks have emboldened universities to inflate tuition and churn…
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COUNTDOWN TO 250
The countdown to America’s 250th birthday has begun. As July 4, 2026 approaches, reflections on our nation’s founding—its ideals, its trials, and its current condition—are unavoidable. Greg Maresca’s sharp take on the road from the Bicentennial to the semi-quincentennial revisits patriotic spectacle and sober truth. With only 12 months left until the historic milestone, Americans…
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With or Without: Operation Midnight Hammer and the Rejection of Appeasement
Greg Maresca’s blistering column warns Americans of the stakes in the escalating conflict with Iran. Maresca argued the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was a moral imperative, not an act of war. He blasted past U.S. presidents—from Carter to Biden—for appeasing the mullahs while accusing Obama and Biden of financing terrorism. The strike, dubbed…
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When Care Kills
Illinois quietly crossed a moral and cultural line just days before Christmas. By legalizing physician-assisted suicide—softened with the euphemism “medical aid in dying”—the state joined a growing list redefining death as healthcare. What’s framed as compassion and choice is, in practice, the normalization of killing as treatment. Lost in the spin are the poor, the…
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Flash Mob Faith Raid
Minnesota’s latest “protest” crossed a bright constitutional line. Leftist activists stormed a Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul to harass a congregant over his job with ICE, turning worship into performance politics. State leaders hedged. Media personalities cheered. Federal prosecutors quietly cited the law that actually governs this conduct: the FACE Act. This…
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August Delusion to January Absurdity
Every August, college football sells certainty with the confidence of a royal decree. Every January, it exposes that certainty as fiction. The 2025 preseason poll promised another blueblood coronation. Instead, it delivered a national championship matchup nobody predicted, nobody ranked, and nobody respected until it was too late. Indiana and Miami didn’t just break the…
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The Family Fault Line
The real culture war isn’t fought in courtrooms or capitols. It’s fought at kitchen tables. New data from the Institute for Family Studies confirms what common sense already knows: societies rise or fall on marriage, family, and faith. Conservatives are still forming families. Progressives aren’t. The result is loneliness, declining birthrates, political instability, and a…
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No Charge Required
2026 arrives without knocking, convinced that mere existence counts as progress. It doesn’t. It bills. From fee-based travel humiliation by the Transportation Security Administration to assisted suicide “one-stop shops,” the year promises innovation untethered from wisdom. America is older, angrier, and more automated, while politics remains a knife fight disguised as process. Tech grows moods.…
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2025 Rear-View Awards
If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was the year America finally admitted it needed reading glasses. Algorithms fed outrage like junk food, institutions ditched their own rituals, and politics flirted openly with parody. From media mea culpas to cultural self-owns, from border farce to boardroom patriotism, the year delivered irony at industrial scale. The Rear-View…
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Biology’s International Fault Lines: Power, Wealth, and Surrogacy
The global surrogacy boom has exposed a moral fault line running straight through America. Wealthy foreign nationals are exploiting loose U.S. laws to manufacture citizenship, engineer bloodlines, and warehouse children like assets. What was sold as compassion has metastasized into an industrial pipeline where women are reduced to vessels and babies to contracts. Chinese billionaires…
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Unheralded and Autonomous
College football is drowning in cash grabs, NIL bidding wars, and transfer-portal chaos. But for one Saturday every year, the sport snaps back to its soul. The Army–Navy Game — the 126th edition — delivers real stakes, real sacrifice, and real pride. At the center stands the most overlooked prize in college football: the 170-pound…
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Importing Chaos Jihadi Edition
America is again paying the price for Washington’s delusions about nation-building. The killing of West Virginia National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom near the White House — allegedly by Afghan asylum recipient and former CIA-backed fighter Rahmanullah Lakanwal — exposes the deadly fallout of Operation Allies Welcome and President Biden’s chaotic Afghanistan exit. Lakanwal didn’t sneak…
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The Highway’s Hidden Hazards
America’s roads are packed this Thanksgiving weekend, but the real danger isn’t traffic—it’s policy. A staggering wave of deadly crashes involving tractor-trailers has exposed a national scandal: illegal immigrants obtaining commercial driver’s licenses through fraud, lax state oversight, and sanctuary-state loopholes. From Indiana to Florida to California, unqualified drivers—some who failed exams repeatedly, some high…
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Penny For Your Thoughts
The penny minted its final breath this month in Philadelphia, ending a 232-year American tradition built more on sentiment than sense. For decades, the one-cent coin cost more to produce than it was worth, draining millions from taxpayers while offering almost nothing in return. With the national debt near $38 trillion, eliminating a money-losing coin…
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The Anti-Wealth Manifesto
New York City just elected a mayor who thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist, landlords are parasites, and capitalism is theft. Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Marxist-leaning activist with a family steeped in anti-capitalist ideology, now controls America’s largest economic engine. His win exposes a city drifting from grit to grievance, where slogans beat math and envy beats…
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Dreaming Dictators and Eternal Tyrants
When Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping joked about immortality at Beijing’s military parade, it wasn’t comedy—it was revelation. The offhand exchange, broadcast on Chinese state TV, showed two aging autocrats musing about eternal life through organ transplants and biotechnology. Putin quipped that humans could “live younger and younger,” while Xi mused about reaching 150. What…
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Off the Radar: The Real Genocide is Not Taking Place in Gaza, But in Nigeria
While the world’s cameras remain fixated on Gaza, the real genocide is unfolding in silence across Nigeria. In the country’s rural heartlands, Islamist militants torch homes, raze churches, and slaughter Christians by the thousands. According to Intersociety, over 52,000 have been killed since 2009, and more than 20,000 churches destroyed. Groups like Boko Haram and…
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Truth & Treason
Truth & Treason delivers a searing portrayal of conscience in the face of tyranny. Directed by Matt Whitaker and produced by Angel Studios, the film recounts the true story of Helmuth Hübener — the 16-year-old who defied Nazi propaganda armed only with a typewriter and moral courage. As Hitler’s regime demanded blind obedience, Hübener’s defiance…
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The Paradoxical Patriot
Frank S. Meyer remains one of conservatism’s most misunderstood minds. In The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn resurrects the fusionist philosopher whose ideas married libertarian freedom with moral order. From Marxist radical to National Review intellectual, Meyer’s paradoxical path shaped Barry Goldwater’s movement and Ronald Reagan’s…
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Charlie Kirk Unholy Uproar: The Politics of Prayer
The assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves through the nation. But what unfolded hours later in the U.S. House of Representatives revealed just how deep America’s political fault lines run. After Speaker Mike Johnson called for a moment of silence, Rep. Lauren Boebert broke it with a…
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Nicaea’s Echo – The Creed
In 2025, the world marked many milestones—World War II’s end, the Voting Rights Act, and even the debut of Jaws. Yet the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea slipped largely unnoticed. Convened by Emperor Constantine in 325, the council produced the Nicene Creed, a declaration of Christ’s divinity and humanity that shaped Christianity and…
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Redemption’s Playbook
Sports films thrive on grit, heart, and second chances. The Senior delivers all three in spades. The upcoming film tells the true story of Mike Flynt, a 59-year-old Texan who returned to college football decades after being kicked off his team. Haunted by regret, Flynt re-enrolled at Sul Ross State University and became the oldest…
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Figures Flip the Field in College Football
College football is no longer defined by tradition, coaching, or recruiting classes—it’s ruled by money. The rise of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) has transformed the sport into a billion-dollar arms race. Players flip schools like free agents, while boosters bankroll multimillion-dollar deals that rival NFL contracts. Bryce Underwood’s record-breaking $12.5 million NIL commitment to…
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Faith Under Fire
The 20th century was the bloodiest for Christians, with over 35 million martyred. The 21st century is no reprieve. From ISIS beheadings in Mozambique, to Hindu extremists jailing pastors in India, to Egyptian courts stripping St. Catherine’s Monastery of its land, the assault on faith is global. In America, hostility takes new forms—church arsons, lawsuits…
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Defying Mr. Softee: Trump Revives Fitness Test
A half-century ago, Catholic grade school kids lined up for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Top scorers earned certificates, stickers, and patches, reminders that America demanded toughness, not softness. The program was born in the 1950s out of Cold War fear that U.S. youth were falling behind both academically and physically. It rewarded grit, competition,…
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The Geometrics of Power
Gerrymandering has long been a dirty trick in American politics, warping maps into grotesque shapes that protect incumbents and punish voters. Born in 1812 from Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry’s salamander-shaped district, the practice is now a political art form. Vice President J.D. Vance blasted Democrats’ abuse of the tactic, pointing to California, Connecticut, and other…
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Trump’s Timed Delivery
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump share the stage in American political memory, but their delivery couldn’t be more different. Reagan, “The Great Communicator,” mastered humor, optimism, and Hollywood timing to bridge divides. Trump, a boardroom brawler turned political provocateur, thrives on blunt force rhetoric, unfiltered candor, and rallying his base. Where Reagan softened with self-effacing…
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Late Night’s Javan Rhino
Stephen Colbert’s fall marks the symbolic end of late-night TV as we once knew it. Once a bipartisan source of post-news laughter, the genre is now a woke echo chamber hemorrhaging viewers and cash. CBS’s cancellation of The Late Show is no surprise—$100 million in costs, $40 million in losses, and partisan lectures instead of…
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Armistice and Amnesia: The Noble War Nobody Remebers
Seventy-five years after the start of the Korean War, the anniversary passed with barely a whisper in Washington. No national memorial events. No presidential speech. Just a lone Senate resolution calling it a “Noble War.” Meanwhile, Pride Month lights up every institution, but the sacrifices of 36,574 Americans killed in Korea are largely ignored. Korean…
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Resource Number One: Who Steals the Children?
Russia’s abduction of nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children is the most chilling war crime yet in its invasion of Ukraine—a cultural genocide hiding in plain sight. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times finally report what many Eastern Europeans already knew: Russia has long stolen children to offset its demographic collapse. But this horror also…
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BLUE BOOKS STRIKE BACK!
In an academic world overrun by AI-generated essays, blue books—those humble, ruled-paper exam booklets—are making a comeback. Once a relic of analog education, they’re now a frontline defense against digital dishonesty. As ChatGPT and other AI tools tempt students to cheat, universities are reviving handwritten, proctored exams to ensure authentic learning. Sales of blue books…
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Viewers Like You
President Trump’s executive order slashing all federal funding to public broadcasting has liberals losing their minds. The $1.07 billion cut to NPR and PBS is being painted as an attack on democracy—but critics say it’s long overdue. For decades, CPB operated like a left-wing propaganda arm, bankrolled by taxpayers who had no say. Now, as…
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A Hero in Reserve
Sergeant Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the Medal of Honor, has reenlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve. His return comes at a time when military recruitment is rebounding, offering a boost to morale and inspiring others to serve. Meyer’s decision underscores the importance of a robust national defense, especially…
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All in a Name: The Lion of Rome
The Catholic world is watching with bated breath as Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy, signaling a return to tradition after the controversial tenure of Pope Francis. Chosen for its historical weight, the name “Leo” evokes strength, clarity, and spiritual resolve. With echoes of Leo the Great and Leo XIII, the new pontiff’s symbolism—donning the…
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American Pope Leo XIV: Holy Smokes! A Chicago Pontiff?
White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel and shocked the world: an American had been elected pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago—hardly a household name—emerged as the 267th pope, taking the name Leo XIV. Raised in Illinois, educated at Villanova, and long stationed in Peru, Prevost was a Vatican insider with odds of only…
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Catholic Church in Crisis? The View From the Pew
The Catholic Church stands at a spiritual and institutional crossroads as the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope on May 7. Pope Francis’s tumultuous tenure—marked by collapsing attendance, shuttered parishes, and a sharp divide between modernism and tradition—has left the Church in crisis. With 108 of the 135 eligible electors appointed by…