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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The Socialist Surge
The socialist takeover of the Democrat Party is no longer a warning about some distant political future. It is happening now. Melat Kiros’ stunning Colorado primary victory over 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette joins a growing list of socialist breakthroughs from New York to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. These candidates are not merely demanding larger…
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Two Birthdays Apart: Red, White And Divided
America does not suffer from a shortage of flags. It suffers from a shortage of common purpose. Greg Maresca’s Fourth of July reflection cuts through the bunting and fireworks to expose the hard truth of America at 250: we are not indifferent, but we are badly divided. In 1976, Americans could argue over Watergate, Vietnam,…
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That Bonded Minute
Before America became a superpower, a culture war, a cable-news cage match, or a social-media shouting pit, it was a story — one day at a time. Greg Maresca remembers when CBS understood that. The old Bicentennial Minute gave Americans sixty seconds of shared civic memory every night, reminding viewers that the Revolution was not…
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Observing Without Watching
Greg Maresca did not watch the World Cup. His boss watched three seconds more than he did. But sometimes the real game is not on the field. After Team USA’s 2-0 victory over Australia, America’s casual soccer curiosity became something louder: a fight over immigration, birthright citizenship, assimilation, and national identity. Suddenly, people who could…
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Wealth Inflation Skyrockets
There was a time when “millionaire” sounded mythic, a word that belonged to comic-book mansions, baseball owners, and distant elites. Greg Maresca argues that era is gone. Inflation, home values, retirement accounts, and explosive technology wealth have moved America’s financial goalposts. The SpaceX IPO and Elon Musk’s reported rise into trillionaire territory show just how…
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The Politics of Perception
Pennsylvania is not just another governor’s race. It is one of the country’s most important political laboratories heading into 2026 and 2028. Florida has moved from battleground to Republican stronghold, but Pennsylvania remains the kind of swing state that reveals where the national electorate may be headed. Gov. Josh Shapiro is raising money like a…
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Ballot Mission Creep
The ballot was supposed to be the cleanest document in American self-government: a name, a party, and a choice. Greg Maresca argues that Pennsylvania’s 2026 primary ballot crossed a dangerous line by listing candidates for Republican State Committee with gender identifiers, turning a simple voting instrument into a quiet compliance sheet for party bylaws. What…
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Debt Remembered and Debt Ignored
Greg Maresca’s Memorial Day reflection lands like a bugle call over a bankrupt capital. America remembers one debt in silence and ignores another in daylight. One was paid by men and women who never came home. The other is being dumped onto children not yet born by politicians who confuse cowardice with compassion and spending…
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Chasing the NIL Mirage
Florida’s high school sports machine has officially gone off the rails. The NIL fantasy, open enrollment chaos, social media hype, and adult-driven transfer circus have turned teenagers into free-agent props before they have even earned a diploma. Greg Maresca’s warning is dead-on: this is not opportunity. It is exploitation dressed up in varsity colors. A…
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Hurry Up and Wait
Greg Maresca’s “Hurry Up and Wait” pulls the curtain back on the forgotten Marines still holding the line in the Persian Gulf. The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit is not in the headlines, but it remains locked, loaded, bored, cramped, caffeinated, and ready. This is the hard truth of military readiness: most of the job is…
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Where’s the Beef America?
America’s old punchline has turned into a grocery-store gut punch. In Greg Maresca’s sharp essay, the famous 1984 cry — “Where’s the beef?” — comes roaring back as a symbol of national decline, shrinking buying power, and a vanishing middle-class standard of living. What used to mock empty promises now describes a supermarket reality where…
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Days of Infamy
Forty-three years after the Beirut barracks bombing, Americans still wrestle with the same hard question: How did the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism operate for decades with so little consequence? In “Days of Infamy,” Greg Maresca argues the answer lies in nearly half a century of Western hesitation toward Iran’s revolutionary regime. From the 1979…
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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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Forged On The Frontier: Young Washington
America remembers George Washington in marble, on money, and beneath the heavy title “Father of Our Country.” But before the legend, there was a young man on the frontier — ambitious, wounded by loss, underprepared, and desperate to prove himself. Young Washington arrives at the perfect moment, as America approaches its 250th birthday, to remind…
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The Sacred Strikes Back
America keeps talking about revival, but the numbers still tell a colder story: fewer people in the pews, fewer members on the rolls, and too many churches closing their doors. Into that darkened landscape comes Luminiscience, an immersive cathedral production now lighting up Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. It does not preach…
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A Bobblehead Too Far
Major League Baseball has always understood the power of the giveaway. Hats, jerseys, bats, and bobbleheads can turn an ordinary game into a date circled on the calendar. But the Baltimore Orioles crossed from clever promotion into cultural confusion with a Tupac Shakur bobblehead night. This was not a tribute to Orioles history, baseball greatness,…
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Masthead
FL Gulf News is an independent Florida-based news and commentary publication covering Florida courts, Florida politics, public corruption, First Amendment and media law, cancel culture, Gulf Coast affairs, and government accountability. Published by SCRIVENER, LLC, FL Gulf News operates under the banner “Gulf Truths, Unfiltered.” The publication uses public records, court filings, source documents, interviews,…
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The Post-Roe Landscape
The post-Roe v. Wade era isn’t slowing abortion—it’s transforming it. What was once a clinic-based procedure is now a decentralized, pharmaceutical-driven industry operating through mailboxes and mobile apps. With over 1.1 million abortions in 2025 and fertility rates collapsing, America faces a stark contradiction: declining births alongside expanding access. As chemical abortion becomes dominant, both…
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Catholic Academy Defies Secular Collapse
In a country drifting from its spiritual roots, one institution is digging in and pushing back. St. Louis de Montfort Academy isn’t chasing trends—it’s rejecting them outright. While churches close, faith fades, and moral clarity dissolves into cultural confusion, this rural Pennsylvania boarding school is building something rare: conviction. With Latin Mass, classical education, and…
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Election Integrity Matters
Election integrity is no longer a policy debate—it’s a pressure point. As Congress battles over the SAVE America Act, the question isn’t just who votes, but whether Americans still trust the system at all. With overwhelming public support for voter ID and citizenship verification, the disconnect between voters and Washington is widening. Supporters say it’s…
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Judge Boots Danesh Showdown to November
A federal courtroom showdown in Fort Myers just exposed two uncomfortable truths. Danesh “ThatDaneshGuy” Noshirvan cannot bring himself to support the liberation of his own Persian homeland because President Donald Trump helped make it happen. And his lawyer, Nick Chiappetta, walked straight into a public reprimand from a federal judge for flooding chambers with email…
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Shredding the Climate Crusade
For nearly two decades, one bureaucratic document powered the federal climate machine: the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding.” It was the legal engine behind sweeping carbon regulations, emissions mandates, and trillions in economic distortions. Now, under President Donald Trump, that engine has been shut off. The Environmental Protection Agency has formally rescinded the finding that labeled…
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From Legacy to Liability: A WaPo Post Mortem
When The Washington Post slashed one-third of its newsroom — including sports, foreign bureaus, and book reviews — executives called it “strategic restructuring.” Readers saw institutional panic. What was marketed as efficiency looked more like organ removal. Years of editorial arrogance, audience alienation, and corporate insulation finally collided with market reality. Owner Jeff Bezos reportedly…
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Generation Skeptical Declares Media Bankruptcy
A bombshell report from the News Literacy Project just detonated in America’s media establishment: 84% of teenagers think journalism is a scam. Not flawed. Not biased. A con. Nearly half say reporters harm democracy more than they protect it. Two-thirds think images are manipulated. And most believe bias is intentional. That’s not teenage angst. That’s…
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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…