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  • Bednar’s Colorado Clown Show

    Bednar’s Colorado Clown Show

    The Colorado Avalanche did not merely lose Game 3 in Las Vegas. They staged a leadership collapse under playoff lights. Colorado jumped to a 3-0 first-period lead, then watched Vegas storm back for five unanswered goals, a 5-3 win, and a crushing 3-0 Western Conference Final series lead. Reuters reported that Vegas rallied from a…

  • Ryan Flynn is Still Jailed – Why?

    Ryan Flynn is Still Jailed – Why?

    Ryan Flynn remains locked up in Erie County on what he says is an uncorroborated internet-post case with no physical contact, no weapon, no property damage, no missed court dates, and no criminal conviction history. His filings point to CPL 180.80, CPL 190.80, alleged missing grand-jury action, disputed Family Court orders, and stark bail disparities.…

  • The House Always Wins

    The House Always Wins

    Kelly McCrimmon does not build hockey teams like a nervous accountant. He builds them like a Vegas pit boss who knows when the table is cold, when the room needs heat, and when the only smart play is the one everyone else is too scared to make. By dumping Bruce Cassidy late and dropping John…

  • Bednar Must Go: Avalanche Leadership-less without Makar

    Bednar Must Go: Avalanche Leadership-less without Makar

    The Colorado Avalanche did not just miss Cale Makar. They exposed Jared Bednar. Without their generational defenseman, the Avs looked stripped of command, structure, and emotional authority in the Western Conference Final against Vegas. Makar missed Game 1 and Game 2 with an upper-body injury, and Colorado dropped both home games, including a 3-1 Game…

  • Don Cherry in the Desert

    Don Cherry in the Desert

    Vegas was supposed to be neon, velvet ropes, casino carpets, and showtime hockey. Instead, the Golden Knights have become something harder, colder, and more dangerous: an old-school playoff machine. At the center of it is William Karlsson, the quiet warrior who plays like the ghosts of Derek Sanderson, Darryl Sittler, Ron Duguay, Lanny McDonald, and…

  • The Grit That Endures: Don Cherry and the Hard-Nosed Code of Yesteryears 

    The Grit That Endures: Don Cherry and the Hard-Nosed Code of Yesteryears 

    Old hockey is not dead. It is waiting behind the boards, taped up, scarred, and ready for one more shift. Matt “Sully” Sullivan looks at Lindy Ruff’s Buffalo revival through the ghost light of Don Cherry’s hockey world — the Lunch Pail A.C., the Big Bad Bruins, Derek Sanderson, Dave “The Hammer” Schultz, Tiger Williams,…

  • Common Sense Democrats? More Like Crime Scene Democrats

    Common Sense Democrats? More Like Crime Scene Democrats

    Brian Laline wanted to explain Kamala Harris’s 2024 faceplant and sell Democrats a fantasy comeback under the label “Common Sense Democrats.” Richard Luthmann says the autopsy is already finished. Democrats did not lose because Biden hid Kamala or Trump got lucky. They lost because voters saw inflation, migrants, crime, censorship, lawfare, gender madness, and elite…

  • CBS Radio News Signs Off

    CBS Radio News Signs Off

    CBS News Radio signing off is not just another media-industry footnote. It is the sound of old America unplugging itself from the wall. For nearly a century, CBS Radio carried war, elections, blackouts, snowstorms, assassinations, traffic jams, and the plainspoken rhythm of daily civic life into kitchens, cars, diners, garages, and union halls. Now, on…

  • I’m William Peck – A Bobby Zahn Tribute

    I’m William Peck – A Bobby Zahn Tribute

    Robert J. “Bobby” Zahn, Jr. was not a polished political insider. He was better than that. He was a Staten Island original: a 9/11 responder, Tea Party warrior, proto-MAGA organizer, conservative strategist, loyal friend, and relentless thorn in the side of the local political machine. Richard Luthmann remembers Bobby not only as a political ally,…

Richard Luthmann

Most Dangerous Man on Deadline. Turns every filing, feud, and exposé into a cinematic showdown—equal parts court drama, news thriller, and Shaolin street fight.

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“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

– President Donald J. Trump

Modern Thomas Nast

Boss Tweed was just the beginning. Operating in the shadows to expose the shady.

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Rick LaRivière

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

—Susan L. Taylor

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Frankie Pressman

Frankie Pressman has many interests. None are WOKE.

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Dick LaFontaine

Veteran journalist Dick LaFontaine chases gripping, thorny, and precarious stories as a contributor to various publications.

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Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca

Greg Maresca

Maresca is a longtime columnist and satirist who is a New York City native and a Marine Corps veteran living in Flyover, Pennsylvania.

Email: greg_m@newsitem.com.

Matt “Sully” Sullivan

American patriot, believer in small-government federalism, warrior for judicial integrity, & advocate for a one-tiered, FAFO justice system.

Email: pinkypanther218@yahoo.com