Understatement of the year: Columbia University students who protested at nearby NYU were asked what they were protesting. One didn’t know while the other said she wished she was “better educated” not knowing how long Jews have lived in Palestine or what river and sea they are chanting about.
Photo of the times: New York rapper Zeddy Will posing with the five women who are expecting children with him in 2025.
DOGE ball paradox: Congressman John LeBoutillier once compared Tip O’Neill to the federal government as being, “big, fat, and out of control.” The irony is that we need another government agency to cut government.
Self-induced quandary: Americans live in the most obese country in the world. Yet many fear Health Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will approach things differently.
Regret: Joe Biden laments dropping out of the presidential race believing he would have won just like he beat Medicare, inflation and secured the border.
Most fitting name change: Rapper Sean Combs has gone by many different names: Puff Daddy, Sean John, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, and now: Inmate 999789.
Keeping his promise: Pete Rose anchored in Las Vegas restaurant talked baseball in his last days telling one patron in April that if the Mets made the playoffs, he would drop dead.
Irony: Pete Rose was barred from Cooperstown for what Major League Baseball, now promotes nonstop.
The bounty sprint: In San Francisco, everything thieves steal under $900 is free, and over $900 is free, too – provided you run fast.
Getting Dicked: Liz and Dick Cheney joined Democrats, while Elon, Tulsi and RFK Jr., joined Republicans.
No Academy Award: The Reagan biopic performances of Dennis Quaid and Jon Voight deserve Oscars along with Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan. Due to the never-ending politics of Hollywood, it will never happen.
Biden legacy: The Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World updated their Joe Biden animatronic with Biden vacationing asleep in a beach chair.
Interview of the year: The Musk-Trump interview was a conversation between two businessmen who understand government regulations better than most politicians or media minions.
Statistics don’t lie: Market results under Democrat or Republican majority since 1926 has returned an annual average of 14.52% in 13 years of Republican government and 34 years of Democrats.
Best movies: In “Am I Racist” Matt Walsh exposes race hustlers and grifters by comic wit. In “What is a woman?” Walsh challenges radical gender ideology through beguiling interviews and humor. In “The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” the primates balance the federal budget and secure the border within a month of taking over. Let’s see Trump beat that.
Not your daddy’s beauty contest: The plus-sized winner of the National American Miss Alabama competition was a woman. Many expressed relief that the pageant winner wasn’t male.
Books of the year: “For Blood Money,” Peter Schweizer exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s covert operations in the American drug trade, social justice movement, and medical establishment to sow chaos throughout the United States. In “America Betrayed” by David Horowitz examines the three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union on how a revival of Marxism is taking over our institutions. Raised by communists, David Horowitz understands this tyrannical worldview better than anyone.
Best commencement speech: Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas is one college standing against the toxic winds of the cultural zeitgeist. The boldest commencement address of 2024 was delivered not by a poet, politician, or eggheaded intellectual but by Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker.
Statistical nirvana: In less than a decade, the percentage of LGBTQ+ Americans has more than doubled, according to Gallup. At this rate by 2060 everyone will identify as LGBTQ.
To honor the memory of my longtime friend and Marine veteran who, along with his son, gave his life in the defense of their home during Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island, the 12th annual John Filipowicz Award is awarded to former Mount Carmel firefighter Mike Kotzo. Kotzo has spent 21 years as a member of the NFYD and saved Harlem residents back in February by rappelling six-stories rescuing those trapped. Kotzo started his firefighter career as a youth volunteer with the Anthracite Fire Company in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.
