John T. Reed’s news blog

I love the Wall Street Journal, but they occasionally write about stuff where I am an expert, and reveal that they are too reliant on twenty-something Ivy League grads with no subject matter knowledge in any subject. They just find some supposed experts whom they quote. .But their lack of knowledge and understanding of the subject prevents them from getting the story right. The less you know about the subject, the harder you need to work to get the story right. And I see no evidence of such work..Case in point: Today’s page M6 article “Tax laws have buyers on the...

50th West Point reunion On May 20 to 23 I attended my 50th college reunion. Four years ago, I attended and wrote about my 50th high school reunion. Are they essentially the same? Hell, no! I attended my high school, took tests there, played sports there, ate lunch there, made friends there. It was your basic run-of-the-mill public day school (no dorm). Actually, it was Collingswood High School in Collingswood, High School in Collingswood, NJ (Philadelphia metro area. A Northeast Philadelphia teacher I dated around 1971 asked me where I went to high school and said mine was the best one in the...

I got back from my 50th college reunion yesterday. I have been to reunions before. The new twist on this one was meeting Facebook friends. These are West Point classmates of mine with whom I never previously had a conversation. But they got to know me through this Facebook wall. And we finally had the face-to-face conversations at the reunion. I should have joined the school paper Makes me wish I had been a columnist in my high school and college papers when I was a student. I WAS a columnist in the Harvard Business School paper. Find the fight...

Laura Ingraham called James Comey a prig the other night..I got called that eight years ago. I had to look it up. It did not sound like a good thing..prignouna self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others..Moralistic, in turn, means,.mor·al·is·ticadjectiveoverfond of making moral judgements about others' behavior; too ready to moralize..It is a uniquely odd accusation.It seems to have two components:• believing you are superior to others• publicizing that fact1. Since some “others” are immoral, and you should not be, believing you are superior to those who are immoral is merely the accurate situation of a moral...

The sound of her own voice Laura Ingraham has a slobbering love affair with the sound of her own voice. She “asks” thousand-word, leading “questions” that leave almost no time for the answer from the guest. On 5/4//18, a guest actually asked her to stop talking over him when he was trying to read a document. Smirk She also wears an almost permanent smirk about how dumb those who disagree with her are. That is like Al Gore’s sighs, the fake theatrical laughter of Hillary and Juan Williams—an intellectually-dishonest debate tactic that would have you believe it proves the other...