A Valentine's Day Goodbye

To those outlets that have run my columns -- websites like Townhall, Drudge, and Human Events; newspapers like The Fayette Citizen, the Petersburg Press-Dispatch, the Conservative Chronicle, and a bunch of others -- I give my thanks. To those opponents who have tried to run me out: thank you as well, because I've learned a lot. (As Mahalia Jackson sang, "Lord, don't move that mountain. Give me strength to climb it.")

I also teach journalism students at the University of Texas, and explain to them that this is a golden age of American journalism, for technological advances have made it possible for a wide variety of ideas to be heard. We can see with our own eyes the truth of what Puritan poet John Milton wrote in the 1640s, "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"

I plan to continue to have fun in these free and open encounters. I hope you'll join me at WORLD or at King's. Thanks for reading.