Dutch Ruppersberger 21-year Congressman and longer local Democratic Representative has announced his intention to retire, and from one conservative politically active citizen, I say “Well done, Congressman.”
Richard Vatz
The insanity of Md.’s insanity plea: Why is the murderer of 3 men ‘not criminally responsible’?
By Richard E. Vatz and Jeffrey A. Schaler The suspect in the killing of three workers in a Smithsburg, Md. factory -- the dead are Mark Alan Frey, Charles “C.J.” Edward Minnick Jr. and Joshua “Josh” Robert Wallace -- has been found “not criminally responsible.” ...
Finding a new president for Towson University has made a mostly good start
Towson University has picked its Presidential Search and Screening Committee (TUPSC) to choose its new president to replace Kim Schatzel, who went to become president at University of Louisville. The search committee is traditionally advisory, as is the main...
Evil party, stupid party: Bad choices on the ballot for a conservative professor
Maryland Reporter does not endorse candidates or accept political advertising. This commentary is the opinion of the author, and not the publisher. Opposing comments and commentary are welcome. In a related commentary, there are not just two choices for governor –...
Gubernatorial debate went a little bit Moore
In evaluating political debates, which I have done in classes and public as a professor of rhetoric for over four decades, it is reasonably expected that one reveal his biases: I am a Howard Baker conservative, and I have had some interaction with some of the...
Towson University lost a great one in President James Fisher
I should just like to offer a few reflections on the passing a few weeks ago of Towson University’s most charismatic president during my 48-year career here: James L. Fisher When I applied to Towson University for an instructor-tenure-track position, it was 1973, and...
Some thoughts on Brian Stelter, a former Towson U. student and controversial host of Reliable Sources show that CNN just yanked
Last month, CNN cancelled Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources show, the media criticism program he had hosted for nine years. Richard E. Vatz I should like to offer a few background notes, some unknown to the public, concerning my former reprobate student, Brian Stelter,...
Opinion: Ousting of Mosby is Baltimore’s half victory in fight for its life
Richard E. Vatz This writer was a resident of Baltimore City years and years ago when it was run by serious people, people like William Donald Schaefer and Kurt Schmoke. In the last few years, reasonable people concluded its prospects per the violence,...
Commentary: Maryland General Assembly puts the “die” back in Sine Die
By Richard E. Vatz The Maryland General Assembly adjourned with the ritual over-applauding by its legislator perpetrators. It is difficult to understand how at a time of murders, non-fatal shootings, violence, and bullying in schools dominating Baltimore,...
The Sun apologizes for its past but not its present
On Sunday, the Baltimore Sun wrote what they called “an apology,” but which is better described as what my field of rhetoric calls an “apologia.” Rhetorical scholars B. L. Ware and Wil A. Linkugel wrote the article of record on apologetic discourse about 50 years ago...
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