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Les Kinsolving hosts a daily talk show for WCBM in Baltimore. His radio commentaries are syndicated nationally. His show can be heard on the Internet 9-11 p.m. Eastern each weekday. Before going into broadcasting, Kinsolving was a newspaper reporter and columnist – twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his commentary. Kinsolving's maverick reporting style is chronicled in a book written by his daughter, Kathleen Kinsolving, titled, "Gadfly."
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The latest political wonderment in Illinois

by Les Kinsolving -- From wild and wooliest political Chicago (which, let us never never forget, sent U.S. Sen. Barack Obama to Washington) comes politically stunning news. The Associated Press reports the more…

Didn't Katie Couric ever learn to share?

by Les Kinsolving -- America is still known as "The Land of Opportunity." And this made me wonder why CBS' anchor lady, Katie Couric, has not, reportedly, offered to share some of more…

Racial segregation in Congress

by Les Kinsolving -- Forty-five years ago this March, I was one of the 25,000 who marched with him into downtown Montgomery, Ala., on the final day of the Selma March. On more…

Pat Robertson's theological stupidity

by Les Kinsolving -- Among a number of major media reports, CNN reports the following: "Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a more…

Baltimore's corrupt mayor escapes prison

by Les Kinsolving -- BALTIMORE – The Baltimore Sun, in its otherwise excellent reporting of the announced resignation of the city's mayor, Sheila Dixon, Jan. 6, should not have waited 31 paragraphs more…

Nonprofit colleges' million-dollar presidents

by Les Kinsolving -- Months after the New York Times headline: "23 Private College Presidents Made $1 Million in 2008, Survey Finds." Another Times story had the almost electrifying news: "Pittsburgh Holds more…

Harvard's disgraceful obeisance to Nazi Germany

by Les Kinsolving -- The absolute disgrace with which the late British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain acceded to so many demands of Adolf Hitler – and then returned to England and declared: more…

An assault on press freedom – by an editor

by Les Kinsolving -- On Election Day last month, a decisive majority of the voters of Maine turned down same-sex marriage. This led Trevor Thomas of the so-called Human Rights Campaign to more…