Scott Holleran

Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Ayn Rand and literary scholar Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss. Watch him dance in his movie debut—the first film inspired by his fiction writing—in Henry Dances. Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at  ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com

Death of a Navy SEAL

The loss of a Navy SEAL who was killed  last week while rescuing an American doctor held prisoner in Afghanistan underscores that the U.S. military action in Islamicist Asia is based on selflessness, not on U.S. self-interest. The SEAL’s name is Nicolas D. Checque. He...

The Bum, the Cop and the Facts

The Bum, the Cop and the Facts

This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at...

How the U.S. Appeases Iran

Soon, we may live to see what was once unthinkable: the reality of a nuclear Islamicist Iran. What should have been a simple smackdown of a primitivistic, barbaric regime by a global superpower has festered for over 30 years into a crisis of catastrophic proportions....

The 2012 Democratic National Convention

The 2012 Democratic National Convention

Barack Obama, America’s 44th president, loped into the arena last night applauding himself. When he stepped up to the podium, his eyes looked tired and his eyelids were heavy. He said next to nothing, really, which is what he stands for. It’s what his presidency...

Clinton’s Anti-Climax

I don’t know how the ex-president Bill Clinton will be remembered, though I suspect his main legacy may be how he embodies the narcissism of our times. Tonight’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, in which he nominated a lousy American president whom he...

Michelle Obama’s Envy Tirade

Today, the Democratic Party opened its convention in Charlotte, North Carolina by appealing to those who hate capitalism, Jews and the rich. It started with news of a refusal to acknowledge Israel’s capital in the party platform and ended with a scathing speech which...

Romney, Son of Romney

Romney, Son of Romney

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention was an apt preview of his prospective presidency, which at this point – and I say this barring any major developments such as an Obama smear or Romney...

Obama, the Nothing Man

President Obama, who arrived today in Kabul, Afghanistan, just finished addressing the nation tonight in a televised speech – addressing a camera, not U.S. troops – telling the public the opposite of the truth: that the United States is pulling out of Afghanistan. In...

Remembering the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Remembering the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Seeing Reginald Denny being assaulted and mutilated for the color of his skin on live television provided an unforgettable lesson in the politics of race-baiting: that jumping to conclusions may impair government from protecting the public and instead incur looting and …

Why The Hunger Games Satisfies

The Hunger Games is not explicitly for individual rights or any other political ideal; its power lies in a subtle grasp of what government control does to decent people.

Movie: The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is part of a history in dystopian-themed filmmaking about the individual against the government

Let’s Remember Whitney for Her Ability

Let’s Remember Whitney for Her Ability

By eulogizing Whitney Houston for her ability—essentially praising the good for being good in an age of sneering nihilism—her onscreen bodyguard conferred upon her memory an act of poetic justice and a lesson for everyone to learn.

The Truth About President Kennedy

The Truth About President Kennedy

“I’d rather my children red than dead,” President Kennedy told a young White House virgin whom he had summoned for sex, during the so-called Cuban missile crisis, according to the New York Post ‘s account of a new book, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President...

From Woodstock to Wall Street

The hippies squatting on Wall Street have reportedly violated numerous laws, including property rights and traffic laws, and they’ve been committing various illegal and unsanitary acts, including defecation, in public. Besides disrupting traffic on the Brooklyn...

Tucson and the Tea Party

Throughout social media, the left is really blowing the dog whistle on the Tea Party movement, from blaming opportunist Sarah Palin , whose Tea Party credentials are dubious, to status updates, comments, and this San Francisco Chronicle editorial posted by the...

French Pension Riots and U.S. 2010 Elections

First, Greece was in an uproar over government subsidies and entitlements. For the past seven days, France has also been rocked by nonstop violence caused by a slight change in government-controlled economic programs. The French have announced plans to raise the...

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood: A Hero For Our Times

Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is another epic action movie—and a scathing indictment of taxation without representation, government control of wealth and religion, and abnegation of man’s rights. That the filmmakers ultimately misplace its theme—by...

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