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 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.Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com

After Years of Appeasement, America Acts Morally Against Iran

Donald Trump is the first American president to militarily counterstrike an enemy explicitly on the principle of saving American lives.

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...

Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland

Disney writer Linda Woolverton (Mulan, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and director Tim Burton thoroughly reconfigure Lewis Carroll’s literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Disney’s new, computerized adaptation, which bears some...

Movie Review: Avatar

Avatar is big, loud, and bodacious--and totally bankrupt as a cinematic experience. I tried to like this spectacular monstrosity at every turn, especially with a new actor named Sam Worthington in the lead--he's much better in Terminator: Salvation--but enduring...

Summer of Socialized Medicine

Amid talk that the administration will re-name its plan for socialized medicine after the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and re-package the national health care campaign as an American tribute to a 47-year veteran of the U.S. Senate who persistently opposed...

Thug Worship in Iran and in America

Looters took over downtown Los Angeles the other night following a professional basketball victory. A news radio reporter and several policemen were attacked, stores were looted, and, as far as I can tell, police stood down and allowed the looters to do the damage....

Abortion and the Death of Dr. George Tiller

Abortion and the Death of Dr. George Tiller

Police have announced an arrest in yesterday's murder of Wichita, Kansas, Dr. George Tiller. Apparently, the shooter is an anti-abortion Christian who approved of assassinating abortion doctors (sources: New York Times, Kansas City Star). If true, this is yet another...

California’s Socialized Medicine Rising

This month, in a 73-page position paper, California's insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, proposed a government takeover of medicine. That the bureaucrat who would be governor prescribed more government intervention is not surprising. But, because the culture is...

New Year For Choosing a Health Plan

For many workers, the new year initiates a process called open enrollment--when many employees designate a health plan through their employer--that's as comprehensible as the tax code. During the annual cattle call, employees are pummeled with bureaucratic jargon...

U.S. Policy Towards Iran: 25 Years Of Denial

THIS WEEK MARKS 25 YEARS of America's appeasement toward Iran, which began in earnest on November 4, 1979, the day Iran declared war on America. Ayatollah Khomeini's thugs stormed the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, and held 52 Americans as prisoners for 444 days....

Shall We Dance: An Invitation to the Dance

Though no one will mistake Shall We Dance for a classic Fred Astaire musical, director Peter Chelsom's romantic dance comedy makes you want to grab a dish and dance 'til dawn. The jovial remake, based on director Masayuki Suo's Japanese movie of the same name and...

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