This is my final post on this blog.

My thanks to all of you who rack up thousands of views here every month — nearly 10,000 just two weeks into this month alone. I invite you to continue joining me by simply following this link and bookmarking it.

The reason for this change is that I cannot in good conscience continue providing free content to a publication that, no matter what tortured logic and manipulative language it uses as its justification, publicly advocates what effectively would be the overthrow of a legitimately elected President of the United States.

This is NOT a matter of being pro-Trump, anti-Clinton or anything else politically. It IS a matter of objecting to the implied contention that the small TU Editorial Board knows better than millions of American voters what they want for their country and that a legitimate election should be subverted in furtherance of a TU editorial AND reporting policy that has helped poison the discourse of political debate for more than a year and should prevail.

I am sorry it has come to this. I spent more than four decades in daily newspaper journalism as reporter, columnist and editor laboring in the belief that the effort should be a nonpartisan one working for the furtherance of public service and advancement of democracy. Regretably, the industry as a whole has largely disintegrated today into the sort of backbiting, politically divisive and thinly veiled sort of “reporting” common to the the1800s, with petty, venal party politics substituting for actual reporting and analysis.

Heaven help our nation.