https://pjmedia.com/author/roger-l-simon/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 10 Apr 2026 01:55:56 -0400<![CDATA[(This is the first entry in the “American Refugees” Substack of Roger Simon and Sheryl Longin that begins Aug. 8, 2024.)]]>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[Culture]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2024/08/07/out-of-africa-n4931434<![CDATA[It all began&nbsp;on&nbsp;June 1, 2018,&nbsp;when&nbsp;my wife, daughter, and I decamped Los Angeles for Nashville, Tennessee.]]>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:00:34 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2024/01/09/why-pjms-once-upon-a-time-founder-wrote-his-new-book-american-refugees-n4925209<![CDATA[I’m not going to bury the lede. After fifteen years, I am leaving the company I co-founded, PJ Media, to write exclusively (for journalism) for The Epoch Times.]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 01:30:16 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/12/05/pj-farewell-n218979<![CDATA[I attended two Ivy League schools (Dartmouth and Yale) some time ago, roughly the Early Paleolithic Age, and, best as I can remember, sort of liked them. But lately I&#8217;m beginning to think the whole elite school thing has turned into one big shuck, maybe it even was then—and not just because of the revelations of all the cheating surrounding admissions or that the institutions apparently discriminate against Asians as they did against Jews back in the day.]]>Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:06:37 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2019]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/11/23/abolish-the-ivy-league-already-n218978<![CDATA[&#8220;Show me the man and I&#8217;ll show you the crime.&#8221; In recent years, many of us have become extremely, even overly, familiar with this famous quote from Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Stalin&#8217;s chief of secret police, the NKVD.]]>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:34:19 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/11/10/what-impeachment-americas-first-show-trial-begins-wednesday-n218974<![CDATA[As Lee Smith details extremely well in his new book The Plot Against the President, since the election of Donald Trump, the American public has been subject to a non-stop barrage of leaked news, almost all of it completely inaccurate or so far out of context that it might as well be.]]>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:28:00 -0500<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/11/04/the-cowardly-whistleblower-and-anonymous-must-go-public-n218971<![CDATA[What does it mean after the House of Representatives — on an almost one-hundred-percent pure partisan vote, save for two Democrats who wisely demurred — decides to expand an impeachment investigation on what they claim to be serious charges when&#8230; the very next day&#8230; the stock market zooms to all-time highs, breaking records substantially on all major indexes, and black unemployment goes to all-time lows?]]>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:35:25 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/11/01/dems-impeachment-charade-a-disaster-for-them-not-the-american-people-n218970<![CDATA[For years, D.C. insiders called Democrats &#8220;The Evil Party&#8221; and Republicans &#8220;The Stupid Party.&#8221; That seemed an oversimplification but not so much anymore. With this vicious, un-American and psychologically deranged attempt to impeach Donald Trump (or whatever this meretricious plan is—a way forward?) without evidence of the remotest substance, the Democrats reveal themselves to be evil indeed—and without quotation marks.]]>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:38:08 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2020 presidential election]]><![CDATA[Democrats]]><![CDATA[Impeachment]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/30/the-evil-party-earns-its-name-with-shameful-impeachment-attempt-n218969<![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi appears to have been deeply unhappy she and other Democratic House members weren&#8217;t informed in advance of the action to eliminate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Saturday night.]]>Sun, 27 Oct 2019 23:48:46 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/27/after-baghdadi-action-dem-candidates-look-like-children-n218968<![CDATA[Winter may be coming but it&#8217;s already springtime for lawyers in Washington, D.C. The list of people lawyering up these days would probably fill this page and lap over onto the next. It&#8217;s just been announced that the John Durham investigation into the provenance of the Russia probe has turned into a criminal investigation.]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:47:48 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2016 presidential election]]><![CDATA[media]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Russia collusion]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/24/durham-investigation-going-criminal-a-disaster-for-the-msm-n218967<![CDATA[Our hearts are supposed to be pounding because &#8220;Anonymous,&#8221; the character who wrote a New York Times op-ed back in 2018, supposedly from inside the Trump administration, has secretly been working on a book that is about to be published.]]>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:13:22 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[media]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/22/anonymous-and-the-whistleblowerdcs-epidemic-of-cowardice-n218966<![CDATA[Journalism isn&#8217;t just dead — it&#8217;s decomposed.]]>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 23:11:03 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2019]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/20/trumps-labeling-of-fake-news-was-an-understatement-n218964<![CDATA[While Democrats and their media friends natter on about impeachment and quid pro quos, trying to deflect from the the obvious corruption of Biden &amp; Son and the imminent — at some point anyway — appearance of the IG report on FISA and the Steele Dossier — the real action, as it often is, is elsewhere.]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:41:20 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2019]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[William Barr]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/17/mifsuds-cellphones-mean-barr-investigation-heating-up-n218962<![CDATA[If there is one thing that Tuesday night&#8217;s Democratic debate showed us—as if we didn&#8217;t know it in the first place—it&#8217;s just to what degree the media is in the tank for the Democrats. They&#8217;re not only in the tank—they built it, filled it with water up to the brim, and would turn up the temperature to boil Donald Trump alive if they could. And maybe they can.]]>Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:42:44 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2020 presidential election]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/16/cnn-cements-its-bias-reputation-at-tuesdays-debate-n218961<![CDATA[The press conference, live on television, from the Oval Office concluding this round of China trade negotiations was one of the more fascinating events of recent years. Spin, real, or a combination, the love-fest between President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, both characterizing this first phase of their deal as not just an economic agreement but an important step forward for world peace, was one of those rare inspirational moments. Could human life really be that way?]]>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:07:15 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/11/trump-makes-real-progress-with-china-while-dems-play-impeachment-n218959<![CDATA[The important news of the day&#8211;far beyond the inevitable tedious impeachment jousting&#8211;is that John Durham&#8217;s investigation of the provenance of the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion has expanded, according to several administration officials.]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 22:37:28 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/08/democrats-fear-of-durham-about-to-reach-panic-level-n218956<![CDATA[We all know why impeachment is really happening &#8212; and when I say all, I include especially the Democrats and their devoted media allies/leaders. They know because they live in fear of what they wrought and desperately want to hide it or bury it (under impeachment) before it is laid out before the public.]]>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 22:24:26 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/06/the-pre-impeachment-of-donald-trump-never-stopped-n218955<![CDATA[You could call it The Maltese Falcon, but the title&#8217;s been taken. And The Joseph Mifsud Story doesn&#8217;t quite have a ring to it. Besides, there are so many more international players &#8212; Italians, Australians, Brits &#8212; that we need a wider cast as well as a better title. Peter Lorre, where are you? And Sydney Greenstreet?]]>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 23:53:05 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/03/the-joseph-mifsud-story-the-great-movie-hollywood-will-never-make-n218954<![CDATA[Although I completely disagree with Bernie Sanders&#8217; policies, I join with other Americans in wishing him a speedy recovery from his recent surgery during which stents were inserted to open an artery blockage.]]>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:00:05 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]><![CDATA[Health]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/10/02/bernie-sanders-heart-america-in-a-time-of-rage-n218953<![CDATA[If I were a Democrat, I would be afraid, I would be very afraid, after reading former Attorney General Michael Mukasey&#8217;s Monday WSJ oped: &#8220;John Durham&#8217;s Ukrainian Leads.&#8221; The subtitle is &#8220;What the prosecutor has found may be quite different from what the Democrats are looking for.&#8221;]]>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:40:11 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]><![CDATA[2016 presidential election]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Russia]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2019/09/30/mukasey-oped-should-strike-fear-in-democrats-n218951