This year's most popular Rooster dispatches
From Bitcoin cronyism to drunken school board members to weird British ladies vying for the Ohio House... it was another record-setting year at Rooster Worldwide LLC.
Thanks to brave and noble people like yourself, it’s been another record-breaking year at Rooster Worldwide LLC.
As we wind down 2024, it’s time to reflect on the most popular dispatches of the year:
Inside the worst commencement speech ever by Max Littman. The Rooster’s most-read story of the year about Chris Pan’s unorthodox spring commencement speech sparked an international firestorm.
Ohio State’s drug-fueled Bitcoin shame starts at the top. A day later, The Rooster revealed that OSU President Ted “Slapshot” Carter unilaterally selected Pan over objections from the Spring Commencement Committee. We sued Ohio State last week after the university stonewalled a public records request seeking insight into Slapshot’s decision
Operation Desperado: The long con of Vivek Ramaswamy. It’s easier than you’d think to get government efficiency expert Vivek Ramaswamy to appear in a sweltering parking lot outside Raisin Cane’s Chicken Fingers.
It was all good a week ago. The Rooster broke the story about the arrest of Bobby George, an infamous restaurateur from Cleveland, on attempted murder and rape charges.
Get a load of Daniel Kalmbach, a carpetbagging fake farmer running for the Ohio House. Profiling one of the most hilariously awful Ohio House candidates in the 2024 election cycle.
Weak men create hard times. In many ways, Ryan Day’s struggles against Michigan are the least of Ohio State’s problems, as the institutional rot runs deep at the local land-grant university.
Alleged drunk driver and occasional School Board member pens highly illegal anti-union manifesto. The Rooster broke the story about renegade Columbus City School Board member Brandon Simmons, who his colleagues have since censured in a still-ongoing saga.
Who is D.J. Byrnes? Here's how I came to do what I do. It wasn't a straight line to success if you can believe that.
Here’s the Trump campaign’s J.D. Vance dossier. The lamestream media balked at publishing hacked materials from the Trump campaign. Not The Rooster!
Westerville leads the way. A bike trip to Westerville as a heroic local school board booted LifeWise Academy from its campus.
Jack Windsor, alleged reporter, is a woman-beating hack. Honestly, this one is self-explanatory by title alone.
Inside the most brutal Republican primary in Ohio. A decorated military veteran faced a weird British lady in the Ohio House 75th District. Thankfully, the foreign loyalist lost.
How Slapshot Stole Christmas by Max Littman. Ohio State reneged on promised raises to its lowest-wage workers weeks before Christmas, and special investigator Littman spoke to an affected worker who plans to leave the university.
First, anti-transgender hysteria came for a cisgender girl in Ohio by Ben Ferree. Another dynamite freelance piece that explored how a young cisgender girl was originally targeted by bigots in the anti-transgender hysteria that has since swept the state.
Inside the idiotic implosion that led to Matt Huffman’s coronation. State Rep. Tim Barhorst staged a late rebellion against State Senate President Matt Huffman. Barhorst’s jet exploded before it even left the runway.
Reaping the whirlwind. A 110-mile round-trip bike trip to Springfield found a city that has long struggled with the immigrant labor it needed to survive.
The Browns got the pest they deserved. Their gambit for Deshaun Watson would have worked if he had remained good at football.
Requiem of a hog voter. Picking through the wreckage as the hog voter’s hot streak came to a tragic end in November.
Break the chains. Explaining why I don’t want Statehouse press credentials in the face of increased rumblings that the Republican junta is looking to crimp my access to Capitol Square.
Deep thoughts with Allan Block. Conservative correspondent “Don Liberty” held a stem-winding interview with Toledo Blade CEO Allan Block, who dished on everything from State Rep. Derek Merrin to Mike DeWine to the history of circumcision.
As you might imagine, most of these dispatches were free for the masses. That was made possible by the generosity of the Patriots Caucus, which sustains this project through financial support.
If you were a fan of the work in 2024, I’d be honored if you considered a Patriots Caucus membership since most of the best writing and reporting goes behind the paywall.
Next year should be another banner year for the operation. A few excursions to Capitol Hill will examine our nation's ailing soul.
Paid subscribers should also keep an eye out on Wednesday. I’ll be giving away books and merchandise as a small token of appreciation for those who have supported the operation.
Until then, my friends!
THOSE WMDs. Elon Musk is learning the hard way that he doesn’t know how to govern… The resurrection of Bass Reeves… The birth of the bleep and modern American censorship… A mother’s revenge… What do you do after you become the world’s youngest dictator?
It’s hard to believe the Dublin Dad dispatch was not in the year 2024. Have a great holiday season, DJ!