It’s funny how our opinions change in the fullness of time. I was 24 years old and a regular listener to Top 40 radio when I first heard Terry Jacks singing “Seasons in the Sun” in 1974. I hated it. There was a sing-songy quality about it that was truly annoying and the story told …
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“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” When I first saw Donald Trump’s quote the other day about abandoning NATO to Vladimir Putin, I found myself thinking he had finally gone too far. No decent American could possibly forget the lesson of the 1930s when Adolf Hitler devoured much of Europe …
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The U.S. Senate voted 70-29 today to approve $95 billion of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, a vote that included a significant number of Republicans. Good news, huh? After all, the Senate is usually the difficult hurdle with 60 votes required to put an end to debate. Getting a bill through the Senate is …
In case the people of Pennsylvania were wondering why it was absolutely crucial to return Donald Trump to the White House, Trump himself gave them a very good reason in a speech Friday night in Harrisburg. If Trump isn’t elected, they will change the name of the state. Say what? Well, there are two questions …
It’s June 1942. A backstairs contact tells Edward R. Murrow that he can arrange a face-to-face interview with Der Fuehrer. There will be certain ground rules as to what Murrow may and may not ask, but Germany will guarantee Murrow safe passage into the Third Reich and will also guarantee his return to England after …
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Didn’t we once have a two-party system where both parties behaved reasonably? I was 10 years old in 1960 when John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ran against each other for the presidency. In one of their debates, I believe it was Nixon, the Republican, who said that he and Kennedy, the Democrat, both wanted …
When I was a little kid, I learned about a couple of unofficial holidays. I became aware. of Mothers Day and Fathers Day, and I asked my grandmother if there was a Children’s Day. “Every day is children’s day,” she told me. My grandmother has been gone for nearly 35 years. I think that particular …
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It’s time to try something new in the Middle East. Arabs have been waging war on Israel since that country declared its independence in May 1948, and the recent terror attacks by Hamas prove that no real progress is being made toward a peaceful solution. …
Ten years ago, I had never heard of Taylor Swift. In fact it was another concert with a younger female singer when I first became aware of her music. I went with my wife and son to see Jackie Evancho perform in Atlanta. She was 13 or 14 at the time, one of the young …
“It’s sad. It makes you want to cry.”“No, it’s sad. It make you want to laugh.”— BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (1973) If there’s one bad thing about being old, and of course there are more than one, it’s that you reach a point in your life where people your own age or younger than you …
