Fairfax County, Va., is renaming my high school. As news goes, it ranks somewhere below war in the Middle East, Republican antics in the House of Representatives and Big Don Trump’s latest meltdown. As renamings go, it’s sort of a “meh.” Most of us didn’t know who Wilbert Tucker Woodson was even when we were …
It’s amazing how some dreams can come true nearly a lifetime after you dream them and decades after you’ve all but given up on them. I was a voracious reader from an early age — I was reading books before my third birthday — and I made hundreds of friends in those books. So much …
“Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama …” Barry McGuire might have been wrong. We weren’t really on the “Eve of Destruction” in 1965, but we sure were on the even of an era and which more and more people were hating more and …
I have been reading a couple of Bob Woodward’s books about Watergate recently, one I read many years ago and one I wasn’t all that familiar with. I became aware of “The Last of the President’s Men,” Woodward’s book about the man who revealed President Nixon’s taping system, Alexander Butterfield, while reading Cassidy Hutchinson’s “Enough.” …
In 1948, when the United Nations dealt with what was known as the Palestine Mandate, the land was split into two potential nations — Israel and Trans Jordan. Israel was created for the Jewish people, many of them refugees and survivors of Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust. Trans Jordan was for the Palestinians, most of them Moslems. …
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When you compare someone to the late Adolf Hitler, it’s important to remember one thing. There are people in this country — far too many — who would find that a positive comparison. Ever since Donald Trump came down the golden escalator in 2015, people have been drawing comparison between him and the German fuehrer. …
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In the days before smartphones and iPods, before there was satellite radio, people who wanted to listen to music had two choices. AM and FM. Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, especially in the car, most of us only had AM radio, and one thing was definite about that. If a song was popular …
These are not the best of times. In fact, they often seem pretty close to the worst of times. Now it’s quite possible that I am seeing things through the filter of old-manness, but I don’t think that’s entirely true. I would be perfectly fine with turning the world over to people under 50, as …
This was the fourth of four days from 2014 when I wrote about my 100 favorite songs on an earlier website. At the end I’ll post links to the earlier three days. *** We have reached Day Four of the great countdown, where the rubber meets the road with Nos. 25-1 of my favorite songs …
Ten politicians are at the Vietnam Wall speaking veterans. See if you can identify the one who’s different. “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you for your service.” “Thank you …
