Ken Burns鈥� 10-part documentary series "The Vietnam War" aired last September on PBS.It was of great interest to me, having spent a year at Danang Air Base between 1969 and 鈥�70.In Episode 5, the viewing audience was taken to the prison facility known as The Hanoi Hilton, where we saw an ...
Labor Day. Once upon a time, during presidential election years, this was the day on which the political knives came out.It was the day on which the candidate from the Missouri heartland, or the farm in Illinois, or the comfortable mansion on Cape Cod, or the Texas ranch, would fly to Michigan ...
Even though the president of the United States of America has, in effect, admitted he鈥檚 committed felonies, his loyal supporters, and most of the Republicans in Congress, still support him.Last Tuesday, when his former campaign chairman was convicted of eight felonies and his longtime ...
鈥淭here was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the still of the night, wept cold tears.鈥滷ather Adolphus Schwartz was the fictional creation of the wayward Roman Catholic F. Scott Fitzgerald. The good Father had a bad case of scrambled marbles. In the final stanzas of ...
Donald Trump has met his match.Omarosa Manigault-Newman is famously known for being devious, untrustworthy and vengeful.She鈥檚 now on the warpath, strategically aiming low blows at the man who made her famous.Omarosa had been a Democrat when she worked in the office of Vice President Al Gore ...
School bells ring soon, and we are already hearing from high schoolers about their stressful lives 鈥� ones rife with bullying and, maybe most alarming of all, the demands of studying hard and getting ahead.Such was the gist of a program this past week on National Public Radio. Joshua Johnson ...