Red Schoendienst died recently. He was a major league ballplayer, beginning in the 1940s. He later managed.As a youngster of 9, 10 and 11, he was my hero. He played for the Braves when they played in Milwaukee. I was a Pirates fan. Nevertheless ...I bet most of you never heard of Red ...
I鈥檝e never been invited to the White House.I doubt if I ever will be.If asked, though, I鈥檒l decline the invitation, anyway.So there!I鈥檓 not unlike a growing number of athletes who鈥檝e announced they don鈥檛 want to go there while Donald Trump is the president.Ever since Calvin Coolidge ...
On the day Robert Kennedy died in a Los Angeles hospital from a pistol wound to the head, President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to approve legislation 鈥渢o bring the insane traffic in guns to a halt.鈥漈hat alone would not be enough to stop gun violence, LBJ said. However, it would 鈥渟low ...
Race. It鈥檚 America鈥檚 Great Unhealed Wound. It鈥檚 a subject that requires that you tread lightly, lest you court hostile rebukes.I鈥檓 not treading lightly here. I don鈥檛 care. These things need to be said. Roseanne Barr is a classic racist.Last Tuesday morning, she blindly waded into a ...
It鈥檚 fitting that the Civil War generation was the first to observe Memorial Day. The war was so awful and the slaughter went on for such a long time, it only seems rightLetters written from southern battlefields arrived days, sometimes weeks, later in homes across the North, carrying word of ...
Well, it looks like The Great Dealmaker dealt himself a bad hand.Mr. Trump frequently berates his predecessors (Obama, Bush, and Clinton) for their lack of deal-making skills at bringing Korean strongman Kim Jong Un to heel.It turns out he's no better than them in that regard.Oh, the stage had ...