(Adapted from a previous post on 9/11/16) Today is number eighteen. Eighteen Septembers. Eighteen years. Two Towers. Four jets. One flank of the Pentagon. One field in southwestern Pennsylvania. Three thousand souls. Three presidents. Two wars. Many determined enemies. Eighteen Septembers later, America has moved on. As it HAD to. We treated the few survivors lucky enough to have been
It has become common place these days to refer to generational cohorts by nick names. Those Americans born between 1925 and 1945, for example, are often called, with much justification, the “Greatest Generation.” Those between 1965 and 1980 are called “Generation X.” And 1980 to the late 1990s, “Millennials”, and so forth. My generation, 1946 to 1964, is often called
Dear readers, what follows is short commentary on a number of recent events. Having Fun With The NYPD It took FIVE separate soakings of New York City police officers to finally garner ONE arrest! Apparently NYC’s resident hoodlums were so emboldened by mayor de Blasio’s milquetoast reaction to the first incident, several more hoodlums decided to have some fun with
In one of the many riveting scenes from the movie, The Godfather, Part Two, the main character, Mafia Capo Michael Corleone, is discussing the proposed assassination of a high profile individual in Federal custody. He turns to his advisor, Tom Hagen, who had claimed that such an assassination would be impossible, and says: “If anything in this life is certain,
Last weekend confirmed it. If there were ANY doubt that America is in the throes of an epidemic of mass murder, there isn’t any longer. TWENTY NINE innocent people dead and 53 injured in LESS THAN TWENTY FOUR HOURS, in two separate massacres (El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH), and just a week before that, there had been yet another
Dear readers, I must confess that, so far, I haven’t watched the Democratic debates closely. My plan has been to start watching when they whittle down the ranks of participants to single digits. I couldn’t help, however, taking a peek at some of the debate shenanigans that have drifted by on the Internet, and a couple of points are worth
Among the legends of Major League Baseball non is quite so enduring as the “curse of the bambino.” As any fan of the Boston Red Socks knows all too well, the legend involves the most famous baseball player that ever lived, George Herman Ruth, otherwise known as “the Babe.” In 1918 the Red Socks management made the colossal mistake (one
They’re at it again. April, May and June were a few months of relative quietude on the topic of border security. When the caravans began to get violent and “asylum seekers” began to clash with police along Mexico’s southern border, and then, even in Tijuana and other cities on Mexico’s northern border, media coverage surreptitiously dried up. The video footage
This essay is continued from Part One, posted on 7/13/19. The next category of fakery to mention is faked RACIAL IDENTITY. Apparently, coveted minority status in America has become SO advantageous that people are actually faking it! Two examples come immediately to mind. First is the presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. Ms. Warren used this claim
They’re EVERYWHERE! Fakers are all the rage. Lately there have been so many high profile fakers, they’re hard to keep track of. And, as the art form has evolved, there are now many categories of fakery. So, as a public service, I present a short list of blatant high profile fakers. You can thank me later. The first type of