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John Glenn Remembered
John Glenn America’s hero In a world of space age super stars, none shone brighter than John Glenn Jr. For baby boomers weaned on TV’s Space Patrol and Tom Corbett Space Cadet, Lieutenant Colonel John...
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Trump’s Dreaming of a White Male Cabinet
What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing if you’re Donald Trump. Yes, Donald Trump is actually making good on one of his campaign promises-make America white male again. Trump’s all star, all boys...
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Defrosting the Cold War
“Defrosting the Cold War” collage by Sally Edelstein Is the Cold War coming out of the deep freeze? Having caught a Cold War chill I never could quite shake, the current frosty relations between...
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Merry Xmas to Our Military Men and Women
Bringing holiday cheer to our men overseas. Vintage WWII Coke Ad 1943 Remembering all our brave military men and women who won’t be home for Christmas! A Merry Christmas to All!
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Medical Emergency- America’s Health Care
Critical Care As the halls of Congress morph into a Critical Care Unit, the GOP’s prescription “to preserve our freedom” appears to be to pull the plug on Obamacare- STAT! Although some Republicans...
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Color Me Hopeful- Remembering the Kennedy Inauguration
#TurnHimOff Ratings are what Donald Trump understands. Protest in your own home on inauguration day. Turn off your TV Tomorrow is a day of no TV for me. Inauguration day, 2017 my TV goes dark. For over...
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Women March On Washington
Women’s March on Washington Graphics by Sally Edelstein and Karen Gutfreund Americans and citizens around the world are marching tomorrow to challenge Trump’s administration. We are here and we are...
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I Married a Refugee
Steeped in fear, Trump has cast an entire people as pre-disposed to disloyalty. Was this little refugee boy on the left any more of a threat to cold war America than the Syrian child on the right is...
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Closed Borders or Open Hearts
Trump has essentially pulled up the welcome mat to tens of thousands of people seeking asylum, based solely on their religion. Clearly Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled...
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She Persisted
“They can shit me up, but they can’t change the truth” – Elizabeth Warren. Vintage Suffragette postcard She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, She persisted. Silencing...
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Nuclear Ambitions
Off to the Arms races! Supersizing the Superpower collage of appropriated images by Sally Edelstein Well, we’re off to the arms races again as the supersizing of the superpowers begins anew. Donald...
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Slaves Were Happy Immigrants
The Tortured Truth about Slavery. As much as we whitewashed over the brutality of slavery as evidenced by this (L) happy “immigrant” slave as portrayed in a 1950s children’s coloring book, slaves were...
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Is Donald Trump Today’s Richard Nixon?
Talk about ripped from the headlines – that is if the headlines are 46 years old. MAD Magazine cover April 1971 Lies and Deceit -A Country Out of Order Has it begun to feel the country has gone...
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Kellyanne Conway’s Cold War Collection of Kitchen Spyware
In Kellyanne Conway’s alternative universe cold war housewives benefited from a whole range of home spy surveillance equipment like blenders, mixers, percolators and dishwashers all at her...
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Women Take a Back Seat Again
It’s a retro ride with the Republicans driving the fate of maternity coverage in health care plans for millions of women. (L) Vintage 1934 Chevrolet ad (R) Whats wrong with this picture? A dozen white...
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Maternity in the Age of Mad Men
Who’s Afraid of the Stork? asks this 1951 vintage ad for Lederle a Division of American Cyanamid Company. “The stork is now as tame as a household pet,” it boasts, explaining how safe childbirth has...
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Make Coal Great Again
How do we make America great again? Burn, baby, burn! Yes, it’s time to make coal great again! Wave a white flag; we are ending the long war on coal. Though of course the next time we wave a flag in...
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A Chocolate Bunny For Easter
Vintage ad Whitman’s Sampler for Easter 1951 For some, Easter is all about the candy Candy manufacturers have all hopped on the Easter candy bandwagon by painting some pastel colors on their usual year...
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Trump, Lincoln and The Art of the Deal
If only Abe Lincoln had availed himself of Trump’s “The Art of the Deal”, the civil war could have been ” worked out.” I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War....
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Memorial Day- Remembering My Greatest Generation Dad
The Greatest Generation loses one more…. Memorial day this year takes on a different significance than other years for me. This year as the number of WWII veterans continue to dwindle, another former...
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