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Fireside Chat or Fireside Lies
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men…Only the Shadow Knows.” Happy Days are Here Again! I can’t wait to warm up the tubes of my massive Magnavox mahogany radio in anticipation of a...
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Kennedy Assassination – A Weekend of Binge TV
The iconic George Lois Esquire Magazine Cover from May 1967. Lois was to comment that the cover represented “the moment when all American kids started to grow up with live violence in his carpeted den...
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Thanksgiving- A Heap Big Serving of Historical Inaccuracies
Was the first Thanksgiving truly a pow-wow worthy feast? Most of us associate the holiday with happy pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. It did happen once. It would be good to say this...
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I Dreamed I Was a Pilgim in My Carter Briefs
Braving the cold of Massachusetts, the Pilgrim and young brave prepare for their first Thanksgiving. Vintage ad Carter’s Trigs for Men I Dreamed I was a Pilgim in my Carter Briefs. With equal...
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Why NATO Was Needed
70 years ago NATO was born in the aftermath of WWII out of a desire to prevent WWIII. Conceived out of necessity, this enduring alliance was initially forged to prevent Soviet expansionism. The shared...
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Remembering Pearl Harbor December 7 1941
From the Archives: December 7, 1941 Just as 9/11 is a marker for this current generation, and November 22 was for mine, Sunday, December 7, 1941, was a where-were-you-when-kind of day that was seared...
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Make America’s Toilets Great Again
Donald Trump’s passion for plumbing has not been equaled by another U.S. President since Richard Nixon and the plumbers. Finally, Trump has something else besides impeachment in common with our 37th...
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Judaism is Not a Nationality
Mr. Trump, don’t dare tell me I’m not an American. When I was 16 in my last year of Hebrew School, the ongoing debate was whether I identified myself as an American Jew or a Jewish American. I can’t...
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Trump Uses the Bully Pulpit to Bully
Donald Trump’s take on the meaning of Bully Pulpit is twisted. This President uses his Bully Pulpit to…well, actually bully. Is he just a dunce who takes things too literally? Or is he just a bully?...
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No Salem Witch Trial
Donald Trump, you make me scream with rage! As someone who played Mary Warren in a High School production of “The Crucible” ( during another presidential impeachment by the by) I can say with...
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Impeachment
Donald Trump has colored outside the lines of the Constitution for way too long. There is no other choice but to Impeach!
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It Can’t Happen Here
It can’t happen here. Yet it can and it is. This year is ending in an epidemic of anti-Semitism. It must end. The ugly past has become present in the most horrifying way as anti-semitic vandalism has...
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A New Decade, Same Xenophobia-1920 Palmer Raids
A century ago a new decade was about to dawn on New Years’ Eve 1920. As tipsy Americans toasted one another with their last legal bottle of Champagne before Prohibition would go into effect at the...
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War, What is it Good For?
This past weekend the world trembled and spoke out in anger. Thousands of people gathered for more than 80 anti-war protests across the nation and the world. I think of our young men and women who...
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Yesterday’s Tomorrows Today
While thousands of new products and technologies will be shown off at the annual Consumer Electronics Show 2020 getting underway this week, I take a look back at the future technological wonders we...
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Seeing is Not Believing -The Dictator and the Doctored Photo
Is the Trump administration taking a well-worn page from Joseph Stalin’s propaganda playbook? File this disturbing story under “Back in the U.S.S.R.” On Saturday, the day of the 2020 Women’s March ,...
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Who Honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s Memory Best?
When it comes to honoring Dr. King on MLK Day, compare and contrast. While the top Democratic presidential contenders celebrated Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy in a show of unity linking arm and arm...
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Learning to Sacrifice- It’s The American Way
Share and Play Square Ok, Millennial. Overheard while waiting on an endless line at a picked-over, bare to the bones Cosco ( paper products, fuhgeddaboutit) One millennial to another: “ I’d rather die...
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All American Supermarket
This morning I stumbled out of bed groggily to get to the 6:30am Senior shopping lalapalooza at my local Stop & Shop supermarket and I hit the jackpot. It was nothing short of being like a...
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Lost in the Mail
Will the Merry Mailman go the way of the Merry Milkman? Say it ain’t so. The very thought that the once iconic American letter carrier who vowed to deliver our mail through snow or rain or heat or...
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