The 1619 Project

The New York Times has launched their “1619 Project”– an examination and re-evaluation of the legacy of slavery in America. It’s leading proponent is NY Times reporter Hannah Nikole-Jones. A wide variety of historians, journalists, and other...

Impeachment Night 2019

An American President has been impeached three times since 1787 and many of us have seen two of them. There is so much to consider in the impeachment events of this day and yet so little of what has been said matters at all. From the start, this process has been about...

Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers

Is there no character that Tom Hanks cannot portray in an amazing way? He was a very believable Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks” (a movie I laughed and cried through). He was riveting as Captain Sully. I was scared to death right along with him as he...

Midway: The Movie

Way back in 1976 I saw the “blockbuster” movie of Midway. It starred Charleton Heston, Henry Fonda, and all the greats. Great actors. Not a great movie. It was riddled with historical inaccuracy and all sorts of fiction. Typical for Hollywood. The other...

The Second Russian Revolution, 1991

It had been percolating for years. The Soviet Union, with its repressive command and control government, simply could not keep pace with the Free World. In 1989 when communist governments fell in East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, it was only...

Christmas in Romania, 1989

The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, and the old Soviet bloc communist nations of eastern Europe soon became history. Most of them peacefully transitioned into western style free republics. Romania was an exception. On December 15 the Romanian communists...