So don’t complain. Take Gaza, as an example. Jews controlled Gaza for 27 years, and in order to pacify their enemies, they relinquished control of it. The Gaza residents right away voted in Hamas, and then the rockets started to be fired at Israel…who gave them the land. Hundreds and thousands of them. Israel […]
Remember the old time telephone party lines? When my parents bought a 40 acre retirement farm in Southern Maryland in 1948, and all we could get for a telephone, was a party line. Two wires, with several phones on them. If one was talking, no one else could talk, but a lot of people […]
It was 1952. I was 18, and decided to do a cross country trek in my 1941 Plymouth. I went up the East Coast (I was born and lived in D.C.) to Lower New England, and then west, following the New York Central ’Water Level Route,’ and went through Detroit. It was a splendid […]
Probably not a good word, but it is meant to mean reverse digging our own grave, which we have been doing for almost a century. Wilson got us into WW I, for no reason at all, as it had nothing to do with us. Then, he tried to get us into the League of […]
Poor rickety Helen Thomas is out of a job. She’s just a couple months short of ninety, and she got fired. That front row seat at President’s and other news conferences will be occupied by someone else from now on. She made a hideous error. She asked Obama at his first news conference just […]
A Kid’s movie? A child’s story? Was it that simple? Maybe not. Frank Baum wrote the story, and it was first published in 1900, with a musical version for an adult audience, written and released in 1901. Baum called his creation a “Modernized Fairy Tale,” but he had very strong political opinions, which are […]
As you know, we spent a week in New Orleans, and to answer your question in advance, New Orleans is over 100 miles from the Gulf. New Orleans is on the Mississippi, which runs south, and so there could never be any oil in New Orleans from the BP runaway well. But there is […]
In 1902, Argentina was one of the wealthiest, most industrialized, prosperous nations on earth. Automobiles, electricity, and telephones were common. Millions of acres of rich farmland, navigable rivers, and accessible seaports, graced Argentina. It made and grew what it consumed, and exported goods throughout the inhabited world. It was second only to the United […]
(As I was putting my column up, my $&#%^@ computer erased the whole thing, so I’ll rewrite it briefly. I hate computers!) The Bush stimulus of $700 billion outraged everyone, and millions of e-mails, phone calls and letters failed to stop it. McCain rushed home to vote for it, interrupting his campaign. That vote […]
Now that we have gotten the unimportant part over with, let’s get on to the real problem. My personal giving habits, are important only to me, although I did receive one letter from a reader who truthfully believes that some of the homeless are really worthwhile and can be helped. I don’t disagree, but […]