Jackie Kennedy Onassis once said, "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." Even though it's my sixth book that was published last week, I still feel I've done something wonderful. Why? Because my first five books were fiction, and "The Raffel Ticket: ...
Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...
For most folks, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. For me, growing up in a Catholic family, the holiday season usually began a couple of days later ... on the first Sunday of Advent. For the unfamiliar, Advent, from the latin adventus, meaning "coming" is the four ...
Before the House and Senate voted nearly unanimously — with just one "nay" in the House — to unseal the Epstein investigative records, the Epstein estate released 20,000 pages of unseen Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Following that, Democrats began their tour of ...
Clarity from Canada Editor: Very often, people in this country do not see clearly that which is so obvious to non-Americans. The following offers two quotes from a famous modern author from Canada. The author eloquently and succinctly states the obvious: "The unthinkable is made real not through rational thought, but feelings. We'll follow a charismatic leader if they tell us that we have a legitimate grievance. That they will give us back our dignity. Our threatened way of life. If we follow them, our enemies will be vanquished and we will be heroes (patriots). Who doesn't ...
Several of you responded to my "Sunday thought" by saying that the first step out of the mess we're in is to get rid of the Supreme Court's bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people — entitled to the same First Amendment ...
