The names we choose for events and concepts matter. America’s post 9/11 ventures we called the Global War on Terror (GWOT). It included a host of military…
Suppose your great grandfather ran a scheme like Bernie Madoff’s which brought low, among many, a former president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant and the Marine…
What makes an afternoon at the Saratoga Race Course such a pleasure? Start with the nominal charges to park and for admission. No security types rumble through…
On October 6, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech in Omaha to the national convention of the American Legion. He defended four concepts his audience –…
For many who read – or had read to them – the N.C. Wyeth illustrated editions of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper and the like, the pictures…
Whitey Bulger got it right. His trial has been ‘a sham’. Bulger so characterised the proceedings preceding his meaningless sentencing to Judge Denise Casper who wanted to…
When his dog, General, got run over, in April, Grant Bercik thought about fitting memorials. He decided to build cairns – humankind’s oldest form of memorial – in the…
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