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It started with the woman who almost never speaks in public. Suddenly, last Thursday Melania Trump walked out to a podium in the White House in her perfectly tailored suit and talked about the last thing her husband wants to hear about, Jeffery Epstein. She said, “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein

I was listening to sports talk radio when I heard an interview with New York Post Sports Columnist Mike Vaccaro. He’s written a new book about George Steinbrenner. Being a life long Yankees fan, it caught my interest. I remembered there was a sports writer at the Post who was a St. Bonaventure University graduate.

What’s happened to our country? We are in the middle of an undeclared war crippling the world’s oil supply. We watch the Middle East on fire every day. Thousands killed including US service personnel with no end in sight. Gas prices climbing by the hour. Hours long lines at airports. Our government is unable to

You’re taken in by the beautifully restored 1930 George Washington Ballroom at the War Memorial in Trenton, NJ. The only light are hundreds of candles illuminating the stage, along the floor lining the walls and single candles at the beginning of every aisle. Our tickets were a birthday gift from friends. It was a one

There is no more consequential decision a president makes than committing the nation to war. There is a process of getting congressional approval to declare war and a full explanation to the American people of why war is justified and what the goals and end game are. The current Trump war got none of that.

The last time I wrote about a birthday I was sixty-five and I called it “The Last Birthday”. I wrote about the significant birthdays in our lives turning eighteen, then twenty-one, and finally sixty-five and what those milestones represented in our lives. I was looking forward to more birthdays. But now I’m rethinking this “Last

Just when we thought he couldn’t shock us and outrage us any more with his behavior. Trump continues to do everything to divide us with his narcissistic personality, the constant need for admiration. But it’s always the wrong kind of attention.We have seen the signs and actions that told us he was a racist and

“From the time he was three, we knew he wanted to be in the military.” Barton Humlhanz’s mother, Michele said. “He tried to join the military in high school. Bart wanted to be a military police officer. When he graduated, there was no openings in the army for a military police officer. The army said

This is the time of year we look back on the good and the bad. We can all argue about what we think should be included on which list. I have my own list of people who showed us examples of those not afraid to make sacrifices to stare down the world’s bully. They are

Mia Tretta was in her dorm room with a friend at Brown University last Saturday when she got an alert warning about an emergency at the engineering building. She thought it couldn’t be a shooting. We all know now it was a shooting that killed two students and wounded nine. The Associated Press spoke with