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We just completed “The Year of the Woman” that ended with a record number of women being elected to the US House of Representatives. Women were energized by the #MeToo movement. Almost a hundred years ago, they were fighting for the right to vote, never mind actually holding office. The fight for the right to

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.” Sound familiar? How about this, “I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed…the vulgarity…of those who write for them.” No, it’s not one of our worst presidents. It’s one of our best, Thomas Jefferson. All presidents have issues with

December marks the end of the year, until we get to the last day and we celebrate the start of a new year. Once Thanksgiving is over, everyone starts the big push toward Christmas which is one of the few bright spots in the month. The days get shorter. It’s dark at 4:30 leading to

When you’re retired you have time to do things you would never think of doing while you were working. One of the guys in our weekly golfing group had the idea to take a tour of the Citizens Bank Park. We were set up for a 10:30am tour on Friday. Our natural instinct is to

Thomas Jefferson said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” There has always been an adversarial relationship between the press and the government. The most recent example of this was the confrontation between CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta and President Trump at a bizarre

Elie Wiesel is a man who could have lived a life filled with anger and hatred because he was a victim of the worst kind of anger and hatred. Wiesel is probably the most famous of the Holocaust survivors. Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. He was 15 years old when he and his

 I met this young girl on a recent trip to the James Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. It was quite by accident. I was looking for something to do recently. I had been by the museum many times. So, I decided to spend a couple of hours educating myself. I’ve always been interested in

It’s the most notorious crime scene in modern American history. It reaches from the window of a non-descript warehouse building to the street below, and what happened there changed our country and all of our lives forever. It came without warning and lasted just a few seconds. But its impact horrified us, brought us to

They were intelligent, athletic, attractive, and fully engaged in life. They didn’t know each other. Two lived in rural middle America, one in Washington DC. They were doing what was an important part of their lives. Two were out for a run. One was on a golf course. They had no reason to suspect they

It’s a box usually buried at the bottom of the sports pages called “This Date in Baseball.” It’s something only real sports nerds or historians would take the time to read. In tiny print, it lists what happened in baseball on that day in history. This weekend I glanced  down the list of things that