March 19, 2021

The Trump Swagger

At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney was a few minutes behind schedule to take the podium and accept the nomination for president. In the long walk from his private room through the corridor and behind the stage, the gent...

May 17, 2020

Time to break diplomatic ties with China

In the latter half of the 20th century, the United States made two major mistakes with communist China.  The first was obvious from the start.  The second took decades to sink in, if it even has. During and after World War II, ...

July 21, 2019

ADL Chief Attacks President Trump... Again

Comes now Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt with his latest diatribe against the President of the United States. Greenblatt is very upset with Donald Trump. So upset, in fact, that he accused the President of -- stop me if you’v...

April 11, 2018

When the Nazis Came for the Guns

Even at age 90, Helga Lustig vividly remembers when she first heard the news that her father had been taken away by the Nazis. It was 1938, and she was safely ensconced in a boarding school in Holland just across the border from Germany. ...

April 4, 2018

Martin Luther King and Black Lives Matter

This week marks fifty years since the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was only thirty-nine when he was slain by a white supremacist in Memphis. In the early 1960s, through his charismatic personality and successful nonviolent tacti...

March 15, 2018

The Unitarians and Black Lives Matter

The Unitarians were among the earliest and most successful in the Underground Railroad, rescuing hundreds of slaves from bondage, spiriting them away to freedom by an elaborate network of safe houses from Virginia to the Canadian border.  T...

December 10, 2017

Why Jerusalem Matters

The memorial to President John F. Kennedy is shaped as the stump of a fallen tree, symbolizing a life cut short. Surrounding it are acres of pristine forest, planted long ago in his honor, with other adjoining acreage for his brother Robert, and stil...

August 22, 2017

Antifa Comes to Boston

The counter protest to the Free Speech Rally on the Boston Common went off nearly as expected. The Free Speech people were already at the Boston Common bandstand, protected by a ring of Boston Police on foot, then a second ring of police on bicycl...