International Holocaust Remembrance Day Observed But Memories Dim

The grim reality is that 76 years after the world got confirmation of the breadth of the Holocaust anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States and in Europe.  As the last survivors of the death

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Mary Tyler Moore —Twice a TV Icon

Mary Tyler Moore in her self-titled TV show. Mary Tyler Moore died January 25, 2017 in Connecticut.  The star of two of television’s most beloved, iconic, and influential sit-coms, a shrewd businesswo

JFK Brought Live Pizzazz to Live TV Press Conferences

President John F. Kennedy calling on a reporter in his first live TV press conference,  He won the room and the home audience, at that time mostly stay-at-home wives and mothers. With Joe Biden’s inco

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A Know Nothing Chicago Mayor Provoked Beer Riots

                              Dr. Levi Boone, Chicago's Know Nothing Mayor. Note:   Anti-immigrant demagoguery is nothing new in American politics.   Chicago’s Levi Boone was a spiritual and political

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Psst. They Made Nuclear Arms Illegal. Pass the Word

Although it barely made a ripple in the American press and media something astonishing happened while we were focused on an insurrection, an inauguration, and the Coronavirus pandemic.  The Treaty on

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