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Children: No Shelter from Storms of the '60s May. 17, 2023
Children of the '60s were very different from children in the '60s. Flower children of the '60s on ... Read More
The Brown Catholic Air Nov. 25, 2022
When President John F. Kennedy died, he took the brown Catholic air with him. The brown Catholic air... Read More
Who Is Your Enemy? Feb. 25, 2022
Vladimir Putin looks a little like a guy who used to run a liquor store not too far from where I liv... Read More
'Last Night in Soho': Vintage Creeps Oct. 29, 2021
Has anything like this ever happened to you? You move to a new town — let's say it's London &#... Read More
'Summer of Soul' ( ... or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Jul. 02, 2021
At the end of June 1969, about six weeks before the soon-to-be-famous Woodstock rock festival got un... Read More
Beware of Dems' Proposed Domestic Terrorism Law Apr. 21, 2021
Top congressional Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are pushing new laws to s... Read More
Who Are the True 'Domestic Terrorists'? Feb. 02, 2021
"Never allow a good crisis (to) go to waste. It's an opportunity to do the things you once thought w... Read More
2020 Dodge Charger Oct. 06, 2020
Most American cars used to be like the Dodge Charger still is. They were big, and they had rear-whee... Read More
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie Jul. 07, 2020
Help me with a provocative question. I've pondered; I've thought; I give up. The question: Why don'... Read More
Fashion Icons by the Decade Mar. 17, 2020
With almost 40 years of writing about the world of fashion, I have been inspired by famous women who... Read More
Biden Claims He Marched To Protest Segregation; Where's the Proof? Dec. 12, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden remains the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination ... Read More
50 Years Ago: The Day Nixon Routed the Establishment Nov. 01, 2019
What are the roots of our present disorder, of the hostilities and hatreds that so divide us? When d... Read More
Is Trump Facing a 1960s-Style Revolt? Oct. 29, 2019
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world's worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS cal... Read More
Woodstock, the Last Word Aug. 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Well, all the palaver about the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has finally shut do... Read More
The Disappearing of Generation X Feb. 08, 2019
Generation X — born between about 1961 and 1981 — have been "disappeared" from the media... Read More
Hey, Grandpa, What Did You Do in the '60s? Dec. 15, 2018
Children, gather 'round. If your parents or grandparents came of age in the '60s, they might not hav... Read More
Of the Baptists and the Modern World Jun. 12, 2018
I live in amity with the Southern Baptists, whose general tolerance for my fellow "Whiskeypalians" I... Read More
Secret Ballot Mar. 12, 2018
Here's a little story from the 1960s. My parents were ordinary working people. They went to Mass eve... Read More
... And Don't You Dare Disagree -- Hear?! Feb. 13, 2018
I returned just now from a memorial service, at a packed Presbyterian church, for an 86-year-old ort... Read More
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again? Feb. 14, 2017
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look ... Read More
