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50 Years Ago Today!

February 20, 2019February 3, 2019 20th Century US, American, NASA, NASA History, Russian Space Program, SPACE

We had egg on our faces. Those dirty Soviets had managed to beat us to it. On April 12, 1961 we were humiliated as

Why the Babe?

February 19, 2019February 18, 2019 20th Century US, American, BASEBALL, Boston Red Sox, CULTURE, Hank Aaron, HISTORY, History of the Game, MAIN PAGE, MLB Hall of Fame, Steriods, Ted Williams, World War II

It is the All-Star Break. It’s all about Baseball. I wrote this on December 6, 2017. He was out of shape, overweight, loved food,

The Lasting Power of Hollywood

January 4, 2019January 3, 2019 20th Century US, American, Classic Hollywood, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, ISLAM & WAR ON TERROR, MAIN PAGE, Music, Terror, World War II

First published on May 23, 2018. Let’s get one thing perfectly clear. It doesn’t matter what one’s nationality or patriotic leanings are, the most

Apollo 8

December 22, 2018December 21, 2018 20th Century US, Apollo Program, CULTURE, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, NASA, NASA History, PERSONAL, SCIENCE, SPACE, Technology

I fell in love with ‘space’ when I was just a little kid. Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968. The next night, my

Sunday Morning Opera: The War to End All Wars

November 11, 2018November 9, 2018 20th Century US, Classic Hollywood, CULTURE, HISTORY, Music, OPERA, Simon Keenlyside

Simon Keenlyside recorded an album of song, dedicated to those who fought in World War I.

My Mother’s Cats and Victor Laszlo

July 16, 2018July 15, 2018 20th Century US, American, CATS, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, FAITH, Family, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, PERSONAL

A year ago, as I worried about the sale of the ranch, and where I was going to move and how I was going

Why Trekkies Should Love Lucy

June 15, 2018June 14, 2018 20th Century US, Art, Classic Hollywood, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Music, Science Fiction, Star Trek 2

First published on September 7, 2016 I’ve been saying that the first woman to grace American currency should Lucille Ball, who became the first

June 6, 1944

June 6, 2018June 4, 2018 20th Century US, American, England, HISTORY, World War II

United Kingdom United States Canada Australia Belgium Czechoslovakia Denmark Free France Greece Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Commander, SHAEF: General Dwight D. Eisenhower Commander,

What Is Memorial Day?

May 28, 2018May 22, 2018 20th Century US, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY 1

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely

All the Presidents’ Women

April 29, 2018April 26, 2018 20th Century US, American, American Revolution, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, Donald Trump, FAITH, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, HISTORY, Jimmy Carter, POLITICAL, REPUBLICAN, Ronald Reagan

I love watching Democrats wax poetic about Donald Trump and his alleged lack of morality. This is where I freely admit, if I were

Why?

November 22, 2017November 20, 2017 20th Century US, CRIME, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, FAITH, HISTORY

After all these years, I still don’t understand why. I was just a little kid, but what I remember is it was the first

Part IV: Nazis in the Closet?

August 24, 2017August 22, 2017 20th Century US, Antifa, Barack Obama, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, ECONOMY, George Soros, Hate Crimes, HISTORY, KKK, MAIN PAGE, Neo-Nazi, World War II

Part I Part II Part III Have you ever wondered why the collective left-wing goes insane when the term ‘Nazi’ is used. They automatically

Part II: Nazis in the Closet

August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 20th Century US, Bigotry, Classic Hollywood, Cochise County Cowboy War, Cochise County War, CONSERVATIVE, Council of Conservative Citizens, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Doc John Henry Holiday, Far Righ Loons, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Hate Crimes, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Idiot Conservatives, John Tanton, KKK, Lincoln County Cattle War, MAIN PAGE, Militias, Neo-Nazi, NEW MEXICO POLITICS, Racism, Revisionism, Stormfront, TOMBSTONE, Wild West 1

I originally published this July 2, 2015. It is perhaps more important today than when I wrote it. I am now blending it in

Caddyshack America Strikes Again

June 22, 2017June 21, 2017 20th Century US, American, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, DEMOCRAT, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Newt Gingrich, POLITICAL, Republican Party

We are now living in the era of Caddyshack politics – the snobs verses the slobs. I think we all know who are the

Stigmatizing the Enemy

June 6, 2017June 5, 2017 20th Century US, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, Family, Family History, Historial Ignorance, ISLAM & WAR ON TERROR, MAIN PAGE, PERSONAL, Problems with Islam

Seventy-three years ago today, our Greatest Generation mounted one of the greatest attacks in human history as upward of two hundred thousand Allied soldiers

Weird Stuff & Historical Ignorance

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 20th Century US, American, Ancient, Bigfoot, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Monsters, SCIENCE, Technology, UFO’s, Victoriana, WEIRD STUFF, Wild West, WYATT EARP

I don’t mind admitting I enjoy all the fun crypto thing on cable. I’ll also admit that, although I’m a healthy skeptic about most

The Great Russian Witch Hunt

December 14, 2016December 13, 2016 20th Century US, American, Barack Obama, Bigotry, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, Donald Trump, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Obama Administration

Witch hunts are an excuse for those in power, or who wish to be in power to destroy or ruin parties who will supersede

On Forgiveness

November 22, 2016November 21, 2016 20th Century US, Anglican, Catholic, CULTURE, Episcopal Church, FAITH, Faith, HISTORY

I was going to write a different post for today, but then I realized it could be worked into the November 22 message. Monday

The Trump as Hitler Insult

November 15, 2016November 15, 2016 2016, 20th Century US, Barack Obama, Clinton, CRIME, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, Elizabeth Warren, Hate Crimes, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Racism, Trump, World War II 1

“…We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we are resolved

Honoring My Family’s Vets

November 11, 2016November 11, 2016 20th Century US, American, PERSONAL 2

My grandfather, Edwin Feltman Froehlich, I (1896 – 1991) World War I Army (Pictured with my mother on her wedding day) My father, Albert

Watergate 201

October 29, 2016October 29, 2016 2016, 20th Century US, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton, CRIME, CULTURE, DEMOCRAT, HISTORY, Trump

It’s not the crime that usually brings down a politician, not the action involved in what ever it was they probably should not have

I Love Voting!

June 8, 2016June 7, 2016 2016, 20th Century US, Christian Patriarchy Movement, Cruz, CULTURE, David Barton, FAITH, Gary North, HISTORY, PERSONAL, R. J. Rushdoony, Trump

I have this truly dreadful tendency to wax poetic when voting. To me, it is the most magical and the most sacred duty we

Of Prince and Paupers

April 26, 2016April 25, 2016 20th Century US, Afghanistan, American, CRIME, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Iraq War, ISLAM & WAR ON TERROR

Did you know that a real hero died this weekend? I was just a little kid, but I remember well the assassination of President

Attack of the Dimwitted Dingbats

April 14, 2016April 13, 2016 2016, 20th Century US, American, Clinton, Cruz, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, POLITICAL, REPUBLICAN, Ronald Reagan, Sanders, Trump

I swear some people are so abjectly and stupidly ill-informed they should not be allowed to vote. I encountered one of them Tuesday night.

Sunday Morning Opera: Requiem

November 22, 2015November 20, 2015 20th Century US, CULTURE, HISTORY, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA

It doesn’t matter how many years have passed, the moment is still ingrained in our hearts and souls. Unfortunately, it helped to define a

Who Said What?

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 20th Century US, Bigotry, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, POLITICAL, Racism, SCIENCE

Eugenics are a very nasty thing. If you know nothing else about eugenics, just think about Khan Noonien Singh. Eugenics are about creating the

Ronald Reagan and Immigration

September 16, 2015September 13, 2015 2016, 20th Century US, American, Anti-Hispanic Hate, CULTURE, HISTORY, IMMIGRATION, POLITICAL, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan

Tonight numerous GOP candidates will be debating at the Ronald Reagan Library. The discussion about immigration will be a violation of everything Ronald Reagan,

Sunday Morning Opera: The Eternal Male

August 2, 2015August 1, 2015 20th Century US, American, Barihunks, Baritones, Classic Hollywood, Cochise County Cowboy War, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Doc John Henry Holiday, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, James Bond, MAIN PAGE, Met, Movies about Wyatt Earp, Music, OK Corral, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Racism, Senior Citizen, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Star Trek, TOMBSTONE, Wild West, WYATT EARP

Late one evening, I was working on a novel, and going back and forth with some guy on Twitter, about conspiracy theories. It was

Thank You, Dmitri Hvorostovsky for Not Forgetting

May 13, 2015May 12, 2015 20th Century US, Barihunks, Baritones, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Senior Citizens, The Pink Flamingo’s Father, World War II

I suppose, had not not lost my father in October, the subject of honoring the Greatest Generation would not be the same for me,

The Edmund Pettus Bridge

March 7, 2015March 6, 2015 20th Century US, Barack Obama, CRIME, CULTURE, HISTORY, KKK, Racism

Edmond Pettus was a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He was also a United States Senator for 2 terms, and a