Category: News

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: Where Did This Airplane Go?

May 3, 2023

March 8, 2014. This was a routine flight was from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. Nothing unusual about the aircraft, the route or the weather. The captain was a respected, veteran pilot, who trained over pilots. Ninety-four minutes after takeoff, MH370 disappeared from radar and communications as it entered Vietnamese airspace. Because it was … More Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: Where Did This Airplane Go?

Bernstein v. Barr

May 10, 2022

Memoirs are one of my favorite genres of books. Recently, I read Carl Bernstein’s Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom (Henry Holt and Co., 2022) and William Barr’s One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General (William Morrow, 2022). I read these books back-to-back. Dueling memoirs. What could these stories have in … More Bernstein v. Barr

Fail Zero: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (2021)

August 27, 2021

This was quite an in-depth and well-researched book about the protection service. Investigative journalist Carol Leonnig has covered the Secret Service for the Washington Post for a number of years. A three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Leonnig obviously has many sources and contacts inside the agency, and with former agents and officers, and these … More Fail Zero: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (2021)

John Boehner

June 12, 2021

The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is a funny guy. From humble beginnings he becomes second in the line of succession to the Presidency. Hard as nails in outward persona, he is prone to shed tears. He looks like he could model men’s wear for Wall Street bankers, yet he retains the … More John Boehner

Wide World of Sports

May 15, 2021

Back in the Stone Age, and only three television channels, watching sports was severely limited by today’s standards. Thanks to my pal T.J. for the idea to revisit the old days of mostly black & white television. ABC’s Wide World of Sports, on Saturday afternoons, was a cavalcade of sports programming. No, it was not … More Wide World of Sports

The Other Truth

December 3, 2020

We live in a world where you can pick your truth and whatever “facts” support it.  No longer are we confined to information that we do not agree with or support.  Thankfully, the world now allows each of us to be right. With the help of technology, we can adapt reality.  I do not care … More The Other Truth