Author: mtc9393

It’s official. The headlines in the Washington Post screamed:  “Washington’s NFL team is retiring the Redskins name; new name to come later.” My first thought was what next? That name has  graced (or disgraced) the team for almost a century. It was in 1933 when the name was first used by a team that used to…

The world is in a fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The United States had lost that fight and has moved on to figure out what to do with our own homemade Trumpandemic. Say it isn’t so that this country with all its technical, scientific and medical expertise has given up and pretty much is following…

When news of the Bataan Death March reached the shores of America the public was incensed. They heard how the Japanese forced the surrender of about 12, 000 American troops, the largest surrender in our history, and another 60,000 or so Filipino troops. After capturing them they marched them across the Luzon peninsula about 85…

Trump acts to prevent his friend Roger Stone from being sent to prison for three years after he was convicted by an American jury of seven counts. These were  five counts of lying to Congress, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of a proceeding. Even Trump did not dispute his guilt. He…

I have received complaints about some people using the comment section who do not seem to stick to the subject but run all over the place posting about things that have no relevance to what the discussion is about. This has caused some people not to make a comment because they feel that it gets…

  I’m not going to write about Tucker Carlson’s outrageous attack on a US senator whose family history goes back to the American Revolutionary War where a relative served in the armed forces under George Washington and who has had relatives serve the United States in every war since and who lost two legs in…