THE “HITS” JUST KEEP ON COMING

 Two down, two more to go (“Goodfellas,” 1990) One of my previous blogs was titled “The Unholy Three,” which mentioned the near-simultaneous passing of three Hollywood actors known for popularizing crude Italian gangster stereotypes: Paul...

Climate of Fear

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has become the Benedict Arnold of the Democratic Party for his serial opposition to the utopian Left.  One Biden Administration bureaucrat just labeled Turkey’s President Erdogan “the Manchin of NATO” for impeding the memberships of Sweden...

Two Against the Tide

Both the U.S. and Italy are at a crossroads today.  Both are dealing with ideologies that threaten political stability.  Two men, almost alone, have taken courageous stands to bring their respective nations back to sanity. I have written many times about...

It Began with Verrazzano

On July 8th 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano returned to France after having roughly surveyed the entire east coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland.  A few months earlier, he had entered New York Harbor – the first European to do so....

MOB-STARS: THE UNHOLY THREE

Actor Lon Chaney Sr, who specialized in macabre horror-film roles in the 1920s, appeared in one film titled, The Unholy Three.  It was a 1925 melodrama about three circus performers who join forces to commit con jobs and burglaries. And if you’re familiar...