Where Credit Is Due

My wife and I recently went to see A Beautiful Noise – a Neil Diamond biography – on Broadway.  We highly recommend it.  You can’t go wrong with any Broadway show based on musical legends like The Four Seasons (Jersey Boys), Cher, Carol King, Barry Manilow,...

When ethnicity enters political rhetoric

[Note: This opinion was a response to a political dust-up on Long Island between the Democratic and Republicans candidates who are running in a special election to replace expelled Congressman George Santos. It appeared as a letter to Newsday on January 27th.]...

La Dolce Vita?

Is Italy better off today than any time in its modern history?  Despite being heavily in debt—140% of its annual income—having the lowest birthrate in history, awash in illegal aliens coupled with a super-aging population, massive unemployment among its youth,...

The Luck of the Irish

They’ve come a long way from Barry Fitzgerald’s irascible priest in 1944’s Going My Way. Who? Irish actors, who seem to be challenging Australians as the dominant Anglo group now quietly conquering Hollywood. Aside from long-established transplant...

A Remarkable Man

Last Monday was Martin Luther King Day, preparatory to Black History Month in February.  On cue, the media is already filled with informative Black history, a subject that is of interest to me. Booker Taliaferro (Washington) One PBS program I watched in the Black...

An Image Too Far

The other night I was watching Primetime on FOX News when host Jesse Watters interviewed Salvatore Gravano, the notorious mob butcher known as ‘Sammy the Bull.’  Gravano recently completed a 20-year lockup, after a plea deal for his testimony against his boss...