Author Archive
August 14, 2019I loved Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” when I was a teenager in the 1960s. One episode I recall was “The New Exhibit,” in which Martin Balsam...
July 24, 2019Hiram Coombs Whitley, the chief of the U.S. Secret Service under President Ulysses S. Grant, was brave and public-service-minded, yet he was also opportunistic and even, at...
July 15, 2019I saw the film “Breach” in 2007, which was based on a true story and starred Chris Cooper as the notorious FBI special agent-turned Soviet/Russian spy Robert Hanssen, and...
June 14, 2019Who knows why a person rapes, tortures and kills countless men, women and children without empathy or remorse?Well, former FBI profiler and author John Douglas has a fair...
May 20, 2019When I was a teenage sailor serving aboard an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War, “sea stories” was a pejorative term, meaning an embellished tale of braggadocio, as...
May 3, 2019The Wild West quick-draw showdown, a duel and test of speed, accuracy and grit, with two gunfighters facing each other on a dusty street in a Western frontier town, is a staple...
April 12, 2019Mario Puzo's novel “The Godfather” became one of the best-selling novels in publishing history in 1969, and the novel continues to sell well today, perhaps due in good...
March 12, 2019Mexican drug lord Joaqun “El Chapo' Guzman, once the world's most wanted man, was convicted of drug trafficking charges last month in New York and he will be sentenced this...
February 22, 2019In 2017, while there was a national campaign to tear down the statutes of Confederate soldiers and historical figures deemed racists by the left,...
January 28, 2019Many people these days, it seems, believe that marijuana is a mostly harmless drug that helps to ease pain and relaxes people, like a good, stiff, alcoholic drink. But like alcohol,...
