President Donald J. Trump Proclaims Thursday, November 23, 2017, as a National Day of Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING DAY, 2017 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On Thanksgiving Day, as we have for nearly four centuries, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for our abundant […]
Archives for November 2017
20 Million People in the World are Dying Unnecessarily
Special Report: 20 Million People in the World Are Dying of Starvation Unnecessarily How can we feed them? How can we help them feed themselves? The origin of this posting is Thanksgiving Day 1960 when I was 13 years old. Following Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Borough Park Brooklyn, my grandmother cleared away dinner, […]
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
MOSCOW — By Russian standards, the few lines that Melania Trump used from Michelle Obama for her speech at the Republican National Convention this week would barely tip the plagiarism scale. — The New York Times, July 22, 2016 By Russian Standards, Melania Trump Would Be a Plagiarism Amateur I had been hoping to awake […]
How I Celebrated My Seventieth Birthday in Segregated State College, PA
This is what a “wheel chair accessible” restaurant looks like in segregated State College PA. Video by Emily Hartsay Cafe Verve received an operating license from Walt Schneider, head of code for the PA Centre County Council of Governments. To receive the license, the restaurant was required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. […]