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<b>A Spy Among Friends: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis Give Life to the Treachery of the Notorious British Double Agent, Kim Philby</b>

A Spy Among Friends: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis Give Life to the Treachery of the Notorious British Double Agent, Kim Philby

Books, News + Views, Personalities, Politics, TVMarch 24, 2023

I am fascinated by the true story of Kim Philby, a highly-placed intelligence officer in Britain’s MI6 special intelligence service — the British equivalent of…

Veep Kamala Harris: Negative Press is Way  a Off the Mark. The VP is Doing a Good Job

Veep Kamala Harris: Negative Press is Way a Off the Mark. The VP is Doing a Good Job

News + Views, Personalities, PoliticsFebruary 18, 2023

Hear me out.There has been an unwarranted insidious smear campaign to discredit Vice President Kamala Harris. She has been labeled a liability by anonymous party…

Trump’s Major Announcement? More Looney Tunes: Trading Cards You Can’t Even Trade. No, Seriously.

Trump’s Major Announcement? More Looney Tunes: Trading Cards You Can’t Even Trade. No, Seriously.

News + Views, Personalities, Politics, UncategorizedDecember 16, 2022

I haven’t posted anything in a month, but today? Today got me thinking. And shaking my head. When I was a kid of eight or…

Veterans Day: A Time to Honor Americans Who Wore the Uniform in Service of Our Nation

Veterans Day: A Time to Honor Americans Who Wore the Uniform in Service of Our Nation

News + Views, PoliticsNovember 12, 2022

Each November, as Veterans Day approaches, my thoughts turn to 2007 and a Sunday afternoon on a visit to the nation’s capital. I was driving…

<i>Confidence Man</i>: NYTimes’ Maggie Haberman’s Deep Dive into All Things Trump

Confidence Man: NYTimes’ Maggie Haberman’s Deep Dive into All Things Trump

Books, News + Views, Personalities, PoliticsOctober 3, 2022

I am over the moon. Maggie Haberman, political correspondent at the New York Times, has a new book coming out this week, and the political…

Arkhipov: New Opera Fetes Soviet Cold War Sub Hero

Arkhipov: New Opera Fetes Soviet Cold War Sub Hero

Music, News + Views, Personalities, Politics, UncategorizedSeptember 26, 2022

I was 10 in October of 1962 when what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis played out: American intelligence detected nuclear missiles on…

Trump Polling on the Wane

Trump Polling on the Wane

News + Views, Personalities, PoliticsSeptember 20, 2022

Donald Trump’s star is losing some of its luster, and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. According to a new poll commissioned by NBC (conducted…

Biden Approval Rating On Upswing

Biden Approval Rating On Upswing

News + Views, Personalities, PoliticsSeptember 15, 2022

As an unabashed progressive Democrat, it pleases me to see that President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are ticking up with some six weeks left to…

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