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I have long thought that living in Baltimore these days is much like living in a Jimmy Cagney gangster film from the 1930’s. In ‘The Public Enemy’ from 1931, Cagney

When you met Margaret Thatcher, what you saw was what you got. My few face-to-face meetings with Mrs. (later Baroness) Thatcher were never one on one, either when she was

Riveted by news reports about the two explosions that rocked the finish line of Monday’s Boston Marathon and left at least three dead and about 176 wounded, I was

“If it rained soup in Ireland, the Irish would come out with forks.” Once neatly stated by Brendan Behan as if you were sitting next to him today at White Horse

I support marriage equality.   What’s not to support.   Two people fall in love and they want to get married, so let them.  Just 50 years ago, people objected to

Such are the times we live that libertarian Senator Rand Paul can rally liberals.  As if throwing darts blindfold in the hope any idea of his gains traction, the

Daniel Day-Lewis’s richly deserved Oscar for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln should provoke some more consideration about who Abraham Lincoln's true heir is today. For the appalling, tragic fact

At a party held by a literary agent friend in New York many years ago, I met his son from Washington DC.  In conversation, I found that he’d gotten

Police patrol Greenmount Avenue where a homicide recently happened. (Justus Heger) Church bells rang out along Greenmount Avenue the night the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl.  In between the