I remembered her every time I asked Russians about old age and retirement homes. Most of them seemed repulsed by the idea. I then started looking up forums online to see whether it was just people in my circle. Nope. Online, even private nursing homes publicly mournRussians’ inability to ...
Probably not a whole lot, in terms of substantive legislative goals, since Joe Biden will still be sitting in the White House (with a veto pen at the ready). But Republicans aren't really campaigning on substantive legislative issues much anymore, because they have followed the lead of their...
To be clear, nobody should be drawing on their home equity line in order to pay hush money to an adult film actress just before a Presidential Election to enable the Russians to complete their goal of electing a pawn as the U.S. President. Michael Cohen has set a precedent that we do...
For years, the geographic center of North America has been described as this stone and mortar obelisk inRugby, North Dakota, 60 kilometres south of Manitoba, Canada. I used to drive past the monument a couple times a year back in the days when I owned homes in Florida and Saskatchewan. H...
And then the beautiful, previously thriving port city was bombed into oblivion by the Germans and Russians, like complete oblivion. Here’s the aftermath- Talk about a resilient city to have come back the way they have following the WWII stuff AND the Commie stuff. When it rains it pours ...
There were actual missile launching pads as well as ground radar equipment here meant to help protect the Midwest in the event the Russians began bombing America. Google Maps There were eight different sites all around Wisconsin. The one in Waukesha was in use from the 1950s until 1972 when ...
In a telling sign of how he wants Russians to imagine their past, President Vladimir Putin has introduced a new national day—November 4th—to replace the old communist Revolution Day holiday on November 7th. What the new date recalls is the moment in 1612 when Russia, after a...
Amish speak a version of German known as Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch. It has some similarities with dialects of German spoken in Europe today. This is their first language. Pennsylvania Dutch, as spoken by the Amish today, includes some En
Garrison’s investigation opened up a shaft into the crazed underside of American society, filled with mercenaries and mobsters, CIA agents, YMCA homosexuals, Cubans both pro- and anti-Castro, Russians both White and Red, Nazis, disaffected priests—all of whom seemed to a Dallas boy like the...
those Games in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Thomas Bach had led a West German athletes’ campaign against the boycott, in vain. He never competed in another Olympics after Montreal. The trauma of the 1980 boycott must help explain his decision to let Russians participate in ...