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  • That Wild Young Man0

    I was very young when I first heard of Nelson Mandela, and my first impression was not good. The early events with Mr. Mandela occurred while my parents struggled to keep Songa Hospital in Zaire open, which is how I found myself in South Africa. For safety’s sake, I had been sent as a boarding

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  • That Good Night0

    In 1968 a small-time movie producer named George Romero filmed a horror flick in rural Pennsylvania. He spent about $114,000, low budget even back then.Besides using unknown actors, Romero shot the film in 35-millimeter black-and-white. And, for special effects, the crew poured Bosco Chocolate Syrup over the actor’s bodies.That was supposed to be blood. The

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  • Terrorism in Canada0

    On October 20, 2014, 25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau slammed his car into a group of soldiers in the parking lot of a Canada shopping center in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, killing two. In the pursuit that followed, he was shot and killed when he got out of his wrecked car and brandished a knife. Then two days later

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  • Terror Trial in France0

    As I write this in September 2020, a trial is underway in France for 14 people charged in connection with acts of Islamic terrorism in January 2015. At the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Saïd Kouachi and his brother Chérif killed 12 people in a hail of bullets; cartoonists, editors, police, a janitor, a

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  • Tempting Fate0

    Way back when we first heard the war drums for an invasion of Iraq, I had an interesting email exchange with a nationally known television pundit who has written for Liberty in the past. "You need to write something for us before the crusaders are marching through downtown Baghdad," I wrote tongue in check, with

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  • Telling It Like It Is0

    There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in Blount County, Tennessee, where folks seem hardly able to open their mouths or tap their keyboards without retracting their statements shortly thereafter. At the center of this tempest is Judge W. Dale Young, who presided in three related cases—related in that they all involved women and in

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