After 4 or 5 chapters the book hit the trash can. I'm a conservative and I liked and agreed with that content to this point. However the sexual parts are not acceptable to me. If I want porn reading materials I'm sure there's plenty out there. Action, adventure, spy versus spy all good but leave ...
Running a mafia is simply too big of a job for one man alone; even a talented type-A overachiever can’t do it by himself. Michael Corleone needs his consigliere and his henchmen.So Barack Obama needs his merry band to run the alphabet soup of bureaucracies from the Agricultural Research Service t...
My uncle Murray was crying like a baby in front of the South Bronx tenement we lived in. All the neighbors were out watching; think Calcutta, a Satyajit Ray film. The little blond boy with blue eyes was only five. I was seven; my sister was nine. He was packed off like an animal to live and suffe...
Jack knew that artists didn’t just capture moments of real life. They invested in those moments with their willpower and their most personal selves. They found meaning, then guided their audiences to it. Jack felt like they were passing him a bright, undying torch. Sometimes he needed to stare fo...
Doc said when he noticed the tag on Sammy’s sleeve. “How did you find us?” Sammy asked breathlessly. Jack tried not to come down hard on his brother’s foolhardiness. Not now. “Sammy, you knew that the safe house had cameras all over the place. Also, you didn’t erase your cache. We looked where yo...
1. “Transcript: Attorney general Eric Holder’s speech to Morgan State University graduates,” Washington Post, May 17, 2014 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-attorney-general-eric-holders-speech-to-morgan-state-university-graduates/2014/05/17/d6b72284-ddd0-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_s...
“Lord Sacks: ‘If we stand together against religious persecution, we win.’” Jewish News Online, June 22, 2015. http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/lord-sacks-full-speech-at-the-uk-israel-shared-strategic-challenges-conference/. 2. Ibid. 3. Thomas Paine. Common Sense. In Paine Collected Writings. Literary...