Nolan Dalla Rant: A Guide to Restaurant Tipping
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MY GUIDE TO RESTAURANT TIPPING
Read MoreMeeting Richard Nixon
If Watergate didn’t happen, would America now have universal health care? Maybe — yes (thanks to Richard Nixon).
Read MoreWhat I Saw: Photo Essay of the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Romanian Army forces during the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Read MoreThe Romanian Revolution took place in December 1989. I lived in Romania at the time and was assigned to the American Embassy in Bucharest.
Does President Obama Deserve a Second Term?
Read More“President Obama’s first term has been a failure not because he has been one of us – which means being a liberal. His presidency up to this point has been a crushing disappointment, because — the fact of the matter is — he has been one of them.”
President Obama’s Squandered First Term
Read MoreLBJ’s “Great Society” was the perfect blueprint, but was mostly ignored by the Obama Administration.
Trip Report — The Final Chapter (Part 5)
This is the fifth and final installment of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.
Trip Report — Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City (Part 4)
Note: This is the fourth of five installments of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.
Read MoreTrip Report — I Hate Philadelphia (Part 3)
Read MoreNote: This is the third of five installments of a trip report I wrote (unpublished) from February and March of 2012.
An Intellectual Lion: Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
Read MoreLike his more recent now deceased contemporaries Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and William F. Buckley and in the mold of great thinkers of yesteryear such as H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and even Mark Twain, he was a fixture on the intellectual circuit. He basked in the spotlight in a time when writers were afforded the same celebrity as rock stars. One colleague pined, “he was the man who knew everyone.”
Trip Report — In Search of Black Tail (Part 2)
In South Florida — “Michelle Bernstein’s,” located in Palm Beach.
Read MorePart 2 of a 5-part series on visiting Florida, Philadelphia, and later Atlantic City.
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