Tom QuirkMajor-General George ArmisteadWhichever side of the current stand/kneel Star Spangled Banner debate you are on, please take a moment to remember the man who brought you…Sep 26, 2017Sep 26, 2017
Tom QuirkAdmiral George Cockburn: Destroyer of Washington D.C/ Emancipator of SlavesAdmiral Cockburn is pictured with The United States Captial City Washington, D.C. burning in the background. Cockburn wanted to punish The…Aug 25, 2017Aug 25, 2017
Tom QuirkNo AccidentEarlier this month, 70 year old Australian children’s book author Mem Fox was detained by our border patrol at Los Angeles International…Feb 27, 2017Feb 27, 2017
Tom QuirkHitler was a liberal?Of all the political posts being circulated on Facebook the most upsetting for me has been the one with a picture of Hitler and a quote…Feb 7, 2017Feb 7, 2017
Tom QuirkThe Ring“Before you go back to Washington I have something for you.” My grandmother was a short woman with light blue eyes, gray hair that had once…Jan 12, 2017Jan 12, 2017
Tom QuirkTrial By Fire: Robert Dentler and the Integration of The White Plains Public Schools : A Case of…Dr.Robert Dentler recalls in his autobiography The Looking Glass Self that when he agreed to work on desegregating The White Plains Public…Dec 9, 2016Dec 9, 2016
Tom QuirkPernicious Massachusetts Proposition# 2https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Authorization_of_Additional_Charter_Schools_and_Charter_School_Expansion,_Question_2_(2016)Nov 1, 2016Nov 1, 2016
Tom QuirkHow to handle it? Life after 2016Very soon we will have elected a new president. It has been 16 years since we had a really contentious election, during which the…Oct 28, 2016Oct 28, 2016
Tom QuirkOf Realtors and RacismWhen questioned about possible racism involving his realty company’s refusal to rent or sell to black people Donald Trump did not demure…Oct 24, 2016Oct 24, 2016
Tom QuirkStench of the Movie House:Of Tom Hanks movies, local movie theaters and a sad urine smell.I don’t have as much time to go to the movies as I used to. Before we had kids my wife and I would walk down the hill to the local cineplex…Oct 7, 2016Oct 7, 2016