Catholic League on Billy Graham

League President Bill Donohue comments – REV. BILLY GRAHAM, R.I.P. Bill Donohue comments on the death of Rev. Billy Graham: Growing up Catholic in New York in the 1950s, the Catholic we most identified with was Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the first televangelist. The Protestant we most clearly revered was Rev. Billy Graham. In both … Read more

I met Brigid 40 years ago today

The greatest day of her my life. No pictures from that day – we met at a party I was having at my flat in Mandeville, Jamaica. I had seen her a couple of times around town. Here’s Brigid about a year later, and several months before we got married, at a place called “Lover’s … Read more

Adult stem cell therapy success story –

Here’s a pretty good  great success story. (In 2006 I had a stem cell transplant [giving me back my own harvested stem cells] to rebuild my immune system after the high dose chemotherapy I received for my mantle cell lymphoma. It’s 2018 and I’m still here – so far, so good.But this is a different … Read more

Over 40: lift weights, eat more protein.

From NY Times health section – I believe it – excerpts below the link but worth reading the whole article. They wound up with 49 high-quality past experiments that had studied a total of 1,863 people, including men and women, young and old, and experienced weight trainers as well as novices. The sources of the … Read more

WSJ – “Stocks get cheaper”

Not a big  deal. Total drop from the high is 8.5%. More a return to normalcy in the capital markets (interest rates going up; borrowing more expensive). "Relative to earnings, the S&P 500 is cheaper than it was a year ago." It happens. The Eagles winning a Super Bowl is no doubt a shocking event. … Read more