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BOOK REVIEW: 'Framed'

04.02.2025 3

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Impossible Escape'

22.01.2025 10

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Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on prison deaths of Lafferty, Brooks

11.01.2025 10

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Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The After Death Experience'

The purpose of “The After Death Experience,” Ian Wilson explained in his book’s Introduction, is to explore two central questions: If we know so...

07.01.2025 3

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Mosquito Bowl'

A unique football game was played between the 4th and 29th Marine Regiments stationed on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal on Christmas Eve 1944....

24.12.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Undefeated: Jim Thorpe And The Carlisle Indian School Football Team'

21.12.2024 3

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Plant-based, low-sodium diets are good medicines

Death rates linked to obesity-related heart disease nearly tripled in our country over a two-decade span. The rate for men more than tripled...

21.12.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Hitler’s American Gamble'

In “Hitler’s American Gamble,” British historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman concluded that it was Adolf Hitler’s Declaration of War on the...

08.12.2024 5

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Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Modern Warriors' and 'The War on Warriors'

Pete Hegseth is a former Fox News co-host and commentator, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay. When “Modern...

26.11.2024 10

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GUEST APPEARANCE: An appeal to President Trump: Please support Humane Cosmetics Act

I began to develop an animal consciousness several decades ago. As such, I was deeply saddened to learn that the manufacturers of many of the...

23.11.2024 3

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Forever and Ever, Amen'

Randy Travis is a country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor who, since 1985, has recorded 20 studio albums, charted more than 50...

13.11.2024 1

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Scoundrel'

“Scoundrel” is a powerfully written, thoroughly researched true story of how Edgar Smith, while on New Jersey’s death row for the murder of...

30.10.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in an alcohol dependent society

19.10.2024 3

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Charlie Hustle'

(Ed note: Joel Freedman read and reviewed this book before Pete Rose’s death Sept. 30.) When 19-year-old Pete Rose, aka Charlie Hustle, arrived in...

10.10.2024 9

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: A place for prayer at public schools

First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit Christian organization, represented Joe Kennedy in his legal battle against the school board of Bremerton,...

05.10.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'My Father & Atticus Finch'

Foster Beck, a Caucasian, attorney in Coffee County, Ala., was surprised to receive a phone call from Pike County Judge W.L. Parks, who asked Beck...

24.09.2024 1

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Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Death Row Welcomes You'

Award-winning journalist Steven Hale was the leading reporter on the execution of seven Tennessee inmates after that state, in 2018 — following 10...

17.09.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: 2024: America’s continuing nursing home tragedy

I am disappointed that during this election season, no candidate — neither Democrat nor Republican — is addressing the need for nursing home...

31.08.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Hillbilly Elegy'

One of the most touching features of U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance’s speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention, during which he accepted his...

30.08.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Many Lives Of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing'

Ed. note: Following the author’s use of first names in her narrative, this review does likewise. When I spotted “The Many Lives of Mama Love,”...

13.08.2024 1

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: Was Trump’s life saved by divine intervention?

When former President Donald Trump holds a rally, he usually does not use charts to illustrate his message. But at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally...

03.08.2024 3

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Trial Of The Century'

In 1925, Dayton, Tenn., high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited public schools from teaching...

16.07.2024 1

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman