Joel Freedman

3 days ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

Although the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act was enacted in 1958, Gail Eisnitz reveals in “Out of Sight” that this law has never been enforced properly.

6 days ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

The 2016 movie “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism as an unarmed medic during the 1945 battle that defeated the Japanese on Okinawa. Doss rescued at least 75 fellow soldiers on Hacksaw Ridge (his Medal of Honor citation is accessible on the internet). “Hacksaw Ridge” continues to be shown frequently on the History Channel, A&E, and other cable channels.

2 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

Pulitzer Prize winner H.G. Bissinger was fascinated by the idea of high school sports keeping a community together. So, he began a search for a town where “living and eating and breathing high school football had become a way of life.”All roads led Bissinger to Odessa, Texas, located in a severely depressed area of Texas, with a high school football team called the Permian Panthers that played its games in front of as many as 20,000 fans on Friday nights.

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

After retiring from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2008, Staff Sgt. Aaron Grant attended Finger Lakes Community College, where he began a career as a historian (and where he was a student in an American government course I taught). He later earned a bachelor’s degree in U.S. history at Empire State and a master’s degree in U.S. history from Norwich University. Prior to his move to South Dakota with his wife and children, Grant taught U.S. history at John 15 Leah Homeschooling Group in Middlesex.

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

In my essay “Eliminate wasteful government spending” (Times, March 22), I stipulated that while wasteful government spending needs to be eliminated, it would be wrong to consider programs such as federal oversight of nursing homes and policing federally inspected animal breeding facilities — including the many deplorable “puppy mills” in America — as non-essential.