As incredible as it is to some people, including myself, Donald Trump is now officially the nominee of the Republican party for president. For the third time, Trump, a convicted felon, stands where Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan stood, not to mention Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. And ...
"In six months," the narrative states, the man in the White House "had faced some of the roughest abuse and difficulties of any president in history. "He had been castigated ... repudiated ... ridiculed. He had faced the pressure of the Palestine issue, the increasing threat of war [with ...
A day or two following the presidential debate in which Joe Biden performed so miserably, JoJo Burgess, the mayor of "little" Washington and a delegate to August's Democratic national convention, spoke to a group of Democrats in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Burgess, who appeared ...
Every Memorial Day, I buy bunches of small American flags to place on the graves of relatives, plus some friends and acquaintances. This year I bought too many. As a result, I ventured out to Oak Grove Cemetery, just west of downtown Uniontown, a day or two after the holiday to place the ...
A not-so-secret memo from one of the dark-money, cash-happy political action committees supporting Donald Trump confirms the central role Pennsylvania is expected to play in the election for president this November. Make America Great Again Inc., which by law is prohibited from coordinating ...
Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...