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With the exception of Jan. 6, 2021, itself, maybe the most traumatic day of the Trump presidency was June 1, 2020 – the day peaceful American citizens protesting the police murder of George Floyd were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White ...

The future looks like a crapshoot

You might say I’ve been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I’ve never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we’re doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.“I’m glad I’m ...

No bystanders in Cheney’s America

WyomingĢƵ lone member of the House, Republican Liz Cheney, was one of five people honored recently with the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award. Here, in part, is what the arch-conservative and ardent patriot said on Monday night in Boston. Her words are words to remember.“... On ...

Mark Esper says Trump was awful

You could write a book about Donald TrumpĢƵ antic-filled presidency, and Mark Esper has.Esper, a native of Uniontown who served as TrumpĢƵ secretary of defense for 18 torturous months, writes in his book, “A Sacred Oath,” that only his training at West Point (which followed his ...

In Senate race, Dems need a winner

In the contest for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate the temper of the times points to John Fetterman, which is not to say that his chief rival, Conor Lamb, can or should be dismissed.In November against a Republican opponent, Lamb, a suburban Pittsburgh congressman with a record of ...

The lies Republicans tell one another

Campaign themes are frequently fragile things that shatter the moment they encounter reality.I’m thinking of the Eisenhower-Nixon “missile gap” falsely promoted by John Kennedy in 1960. Then there was the matter of a convicted murderer being handed a get out of jail card by Massachusetts ...