As crisis gripped Washington in the early days of the Cold War, an aide to Secretary of State George C. Marshall asked how he managed to remain calm. 鈥淚鈥檝e seen worse,鈥� Marshall answered.Indeed he had. As Army chief of staff before and during World War II and then at the State Department, ...
Guy Reschenthaler has a problem that is also our problem.How so? Reschenthaler, the Republican who, rumor has it, represents Fayette, Greene and Washington counties (plus a portion of Westmoreland) in Congress, is attempting to raise political dollars with major whoppers 鈥� fabulous falsehoods ...
It turns out there was a Philadelphia election scandal. And the scandal morphed into a fight on Capitol Hill for the soul of the Republican Party.The leader of the Republicans 鈥� more or less 鈥� was a charismatic populist who hated his enemies and encouraged his supporters to fight like the ...
In early 1861, folks gathered in Brownsville hoping to do their part to stop the slide toward Civil War. They elected a remarkable number of organizational vice presidents 鈥� 28 鈥� and proclaimed their hope to 鈥渄rop partisan feelings and prejudices.鈥滻t didn鈥檛 work.The dispute over ...
The Biden years are underway. Change is the order of the day. It comes in the nick of time.We are badly off track. For what ails us, let me put forward two modest proposals: modesty itself and a dollop of humor.As for humor, what was good enough for Abraham Lincoln (and John Kennedy and Calvin ...
Wednesday蘑菇视频 inauguration comes at a time of national peril, prompting unparalleled precautions. The capital city will bristle with arms 鈥� troops at street corners and on the National Mall while Capitol Hill, the site of the inaugural, promises to be an armed fortress.The marauding nihilists ...