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Local legislators’ answers to bump stock debate ‘numbing’

ItĢƵ time to drain the swamp — of those time-worn political ideas and ideologies that get in the way of politicians actually using their noggins.The human brain demands use. Otherwise, it is a mere repository of cliches and trite phrases. Like PavlovĢƵ dog, its responses become habitually ...

The Twilight Zone

I make it a point to watch those White House daily briefings. Why? So you don’t have to.They offer me a keen insight into the mind of President Trump. ItĢƵ like taking a walk down memory lane and into “a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the ...

History is history

History can occur anywhere: in our backyards or on the other side of the globe.My epiphany on this subject is the Thomas Jefferson-Albert Gallatin statue at the corner of Beeson Boulevard and Main Street in Uniontown, in which the two old friends and political allies are shown plotting the ...

HeĢƵ not a (good) politician

President TrumpĢƵ army of supporters, defenders, surrogates and dissemblers who’re just apologists are quick to point out one thing; “HeĢƵ not a politician.”HeĢƵ not a very good one. But he most certainly is a politician.Ever since he and Melania took that fateful ride down that ...

Age not an indicator of sense

As I finished my fettuccine Alfredo at a restaurant last week, a waitress no more than 25 years old paused at my table long enough to say, “I see you’ve eaten everything. Good for you.”Yours truly is 69 years old. I evidently look like an old coot, or at least old enough to be talked to ...

Donald Trump goes to (culture) war

In mid-June of 1970, I happened to be walking along East Main Street in Uniontown, when I encountered a man walking in my direction.As he approached, he said, “Hey, Boy.”I’m black.He was white.I was 21.He was middle-aged.I glared.He looked perplexed.I turned and walked away.After all, ...