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Debate between protection of markets and open markets rages on

So letĢƵ go back, say, to the late ’20s and early ’30s. The issue was then a worsening recession rapidly sliding into depression. As it turned out, this was the Great Depression, the recession on steroids that refused to die.Few people sensed, in 1929-30, just how bad things were. The ...

A Republican takes on Trump

Jeff Flake is in a bit of a pickle.WhoĢƵ Jeff Flake?HeĢƵ the junior Republican U.S. senator from Arizona, whoĢƵ making the rounds promoting his new book – “Conscience of a Conservative.”He opened his book tour with a searing online article posted on politico.com last Monday, titled ...

Movie reminds that ‘Wars are not won by evacuations’

My dad used to tell his two sons the reason he wanted no part of the Navy in World War II was, well, the sea. The prospect of being dumped into briny depths was unappealing in the extreme to my old man.This was despite the fact that, having grown up in Connellsville on the Yough, he was an ...

Beware of the Man Behind the Curtain

Our Commander-in-chief apparently moonlights as a presidential historian.He knows “presidential” when he sees it. (Or doesn’t see it)I suppose that qualifies him to bestow upon himself the mantle of being only second to “Honest Abe” Lincoln as the most “presidential” president in ...

Humility a necessity to serve the people

Jesus was not a humble guy.Not he who said, “I am the way, the truth and the light.” Not the guy who proclaimed that the only way to get past the pearly gates was through him.Certainly not the fella who turned water into wine to the delight of thousands of thirsty spectators.And yet ... ...

Trumpcare: Dead at age 6 months

 We are gathered here today, to pay our respects to the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.”The “Better” has died a slow, but steady death at the hands of the 47, 48, 49 or 50 U.S. Senators who’ve seen no real value in keeping it alive.You may not know it by its formal name. So, ...