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What’s behind Trump’s tweets?

“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”Donald Trump in an early-morning tweet, March 4, 2017President Trump had convinced a lot of people (not me) that he was capable of living up to the awesome ...

History lessons lost on Trump

For Donald Trump, history is not prologue. It doesn’t even exist. There is no history!The president lives in and for the moment. There are few other explanations for his cascade of tweets on things big and small. He lives in the realm of the instantaneous. He is a moment-dweller.A ...

Repealing Obamacare won’t be easy

Presidential candidate Donald Trump had some mighty big plans for the day he was going to take over the Oval Office.On Sept. 20, just weeks before the presidential election, TrumpĢƵ vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, stood in the rain in Richmond, Va., and he told a rally of 650 ...

Cancer’s return is fatal for wife

My wife, who recently died of cancer, spent nine days in Uniontown Hospital — nine days and nights fraught with uncertainty, confusion and an endless series of tests.HereĢƵ an odd juxtaposition: everyone — I only slightly exaggerate — hates and distrusts their hometown newspaper. When I ...

What would Thomas Jefferson think?

“Nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself, becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” Thomas Jefferson, June 11, 1807 and Donald Trump Feb. 18, 2017ItĢƵ become clear that President Trump gets perturbed when people don’t agree with everything ...

Trump lies again about refugees

That Trump/Russia thing just keeps getting juicier, doesn’t it?The Trump administration was officially handed the keys to the White House a month ago, today.It hasn’t not been pretty.ThereĢƵ been non-stop, full-scale, palace intrigue, with the constant rumors of spies, super-spies, ...