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War on Clintons continues

For many years the columnist worked for the Tribune-Review. He was there, as a reporter, in the 1990s, during the first and second administrations of Bill Clinton. The paper was owned by an implacable foe of the Clintons, a Pittsburgh billionaire by the name of Richard Scaife.Scaife, who died ...

Kaepernick and Trump

The United States of America is the greatest country on earth.HereĢƵ how I know that. If I write the sentence, “The United States Of America is the  lousiest country on earth,” I don’t fear that armed Storm troopers will come and snatch me from my keyboard, imprison me, then torture me ...

A little bit of hate can go a long way

I hate the word “continue,” and the phrase “good read.” I dislike how the former looks and how the latter sounds.I think the term “man cave” is a bummer. ItĢƵ such a sexist thing to say. Do I go around introducing my wife as “the little lady”?I recoil when people hold store ...

Is Donald really doing it his way?

"Regrets, I've had a few; But then again, too few to mention. I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption.''Frank Sinatra, the song My WayThe Earth nearly fell off of its axis during a recent Donald Trump rally by telling the crowd, “Sometimes in the heat of debate, and ...

Local Labor Day parade of 1922 was full of protests

As many as 10,000 marchers, mostly miners, took part in the Labor Day parade in Uniontown.This was 1922, a strike year in which what was known as the Connellsville Coke Region was convulsed. The fight was over a union contract for miners who worked for the the likes of the H.C. Frick Co.Frick ...

Trump is a wolf in sheep’s clothing

In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama earned 95 percent of the black vote.President Obama beat Mitt Romney with 93 percent of the black vote in 2012.In 2016, Hillary Clinton might pitch a shut-out with black voters.Why?Donald Trump!A recent Quinnipiac national poll has Mr. Trump only managing to get the ...