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Obama trying to help Hillary

Most presidents limp to the finish line. President Obama is sprinting.With approval ratings north of 50 percent, the president is a position not unlike President Reagan at the end of his presidency in 1988-89. And like the Gipper, who helped to shepherd George Bush senior to the finish line, ...

Making America smirk again

"Values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say.”Michelle Obama (2008), Melania Trump (last week)In August of 2008, America was formally introduced to future First Lady Michelle Obama.She wowed the audience at the Democratic National ...

America must change its ways

The president of the United States recently asked the American people to think anew and act anew on the related issues of race, the police, the justice system and public safety.A few days after he did so, representatives (some of them, anyway) of the people of Pennsylvania gave the president ...

Trump plays the fear card

“Race relations have improved dramatically in my lifetime. Those you deny it, are dishonoring the struggle that helped us achieve that progress.”President Barack Obama – At memorial service in DallasDemocracy is imperfect.ItĢƵ also messy.ThatĢƵ because our democracy was firmly rooted ...

Political bosses weren’t so bad

In March 1936 — a long time ago — a Common Pleas Court judge by the name of Horatio Dumbauld addressed a letter to state Secretary of the Commonwealth David L. Lawrence.Judge Dumbauld more or less ran Democratic politics in Fayette County in those days. Lawrence was in charge of political ...

Muhammed Ali was ‘The Greatest’

Hillary Clinton is a free woman.Republicans were hoping otherwise.The presumptive Republican presidential nominee had even declared she’d be in prison pinstripes before the Democratic National Convention.That won’t happen.Instead, Republicans in Congress are thinking up new ways to ...