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GOP candidates know they’re lying

I went on a food-buying safari to a supermarket on Super Bowl Sunday morning.ItĢƵ one of those days when you could take your life into your own hands.Hundreds of brave, bargain-hunting shoppers attack everything on sale.While there, I happened to stop in the coffee aisle.It was there that I ...

Great local men remembered fondly

Early afternoon, Super Bowl Sunday. The columnist is visiting, with a friend, a cemetery just off Route 201, near Vanderbilt. Later we drive on over to a cemetery from which Perryopolis sprawls in the middle-distance.We were remembering the dead. Obviously, it means nothing to the dead to be ...

Working people supporting Trump, Sanders

The case for Donald Trump is harder to figure, but only because the guy is such a gas bag. His comment the other day after President Obama spoke at a mosque — “maybe he feels comfortable there” — was another in a long line of ugly innuendos he has used to poison the political well.To ...

Iowa’s importance overstated

I’ve never been there, but I’m sure that many of the people who live in Iowa are breathing easier these days.Those 2016 presidential campaigns have moved on.People out there can watch their TVĢƵ without the constant bombardment of political ads – an estimated $40 million worth of them; ...

Planned Parenthood attack backfires

I don’t have anything against Texas. I just try not to go there.Recent developments down in Houston, though, have given me a reason to rethink my antipathy for that state.The district attorney down in Houston, Devon Anderson, has decided to clear Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing after ...

Republicans going overboard with attacks on Obama

If you’re like me, you don’t know what to make of Republicans lately. I mean, they’re so angry and suspicious these days.Last week the Washington Post ran a story about the persistent rumor careening around the Middle East that President Barack Obama is a Muslim — a Sunni Muslim or a ...