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My commencement address

ItĢƵ that season again. The nationĢƵ, no, the worldĢƵ notables are fanning out around the globe – dispensing their wisdom at learning institutions with their personally crafted commencement speeches. I haven’t paid much attention to any commencement speech since June 1, 1966 – the ...

The ‘roaring mob’ that changed us

Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...

Here comes that bold-faced liar again!

We were all warned. On Jan. 21, 2017, brand new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stood before the assembled world media and told a magnificent whopper about the previous dayĢƵ presidential goings-on. He boasted that it had been the “largest audience to ever witness an ...

And now, this from crankland USA

The Smartless podcast recently hosted two former Democratic presidents of the United States - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - along with President Joe Biden The hour-long program with the three presidents was not a hard hitting affair. The podcast hosts, actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and ...

A Message from Mr. COVID-19 – Again!

Occasionally, I find myself engaging in nostalgia. In the past, I’ve written about the joys of penny candy; the pleasures of those Saturday afternoon-long kiddy shows down at the State Theatre in Uniontown; and those seemingly endless summer days playing up there on East End ...

Jinxed: the state and the presidency

Pennsylvania, one of the largest, most populous states in the Union, had produced one president, and by all accounts, that one president was woeful. He was James Buchanan. He was president in the lead-up to the Civil War. The knock against Buchanan, who hailed from Lancaster (where his home, ...