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Wright, Pittsburgh and Fallingwater

The greatest living architect poured scorn on the idea. Frank Lloyd Wright, famous in these parts (and elsewhere for that matter) for Fallingwater, his iconoclastic residential design set off in the woods of Fayette County, criticized the notion of saving the Pittsburgh "Triangle," as he put ...

A hope for tolerance at Christmas

The idea that the past has something to teach us is time-worn: we say it, but do we really mean it? Mostly, the answer is no. However, this particular moment in our national history may be, could be, the exception. If it happened once, it can happen again. Fingers crossed. Eleanor Roosevelt, ...

Year-end honors for 2023

We’ve made it! We’re at the end of 2023. ItĢƵ time for various entities to hand out their annual awards for the year. Time magazineĢƵ 2023 Person of the Year was a no-doubter – Taylor Swift. I’ll be honest. I can’t remember the last time I heard a Taylor Swift song. Or, if ...

Biden’s political problems are acute

Not only is President Joe Biden tied, or even behind, Donald Trump in some recent public opinion polling, but he has two severe foreign policy crises at a time when his public focus should be on framing his domestic agenda as well his prospective election opponent as a mortal enemy to American ...

We have met the enemy…

Three weeks ago, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) was beside himself on the floor of the U.S. House. He launched into a blistering tirade against his fellow Republicans. “I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did it,” Roy said with the ...

The rabbit hole of commie fixation

"I am not a communist," pleaded an obscure coal miner by the name of John Cassol, who went on to ask a high-up union official to please try to save his livelihood. "I was always a good union man.... My job means a lot to me. I have a large family." Another miner, caught in the same dragnet, ...