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The Uncle Jimmy and Byrd show

A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain ...

Say it ain’t so, Joe

I just thought it was a chance meeting at the time.I’d never expected to come face-to-face with a U.S. senator while waiting to get my car fixed.That happened nearly a decade ago just outside of Pittsburgh.I was in the waiting room of a local Meineke Auto Car Care Center, holding my breath ...

False certainty and wallowing in rumor

Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis – itĢƵ in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life.To begin:Sometime toward the end of the madcap decade of the 1920s, the ...

Let the delusions begin

Are Republicans living in a dream world?I hope not.But thereĢƵ growing evidence “The Big Lie” is sprouting wings.According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 53% of Republicans still believe Donald Trump is their true president.HE’S NOT!That same poll reveals that 56% of Republicans still ...

The GOP war on Republicans

Alert to the fact that Donald Trump loves to riff, some party operatives are bracing for off-the-cuff zingers directed at Republican Party Trump dissidents, when the former president speaks this weekend in North Carolina.“HeĢƵ going to spray friendly fire on other Republicans and settle ...

Here’s one way Joe can be like FDR

In the fall of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, the emphasis was on speed – speed in putting men and women to work and in getting back to some semblance of normality, after three horrible years – years of mounting unemployment and public and personal dislocations.The Great ...