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Democrats don’t have to be dumb

Democrats see glimmers of hope for the midterms as recent Republican “victories” on guns and abortion – on top of the leadershipĢƵ astounding attacks on the democracy – continue appall the broader public. Yet prominent Democrats continue to commit unforced errors that hurt their ...

<strong>EditorĢƵ note:</strong> <em>Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following is a reprint from 2019.</em>Sex registries are in the news again thanks to a couple of high-profile child sex abuse cases. Keeping ...

Marking Roe in a Depression-era fight

July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin RooseveltĢƵ fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...

On July 3, 1776, shortly after the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail. "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States," ...

Get broadband facts straight

Recent media reports have mischaracterized the role of local telephone carriers in deploying high-speed broadband, and the role of a 2004 state law that set the minimum broadband speeds the telcos must offer to their customers.ItĢƵ a complex subject, to be sure, but itĢƵ absolutely ...

Thank goodness for the GOP good guys

That a group of Michigan Republicans were told to hide out overnight in that stateĢƵ capitol to secretly select a false slate of presidential electors pledged to Donald Trump brings to mind a scene from “Seven Days in May.”The movie, which stars Burt Lancaster as treasonous Air Force Gen. ...