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A plea for compromise

I’m still trying to process what to write about something for which I feel so much passion. It used to be the Democrats primarily stood for social justice and Republicans stood for individual justice, and then the two sides would debate and come together on compromises that allowed our ...

Time to retire the perp walk

<em>EditorĢƵ note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond in on sabbatical. This is a reprint of a column from 2019.</em>LetĢƵ talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. ItĢƵ the walk of shame of a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case ...

Warren Buffett famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover whoĢƵ been swimming naked.” What the Oracle of Omaha meant was that when markets are booming, people who take unwise risks can still do OK. When conditions go south, those who invested or borrowed recklessly often ...

Mark Esper says Trump was awful

You could write a book about Donald TrumpĢƵ antic-filled presidency, and Mark Esper has.Esper, a native of Uniontown who served as TrumpĢƵ secretary of defense for 18 torturous months, writes in his book, “A Sacred Oath,” that only his training at West Point (which followed his ...

<em>EditorĢƵ note:</em> <em>Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following column was published in 2019.</em>Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe got away with murder for more than two decades. As a popular fixture on the party scene in and around ...

Lessons in management and leadership

Periodically, I reflect upon things I’ve learned, experienced and discovered along the way, things that might somehow lighten the next personĢƵ journey. If I could identify a single item that was missing from my educational experiences, it would be that we are expected to garner our needed ...