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Trump: An international dud

President Trump is now fighting wars on two fronts.In this country, heĢƵ battling those pesky, impeachment-happy Democrats.Overseas, heĢƵ battling any world leader who doesn’t bow (or curtsy) at the sight of him.At this point, heĢƵ losing on both fronts.Last week, while Democrats were ...

Pennsylvania makes the right call in raising tobacco age

After portions of its cities were bombed to rubble and its coffers drained, Britain endured a long spell of austerity after World War II, with everything from fruit to fuel subject to rationing.There was one commodity, though, that was available in abundance in those gray, drab days — ...

CWD clouds opening of deer season

If it weren’t for the existence and spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in PennsylvaniaĢƵ deer population, especially in this part of the commonwealth, last SaturdayĢƵ opening of the firearms deer season would have had virtually no major concern besides the always important issue of ...

‘Hell all day’: The Bulge in memory

HereĢƵ something barely comprehensible: veterans of World War II will be with us until at least 2030. This projection comes from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.HereĢƵ the math: Some sixteen million men served in the armed services during the war, which, for the United ...

Rewarding bad behavior Is a recipe for worse

Professional football involves systematic violence. On every play, men do things that would get them arrested in other contexts. What makes it a game — rather than a brawl, a riot or deadly combat — is that the violence is controlled.ThereĢƵ a penalty for “unnecessary roughness” ...

Fracking study is welcome and necessary

These are polarized times, we’ve been told again and again, and that polarization is plainly evident when it comes to the natural gas industry.To its proponents, itĢƵ a godsend to a region that has needed a boost and whose economy was originally built on the extraction of raw materials from ...