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The same town, different country

When he was in high public office in Washington, D.C., George C. Marshall - our boy “Flicker,” UniontownĢƵ own — used to hear from a childhood acquaintance by the name of Lida Niccols, who eventually married a Bavarian prince to become the Princess of Thurn and Taxis.As an adult, Lida ...

Trump: heĢƵ not AmericaĢƵ type

Donald Trump is very good at two things – 1.) taking credit and 2.) avoiding blame.He’ll take credit for stuff heĢƵ had nothing to do with, and he avoids blame for the things heĢƵ caused.There are hundreds of migrant children being warehoused in filthy, overcrowded detainment ...

The words that changed everthing

John Dickinson, a Philadelphia attorney and one of the most vociferous voices against American independence in the hot, stuffy (the windows were closed) room in which the breakup with Great Britain was debated, called the document Congress finally passed a mere “skiff of paper.”And so it ...

Trump does the right thing

(I might change my mind, by the time I finish this) but I’m in total agreement with President Trump about one thing: Mark Esper is the perfect choice for U.S. Secretary of Defense.Why?HeĢƵ from Uniontown, of course.I’ve rooted for his success since he was first designated the 23rd ...

We have a failure to communicate

If government seems distant, remote, and broken itĢƵ because it is. There was a vivid demonstration of this a few weeks back.It involved a letter from Gov. Tom Wolf to MonessenĢƵ putative mayor Matt Shorraw. In the letter, the governor praised local leaders for “addressing the complex and ...

ItĢƵ no time for nicknames

President Trump is hard at work.HeĢƵ made giving people nicknames a full-time job.HeĢƵ a septuagenarian stuck on a grade school playground.Trump seems to think that by tacking nicknames onto people, he owns them in some way.He engages in that kind of nonsense more than you may ...