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Truth takes a holiday

When President Trump travels to one of his campaign speeches, he leaves the truth behind.I’d say he travels light, but he makes sure he takes a satchel-full of attacks, hyperbole, half-truths and downright blarney -- to the delight of his ecstatic crowds.“They just came out with a poll, did ...

Rise above the narrow constraints of self interest

It is easy to identify the reasons for the violence that engulfed Fayette County in the summer of 1933 — the Great Depression, the hope for better times following the election of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency, and miners’ distrust and anger with coal companies, especially the ...

Trump and the Ministry of Truth

On January 21st, 2017, the first full day of the Trump presidency, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told a big whopper.“That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer proclaimed.There was ample visual evidence that SpicerĢƵ claim was false.There are ...

Fayette experienced violence in 1933

Eighty-five years ago this summer, Fayette County experienced the most horrific violence in its history; in the midst of the Great Depression, gunshots rang out in one coal patch after another. The summer of 1933 was one of disorder and mayhem, all of which threatened to undermine the hope for ...

All the worldĢƵ a stage

Whenever President Trump steps onto the world stage, he always feels compelled to give a performance.In the end, he takes his bows, even when hardly anybody applauds him.ACT I: When he flew to Brussels, he played Count Dracula.He sucked the lifeblood right out of that NATO summit.He launched ...

Even Conservatives wonder about Trump’s Actions in Helsinki

A reckless, clueless vaudevillian ... a sad, embarrassing wreck of a man ... crazy ... boorish and bigoted, enemy of the people ... treasonous.Each of these epithets was applied this past week to Donald Trump following the presidentĢƵ profoundly un-presidential performance standing alongside ...