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Bye, Bye Kumbaya

Well, it looks like The Great Dealmaker dealt himself a bad hand.Mr. Trump frequently berates his predecessors (Obama, Bush, and Clinton) for their lack of deal-making skills at bringing Korean strongman Kim Jong Un to heel.It turns out he's no better than them in that regard.Oh, the stage had ...

Basing opinions on facts

A life-long friend asked me, in a confidential tone of voice: “What do you think of Trump?”It turns out she is a Trump fan. I asked what she liked about the 45th president of the United States.She liked that he wanted to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “My family came here ...

Attention Stockholm: Hold off on that Nobel Peace Prize

If thereĢƵ a Nobel Fleece Prize, you might consider that.President Trump has been basking in the glow of his newfound friendship with that North Korean fellow he used to call “Little Rocketman.”Mr. Trump brags that his “maximum pressure campaign” has humbled Kim Jong Un into putting ...

Making sense of the clutter

We live amidst a clutter of events so dense that itĢƵ hard to tell whatĢƵ important and whatĢƵ not. A few examples:The decision by the United States to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been posited as a Middle East game changer. It may be, or not.This week representatives ...

It’s a tale of two Michaels

It looks like Donald Trump has met his match.Since he was a young New York City businessman in the early 1970ĢƵ, heĢƵ benefited by exhibiting one skill; when you’re under attack, don’t defend yourself -- attack back.He’d learned that from his “fixer” at the time, Roy Cohn.Cohn had ...

Jumonville Cross choice an odd one for Sedlock

The giant cross atop Jumonville hill, in the mountains east of Uniontown, is symbolic of the area; although religious, it has a secular connotation as well: for those of us who grew up within its sight, it means home.Nevertheless ...The decision by Adam Sedlock, a Democrat running for Congress ...