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Rudy Giuliani to the rescue?

Last Wednesday was supposed to be like any other day in the life of the Trump presidency.Lots of claims and counter-claims across the 24-hour cable news channels about a variety of Trump-related stories.There was that story about President TrumpĢƵ ex-physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, who ...

Condition of Bailey Park shameful

The other day I dropped by a high school softball game at Bailey Park in Uniontown. There was a slight chill in the air; otherwise, it was a wonderful afternoon, although the home team lost.It was a joy to see the girls compete. Uniontown fell by just a run.It was marvelous hearing the ball fly ...

None of the Best People

<em>“You need people that are truly, truly capable. We need to get the best and the finest, and if we don’t we’ll be in trouble for a long period of time.”</em>Donald Trump on the criteria for his prospective senior administrators -- September 2016I just love ...

Saccone, Reschenthaler not much room for error

Guy Reschenthaler has a values problem. Rick Saccone has a winning problem — or maybe itĢƵ a losing problem.Both men have a domicile political problem. Neither lives in the House district he wants to represent.Nevertheless, both Reschenthaler and Saccone very much want to be elected to what ...

Hannity is to journalism, what finger painting is to art

Sean Hannity isn’t a journalist. HeĢƵ a performance artist.He spends his weekdays on the radio and his weeknights on Fox News, extolling all things Trump.HeĢƵ good at what he does, but he shouldn’t be confused with people who make their livings chasing facts.As Ted Koppel (a real ...

Old letters help us reconnect to the past

ThereĢƵ hardly any better way to reconstruct the past than to have old letters in hand. Among the letters kept for decades in the attic of his home on South Mount Vernon Avenue by the late, great federal judge Edward Dumbauld were a dozen or so he received from an old high school friend by ...