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Flying off the handle into the stone age

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!”A President Trump tweet, 3:57 AM, April 11, 2018-----There are times when President Trump seems to think heĢƵ John Wayne in the movie True Grit.HeĢƵ the ...

Dumbauld letters unique look into early local politics

ItĢƵ not right to read someone elseĢƵ mail. But I suppose itĢƵ OK if the mail has turned 90 and everyone is dead. So letĢƵ peek inside some letters addressed to and preserved by a young man from Uniontown; by name, Edward Dumbauld.From his mother Lissa, no doubt written at the Dumbauld ...

The Robots Heard ‘Round the World

And now, a little bit about myself.Back in 1982, I became the entertainment editor for the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona – KPNX-TV.That meant I’d review movies and local restaurants, cover concerts, interview movie and TV stars, and have as much fun as allowable by law.That is, until ...

Trump is no Truman

When Harry Truman became president, he had no foreign policy experience. As a two-term Missouri senator, Truman was the compromise choice as Franklin RooseveltĢƵ running mate in the 1944 election.With FDRĢƵ death on April 12, 1945, Truman stepped from the wings to center stage. In the ...

Republicans have a worthy adversary – Kids

Conservatives are in an uproar these days.Not about the collective misadventures of our president, but about children whose honest anxieties about their futures has led them to take their concerns to the streets.Just 39 days after a crazed gunman strode into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ...

U.S. trade: Something went off the tracks

“Something must be done and done fast to save the specialty steel industry in this country ... Specialty steel is a very vulnerable target” for foreign steelmakers hoping to crash the U.S. market. In the absence of U.S. government controls on foreign specialty steel imports, it is “ ...