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An airport by any other name is still an airport

U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler has introduced H.R. 7845, a bill “To designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport.’” I don’t seek to find humor in many things. That, though, made me laugh. Reschenthaler and six of ...

The war within the Kennedy family

The "real" Bobby Kennedy was 26-years old the day he took over management of his brother Jack's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1952. "Tanned and wiry with a mop of unruly hair," according to JFK biographer Frederik Logevall, the new campaign manager was not especially interested in ...

Teenage secrets revealed, recovered

"They are everywhere - almost 18 million young Americans crowding into classrooms, spilling into the streets, filing cars and stores and beaches. They have been probed and prodded and psychoanalyzed. And yet, as behavioral scientists point out, “... the years between childhood and adulthood ...

The Thrill of Sports…

How do you bring entire communities together? Two things. It starts with a fast break. It ends with an easy layup. In recent winters, you could watch UniontownĢƵ wildly cheering fans erupt simultaneously at high school gymnasiums all over western Pennsylvania. ThatĢƵ what sports can ...

Aides know Trump is badly flawed

It's normal for members of a president's inner circle to stick up for the man who was their boss. Most became great admirers. Typical is Harry Hopkins, who described his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, this way: "When great issues were at stake Roosevelt never faltered." And then there's Donald ...

And they’re off! The presidential sweepstakes begins – again

As if anybody is being held in suspense – Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden are two salty old men – one of whom will be the nationĢƵ next president – again. They’re now, officially, both “presumptive nominees” – again. And the American public is bracing itself for the ...