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Another day. Another indictment. Another act!

One day last week, I can’t remember which one, Donald Trump didn’t get indicted!Otherwise, the book they keep throwing at him – gets more dog-eared daily.I think itĢƵ getting interesting because the more prosecutors prosecute him, the more he screams heĢƵ the target of abuse. HeĢƵ ...

A summer of violence in the county

This week nine decades ago Fayette County was on fire. The immediate cause of the unrest was union busting. The effect was widespread lethal disorder.“Notwithstanding the earnest desire of the mine workers to preserve peace in Fayette County, it had been evident that the H.C. Frick Coal and ...

LetĢƵ all hear it for the wonderful days of slavery?

Have you heard the latest?Slaves had themselves some big fun back in the day!ThatĢƵ the word out of Florida, where they’re rewriting history to include the happy-go-lucky, carefree lives of AmericaĢƵ slaves.Or it seems that way.According to the Florida Board of Education, middle school ...

‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t get it right

A homeboy at heart, I half-waited for Gen. George C. Marshall to show up in “Oppenheimer” the movie.The Uniontown native and Army chief of staff during World War II did make a screen appearance, or at least I assume that was him being depicted sitting alongside Secretary of War Henry ...

A satire: Indict Ron DeSantis now!

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to be indicted in order to bolster his flailing campaign for president. The Republican DeSantis has told aides to find a crime he can do that will bring the law immediately down on his head, as well as garner eye-popping headlines and time on cable news.The ...

You’re traveling through another dimension

I grew up with television.Not literally.But when TV was coming of age, I, too, was enjoying (and sometimes suffering from) a growth spurt of my own in the late 1950s and early '60s.So, the other day, when I was clicking around on YouTube, I found it interesting when I came upon some videos that ...