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Biden speech looks ahead to 2024

GOP rants from the House floor aside, President BidenĢƵ State of the Union speech and the official Republican response by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas cast a bright light on the stark differences between the two parties, as the nation, ready or not, takes a turn toward what ...

Anatomy of a made-up conspiracy

After years and years of hanging around the news business, thereĢƵ one trick I admit I’ve never learned: I don’t quite know how to fashion a conspiracy out of thin air.I can say with confidence that I’ve witnessed the shoddiest of the conspiracy merchants these past few months.I’m ...

POTUS has handy debt limit solution

“I want to look the president in the eye,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the other day, “and [have him] tell me thereĢƵ not one dollar of wasteful spending in government.“Who believes that? The American public doesn’t believe that.”Of course, McCarthy, the Republican leader, ...

Read this: ItĢƵ ‘classified!’

I used to enjoy a good political scandal.Finding misplaced government documents doesn’t count.Back when they found hundreds of classified documents down there at Mar-A-Lago, that was a nice, juicy, eye-rollable event worthy of a column or two.But since President Biden and ex-vice president ...

Connellsville will honor war dead

Thanks to Judy Keller, I can now put a face to a name. Years ago, I wrote about Bobby Burns. His story was told to me by Rita Smyth for a magazine article I was doing about the Connellsville Canteen of World War II.Bobby was just a kid when Rita knew him. Only a few months out of high school, ...

What’s in a rhyme

Something happened last week that gave me a great deal of anxiety.Just before going to sleep, the words, “Step on a crack and break your motherĢƵ back,” popped into my head.That set off a flurry of thoughts about the origin of that phrase, and its lack of a meaningful interpretation.To be ...