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‘Red Wave’ meets a blue wall

Hardly anybody expected last TuesdayĢƵ results.Democrats were ready to run for political cover. All of that talk about a “Red Wave” darkening their role in Congress appeared to be a foregone conclusion.Many Republicans were already chilling champagne for a joyous night of ...

Parties need to reform themselves

In his after-action summation of last TuesdayĢƵ election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...

LetĢƵ all vote, then wait for the recounts

ItĢƵ time to vote.ItĢƵ also time to claim thereĢƵ voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They’ll see victory where it isn’t – thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nationĢƵ 552 Republican ...

The dark cloud of political violence

In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...

Mike Tyson sure was right!

Now that I have your attention – this isn’t really about Mike Tyson.ItĢƵ about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponentĢƵ plan to beat him.Tyson responded, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched ...

Is Fetterman well enough to serve?

John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...