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Finding cures you don’t seek

I was just minding my own business last Saturday morning.At least I thought I was.I happened to be watching one of those public affairs/newsmaker programs on a certain cable news network when they broke for commercials (12 of them lasting five solid minutes).Yet, it wasn’t the number of ...

Those lazy, hazy wonderful days of summer!

When I was 11 years old, nightfall was my enemy. Especially during the summer.As I remember (admittedly, I’m embellishing this) I never sat down once during any of the summers of my youth. Rest was a waste of time when there were apple trees to climb, sandlot ball games to be played – or ...

Flags go down as ignorance goes up

The attack on the foreign flags at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza at UniontownĢƵ Five Corners – the suspect in the case told police the national emblems had no business flying in the good old U.S. of A. – brings to mind this fact: General-of-the Army Marshall was a nationalist in ...

The Big Liar returns

HeĢƵ the Energizer Bunny of one term, twice-impeached presidents.He just keeps lying and lying and lying.Civilian Donald John Trump had hidden behind Fox News long enough.It was time for him to find a field in Wellington, Ohio, and hold forth with his usual outrageousness – aimed with ...

After 245 years, it has come to this

“Happy Fourth of July,” we tell one another. We may not always mean it.This yearĢƵ celebration of national independence is not shaping up as an especially joyous one. Things are so unsettled.Let me count some of the ways.First. We Americans seem to be at one anotherĢƵ throats, still, ...

A look at our colorful language

I love the English language.I even use some of it from time to time.This is one of those times.What does this mean? “You’re beating a dead horse.”I’ve spent years researching old newspapers, but I’ve never found a single case of somebody whoĢƵ beaten a dead horse.That phrase ...