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MAGA memo maps Trump strategy

A not-so-secret memo from one of the dark-money, cash-happy political action committees supporting Donald Trump confirms the central role Pennsylvania is expected to play in the election for president this November. Make America Great Again Inc., which by law is prohibited from coordinating ...

Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...

And now, this from crankland USA

The Smartless podcast recently hosted two former Democratic presidents of the United States - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - along with President Joe Biden The hour-long program with the three presidents was not a hard hitting affair. The podcast hosts, actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and ...

Jinxed: the state and the presidency

Pennsylvania, one of the largest, most populous states in the Union, had produced one president, and by all accounts, that one president was woeful. He was James Buchanan. He was president in the lead-up to the Civil War. The knock against Buchanan, who hailed from Lancaster (where his home, ...

Dems need to show up and show off

President Biden, campaigning in Pittsburgh last Wednesday, promised cheering steelworkers to keep U.S. Steel in American hands, despite a $14.9 billion deal on the table to sell the iconic and one-time industrial behemoth to a Japanese firm. The president's stop came on the heels of the visit ...

A springtime of tragic foreboding

There are some travelers I'd like you to meet. They are from an antique land: America in the spring of 1861. It was April, normal in many ways for the residents of Uniontown. Merchants, such as Calvin Springer, proprietor of the McClellan House hotel on Main Street, and C.S. Seaton and George ...