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Marking Roe in a Depression-era fight

July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin RooseveltĢƵ fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...

Test your Americanism for the Fourth

To become a naturalized American, an applicant must meet certain criteria. He or she must be at least 18 and to have lived in the country a minimum of five years as a permanent resident (three if married to an American).ThereĢƵ an application to be filled out and a fee to be paid. ThereĢƵ ...

Thank goodness for the GOP good guys

That a group of Michigan Republicans were told to hide out overnight in that stateĢƵ capitol to secretly select a false slate of presidential electors pledged to Donald Trump brings to mind a scene from “Seven Days in May.”The movie, which stars Burt Lancaster as treasonous Air Force Gen. ...

With the exception of Jan. 6, 2021, itself, maybe the most traumatic day of the Trump presidency was June 1, 2020 – the day peaceful American citizens protesting the police murder of George Floyd were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White ...

The future looks like a crapshoot

You might say I’ve been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I’ve never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we’re doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.“I’m glad I’m ...

No bystanders in Cheney’s America

WyomingĢƵ lone member of the House, Republican Liz Cheney, was one of five people honored recently with the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award. Here, in part, is what the arch-conservative and ardent patriot said on Monday night in Boston. Her words are words to remember.“... On ...