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Richard_Robbins

Cable news ‘Guy’ telling some big ones

Guy Reschenthaler has a problem that is also our problem.How so? Reschenthaler, the Republican who, rumor has it, represents Fayette, Greene and Washington counties (plus a portion of Westmoreland) in Congress, is attempting to raise political dollars with major whoppers – fabulous falsehoods ...

This just in: the election was stolen

It turns out there was a Philadelphia election scandal. And the scandal morphed into a fight on Capitol Hill for the soul of the Republican Party.The leader of the Republicans – more or less – was a charismatic populist who hated his enemies and encouraged his supporters to fight like the ...

The GOP needs to say, ‘Our bad’

In early 1861, folks gathered in Brownsville hoping to do their part to stop the slide toward Civil War. They elected a remarkable number of organizational vice presidents – 28 – and proclaimed their hope to “drop partisan feelings and prejudices.”It didn’t work.The dispute over ...

‘Silent Cal’ breaks his long silence

The Biden years are underway. Change is the order of the day. It comes in the nick of time.We are badly off track. For what ails us, let me put forward two modest proposals: modesty itself and a dollop of humor.As for humor, what was good enough for Abraham Lincoln (and John Kennedy and Calvin ...

Buckle up: It could get even rougher

WednesdayĢƵ inauguration comes at a time of national peril, prompting unparalleled precautions. The capital city will bristle with arms – troops at street corners and on the National Mall while Capitol Hill, the site of the inaugural, promises to be an armed fortress.The marauding nihilists ...

Trump and the siege of Washington

If you’re reading this 100 years from now and you want to know whether the Siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was as bad as the history books say, you should know this: it was.Five people died – one was shot to death, a police officer was fatally injured, and three others succumbed to ...