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The ‘reporter’ who invented D-Day

“Operation Overlord ... began at precisely fifteen minutes after midnight.... At that moment a few specially chosen men of the American 101st and 82nd airborne divisions stepped out of their planes into the moonlit night over Normandy.”Thus, Cornelius Ryan begins to weave thousands of ...

The harm of mindless partisanship

Congressman Guy Reschenthaler has too much time on his hands, or maybe he has too little reason to worry about his reelection and being sent back to Washington.Reschenthaler, a Republican who represents Fayette County in Congress, recently got entangled in a race for Congress in California — ...

Basking in the glow of the crowd

A western Pennsylvania newspaper that shall not be named ran a photograph the other day of the left field stands at a packed PNC Park. It was a night game, maybe a July night, the kind of luxurious night that bathes you in warmth. The kind of night you wish would never end.Fans were on their ...

First he fooled himself, then others

Perception can be everything.In the case of J.V. Thompson, the wealthy Uniontown banker and dealer in coal lands in the early years of the 20th century, it was his perception - his argument — that H. C. Frick was out to ruin him.FrickĢƵ largely mythical role in ThompsonĢƵ downfall was ...

Failing to surmount partisan politics

Equating the struggle to overcome the coronavirus to a war for national survival seems like a thing of the past — a distant past. Apparently, President Trump no longer views himself as a wartime commander-in-chief.The coronavirus war is practically won. Call out the Blue Angels for a national ...

The national selfish-unselfish divide

At the worst, most extreme of times, defining what is selfish and unselfish politics is at the heart of the democratic struggle.We seem to be at such a point now.What do you call it when governors want to keep their economies closed and businesses shuttered, with workers shunted to the ...