By Richard Robbins Gilbert du Motier was 19 when he departed France for the United States in 1777, leaving behind a young daughter and a pregnant wife. He excitedly told his father-in-law, "You will be astounded. I am a general officer in the army of the United States. My zeal for their cause ...
By Richard Robbins Never in his political career has Donald Trump done so much dodging and weaving, so much bobbing and ducking. His friendship with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt the president. And his administration's failure to release the "Epstein files" ...
I've been having trouble getting my head around two fairly recent political developments 鈥� one from the left, the other from the right. From the left: the unlikely ascent of the drag queen show. Not so long ago, drag shows, in which men dress as women, were considered side shows. In ...
Robb Rhodes has performed an estimable public service: He has put on the table a plan for the Penn State-Fayette campus now slated for the ash heap. Rhodes, the Fayette County controller, wants to convert the campus into a four-year "senior military college," along the lines of Norwich ...
Recently, our serially absent congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, ventured to write a newspaper commentary tooting his own horn, citing, for instance, the return home of Pennsylvania native Marc Fogel from a Russian prison. "President Trump secured [Fogel's] release within just three weeks in ...
During the 1970s, the word went out: The country needed a Lincoln, not a Ford. That's even truer now. Can the U.S. produce a public figure who combines politically savvy and principled leadership as well as Old Abe did? Probably not. In our history, there's only been one Lincoln. Commenting ...
