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Police can legally lie to you – in most states

<em>Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond</em> <em>is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2021.</em>How many times have you seen these scenarios play out on TV crime dramas? The savvy detective tells a scared kid in the interrogation ...

Until we meet again

I read recently in an article in GentlemanĢƵ Journal that “the greatest occupational hazard of politics is vanity,” Edwina Currie explains. “It makes you forget what life was like before, and leaves you bereft when things suddenly disappear. What gets people into politics is a desire to ...

LetĢƵ all vote, then wait for the recounts

ItĢƵ time to vote.ItĢƵ also time to claim thereĢƵ voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They’ll see victory where it isn’t – thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nationĢƵ 552 Republican ...

Mail votes rush in, but some don’t count

Early votes are rolling in to election offices, with Democratic voters making up a solid majority of mailed-in ballots.A court ruling, however, could leave some of those ballots uncounted.As of Thursday, nearly a million Pennsylvanians had already voted ahead of the Tuesday election – taking ...

The dark cloud of political violence

In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...

We shouldn’t take the right to vote for granted

Susan B. Anthony once said, “Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.”Anthony fought for the right of women to vote in the 19th century, and didn’t live long enough to see that right guaranteed across the United States in 1920. The expansion of voting rights across two-and-a-half ...