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Karl Rove, an influential Republican strategist, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that President Trump’s political prospects are “more dire” than they were four years ago. “In such a bizarre year, anything is possible. But possible doesn’t mean likely. As insurance, Republicans better fight …
As overwrought as many Americans are over the upcoming election, it’s been months since this column has elicited a death threat. Even so, I got edgy the other night when an unusually loud pickup all tricked out for a demolition derby pulled up in front of our house.
He’s not worth it you know. Donald Trump that is. In truth neither Trump, nor Joe Biden, nor Howie Hawkins (Green Party), nor Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party) are worth berating fellow citizens over a choice you don’t personally share.
Republican and conservative journalists and politicos need to avoid a trap when discussing the Hunter Biden laptop story. The trap might be called the “can’t prove untrue” maneuver that we saw from Democrats and their allies in the media when discussing the Steele dossier during the Trump-Ru…
WASHINGTON — President Trump has failed America on the most pressing issues facing our country and its people.
“Dude, I want you to punch Donald Trump in the face.”
EBT and the regional police
Back in my own days playing guns, we had the coolest hideout ever: a hut we’d built on a wooded half-acre out of lumber liberated from a subdivision under construction. The way we looked at it, they owed us: a fair exchange for converting the woods and ponds where we hiked, fished and ice-sk…
PITTSBURGH — Two weeks to go. So much uncertainty.
With the Amy Coney Barrett hearings in full swing this week, my mailbox has been overflowing with questions from absolutely no readers! Here, I will deliver the answers that no one asked for.
The presidential election could be decided by one word: Trust. Who do voters trust to tell them the truth? To keep their families safe? To handle the next crisis?
Every day, some new poll is published showing Democratic challenger Joe Biden with a big lead over President Donald Trump. Some Trump supporters ignore the news because some of the polls were wrong in 2016. They shouldn’t. The polls are real, and there is no doubt Trump is facing a serious c…
The mission of a university is learning and teaching. The product of a university is twofold: knowledge and thought. Therefore universities must be bastions of free thought and inquiry.
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey isn’t going to run for reelection in 2022.
The year of 2020 has been a political whirlwind and has even caused Americans to question the very origins of our great nation.
A report in Bloomberg’s online magazine reported on Oct. 8 that the richest 50 Americans are worth as much as the poorest 165 million. They hold almost $2 trillion of the wealth. The top 1% of Americans hold 30.5 percent of the nation’s wealth, which has risen from 23.7 percent since 1989. A…
“Staggering friendliness.” That’s how one reporter described his encounter with People of Praise, the apostolic community that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family belong to. I’ve always heard wonderful things about Barrett, knowing more than a few people who teach or have …
Hall of Famer gone too soon
FAYETTE, Maine — The other night, the moon rose over the lake, creating a stream of light that illuminated the passage of two loons. The tiny library at the bend of the road is open only on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The nearby orchard is selling a McIntosh blend of apple cider, as cool and c…
During a normal White House race, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner allows the candidates to don formal attire, fire off snappy one-liners and make subtle appeals to Catholic voters.
Wear the mask
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a staunch Trump ally, said this about the president’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic: “I think the biggest mistake people make in public life is not telling the truth, particularly in something with as much public interest as here, because you know the real stor…
Complaints about state and federal government — dating back decades, but especially evident now — stems largely from a lack of transparency.
Necessary questions
It wasn’t too long ago that the news was filled with reports of violent protests in Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Washington, D.C., and other cities around the nation. And then ... silence. Networks and newspapers are going wall-to-wall with analyses of every syllable uttered by President Trump…
As good-government types know, redistricting reform in Pennsylvania is a decade-long process of pulling teeth.
WASHINGTON — When the history is written about Donald Trump’s performance Tuesday in the first of three scheduled presidential debates, it won’t be remembered as an inspiring story for grown-ups.
There wasn’t much to say about the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The lowest point may have been when Trump went after Biden’s son Hunter and his addiction struggles. There are legitimate questions to be asked about Hunter Biden and his international dealings, …
Early in the coronavirus crisis, and in this summer’s wave of chaos in American streets, Rachel Bulman began paying close attention to the faces in news reports.
”American youth today has its fringes, but that’s part of the greatness of our country. I have great faith in American youth. The youth of today can change the world, and if they understand that, I think we are going to go forward to a great age.” — former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in…
Black Lives Matter or Bolsheviks Liberation Mob?
A battalion of brave Republicans, including key figures from President Trump’s own administration, have abandoned their party and endorsed Democrat Joe Biden. Defectors in the opposite direction, Democrats backing Trump, are practically nonexistent.
After four months of looting, arson, window breaking, vandalism, intimidation, physical assaults, stabbings and shootings by Black Lives Matter and antifa, the first thing on the media’s mind is ... getting Trump to condemn “white supremacists”!
Anyone seen the GOP health care plan?
It’s a question we get all the time.
With less than five weeks to go before Election Day, two top House Republicans — Jim Jordan, ranking GOP member on the Judiciary Committee, and James Comer, ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee — have released a report warning that widespread dysfunction with mail-in voting could “p…
A group of Pennsylvania doctors has taken an extraordinary stance to protect what we all should consider sacrosanct – science and medicine.
Walking the streets of lower Manhattan for the first time in a long time, I was talking with a friend a few days ago. Over the course of 20 blocks or so, I would occasionally play with my facemask, to get a little extra air. Not take it off, not to pull it down, but pull it outward. I suspec…
FRYEBURG, Maine — How they once loved Susan.
This just in: There’s no wizard behind the curtain, and nobody’s actually in charge. There’s no shadowy cabal of billionaires scheming to bring about one-world government. To begin with, nobody clever enough to accumulate that much money believes that such a thing is A) remotely possible, or…
Okay, well now even he has gone too far. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, President Donald Trump made comments suggesting he will attempt to get rid certain “ballots” during this next election. Such a move in the United States of America will mark the beginning of the end. Correction, the actua…
Clinging to power
On June 14, 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. On Aug. 3, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate, with only three hardcore Republican conservatives opposing her.
During a BLM “peaceful protest” in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 30 (over George Floyd’s dying of a heart attack while in police custody in Minneapolis), James Scurlock was peacefully protesting by breaking into an architecture firm — hoisting an office chair and hurling it into two computer monit…
School districts and administrators have done a great job thus far dealing with all the changes — some of which came out of the blue — and requirements associated with getting students back in the classroom in the age of COVID-19.
In a few days, we’ll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, her judicial temperament. Democrats will oppose. There will be an opportunity for a real debate: Should the president’s nominee be confirmed to…
Ricardo Miguel Muñoz, 27, was fatally shot by a Lancaster city police officer outside his parents’ city home. A video released by the Lancaster City Bureau of Police showed Muñoz brandishing a knife at the police officer before the officer fired his weapon several times at Muñoz. Rulennis Mu…
WASHINGTON — The figure to keep in mind about this year’s race for the White House is that no president has won a second term in modern history when the unemployment rate was above 7.2%.
Hypocrisy
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