Many years ago, Sen. Eugene McCarthy said there is nothing more dangerous in politics than a politician without further ambition.
“It is midnight within the social order.” Martin Luther King Jr. said this in a 1967 sermon called “A Knock at Midnight.”
Call it the “Texit” parable.
Some years ago, my wife and I were walking along the edge of a horse pasture when a stampede broke out. We heard them before we saw them. Nine big mares — Shire/thoroughbred crosses — went thundering past at a dead gallop, a thrilling and somewhat scary sight.
Southwestern PA Regional Chief Medical Officers Consortium responds to expanded vaccine announcement
As Joe Biden takes office as the nation’s 46th president, one number should be deeply disturbing to anyone who cares about the health of democracy. That number is 32: the percentage of Americans who told an ABC/Washington Post poll that Biden “did not legitimately win” the November election.…
Why can’t liberals ever just let Trump hang himself? Isn’t what he’s actually done bad enough? No, the media always have to punch up the story, layering lie upon lie, until normal people are forced to say, I don’t want to defend the guy, but that didn’t happen.
A rush to judgment
President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An ambitious agenda lies ahead for the new Democratic administration. And yet there are signs that some Democrats’ obsession with Donald Trump — the…
Year after year, thousands of Americans attend the March For Life — marching past the U.S. Capitol in late January, close to the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
Unchecked ignorance
If the last two months have shown us anything, it’s that words carry weight.
There are many dangers ahead for that great survivor of American politics, Joe Biden. There is a deadly virus that is rampaging across the land even as it is mutating, economic challenges, a wealth and privilege gap that is widening, potential troubles with Iran, allies wary of America’s com…
As our nation prepares to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18, I can’t help but notice how much Dr. King’s dream remains relevant to the work we do at Geisinger. Dr. King dedicated his life to the peaceful service and betterment of others, just like we at Geisinger do every day f…
In preparation for Election Day, Manhattan businesses boarded up in case violence erupted if Donald Trump won reelection. They had seen or already experienced destruction during the summer, when George Floyd’s and other Black people’s death at the hands — or knees — of police officers set of…
Trim the fat first
Even as Trump apologists try to spin the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, and conservative talking heads redefine the suspension of most of his social media accounts as anti-First Amendment, the president continues to deny any responsibility for an obvious attempted coup by his most radical supporters.
Why, in the last 12 days of his presidency, did Donald Trump suddenly become the authoritarian of liberal fantasies? He sure wasn’t an authoritarian for the past four years — he was a spineless wonder.
The violent insurrection that occurred last week was a dark day for our country and will forever be a stain on Donald Trump’s legacy. Donald Trump bears responsibility for what happened, but the dangerous lie that led to the uprising could not have taken hold and been sustained without the h…
Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after he leaves office.
It seemed that whenever the Rev. Daniel Darling ventured into social media, he saw the same red flags — so he posted a commentary on “Christians and Conspiracy Theories.”
On the morning of Jan. 5, a best-selling Christian author posted a picture of the Egyptian Coptic martyrs who were beheaded on a beach in Libya in 2015. Above the photo, the author asked: “What price are you willing to pay for what you believe in?”
Sen. Brewster should have been seated
The failure of leadership
The fringes on both sides of American society are dangerous.
Cry, the beloved country.
WASHINGTON — From the start of President Trump’s administration, it was clear that he didn’t and wouldn’t accept the Constitutional rules that have long governed our nation.
Congressman Keller needs to denounce false information
Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
“Lies have consequences.” Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican said it best.
CARES funding distribution in question
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: Some called the president a Russian asset, a traitor, Putin’s patsy and much, much more. It was all nonsense, because behind the rhetoric was the stark realit…
Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections is apparently doing such an effective job in its coronavirus response that it’s bringing people felled by the disease back to life. On Dec. 21, DOC’s COVID-19 Dashboard showed that the number of people incarcerated who died of the coronavirus in Penns…
Today, Congress will meet in a joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate to count the Electoral College votes. I will object to the certification of Pennsylvania’s electors due to unconstitutional actions taken by Gov. Tom Wolf, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and the Penns…
The current president of Planned Parenthood is unafraid to use the word “abortion.” In a Christmas-season interview with The Washington Post, Alexis McGill Johnson scolded those who would downplay the importance of abortion in her organization’s work. She says it is “stigmatizing” to do so.
A call to justice
Adapted from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:
So what’s it going to be, America? The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Chaos and misrule, or the gradual rebirth of democratic governance under President Joe Biden?
New year, new president, new prospects, new attitude.
Looking back on the year that was 2020, COVID-19 dominates the discussion.
At the outset, and in the interest of full disclosure, I will state that I voted for Donald Trump every time his name was on the ballot. I also supported his campaign financially. Do I like the fact that the candidate I supported lost – no.
What does it mean to be grateful?
Thank you
“In times of trouble, it’s always the most vulnerable who suffer the worst,” Archbishop Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, said just before Thanksgiving, at a mostly virtual global conference focusing on persecuted Christians and other religious minorities around the globe.
“In times of trouble, it’s always the most vulnerable who suffer the worst,” Archbishop Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, said just before Thanksgiving, at a mostly virtual global conference focusing on persecuted Christians and other religious minorities around the globe.
Pop into any gift shop near a tourist lake, and you will see a pillow embroidered with this truth: If you’re lucky to live by a lake, you are lucky enough. Now that the holiday gift season is over, I have my own version: If you were lucky enough to get a copy of the new book “The Glorious Am…
Keller has changed
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. But it’s going to be an uphill battle. Republicans are pushing harder and harder to learn more about Swalwell’s relationship with Chinese spy Ch…
I don’t consider myself a lucky person. In fact I don’t think I believe much in luck. Unless luck is the circumstance in which there’s the frequent occurrence of something that doesn’t occur frequently. Like the number seven coming up in three consecutive spins of a roulette wheel; the odds …
This is the year of Joe. Not Biden. But the main man in the Nativity scene nearest you (since Jesus is but a baby, albeit divine). Pope Francis delivered the news of a year dedicated to St. Joseph earlier this month on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8. So, we are already a fe…
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