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President attacks Obamacare again鈥 again?

Robert Mueller has finally spoken.President Trump can breathe easy.He is not going to jail; he probably won鈥檛 face impeachment; he can gloat all he likes -- "cause there really was no collusion!"It should be clear sailing toward the 2020 election.Whom am I trying to kid?Trump being Trump, and ...

April 1934: A Mitchell Day rumble

Many in the march wore white shirts and white caps. Others wore sweaters stitched with the name and the number of their union local.Uniontown area barbers rode on a float for the parade; factory hands from Uniontown鈥檚 Richmond Radiator plant walked; a young girl marching with the Allison mine ...

Have you no dignity, Mr. President?

<em>鈥淚 gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don鈥檛 care about this. I didn鈥檛 get a thank you. That鈥檚 OK. We sent him on the way. But I wasn鈥檛 a fan of John McCain.鈥</em>-- President Trump, in a speech in Lima, ...

Grand vision and practical politics

Gene Sperling thinks too great an emphasis on specifics 鈥 like Medicare for All 鈥 gets in the way of realizing some really worthwhile things, such as eventually securing health insurance for every American.Sperling, who directed the National Economic Council under both Presidents Clinton ...

How not to help your child

All parents want what鈥檚 best for their children.Some parents want more than others.Those parents break laws, the rules of decency or both to give their kids an unfair help.A few years ago, I happened to ask a legendary high school basketball coach how the game had changed since he started ...

I saw Alex Trebek naked, seriously

I didn鈥檛 only see Alex Trebek naked. I stood next to him naked. Well, that鈥檚 not right. I wasn鈥檛 naked. But sure enough he was. As naked as a smart-boy contestant without an answer ... I mean ... a question during Final Jeopardy. Whatever.The longtime host of TV鈥檚 Jeopardy just ...