For Republicans, there is, indeed, a national emergency.They’ll swear it could easily destroy America, while it lays waste to our way of life.This national emergency isn’t caused by anything sneaking north from Mexico.It started in the Bronx and Queens New York.Right-wingers don’t even ...
From a mezzanine seat at the University of Pittsburgh’s basketball arena, I had a bird’s eye view of hundreds of student-fans from Butler High School, there to root their school team to victory.Assigned a section behind one basket, the students spent most of the game on their feet, jumping ...
President Trump’s “ex-fixer” Michael Cohen has no reason to sing Trump’s praises.Trump frequently calls him a “rat.”So, when Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee for eight hours last Wednesday, he fired a barrage of carefully worded attacks aimed directly at the ego ...
In the middle of his hectic and ultimately fatal campaign for president, Robert Kennedy took the time to visit West Virginia, a state with few convention delegates.Kennedy, who announced his candidacy a mere six months before Democratic convention delegates were scheduled to select a nominee, ...
Perspective?That’s what I was looking to find when I peeked at some of the columns I’d written for this space ten years ago.My how things have changed.I wrote notes for each of the hundreds of those columns (more than 600 of them) to help me form my opinions.For instance, in a note I wrote ...
On a recent day, cloudy with the temperature somewhere in the 40s, my car climbed the hill to the Duck Hollow golf course. A day or so before, I dodged through several crowded aisles at Wal-Mart until I lit upon the store’s assortment of golf balls. I bought a bag of scruffy seconds, formerly ...