<em>鈥淚t is here in Virginia that we sent a powerful message to the nation that bigotry, racism and lies will never defeat love, fairness and truth.鈥�</em>Susan Swecker, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, last Tuesday night--When President Trump embarked ...
Shelley Glessner is encouraged 鈥渁 little bit.鈥� The same can be said of Jim Davis. Both see some running room for western Pennsylvania Democrats, though both are realists: until further notice, our small but significant corner of the world remains Trump territory.Glessner and Davis are local ...
I don鈥檛 have much proof, but I鈥檓 going to go out on a limb. Most Americans don鈥檛 live in a world of make believe.Unfortunately, the President of the United States does.He can鈥檛 help himself.He tweets first; thinks later.The only times he doesn鈥檛 insert himself into the national ...
Patrick Daugherty, an artist of scope and consequence, has struck again. His copy of a portrait of George Washington by the renowned Charles Willson Peale was placed the other day on a wall at the Fayette County courthouse.Daugherty鈥檚 reproduction of the Peale masterpiece hangs on the other ...
On June 9th, 1954, a Boston attorney 鈥� Joseph Welch 鈥� decided he鈥檇 had enough of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy.For years, McCarthy had conjured up Commies out of thin air.He鈥檇 abused his position as the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to elevate himself, ...
These days we hear a lot about the difficulties our leaders have when it comes to connecting with ordinary Americans. The telephone call placed by President Trump to the widow of one of the four soldiers slain recently in Niger was meant to be consoling. It was anything but.The president, ...