President Biden made a praiseworthy trip to an active war zone last week.Even staunch conservatives like writer George Will were impressed by Biden鈥檚 harrowing trek into the heart of Ukraine.鈥淭his is a great moment for all Americans to be proud ... This was a terrible day for Vladimir ...
At least four or five times a week, freight trains rumble past my house. The tracks are no more than 75 feet from where I park my car.Most of the early morning trains consist in part of tanker cars carrying who knows what chemicals. More than once I鈥檝e wondered what would happen if just one ...
There was an ex-U.S. Marine who suffered a tragic death while trying to save the lives of the victims of a devastating earthquake in Nicaragua in 1972.He鈥檚 hailed as a national treasure by many Americans because of his professional skills and his sense of humanity.Roberto Enrique Clemente ...
Not long ago it came to my attention that our irascible high school librarian 鈥� Nellie Mancini 鈥� was the sister of a great newspaperman.This would be Mickey Furfari. Beginning in the dark ages, Mickey took to covering sports at West Virginia University for the Morgantown Dominion-News ...
A show of hands: How many of you like balloons?Let me back up.How many of you like menacing balloons, with unknown motives about 12 miles above your head?If you don鈥檛, I鈥檓 in your camp.But with the keen-eyed efficiency of our U.S. military machine, I鈥檓 quite satisfied with that recent ...
GOP rants from the House floor aside, President Biden鈥檚 State of the Union speech and the official Republican response by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas cast a bright light on the stark differences between the two parties, as the nation, ready or not, takes a turn toward what ...
