After years and years of hanging around the news business, there鈥檚 one trick I admit I鈥檝e never learned: I don鈥檛 quite know how to fashion a conspiracy out of thin air.I can say with confidence that I鈥檝e witnessed the shoddiest of the conspiracy merchants these past few months.I鈥檓 ...
鈥淚 want to look the president in the eye,鈥� House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the other day, 鈥渁nd [have him] tell me there鈥檚 not one dollar of wasteful spending in government.鈥淲ho believes that? The American public doesn鈥檛 believe that.鈥漁f course, McCarthy, the Republican leader, ...
I used to enjoy a good political scandal.Finding misplaced government documents doesn鈥檛 count.Back when they found hundreds of classified documents down there at Mar-A-Lago, that was a nice, juicy, eye-rollable event worthy of a column or two.But since President Biden and ex-vice president ...
Thanks to Judy Keller, I can now put a face to a name. Years ago, I wrote about Bobby Burns. His story was told to me by Rita Smyth for a magazine article I was doing about the Connellsville Canteen of World War II.Bobby was just a kid when Rita knew him. Only a few months out of high school, ...
Something happened last week that gave me a great deal of anxiety.Just before going to sleep, the words, 鈥淪tep on a crack and break your mother鈥檚 back,鈥� popped into my head.That set off a flurry of thoughts about the origin of that phrase, and its lack of a meaningful interpretation.To be ...
The Civil War was eight years away when a hearing convened in Uniontown to decide the fates of runaway slaves Charlotte, Liz, and Willis Greene, under the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.The year was 1853. The Greenes were the children of Alex and Evalina Greene, former slaves themselves who ...
