Guy Reschenthaler has a problem that is also our problem.How so? Reschenthaler, the Republican who, rumor has it, represents Fayette, Greene and Washington counties (plus a portion of Westmoreland) in Congress, is attempting to raise political dollars with major whoppers 鈥� fabulous falsehoods ...
Walk with me for a few paragraphs.I promise you I won鈥檛 bite.The Big Lie lives.There are Americans who still swear Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in a landslide. And that Biden鈥檚 7,052,770 lead in the popular vote, had been the handiwork of demonic vote-counters, and rigged voting ...
It turns out there was a Philadelphia election scandal. And the scandal morphed into a fight on Capitol Hill for the soul of the Republican Party.The leader of the Republicans 鈥� more or less 鈥� was a charismatic populist who hated his enemies and encouraged his supporters to fight like the ...
In early 1861, folks gathered in Brownsville hoping to do their part to stop the slide toward Civil War. They elected a remarkable number of organizational vice presidents 鈥� 28 鈥� and proclaimed their hope to 鈥渄rop partisan feelings and prejudices.鈥滻t didn鈥檛 work.The dispute over ...
It鈥檚 time to exhale.The keys to the republic have been returned to adults.That other guy (whose name escapes me at the moment) is now in Florida, planning to defend himself in his upcoming impeachment trial.Given the developments of recent days, I decided to take a long look back at some of ...
The Biden years are underway. Change is the order of the day. It comes in the nick of time.We are badly off track. For what ails us, let me put forward two modest proposals: modesty itself and a dollop of humor.As for humor, what was good enough for Abraham Lincoln (and John Kennedy and Calvin ...
