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It’s decision-time for Mark Esper

In remarks on Tuesday to NBC-News, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said, 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know where I was going.鈥滶sper was talking of his walk from the White House with Donald Trump to St. John鈥檚 Church 鈥 鈥渢he church of presidents鈥 鈥 on the edge of Lafayette Park for a presidential ...

The ‘reporter’ who invented D-Day

鈥淥peration Overlord ... began at precisely fifteen minutes after midnight.... At that moment a few specially chosen men of the American 101st and 82nd airborne divisions stepped out of their planes into the moonlit night over Normandy.鈥漈hus, Cornelius Ryan begins to weave thousands of ...

The harm of mindless partisanship

Congressman Guy Reschenthaler has too much time on his hands, or maybe he has too little reason to worry about his reelection and being sent back to Washington.Reschenthaler, a Republican who represents Fayette County in Congress, recently got entangled in a race for Congress in California 鈥 ...

Basking in the glow of the crowd

A western Pennsylvania newspaper that shall not be named ran a photograph the other day of the left field stands at a packed PNC Park. It was a night game, maybe a July night, the kind of luxurious night that bathes you in warmth. The kind of night you wish would never end.Fans were on their ...

First he fooled himself, then others

Perception can be everything.In the case of J.V. Thompson, the wealthy Uniontown banker and dealer in coal lands in the early years of the 20th century, it was his perception - his argument 鈥 that H. C. Frick was out to ruin him.Frick鈥檚 largely mythical role in Thompson鈥檚 downfall was ...

Failing to surmount partisan politics

Equating the struggle to overcome the coronavirus to a war for national survival seems like a thing of the past 鈥 a distant past. Apparently, President Trump no longer views himself as a wartime commander-in-chief.The coronavirus war is practically won. Call out the Blue Angels for a national ...