Sometimes, history is not a faint echo but more like a wail — a clear wail.We’ve been hearing a lot recently about police and African-Americans. The actions of police officers in Minneapolis, in taking the life of George Floyd, have sparked searing, nationwide protests by black and white ...
The other day, driving through a neighborhood in Canonsburg, Washington County, the person I was with - my pickleball partner - commented on the Donald Trump flags fluttering in the breeze in front of several residences.“Have you ever seen anything like it?” she asked.I admitted I ...
As protests continue to rouse the nation in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, it might be useful to recall an earlier protest. Doing so might help us see through the fog of the present and to better anticipate the short-term future.The demonstrations I ...
In remarks on Tuesday to NBC-News, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said, “I didn’t know where I was going.”Esper was talking of his walk from the White House with Donald Trump to St. John’s Church — “the church of presidents” — on the edge of Lafayette Park for a presidential ...
“Operation 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.”Thus, Cornelius Ryan begins to weave thousands of ...
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 — ...