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A plea for compromise

I鈥檓 still trying to process what to write about something for which I feel so much passion. It used to be the Democrats primarily stood for social justice and Republicans stood for individual justice, and then the two sides would debate and come together on compromises that allowed our ...

Time to retire the perp walk

<em>Editor鈥檚 note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond in on sabbatical. This is a reprint of a column from 2019.</em>Let鈥檚 talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It鈥檚 the walk of shame of a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case ...

Warren Buffett famously said, 鈥淥nly when the tide goes out do you discover who鈥檚 been swimming naked.鈥 What the Oracle of Omaha meant was that when markets are booming, people who take unwise risks can still do OK. When conditions go south, those who invested or borrowed recklessly often ...

Mark Esper says Trump was awful

You could write a book about Donald Trump鈥檚 antic-filled presidency, and Mark Esper has.Esper, a native of Uniontown who served as Trump鈥檚 secretary of defense for 18 torturous months, writes in his book, 鈥淎 Sacred Oath,鈥 that only his training at West Point (which followed his ...

<em>Editor鈥檚 note:</em> <em>Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following column was published in 2019.</em>Raymond 鈥淒J Freez鈥 Rowe got away with murder for more than two decades. As a popular fixture on the party scene in and around ...

Lessons in management and leadership

Periodically, I reflect upon things I鈥檝e learned, experienced and discovered along the way, things that might somehow lighten the next person鈥檚 journey. If I could identify a single item that was missing from my educational experiences, it would be that we are expected to garner our needed ...