On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, let鈥檚 engage in a thought experiment.Cast your mind back a decade ago to 2012. Incumbent president Barack Obama convincingly defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney in that year鈥檚 presidential election, winning 332 ...
Of all the deaths that took place in 2021 perhaps none was more unexpected and consequential than Richard Trumka鈥檚, the Greene County native and president of organized labor鈥檚 the AFL-CIO.Trumka was 72 when he suffered a fatal heart attack in August on an outing with his family. A cousin, ...
Jan. 6 should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugar-coaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.For everyone who had convinced themselves that, whatever Trump鈥檚 flaws, the true threat to the American way of life lay on ...
As far as I can tell, the number of Republicans against democracy serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly remains the same as a year ago.You will recall that a month prior to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, 64 House and Senate Republicans wrote their infamous letter requesting that the ...
1 Cor 13:11, says, 鈥淲hen I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.鈥� (NIV) Any of us can list the irresponsible, funny, peculiar, and immature things that children do and say not just because of their age, but ...
When an old year departs and a new one arrives, it鈥檚 customary to take stock of trends, fads and fashions and forecast what will rise and what will fall in the months ahead.Here鈥檚 one trend that we can only hope will peter out in 2022 鈥� the rage in many communities to ban books in school ...
