If government seems distant, remote, and broken it鈥檚 because it is. There was a vivid demonstration of this a few weeks back.It involved a letter from Gov. Tom Wolf to Monessen鈥檚 putative mayor Matt Shorraw. In the letter, the governor praised local leaders for 鈥渁ddressing the complex and ...
President Trump is hard at work.He鈥檚 made giving people nicknames a full-time job.He鈥檚 a septuagenarian stuck on a grade school playground.Trump seems to think that by tacking nicknames onto people, he owns them in some way.He engages in that kind of nonsense more than you may ...
Sometime before my mother died in 1996, I ran across a photograph of her and the family dog, a 鈥渨iener dog鈥� Dachshund named Prince.He was suppose to be my dog, but he was mom鈥檚, she took care of Prince. Everyday, until he died in the early 鈥�70s, Prince got a bowl of hamburger my mom ...
It was a spectacular scene.A U.S. president was on foreign soil when his image appeared on a giant screen - and it ignited exuberant cheers.Twenty thousand people gave him a rousing standing ovation 鈥� with chants of 鈥淢VP鈥� clearly audible.Of course, that was ex-President Barack Obama, who ...
Among the first interviews Forrest Pogue conducted following the Allied invasion of Europe 75 years ago this week was with a 21-year old Texan, a corporal, who had been badly wounded.With a wife and three-month-old baby at home, the soldier grinned at the prospect of returning to the United ...
President Trump might鈥檝e been able to take a bow after he went to Japan, without managing to make a mess of things.Problem is, he made several messes of things.For instance, just before he left Japan on his way back home, he stopped at a U.S. military base.鈥淚 have to wish you all a very ...