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Baseball, the Babe, and a reunion

I don鈥檛 know about you, but I鈥檓 ready for baseball. More than ready.Hope springs eternal at the old ballyard. I鈥檓 reminded of the line in the movie Field of Dreams by the reclusive novelist Terrance Mann, about baseball being the one constant in America.鈥淎merica has rolled by like an ...

Watch out for ‘socialists’

I really hadn鈥檛 paid much attention to that special election to fill the empty seat in the state鈥檚 37th Senatorial District.I don鈥檛 live in that district.In fact, I didn鈥檛 even know which political parties the two candidates (D. Raja and Pam Iovino) belonged to until a few days before ...

The great harm some politicians do

Last Sunday, the state鈥檚 14th District congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, emailed a request for money to fight the 鈥渓iberal ... socialist鈥 agenda of the Democrats.Now, when the Republican Reschenthaler was running for the job against the Democrat Bibi Boerio last fall, he was mostly ...

President attacks Obamacare again鈥 again?

Robert Mueller has finally spoken.President Trump can breathe easy.He is not going to jail; he probably won鈥檛 face impeachment; he can gloat all he likes -- "cause there really was no collusion!"It should be clear sailing toward the 2020 election.Whom am I trying to kid?Trump being Trump, and ...

April 1934: A Mitchell Day rumble

Many in the march wore white shirts and white caps. Others wore sweaters stitched with the name and the number of their union local.Uniontown area barbers rode on a float for the parade; factory hands from Uniontown鈥檚 Richmond Radiator plant walked; a young girl marching with the Allison mine ...

Have you no dignity, Mr. President?

<em>鈥淚 gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don鈥檛 care about this. I didn鈥檛 get a thank you. That鈥檚 OK. We sent him on the way. But I wasn鈥檛 a fan of John McCain.鈥</em>-- President Trump, in a speech in Lima, ...