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Maybe the Dems just don’t like us

Kermit, West Virginia, is a four-hour drive from here. It’s a community of less than 400 in Mingo County. In 2016, Mingo voted for Donald Trump by a nearly 80-point margin over Hillary Clinton. It is, as the saying goes, deep red.A week ago Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth ...

Case not closed, until the Pelosi lady sings

<em>"This investigation went on for two years. It's finally over…The special counsel's finding is clear: case closed. CASE CLOSED!"</em>-- Sen. Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, May 7th, 2019 – Floor of the U.S. SenateMitch McConnell couldn’t have been more ...

Minds to change and votes to win

Blame it on jet aircraft, which allows candidates for president to cruise the skies without once looking down except maybe at the bright lights of cities.Or maybe it’s the televised nature of our politics that’s at fault; more exactly, television markets - the idea being that local ...

‘Sleepy Joe’ Awakens Our Tweeter-in-Chief

There’s no telling what occupies the mind of Donald J. Trump.Last week, while there was dangerous political upheaval in Venezuela; a mass murder in North Carolina; the aftermath of an attempted mass murder at a synagogue near San Diego; a thwarted plot to carry out mass killings near Los ...

To Biden and buddies: We’re here

Last Monday, Joe Biden debuted his presidential campaign with a speech in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Making a bid for working class votes, the former vice president got it half right: He addressed an audience at the Teamsters Local 249 union hall on Butler Street. In addition ...

To impeach, or not to impeach? That is the question

<em>“I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only are there no ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ there are no Crimes by me at all.”</em>President Donald Trump during a three-day, ...