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Trump to kids: Be crude and succeed

Americans don’t choose presidents to serve as role-models for children. That would be silly.No, we vote presidents into office to raise or lower taxes, to start or stop wars, to speed up or slow down those social, economic, or political movements we either support or oppose.Otherwise, we ...

Trump’s Lies of 2018 – A Retrospective

 If there’s anything that exemplifies President Trump’s presidency – it’s his lies.The Washington Post keeps a running tally of his “false or misleading” claims.As of December 21st, they’ve counted 7,546 lies in Trump’s 700 days in office.And what he lacks in truthfulness, he ...

A new approach to local job creation

When the State Theater was rescued (possibly from the wrecking ball) back in the 1980s, around the same time that planning was underway for Marshall Plaza at Five-Corners in Uniontown, it occurred to some of those involved that these two - the State Theater and Marshall Plaza - could serve as ...

Merry Chaos!

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the White House……there was chaos!Last week was particularly messy for the Trump presidency.President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, appeared in a federal courtroom, ready to face a jail term.Trump had claimed ...

Today, the individual reigns supreme

While rummaging around the 1930s microfilm at the library for a book I’m researching, I happened upon a story that serves to highlight one of the big differences between that era and ours.The story goes something like this: there once was a strike of high school students because they ...

What’s a witch hunt?

Since special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation commenced in May 2017, Donald Trump has referred to it as a “witch hunt” more than 125 times on Twitter.It’s anything but a witch hunt.There’ve been 33 people and three Russian companies charged with a variety of serious ...