It is easy to identify the reasons for the violence that engulfed Fayette County in the summer of 1933 — the Great Depression, the hope for better times following the election of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency, and miners’ distrust and anger with coal companies, especially the ...
On January 21st, 2017, the first full day of the Trump presidency, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told a big whopper.“That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer proclaimed.There was ample visual evidence that Spicer’s claim was false.There are ...
Eighty-five years ago this summer, Fayette County experienced the most horrific violence in its history; in the midst of the Great Depression, gunshots rang out in one coal patch after another. The summer of 1933 was one of disorder and mayhem, all of which threatened to undermine the hope for ...
Whenever President Trump steps onto the world stage, he always feels compelled to give a performance.In the end, he takes his bows, even when hardly anybody applauds him.ACT I: When he flew to Brussels, he played Count Dracula.He sucked the lifeblood right out of that NATO summit.He launched ...
A reckless, clueless vaudevillian ... a sad, embarrassing wreck of a man ... crazy ... boorish and bigoted, enemy of the people ... treasonous.Each of these epithets was applied this past week to Donald Trump following the president’s profoundly un-presidential performance standing alongside ...
For yet more proof that the Trump administration has abandoned the traditional government role of oversight to form an unholy alliance with private enterprise, you need not look further than a recent meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) affiliates.At a gathering in Geneva of the World ...