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Debate between protection of markets and open markets rages on

So let鈥檚 go back, say, to the late 鈥20s and early 鈥30s. The issue was then a worsening recession rapidly sliding into depression. As it turned out, this was the Great Depression, the recession on steroids that refused to die.Few people sensed, in 1929-30, just how bad things were. The ...

A Republican takes on Trump

Jeff Flake is in a bit of a pickle.Who鈥檚 Jeff Flake?He鈥檚 the junior Republican U.S. senator from Arizona, who鈥檚 making the rounds promoting his new book 鈥 鈥淐onscience of a Conservative.鈥滺e opened his book tour with a searing online article posted on politico.com last Monday, titled ...

Movie reminds that ‘Wars are not won by evacuations’

My dad used to tell his two sons the reason he wanted no part of the Navy in World War II was, well, the sea. The prospect of being dumped into briny depths was unappealing in the extreme to my old man.This was despite the fact that, having grown up in Connellsville on the Yough, he was an ...

Beware of the Man Behind the Curtain

Our Commander-in-chief apparently moonlights as a presidential historian.He knows 鈥減residential鈥 when he sees it. (Or doesn鈥檛 see it)I suppose that qualifies him to bestow upon himself the mantle of being only second to 鈥淗onest Abe鈥 Lincoln as the most 鈥減residential鈥 president in ...

Humility a necessity to serve the people

Jesus was not a humble guy.Not he who said, 鈥淚 am the way, the truth and the light.鈥 Not the guy who proclaimed that the only way to get past the pearly gates was through him.Certainly not the fella who turned water into wine to the delight of thousands of thirsty spectators.And yet ... ...

Trumpcare: Dead at age 6 months

聽We are gathered here today, to pay our respects to the 鈥淏etter Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.鈥漈he 鈥淏etter鈥 has died a slow, but steady death at the hands of the 47, 48, 49 or 50 U.S. Senators who鈥檝e seen no real value in keeping it alive.You may not know it by its formal name. So, ...