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Here’s an open letter to the birther boy

Dear Donald, (and you don鈥檛 know how it pains me to offer you a polite salutation), how are you? (to be honest, I don鈥檛 really care how you are)Donald, since you鈥檝e freed yourself of that nasty birther business, (I doubt that many people think that you have. Me among them) do you feel as ...

Bailey Park needs your help

Bailey Park has its fans, and they are rooting for a revival of play at the old ballyard.A case in point is the pastor of Asbury Methodist Church, Don Kephart. After a recent column on the sorry state of the city鈥檚 ball diamonds, I heard from the pastor of the church which is next door to ...

Colin Powell can’t stomach Trump

It looks like Donald Trump is in very good physical shape.That鈥檚 taking into consideration that at 70 years of age, he might become the oldest person ever elected to the U.S. presidency on election day.Of course, Trump made sure that revelations about his good health were rolled out ...

War on Clintons continues

For many years the columnist worked for the Tribune-Review. He was there, as a reporter, in the 1990s, during the first and second administrations of Bill Clinton. The paper was owned by an implacable foe of the Clintons, a Pittsburgh billionaire by the name of Richard Scaife.Scaife, who died ...

Kaepernick and Trump

The United States of America is the greatest country on earth.Here鈥檚 how I know that. If I write the sentence, 鈥淭he United States Of America is the 聽lousiest country on earth,鈥 I don鈥檛 fear that armed Storm troopers will come and snatch me from my keyboard, imprison me, then torture me ...

A little bit of hate can go a long way

I hate the word 鈥渃ontinue,鈥 and the phrase 鈥済ood read.鈥 I dislike how the former looks and how the latter sounds.I think the term 鈥渕an cave鈥 is a bummer. It鈥檚 such a sexist thing to say. Do I go around introducing my wife as 鈥渢he little lady鈥?I recoil when people hold store ...