The stakes are high; the invective is flowing; the pandering is nauseating.It鈥檚 the 2016 presidential campaign in full tilt.Last month Donald Trump was so unconvincing as a Bible-thumper that he misstated a Bible verse.He claims he loves 鈥淭wo鈥� Corinthians, not appropriately 鈥淪econd鈥� ...
Give her credit for having that 鈥渧ision thing.鈥� In more ways than one.Hillary Clinton recently made clear she was looking ahead to the Pennsylvania primary on April 26. That鈥檚 something, considering she has a long, and possibly rocky, road to travel before then.Her opponent is not going ...
I went on a food-buying safari to a supermarket on Super Bowl Sunday morning.It鈥檚 one of those days when you could take your life into your own hands.Hundreds of brave, bargain-hunting shoppers attack everything on sale.While there, I happened to stop in the coffee aisle.It was there that I ...
Early afternoon, Super Bowl Sunday. The columnist is visiting, with a friend, a cemetery just off Route 201, near Vanderbilt. Later we drive on over to a cemetery from which Perryopolis sprawls in the middle-distance.We were remembering the dead. Obviously, it means nothing to the dead to be ...
The case for Donald Trump is harder to figure, but only because the guy is such a gas bag. His comment the other day after President Obama spoke at a mosque 鈥� 鈥渕aybe he feels comfortable there鈥� 鈥� was another in a long line of ugly innuendos he has used to poison the political well.To ...
I鈥檝e never been there, but I鈥檓 sure that many of the people who live in Iowa are breathing easier these days.Those 2016 presidential campaigns have moved on.People out there can watch their TV鈥檚 without the constant bombardment of political ads 鈥� an estimated $40 million worth of them; ...