We can't be fooled by P.T. Barnum. The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing bears has passed.Texas Sen. and presidential candidate Ted Cruz, last WednesdayTed Cruz wants us to know, without coming out and saying it, that Donald Trump is better suited for the big top than the ...
Donald Trump may have gone where no presidential candidate has ever gone: to the lower depths of electioneering — calling opponents liars, threatening lawsuits, disparaging a war hero and skewering the pope, a whole religion, and an entire nation.And he regularly calls out the media, ...
The stakes are high; the invective is flowing; the pandering is nauseating.It’s 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 “Two” Corinthians, not appropriately “Second” ...
Give her credit for having that “vision thing.” In more ways than one.Hillary Clinton recently made clear she was looking ahead to the Pennsylvania primary on April 26. That’s 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’s 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 ...