Every Memorial Day, I buy bunches of small American flags to place on the graves of relatives, plus some friends and acquaintances. This year I bought too many. As a result, I ventured out to Oak Grove Cemetery, just west of downtown Uniontown, a day or two after the holiday to place the ...
It was one of the most disturbing days in the eight-year presidency of Barack Hussain Obama. On Aug. 28, 2014, during a live news conference, he brazenly wore a tan suit. Oh, the humanity! Republicans everywhere were appalled by such an outrageous display by a U.S. president supposedly ...
The news is little more than a constant churn of what鈥檚 new; what鈥檚 old; what鈥檚 changed 鈥� or what鈥檚 staying the same. Some news stories, though, have what they call 鈥渓egs.鈥� Sometimes I have a hunch about those. Last month, when it was first reported in The New York Times ...
A not-so-secret memo from one of the dark-money, cash-happy political action committees supporting Donald Trump confirms the central role Pennsylvania is expected to play in the election for president this November. Make America Great Again Inc., which by law is prohibited from coordinating ...
Over the years, I鈥檝e aspired to do many things. I鈥檝e failed at many of them. I鈥檝e conveniently forgotten the rest. That鈥檚 what makes me so well-adjusted (for the most part). I can reach back over the years and sift through those aspects of my life that didn鈥檛 go the way I planned ...
It鈥檚 that season again. The nation鈥檚, no, the world鈥檚 notables are fanning out around the globe 鈥� dispensing their wisdom at learning institutions with their personally crafted commencement speeches. I haven鈥檛 paid much attention to any commencement speech since June 1, 1966 鈥� the ...
