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A satire: Indict Ron DeSantis now!

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to be indicted in order to bolster his flailing campaign for president. The Republican DeSantis has told aides to find a crime he can do that will bring the law immediately down on his head, as well as garner eye-popping headlines and time on cable news.The ...

You鈥檙e traveling through another dimension

I grew up with television.Not literally.But when TV was coming of age, I, too, was enjoying (and sometimes suffering from) a growth spurt of my own in the late 1950s and early '60s.So, the other day, when I was clicking around on YouTube, I found it interesting when I came upon some videos that ...

Yeah, man, it’s Joe Biden’s economy

Joe Biden wants you to pay attention to 鈥渉is鈥 economy. Is that a good thing, considering next year鈥檚 presidential election and all?The economy is the political elephant in the room, whichever way you look at it.The June national unemployment rate was 3.6%. The U.S. rate has not dipped ...

Guns, guns, guns

Welcome to the second half of 2023.We crossed the halfway point (day 182) on Sunday, July 2.If the first half of the year is any indication, 2023 may be a record-breaking year.It鈥檚 something we shouldn鈥檛 take lightly.The United States of America, which worships gun ownership more than any ...

American hope and hopelessness

Last week this column had words of praise for Connellsville鈥檚 Rose Brady and the women of the city鈥檚 World War II canteen. As a demonstration of patriotism and service to country, the Connellsville Canteen is hard to beat.The war years 鈥 1941 to 1945 鈥 were unique, in that Americans ...

What’s in a gate?

Watergate.Isn鈥檛 that a funny word?How did a word, derived from a 1970s political scandal, which had only been the name of a place in Washington, D.C., become so integrally woven into the fabric of the American lexicon? (ADMISSION: Midway through that sentence, I had no idea how it would ...