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The delight of a new slant on things

Not long ago it came to my attention that our irascible high school librarian 鈥 Nellie Mancini 鈥 was the sister of a great newspaperman.This would be Mickey Furfari. Beginning in the dark ages, Mickey took to covering sports at West Virginia University for the Morgantown Dominion-News ...

Smokin鈥 Joe Biden!

A show of hands: How many of you like balloons?Let me back up.How many of you like menacing balloons, with unknown motives about 12 miles above your head?If you don鈥檛, I鈥檓 in your camp.But with the keen-eyed efficiency of our U.S. military machine, I鈥檓 quite satisfied with that recent ...

Biden speech looks ahead to 2024

GOP rants from the House floor aside, President Biden鈥檚 State of the Union speech and the official Republican response by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas cast a bright light on the stark differences between the two parties, as the nation, ready or not, takes a turn toward what ...

Anatomy of a made-up conspiracy

After years and years of hanging around the news business, there鈥檚 one trick I admit I鈥檝e never learned: I don鈥檛 quite know how to fashion a conspiracy out of thin air.I can say with confidence that I鈥檝e witnessed the shoddiest of the conspiracy merchants these past few months.I鈥檓 ...

POTUS has handy debt limit solution

鈥淚 want to look the president in the eye,鈥 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the other day, 鈥渁nd [have him] tell me there鈥檚 not one dollar of wasteful spending in government.鈥淲ho believes that? The American public doesn鈥檛 believe that.鈥漁f course, McCarthy, the Republican leader, ...

Read this: It鈥檚 ‘classified!’

I used to enjoy a good political scandal.Finding misplaced government documents doesn鈥檛 count.Back when they found hundreds of classified documents down there at Mar-A-Lago, that was a nice, juicy, eye-rollable event worthy of a column or two.But since President Biden and ex-vice president ...