Hardly anybody expected last Tuesday’s results.Democrats were ready to run for political cover. All of that talk about a “Red Wave” darkening their role in Congress appeared to be a foregone conclusion.Many Republicans were already chilling champagne for a joyous night of ...
In his after-action summation of last Tuesday’s election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...
It’s time to vote.It’s also time to claim there’s voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They’ll see victory where it isn’t – thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation’s 552 Republican ...
In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...
Now that I have your attention – this isn’t really about Mike Tyson.It’s about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponent’s plan to beat him.Tyson responded, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched ...
John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...
