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More mass murders, no answers

With each new mass murder, people say the same things: 鈥淭here鈥檚 something different about this one.鈥 That, 鈥淢aybe things will change,鈥 because of it.NOTHING EVER CHANGES. Nothing!There will be national and even international media capturing the grief and funerals and thoughts and ...

The future looks like a crapshoot

You might say I鈥檝e been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I鈥檝e never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we鈥檙e doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.鈥淚鈥檓 glad I鈥檓 ...

Taking a sentimental journey

Sometimes, when I reflect on my youth, I have some pretty haunting memories of the first (and last) time I gave a live 鈥渢heatrical performance.鈥漈here I was, among my fellow third-graders on stage at Park Elementary School, bouncing rubber balls to the beat of the song 鈥淪entimental ...

No bystanders in Cheney’s America

Wyoming鈥檚 lone member of the House, Republican Liz Cheney, was one of five people honored recently with the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award. Here, in part, is what the arch-conservative and ardent patriot said on Monday night in Boston. Her words are words to remember.鈥... On ...

Mark Esper says Trump was awful

You could write a book about Donald Trump鈥檚 antic-filled presidency, and Mark Esper has.Esper, a native of Uniontown who served as Trump鈥檚 secretary of defense for 18 torturous months, writes in his book, 鈥淎 Sacred Oath,鈥 that only his training at West Point (which followed his ...

Mark Esper: a sacred oath

Mark Esper has a new book out.Nope!I haven鈥檛 read it.Nor will I.I already know the juiciest parts.I鈥檝e paid close attention to a number of Mr. Esper鈥檚 seemingly endless appearances on national TV to hawk his new tome.He鈥檚 getting pretty good at it, too.He emphatically answers the ...