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Things are looking up

Last year, life everywhere stopped.It鈥檚 restarting now 鈥 and with a vengeance.This month, Major League baseball parks are starting to fill with delirious fans who鈥檝e been starved for peanuts, and popcorn, and the cracks of the bats.A recent home series for the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley ...

The Uncle Jimmy and Byrd show

A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain ...

Say it ain’t so, Joe

I just thought it was a chance meeting at the time.I鈥檇 never expected to come face-to-face with a U.S. senator while waiting to get my car fixed.That happened nearly a decade ago just outside of Pittsburgh.I was in the waiting room of a local Meineke Auto Car Care Center, holding my breath ...

False certainty and wallowing in rumor

Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis 鈥 it鈥檚 in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life.To begin:Sometime toward the end of the madcap decade of the 1920s, the ...

The GOP war on Republicans

Alert to the fact that Donald Trump loves to riff, some party operatives are bracing for off-the-cuff zingers directed at Republican Party Trump dissidents, when the former president speaks this weekend in North Carolina.鈥淗e鈥檚 going to spray friendly fire on other Republicans and settle ...

Let the delusions begin

Are Republicans living in a dream world?I hope not.But there鈥檚 growing evidence 鈥淭he Big Lie鈥 is sprouting wings.According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 53% of Republicans still believe Donald Trump is their true president.HE鈥橲 NOT!That same poll reveals that 56% of Republicans still ...