Would they have actually done it 鈥� would the Jan. 6 mob have killed Mike Pence? And, in the process of wrenching the vice president away from his Secret Service protection on that terrible day in 2021, how many folks would have died on both sides? Pledged to do their duty, it鈥檚 impossible ...
鈥淔enway Park,鈥� John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, 鈥渋s a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....鈥滸oodness, that鈥檚 not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...
It will be the greatest of ironies if Donald John Trump is convicted of crimes against the Constitution he swore to uphold.How so?The first irony is obvious. Presidents are tasked with seeing that the laws are faithfully executed. Trump is the first and only president to be charged with ...
This week nine decades ago Fayette County was on fire. The immediate cause of the unrest was union busting. The effect was widespread lethal disorder.鈥淣otwithstanding the earnest desire of the mine workers to preserve peace in Fayette County, it had been evident that the H.C. Frick Coal and ...
A homeboy at heart, I half-waited for Gen. George C. Marshall to show up in 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥� the movie.The Uniontown native and Army chief of staff during World War II did make a screen appearance, or at least I assume that was him being depicted sitting alongside Secretary of War Henry ...
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 ...