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Wanted: campaign crackle-and-pop

A little after 10 on a recent Saturday morning, Vince Vicites stepped from a vehicle in front of the local UMW headquarters near the Walmart in South Union TownshipVicites, the long serving Fayette County commissioner, was here in his role as candidate Vince Vicites. He鈥檚 up for reelection on ...

Afraid for the future of the country

Donald Trump is going to be impeached.This now appears inevitable. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she said several months ago the president, apparently unconstrained by convention, law, or common sense, was on a path to impeach himself.Trump鈥檚 attempt to stick up Ukrainian ...

And now, news from the 1750s

Today鈥檚 news sweeps gusher-like down the gutters of our lives. Each day鈥檚 news seems more astonishing than the day before. We sink or swim with the news. There is no getting away from it.News from the 18th century is another matter. Of course, it was long ago, and the leading actors are 200 ...

The tangled web of gun politics

鈥淚 like taking guns away early,鈥 the president of the United States said. 鈥淭ake guns first, go through due process later.鈥漃resident Barack Obama had a way of stating things that often went to the heart of the matter. But a call to upend the basic tenants of the American justice system - ...

Trump, Jackson and the U.S. future

In November 1832, a convention of South Carolina political activists approved a measure whereby the state might reject any law passed by the Congress in Washington.The activists鈥 immediate concern was the high protection tariff Congress had imposed four years earlier. The tariff, which ...

Elizabeth Warren, the practical one

If Democrats want to nominate someone for president who knows the ins and outs of government and is adept at political maneuver, they might very well choose, not former vice president Joe Biden, the Mr. Put-It-Together of the Obama administration, but Elizabeth Warren, the liberal fire-brand ...