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In defying Trump, Pence risked all

Would they have actually done it ëƵ 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, itëƵs impossible ...

Use it, build it, and, yes, they’ll come

ëƵFenway Park,ëƵ John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, ëƵis a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....ëƵGoodness, thatëƵs not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...

Trump can expect GOP testimony

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 ...

A summer of violence in the county

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.ëƵNotwithstanding the earnest desire of the mine workers to preserve peace in Fayette County, it had been evident that the H.C. Frick Coal and ...

‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t get it right

A homeboy at heart, I half-waited for Gen. George C. Marshall to show up in ëƵOppenheimerëƵ 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 ...

A satire: Indict Ron DeSantis now!

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 ...