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None of the Best People

<em>ëƵYou need people that are truly, truly capable. We need to get the best and the finest, and if we donëƵt weëƵll be in trouble for a long period of time.ëƵ</em>Donald Trump on the criteria for his prospective senior administrators -- September 2016I just love ...

Saccone, Reschenthaler not much room for error

Guy Reschenthaler has a values problem. Rick Saccone has a winning problem ëƵ or maybe itëƵs a losing problem.Both men have a domicile political problem. Neither lives in the House district he wants to represent.Nevertheless, both Reschenthaler and Saccone very much want to be elected to what ...

Hannity is to journalism, what finger painting is to art

Sean Hannity isnëƵt a journalist. HeëƵs a performance artist.He spends his weekdays on the radio and his weeknights on Fox News, extolling all things Trump.HeëƵs good at what he does, but he shouldnëƵt be confused with people who make their livings chasing facts.As Ted Koppel (a real ...

Old letters help us reconnect to the past

ThereëƵs hardly any better way to reconstruct the past than to have old letters in hand. Among the letters kept for decades in the attic of his home on South Mount Vernon Avenue by the late, great federal judge Edward Dumbauld were a dozen or so he received from an old high school friend by ...

Flying off the handle into the stone age

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ëƵsmart!ëƵA President Trump tweet, 3:57 AM, April 11, 2018-----There are times when President Trump seems to think heëƵs John Wayne in the movie True Grit.HeëƵs the ...

Dumbauld letters unique look into early local politics

ItëƵs not right to read someone elseëƵs mail. But I suppose itëƵs OK if the mail has turned 90 and everyone is dead. So letëƵs peek inside some letters addressed to and preserved by a young man from Uniontown; by name, Edward Dumbauld.From his mother Lissa, no doubt written at the Dumbauld ...