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Trump and the Ministry of Truth

On January 21st, 2017, the first full day of the Trump presidency, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told a big whopper.ëƵThat was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,ëƵ Spicer proclaimed.There was ample visual evidence that SpicerëƵs claim was false.There are ...

Fayette experienced violence in 1933

Eighty-five years ago this summer, Fayette County experienced the most horrific violence in its history; in the midst of the Great Depression, gunshots rang out in one coal patch after another. The summer of 1933 was one of disorder and mayhem, all of which threatened to undermine the hope for ...

All the worldëƵs a stage

Whenever President Trump steps onto the world stage, he always feels compelled to give a performance.In the end, he takes his bows, even when hardly anybody applauds him.ACT I: When he flew to Brussels, he played Count Dracula.He sucked the lifeblood right out of that NATO summit.He launched ...

Even Conservatives wonder about Trump’s Actions in Helsinki

A reckless, clueless vaudevillian ... a sad, embarrassing wreck of a man ... crazy ... boorish and bigoted, enemy of the people ... treasonous.Each of these epithets was applied this past week to Donald Trump following the presidentëƵs profoundly un-presidential performance standing alongside ...

Trump administration pushing private business over human well-being

For yet more proof that the Trump administration has abandoned the traditional government role of oversight to form an unholy alliance with private enterprise, you need not look further than a recent meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) affiliates.At a gathering in Geneva of the World ...

History rife with pattern, but not repetition

History doesnëƵt repeat itself. That would be something. Welcome to Groundhog Day the movie.Still, there are patterns.An example, which might explain the still-unfolding scandals of the Trump administration:The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., argued: ëƵWhen private interest dominates (the ...