I've been having trouble getting my head around two fairly recent political developments 鈥� one from the left, the other from the right. From the left: the unlikely ascent of the drag queen show. Not so long ago, drag shows, in which men dress as women, were considered side shows. In ...
Robb Rhodes has performed an estimable public service: He has put on the table a plan for the Penn State-Fayette campus now slated for the ash heap. Rhodes, the Fayette County controller, wants to convert the campus into a four-year "senior military college," along the lines of Norwich ...
Recently, our serially absent congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, ventured to write a newspaper commentary tooting his own horn, citing, for instance, the return home of Pennsylvania native Marc Fogel from a Russian prison. "President Trump secured [Fogel's] release within just three weeks in ...
During the 1970s, the word went out: The country needed a Lincoln, not a Ford. That's even truer now. Can the U.S. produce a public figure who combines politically savvy and principled leadership as well as Old Abe did? Probably not. In our history, there's only been one Lincoln. Commenting ...
Ronald Reagan's adage about the old Soviet Union should maybe apply to President Trump's recent sweeping declaration involving U.S. Steel, Japan's Nippon Steel, and the future of American steelmaking in the Mon Valley and elsewhere: "Trust but verify." The president's May 30 rally at U.S. ...
Here are some stories commemorating both Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944: Pete Giron was a Western Union delivery boy in Greensburg during the Second World War. He was a high school kid, 15 or 16 years old, too young to serve in the military, ...
