In LA riot standoff, Trump is right and Bass and Newsom are wrong
Politics
June 11, 2025
Throughout the rioting in her city, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has frequently lashed out at President Donald Trump’s decision to send National Guard and active-duty troops to protect federal buildin...
Politics
June 10, 2025
LAST WEEK WAS A CAROUSEL of action and information for a program that serves low-income youth and young adults. It started when news broke that the U.S. Department of Labor was hitting the pause butto...
Biden’s border nihilism will live long after he is gone
Politics
June 10, 2025
The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory. Somewhere between 1012 million foreign nationals are ...
We, too, sing America
Politics
June 10, 2025
Down by the Fraunces Tavern, the city doesn’t fully resemble the New York of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Empire State Building. Some of the New Yorkers among a group of “public intellectuals” had ...
With NATO in Trump’s disfavor, Scandinavian countries are rallying
Politics
June 9, 2025
LYSEKIL, Sweden — You can’t see the Russian bear from here, but you can hear its growl. You also can hear the screech of the American eagle, because the Donald Trump effect has reached Scandinavia. As...
Politics
June 9, 2025
BLIGHT ISN’T INTERESTING. No one wants to talk about abandoned buildings. No one wants to think about old structures left to rot. Those properties already haunt their neighborhoods. Can’t we just igno...
Trump shows that loyalty is all that matters to him
Politics
June 7, 2025
Last week, the Court of International Trade delivered a blow to Donald Trump’s global trade war. It found that the worldwide tariffs Trump unveiled on “Liberation Day” as well his earlier tariffs pret...
Politics
June 7, 2025
To the Editor: A short time ago, I noticed an article in the paper referring to the “dumb Democrats.” Gee, that would be me, but I did graduate from high school and even had a few years of college, so...
Hits & Misses
Politics
June 7, 2025
We applaud Mon Valley U.S. Army veterans Troy Reinke of Charleroi and Corre Griffith of McKeesport for coming together to form S.U.M., Soldiers Under Maintenance, a local safe space for their brothers...
News, Politics
June 6, 2025
THE D-DAY GENERATION, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago today. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned wi...
The judicial rebellion
Politics
June 6, 2025
Leonard Leo is a conservative activist who helped Donald Trump create the most lasting legacy of his first term: the appointment of 226 federal judges, including three to the Supreme Court. As the lon...
Politics
‘Emission’ impossible
June 5, 2025
To the Editor: The Frequent Letter Writer (FLW) is at it again (“Deja Vu,” MVI 5.16.25), this time with another Republican sneak attack on Social Security. He complains “the usual Democrat suspects co...
‘Original sin’: It’s worse than the authors know
Politics
June 5, 2025
The new Joe Biden book, “Original Sin,” detailing the Democrats’ conspiracy to deceive Americans about the carcass of a man sitting in the Oval Office, brought back warm memories. I really enjoyed tha...
Politics
June 5, 2025
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has been adamant in voicing support for coal mining. From his first campaign, he has talked a lot about the importance of the industry as a domestic energy source. There’s also ...
Politics
To the point
June 4, 2025
To the Editor: Time for another update on America’s slide toward fascism under Trump the failure. In a publicly televised interview, Trump stated he was “unsure” if he had to uphold the Constitution. ...
How Trump led the GOP from 2012 despair to 2024 triumph
Politics
June 4, 2025
he Republican Party was in desperate Tstraits in the weeks following the 2012 presidential election. There were several reasons. One, its losing nominee, Mitt Romney, was a poor candidate whom a signi...
Politics
June 4, 2025
SCHOOLS ARE ONE OF THOSE ubiquitous structures that are familiar in every community. Whenever you have kids, you have schools. The evolution of the buildings can be seen in one-room relics, massive br...
Democrats and their DEI albatrosses
Politics
June 3, 2025
Afew Democratic officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The Biden administration killed what was left o...