Politics
December 19, 2024
DO YOU HAVE TWO SPARE hours each week that if you don’t put them to good use, they will be lost forever? Two hours that could be put to good use by doing something special to help some of your neighbo...
Lives destroyed in false Duke rape case
Politics
December 19, 2024
It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though bored, and moved on....
Trump is under attack less what will the resistance do?
Politics
December 18, 2024
Dec. 6 was a historic day. It was the first time since July 2015, since Donald Trump entered presidential politics, that more people have said they have a favorable impression of Trump than an unfavor...
Politics
Trump’s ‘letter to Santa’
December 18, 2024
To the Editor: The reaction by Michael Moore and the naysay crowd is so misdirected. If people want to be mad about our health care system they need look no farther than our very own federal governmen...
Politics
December 17, 2024
AT ANY EMERGENCY, there is a concern beyond bandages and oxygen. The victims of a car crash, fire or other event are observed and kept calm. An emergency medical technician may wrap in a blanket someo...
Politics
December 17, 2024
By COLLEEN LONG AND JILL COLVIN Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning...
The evaporation of the Obama mystique
Politics
December 17, 2024
Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration y...
Politics
December 16, 2024
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he’s picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions, tasking him wit...
Irwin Cotler faces threats while defending rights
Politics
December 16, 2024
MONTREAL — Irwin Cotler arrived at a restaurant in this city’s Mile End neighborhood in a mini motorcade of six vehicles, all of them holding Canadian security agents. The protective force that has be...
Politics
December 16, 2024
By NOAH TRISTER, TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game...
Politics
December 16, 2024
MICHAEL CONAHAN should be familiar with what goes into difficult decisions about crime and punishment and their effect on a person’s life. Conahan was a Temple-trained lawyer who spent 13 years as a L...
Politics
December 13, 2024
THE U.S. HOUSE of Representatives’ bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump has released recommendations in a 180-page report. The task force, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike ...
The power of ‘real reality’
Politics
December 13, 2024
Donald Trump has vowed to impose 25% tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada unless, he says, those neighbors stem the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the United States. Chinese impor...
Politics
December 13, 2024
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic...
Politics
December 12, 2024
ON JAN. 7, Susan Shepherd called the police. Her son Christopher Shepherd, 48, was in the grip of a psychiatric crisis. He had a kitchen knife. He barricaded himself in his Upper St. Clair home. It wa...
Kill Obamacare, not CEOS
Politics
December 12, 2024
Inasmuch as the most popular reaction to the cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been to hail the shooter as a hero, I gather that Americans really hate health insurance co...