One of the disadvantages of a front-porch and media-availability presidential campaign is that the two major candidates don’t get out into the country. It’s a campaign without […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
The magic of autumn in ‘Wild and Wonderful’ West Virginia
Every season has its magic. For winter, it’s when the snow blankets everything — crisp and clean and sparkling and perfectly white — and the whole […]
No matter who wins, no exit from the roller coaster anytime soon
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — He has no idea which candidate he’s going to vote for next month. The 36-year-old registered Republican and conservative found President Donald […]
How hatred became all the rage in politics
Are we Americans hating more now but enjoying it less? Let me count the ways: A self-styled “militia” group is charged by the FBI with an alleged […]
Counting us out? A bad Supreme Court census ruling
After Tuesday’s daylong Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court came a one-paragraph, unsigned opinion from her […]
The promise of free stuff: Progressive trick is no treat
Halloween, like so much else, will be different this year from previous years, but it also offers an analogy that can be applied to the current presidential […]
Trump didn’t save coal, steel. No one could
Remember when President Donald Trump promised to revive the coal industry? When he vowed to “put our miners back to work” during his 2016 campaign trips to […]
Trump encouraging Election Day mayhem
With less than a month remaining in the campaign, the country faces the specter of a chaotic Election Day. President Trump has urged his supporters to “go […]
Trump’s order discourages discussion of race and gender
“I didn’t know.” Those were the first words my friend, a white guy named Dave, spoke to me the day after the first episode of “Roots,” which […]
The danger of anti-government rhetoric
On June 11, 2001, I stood in a tight, gray-walled room at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., and watched through a window as Oklahoma City […]
