Author: John L. Micek
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Having Adults in the White House is Supposed To Be Normal
We have been informed, twice now this week, that there are alleged “adults” in Donald Trump’s White House who are supposedly acting as a hedge against the 45th president’s worst impulses. And this, in some weird way, is both weirdly comforting and p…
Categories: Columns
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The Congressional Race that Trump is Sweating the Most
MT. LEBANON, PA. — Politics are on the menu here at The Coffee Tree Roasters. At a patio table early one sunny August morning in this leafy Pittsburgh suburb, a quartet of friends debated President Donald Trump’s latest headache – the guilty plea …
Categories: Columns
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5 Recommendations For Your Labor Day Weekend
With Labor Day weekend closing in with more speed than I’d like to really acknowledge, I can’t turn around these days without someone reminding me of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous admonishment that “life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the f…
Categories: Columns
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‘Wrecked’: Abuse Survivors On Their Connection to Church
Years after he was abused by a Catholic priest, Shaun Dougherty uses just one word to describe the state of his faith these days. It’s “wrecked.” Dougherty, who lives about 90 minutes west of Pittsburgh, was among the more than 1,000 victims who …
Categories: Columns
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Under Trump, It’s Easy To Like Ike
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The golf clubs in the laundry room at the rear of Dwight Eisenhower’s farmhouse here are perched and ready, as if the 34th president of the United States might come and fetch them at any moment. Eisenhower was a passionate golfer. …
Categories: Columns
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The Trump Show Returns to Pennsylvania
WILKES-BARRE TWP, Pa. – In a test of his election year clout, President Donald Trump returned a familiar electoral battleground this week to try to put one of his biggest supporters over the top in a key U.S. Senate race. In a speech riddled with hi…
Categories: Columns
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In Doing Nothing, Sometimes, You Do Everything
SOMEWHERE ALONG LONG ISLAND SOUND – From my beach chair, there’s a strong wind blowing in from across the water, rippling the pages of my book, as moisture slowly condenses on the beer bottle at my side. Squinting against a strong afternoon sun, I f…
Categories: Columns
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New Polling Shows More Trouble for Republicans
In case national Republicans needed another reminder of the power of women at the ballot box, pollsters at Quinnipiac University just handed it to them. With the November mid-terms still three months away, women voters prefer Democrats by a nearly 2…
Categories: Columns
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Jeffrey Lord, Off CNN, Still Defending Trump
EAST PENNSBORO, Pa. – The rest of official Washington might be in free-fall over President Donald Trump’s Bizzaro-World press conference in Helsinki with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Monday. But not Jeffrey Lord. From his home on the outsk…
Categories: Columns
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Congress Too Weak to Stop Trade War
You may not have noticed it amid the White House’s bluster on NATO this week, but Congress utterly face-planted in its effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s ever-escalating global trade war. As The Washington Post reports, the Republican-contro…
Categories: Columns
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