In this fast-paced, ever-changing election, with switching candidates, changing themes, fact-checkers who don’t really fact-check, world-events, rallies, fake news and fake transcripts, McDonald’s and garbage trucks…there are understandably columns that I didn’t get to finish. Notes on paper and my iPad, scribbled on the back on fliers, pizza boxes, and […]
John E. Coffey: Sorry, friend. I can’t come along on Tuesday.
I have the great opportunity and burden of being a Pennsylvania voter. But I am no longer a reliably partisan one. So old friends now assign me monikers like, “baffling” and “Devil’s middleman” in their correspondence. Some ask for an explanation. Here it is. Objections to my drift from the […]
Christine Flowers: Opinions — everybody has one
An opinion is like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it’s completely ignored and you only notice it when it’s removed. This is exactly what occurred to me when I observed the manufactured controversy involving Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post editorial […]
Kyle Sammin: Anti-Trump conservatives should consider the past and the future
Joseph Wheeler graduated from West Point in 1859, joined the Confederate Army in 1861, and soon found himself a major general of cavalry. When the war ended, he returned to civilian life (including twenty years in Congress) but when the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Wheeler asked to rejoin […]
Guy Ciarrocchi: Trump didn’t start the fire. He’s the fireman.
Former President Donald Trump. Maybe you like him, maybe you don’t. Of all the attacks on Trump, the line of attack that is most bizarre, backward, and most disconnected from reality is that he’s the cause of America’s tension, chaos and division. That’s like blaming the firemen rushing to the […]
Polls: A coin flip contest in Pennsylvania
Remember when NFL referee Gene Steratore pulled out an index card to determine whether the nose of the football touched the first-down marker? That may be the most apt description of the presidential race in Pennsylvania today? Two respected polls from CNN/SSRS and Quinnipiac University unveiled results of their last […]
Beth Ann Rosica: WCU students turn out for campus MAGA event
On a warm Halloween afternoon, thousands of West Chester University (WCU) students and local residents rallied in the Quad to support presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. Hosted by Turning Points USA, a non-profit founded by conservative Charlie Kirk, the “You’re Being Brainwashed Tour” […]
Anti-Fitzpatrick PAC posts false claims on signs in Bucks
Signs falsely say Fitzpatrick ‘voted to defund the police’
By Bradley Vasoli
Haley, McCormick to campaign in Montco today
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is coming to Pennsylvania to campaign for Senate candidate Dave McCormick. Haley and McCormick will appear together at a rally in Montgomery County on Wednesday afternoon. “To actually have Nikki Haley in person, where she can tell you firsthand who she’s supporting, will be […]