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GOP voters weary of Trump’s ‘Airing of the Grievances’

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Alex Anastasio voted for Donald Trump for president twice, attended Trump rallies, organized events for him and placed signs in front of her home. And she was deeply hopeful in the early days following the 2020 election that once all of the votes were counted, he would serve a second term -- so hopeful, indeed, that she was initially involved in a voter recount effort in support of that. Weeks later, when it was clear he lost, Anastasio, a grassroots Republican dynamo who was a delegate for Trump, said she was disappointed but went about the business ...

Wanted: A president who will embrace the spending challenge

Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about what they’ll do for the American people if elected or reelected. I’d like to hear promises to get government out of the way and allow entrepreneurship and market competition to spur genuine and sustainable economic growth, including in the energy and housing sectors. This may be what America needs most, but I will settle for a promise to ensure that the national debt stays smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver. I never thought ...

Coup attempt shows real crack in Putin’s power

By Jonah Goldberg Tribune Content Agency Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d’etat — and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin’s rule, that story won’t begin with the mutinous mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin leading an armored column of troops, guns a-blazing, into Moscow. The funniest thing about much of the reporting and commentary of Prigozhin’s “March for Justice,” both in ...

Gallus: What is a heat dome?

A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven. Typically, heat domes are tied to the behavior of the jet stream, a band of fast winds high in the atmosphere that generally runs west to east. Normally, the jet stream has a wavelike pattern, meandering north and then south and then north again. When these meanders in the jet stream become bigger, they move slower and ...

Where is the Biden-bashing tell-all book?

It’s easy to miss some dramatic differences between the Trump years and the Biden years. Take, for example, the “tell-all books,” either written by journalists who are granted access to insiders or books written by the insiders themselves. By this time in the Trump term — the summer of 2019 — we were 18 months into “tell-all season.” But no Biden insiders are writing a “tell-all book.” We’re not counting memoirs by the family -- by Hunter Biden, or Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen, or the president’s sister, Valerie. We’re talking about hypernegative books. There ...

An American novel character: Titan pilot to break rules

Stockton Rush, 61, the late Titan submersible explorer, was an American character who stepped straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. I know whereof I speak. Rush was a Princeton man. So was “Scott” Fitzgerald, as seen in his autobiographical “This Side of Paradise.” The author’s subjects were often shiny surfaces, the very rich (“different from you and me”) and the ‘20s Jazz Age. To go to a Princeton reunion, as I did with a beau once upon a time, was to witness more than elite prosperity. The princes were characters in their own imaginations, celebrated ...