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December 18, 2024
Make America bountiful againThis past summer I ran into a cement contracting crew doing work in my part of town, men I knew from working with them as a young man decades ago. The entire crew of workers were American, in an industry in which at least 35–50% or more of work...
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December 16, 2024
Blue city blues in the Land of Wink and NodVisitors to the tourist trap formerly called Steel City should know what happens in Pittsburgh not only stays here, but may not have happened at all, legally speaking. That is, offenses intentionally not prosecuted—though illegal—will ...
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December 12, 2024
Courage inspires courageAfter spending most of the previous three decades as a freelancer for various legacy media and business publications, about three years back I began writing for a “conservative” publication, with the first of many personal essays pu...
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December 1, 2024
Rusted RootsDuring the presidential race, both sides declared opposition to a pending sale of legacy steelmaker U.S. Steel to Japan-based Nippon. The United Steelworkers and Rust Belt politicians on both sides of the aisle have pre-cast Nay votes on the would-be...
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January 17, 2024
Smelly Kelly at KiskiRecently my alma mater announced it’s going coed. Being the oldest of few surviving all-boys boarding schools, with its teachers catechized in “intersectionality” for the arrival of girls, it seems the Kiski we knew is gone. Perh...
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December 20, 2022
Help vaccine-injured folks, and help yourself at the same timeMaybe you've read of the often life-threatening plight of Americans who've been injured by COVID-19 vaccines, and you want to help. Please start by giving generously to React19, an organization that represents more than 20,000 COVI...
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December 4, 2022
I'm sick and tired of video-chattingI trust my toaster, but I don't take orders from it. Nor do I let my microwave micromanage my affairs. My TV's bossy, constantly telling me to vax and mask and I'll be saved, but I ignore it. I have an OK face but...
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September 20, 2022
Vax-injured advocates meeting with FedsA group of advocates for people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday through Wednesday of this week to discuss the scope of the problem and the need for compensation for vax-injured people ...
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September 16, 2022
For Pittsburgh Steelers fans, the feeling is fadingWe're eking by in postmodern America, where everything's commodified, transactional, and blasphemed — even our formerly sacred sports teams. Here in Pittsburgh, that, of course, is the Steelers. Many of us in PoMo Pittsbur...
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August 16, 2022
Thank you, Mr. KendiI want to personally thank Ibram X. Kendi, the intellectual King of Woke, for reminding me of my past. Before the ideas of unconscious bias, systemic racism, equity, and Critical Race Theory were required doctrine, I hadn't thought o...
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July 13, 2022
Black and yellow privilege disenfranchises PittsburghersHow do you like your sports plutocracy, Pittsburgh Steelers fans? Hopefully well, since you financed it by paying for sports teams' football stadium. That's hundreds of millions and counting — though some of us olde...