Do We Need National Presidential Conventions?

  Set in Chicago, IL, the second Presidential National Convention is tonight, Monday, August 19, 2024.  One might question whether the “value added” by holding extravagant conventions is worth their excessive costs.  Posted this morning on...

Is the Party Over?

  J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist, and history buff.  He wrote this essay for InsideSources.com.  It was published on Monday, August 19, 2024, the morning of the Democratic National Convention. Democrats may have just sounded the death knell...

Biden Angers MAGA Republicans. But He Isn’t Wrong.

Elwood Watson is a Professor of History, Black Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is also an Author and Public Speaker. Predictably, many Republicans melted into volcanic spasms and hissy fits, after President Joe Biden...

Thank You for Being Mannerly

Tom Purcell, creator of the infotainment site ThurbersTail.com, is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. Email him at Tom@TomPurcell.com. “No problem.” That is how I used to reply to people who thanked me, for holding the door open for them or for offering some...

Sad to See the Vitriol Spewed at Queen Elizabeth II

Christine Flowers is an Attorney and a Columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times, and can be reached at cflowers1961@gmail.com. I expected the Irish schadendfruede. Although I generally identify as Italian (primarily, because of the food, family, and temper); my...