The absence of regular House rules during the drawn out floor fight for House speaker produced an unexpected benefit: C-SPAN and other news organizations were able to show the country […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Bad budget now means funding failure later
During his State of the State address, Gov. Jim Justice presented the Legislature with an essentially flat budget — again. There is a slight increase of about 5.53%, from $4.636 […]
Haiti, rudderless with no elected leaders, needs help
Alarmed and clear-eyed Americans have said that they are fighting to preserve the foundation of our democracy. Sure, last week’s near-brawl over the election of a Republican speaker of the […]
Warner to fight D.C. ‘wokeism’ … as governor?
Mac Warner says he’s going to fight the “wokeism” and “absolute silliness” of Washington, D.C., because “We don’t want their liberal agenda, we don’t want 87,000 new IRS agents, we […]
Strange weather becoming normal
Too many people believe that snow and cold weather are proof that “global warming” is a hoax, but no one ever said climate change meant no more snow. Rather, while […]
Tale of 2 presidents and terrible storage
This week, it was revealed that President Joe Biden’s personal lawyers discovered some Obama-era classified documents in an office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a […]
History doesn’t repeat — it rhymes
As the idiom goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat. But history never really repeats — it rhymes. The players change, as do the locations. […]
The ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions case wraps up
The former college admissions consultant who cooked up a multimillion-dollar scheme to fraudulently admit kids of wealthy clients, including Hollywood celebrities, into elite U.S. colleges was sentenced to 3 1/2 […]
Abuse scandal is a reminder to end cover-up culture
Locked inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters are secret files detailing sexual abuse by members of the religious denomination. Some of those files are slowly coming to light thanks to […]
It’s not as simple as ‘get a job’
When frigid temperatures struck Morgantown over the Christmas weekend, organizations and volunteer groups struggled to find accommodations for 110 people who are homeless. Sixty people hunkered down in the emergency […]
