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No confidence: Hegseth sacks all the competents on board

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. This comes after Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. Hegseth keeps firing senior leaders, often arguing the fired were “woke,” but the common thread seems to be that they had good relationships with the president and were competent. When I was in college, I would go back to Louisiana in the summer to work for the public school from which I had graduated. The school was in a building that combined K-12, but elementary, middle and high schools were separate entities until after I ...

What has passed is not always what was best

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his back and she looked thrilled. They had been out on a stroll, and she’d asked for a ride: That was the story the image told me. Adorable, I thought, for a second. But wait. What was that look of resignation on the dad’s face? Did I recognize that parental exhaustion myself, that feeling of ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To the 10 honored members of the 24th class of Community Stars, sponsored by The Tribune Chronicle. The program, co-sponsored by Trumbull 100, celebrated those stellar community servants at a ceremony at St. Demetrios Community Center in Warren last week. All of them routinely go above and beyond to make a measurable impact in the community and the lives of others. Detailed stories on each of them and their achievements appeared in last week’s newspaper. The honorees comprise Kenneth Boring of Mineral Ridge, Sharah Hirt Buzulencia of Warren, Esther Gartland of Cortland, Molly ...

Let the sun shine in on JobsOhio

Ever since its creation in 2011 by then-Gov. John Kasich as Ohio’s quasi-public nonprofit economic development department, JobsOhio has rightly attracted its fair share of admirers and detractors. Admirers, such as many in business and development circles, have hailed the agency for its leading role in attracting major companies such as Intel, with its $5 billion investment in the Columbus area and Kimberly-Clark, with its $800 million investment in the Mahoning Valley. On the other hand, detractors such as government watchdogs, civil liberties organizations and some state ...

The pope, 3 cardinals and the Iran war

“War is Hell,” said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879. Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church who appeared last Sunday on “60 Minutes,” agree. The problem for these theologians is that for them it appears war is only Hell when it is engaged in by the United States and for the best of reasons. They have little to say about the terrorist regime in Iran or for that matter the slaughter of civilians by Vladimir Putin’s army in Ukraine. These church leaders seem to be engaging in a kind of immoral equivalency. Do they not know that the Islamic regime ...

Responding in a Christ-like manner

President Donald Trump has received a lot of backlash for his recent posts on TruthSocial of himself as a "Christ-like" figure and his criticism of Pope Leo's views on the Iran war. Most people on social media are familiar with the often belligerent nature of Trump's posts, and, for the most part, his devoted supporters defend him. This time, however, was different, as many conservatives thought Trump went too far in his war of words with the pope and his AI-generated image of himself laying his hand on a bedridden man with the American flag, the Statue of Liberty and the adoration of ...