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Why won’t former President Obama ever go away?

In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924. Barack Obama, the nation’s fourth transformative ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Warren native and 2019 Howland High School graduate Vince Mauri for his superlative performance at the Glass City Marathon in Toledo late last month. The Arizona State University and Notre Dame graduate finished the grueling event with a time of 2:05:54, running 16 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. In so doing, he set a new record for the marathon and also became the fourth-fastest American marathoner in history. He also broke the state record by more than 13 minutes. With such stats as those, we’re confident Mauri will have no trouble conquering his next major ...

Valley airport merits support for new service

Things are looking up — literally — at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. For the first time since Allegiant Airlines withdrew the last regular passenger carrier at the airport in early 2018, the wheels are spinning fast and furiously toward restoring vitally needed commercial service there. In the name of maximizing use of the 1,468-acre facility and of catalyzing further economic development for the Mahoning Valley, that campaign merits maximum momentum. Though challenges toward reaching that lofty goal remain many, reason for optimism abounds. The Western ...

Who is monitoring the debt?

People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song “Sixteen Tons”: “Another day older and deeper in debt.” I thought of that song as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027 to put the military on what he called a “wartime footing.” Hegseth says the Pentagon needs the money for more drones, munitions and modernized systems. Though President Trump has denied it, bragging that we have the strongest military in the world, it would appear that the Iran conflict has significantly depleted ...

Tucker’s somebody days are nearing end

Tucker Carlson’s problem, it would seem, is that what he says doesn’t matter, because he has a long history of not saying what he thinks. True, he once starred at Fox News, and even now his followers on social media number in the millions. But he’s shifted into crackpot conspiracies and turning on Donald Trump. Anything for an audience. Carlson long hated Trump in his heart while praise poured from his mouth. The war in Iran polls poorly as does Trump, and so Carlson uses the opportunity to inflate his diminished importance by blaming himself for making Trump possible. ...

Same old, same old: Target Trump

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt — this time in full view of the Washington press corps. The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall — and that he might see possible violence outside it. Indeed, protesters ringed the hotel. In grimly prescient fashion, the usual sort of crowd that night was channeling John Wilkes ...