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Opinion: How a Lehigh Valley combat veteran thinks about Memorial Day.
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Opinion: How a Lehigh Valley combat veteran thinks about Memorial Day.
Once known for colorful barbs and gamesmanship, the contest in the Palmetto State has become yet another ratification of identity politics.
The late, great Murray Polner penned this op-ed for Antiwar.com on February 9, 2015. That’s roughly one year after the US-backed coup in Kiev, about two years before President Donald Trump began providing “lethal” aid to the Ukrainian regime, and seven years before Russia’s invasion. As if seeing clearly into…
He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the bumpkin onstage.
In a state that twice backed Trump, John Bel Edwards made himself the placid alternative to hair-on-fire populism and won two terms in the governor’s mansion — can he do it again?