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Nov 25, 2025

Trump vs Kelly

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Mark Kelly and others reminded Trump last week that the military is not obliged to follow illegal orders in violation of the Constitution. T...
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Nov 24, 2025

MAGA Not Invited

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When the Trump family sat down with the royal family of Saudi Arabia last week, the MAGA red hats were not invited. While the disciples ate ...
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Nov 22, 2025

Homeless Camp Fire On Kline's Island

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I know a little about Kline's Island, enough to know that the LCA and the city had to know about the camp being there. I had no issue wi...
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Nov 21, 2025

Trump First, USA Second

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The Intelligence agencies must have been wincing when Trump defended the prince against the reporter's question.  Likewise, normally the...
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Nov 20, 2025

Mackenzie Ad Transparent Deception

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Seems as if freshman congressman Ryan Mackenzie wants a ribbon for voting along with all the other Republicans, save one, for opening the Ep...
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Nov 19, 2025

Switch And Bait United States Healthcare

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My rerun TV channels are full of Medicare ads. We're told that it's open season on enrollment, and call one of their licensed agents...
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Nov 18, 2025

Share The Shame

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If I was a Republican congressman, I would be offended by the President saying that We Have Nothing To Hide.   Unless I was an associate of ...
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Nov 17, 2025

A Transactional Presidency

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Never in the history of the country has there been a more transactional presidency. Combine that flaw with an unqualified cabinet, and we ha...
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Nov 14, 2025

Trump And Epstein

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As my readers know, I'm no fan of Trump, but I have no concerns about his past with Epstein. Years before Trump ran the first time, ther...
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Nov 13, 2025

McCormick Should Mind Our P's & Q's

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US Senator Dave McCormick(Pa), put out a video suggesting that New Yorkers upset with new mayor Mamdani should move to Pennsylvania. Thanks ...
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Nov 12, 2025

Conservative Looking For A Home

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I called myself a conservative looking for a home, after the Republican Party sold itself out to Trump and a win. While there is interest an...
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Nov 11, 2025

A Mackenzie Postcard

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I don't relish repeatedly taking Ryan Mackenzie to task, because come mid-terms, I'm hoping that he is my candidate of choice. His s...
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Nov 10, 2025

Trump Saying Let Them Eat Cake

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From the newly gold gilt plated Oval Office, the everyman's president thinks people can pound cake, instead of food. By the time this ed...
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Nov 7, 2025

MAGA HAT IS UNDER THE TRUCK SEAT

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The Republicans learned the hard way that those red hats are under the truck seats, gathering dust. They were a Trump cult, not a political ...
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Nov 6, 2025

Defeated By Trump

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Trump closed the border on day one, and that was good, but expected. The problem for Republicans has been from day two foreward. Trump is, s...
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Nov 5, 2025

Pa. Congressional MisRepresentative Mackenzie

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My Republican associates think I'm on an anti-Republican track, not so. I'm not anti-Mackenzie, but I don't buy into intentional...
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Nov 4, 2025

Election Day 2025

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Today's the day some candidates used to be put out their misery. However, now with mail-in ballots, and subsequent challenges, the day o...
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Nov 3, 2025

War Of The Mailers

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Mailer wise, one of the most contested local elections is for Lehigh County Executive, Roger MacLean against Josh Siegel. The mailers inform...
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Oct 31, 2025

Bomb Threats In Allentown Schools

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On Monday, as I passed 17th and Hamilton, I saw the Allen students lined up from the bomb threat. Most did not have coats on, but were outs...
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Oct 30, 2025

A Better Mission For USS Gerald R. Ford

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I would suppose that the infirmary on the aircraft carrier must almost be a small hospital. Rather than continue using that carrier task for...
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Oct 29, 2025

Sidewalks To Nowhere For Nobody

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To enter Rt. 309 from Tilghman Street, you needed to be able to turn your head like an owl. For the last decade I had to stop on the entranc...
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Oct 28, 2025

How You Were Cheated

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At the end of 2000, despite the majority of neighbors in opposition, The West Park Historic District was enacted. The City Administration...
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Oct 27, 2025

War In The Caribbean

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As the USS Gerald Ford and its support ships position off Central and South America, Trump claims he fighting a drug war. In reality, he may...
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Oct 24, 2025

Crassness In The White House

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The only word I can think of to describe the demolition of the East Wing at the White House is crass. What Trump has done to the Oval Offic...
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Oct 23, 2025

MAGA Man Arrested

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A MAGA man was arrested at the Wilkes-Barre No Kings Rally for brandishing a handgun at protesters. MAGA man spent the night in jail. On m...
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Oct 22, 2025

On The West Bank

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Israel's far right government has cooperated with settlers destroying thousands of olive trees on the West Bank. This is olive picking s...
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Oct 21, 2025

Allentown And Palestine

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There was always a large Jewish presence in Jerusalem and other towns in Palestine. Although the Jewish population jumped with survivors of ...
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Oct 20, 2025

Standing Up To Trump

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Alvin Holsey, the Naval Admiral at the top of the command chain involved in attacking the supposed smuggler boats off Venezuela, has resigne...
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Oct 17, 2025

Trump In Israel

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Trump's efforts were certainly appreciated by a large segment of Israel's population, I hope enough of a majority to put Netanyahu o...
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Oct 16, 2025

Park Barn Gets Groomed

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Students of this blog know that I have been on the park department's case about the barn at the park department office. They allowed vin...
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Oct 15, 2025

Culture And Establishment Ties That Bind

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 In a recent Facebook post, The Allentown Parknership said.... Allentown park fact: The Arts Park connects the Allentown Art Museum, Baum Sc...
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Oct 14, 2025

Theater On Hamilton Street

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In the screen grab above,  Matt Tuerk and Pat Browne are unveiling a replica of a statue that was in the former, long gone Rialto Theater, t...
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Oct 13, 2025

Gift For Mackenzie

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The Morning Call bestowed a gift upon Ryan Mackenzie...The headline stated that Mackenzie DID NOT kick illegal immigrants off of Medicaid. ...
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Oct 10, 2025

Back To Basics

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Mayoral candidate Ed Zucal sent out a mailing this week with a back to basics theme. I'm one resident with whom that message resonate...
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Oct 9, 2025

Allentown's First Black Bar

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In a neighborhood that no longer exists, Allentown's first legal Black liquor establishment had a short tortured run. McLaughlin...
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Oct 8, 2025

Accepting Fewer Comments

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Most bloggers crave comments, but not me lately. I have begun accepting less and less comments. I'm not trying to get a seat at any tabl...
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Oct 7, 2025

The Allentown Rose Garden

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While I have been a long time advocate for the traditional park system and the WPA structures within, I had not given much study to the Rose...
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Oct 6, 2025

Art In The Rose Garden

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A statue in the Rose Garden has been removed to be refurbished. The sculpture honestly wasn't on my radar until Friday, when I noticed s...
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Oct 3, 2025

Burnout Rally For Burnt-Out City

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The other day a Burnout Rally took place on Union Blvd., by the former Western Electric. It was obviously organized and publicized, with a...
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Oct 2, 2025

Insult At Quantico

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My military experience is limited to having ridden past Quantico a few times on the train. However, the President addressing all the assembl...
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Oct 1, 2025

Witnessing History

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On Monday afternoon, President Trump said I got to witness the greatest accomplishment in civilization. Well maybe, if Hamas accepts the dea...
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Sep 30, 2025

Tenderizing MacKenzie

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I grew up working in a meat market. People often would buy a round steak, and ask the clerk to tenderize it. You ran it through a machine wi...
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Sep 29, 2025

Looking Like The Students

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Nobody wants to be called a racist, and everybody walks on eggshells when discussing the current situation in the Allentown School District....
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Sep 26, 2025

One Term Mackenzie

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On Wednesday's post, a commenter asked me how I claim to be a conservative, when I don't endorse Trump's Americanism. I wouldn...
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Sep 25, 2025

Morning Call Malarkey

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The Morning Call headline stated that an Iron Chef is making a bet on Allentown. Anybody who has a paid subscription to the paper knows be...
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Sep 24, 2025

No False Modesty For Trump At UN

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Nobody will ever accuse Donald Trump of false modesty. In his typical kingly fashion, he let the United Nations know about all the wars he s...
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Sep 23, 2025

Better Grades For School Board

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The upcoming election for Allentown School Board has five grade A candidates. Among them are two veterans of previous boards, again voluntee...
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Sep 22, 2025

Trump As Biff In Back To The Future

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We're in a dangerous time. We have a bully in the White House, who isn't anywhere near bright as he thinks. Back from England, he sa...
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Sep 19, 2025

First Amendment Issues In Lehigh Valley

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk has made its way into the Lehigh Valley... Last week Kelly Keegan in Northampton County, and this week in ...
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