The Wheeling Alternative
Choosing winners and losers
Mike Myer knows his audience: Yes, it's another column that scapegoats Obama
Today’s Mike Myer column, "Picking Winners and Losers," is mostly an attack upon the Obama administration’s supposed “war on coal.” Of course, Myer totally ignores the obvious – that market forces, especially cheap natural gas, is the primary cause for coal’s decline. As Joshua Rhodes wrote in Forbes earlier this week:
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Posted in: it's all obama's faultmike myerwar on coal
Today's Wheeling News-Register editorial lectures us on the imperial president
Updated 6/8
In just the last week, President Trump asserted the absolute right to pardon himself:
As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats . . .
WV's senate candidates can't get close enough to Trump and his family
Don Jr. in Charleston to support Morrisey
(photo credit - Charleston Gazette-Mail)
From this morning's Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Donald Trump Jr. joined the West Virginia attorney general on the campaign trail Tuesday in an effort to hitch the latter’s U.S. Senate bid to economic success reported under . . .
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 's publisher moves the paper even closer to Trump
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher hangs on Donald Trump’s jet in a ‘more than memorable’ experience. https://t.co/nrzwkDeSRK pic.twitter.com/5jzm21xkLu
— Pittsburgh City Paper (@PGHCityPaper) September 22, 2016
Until today, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not published a political cartoon by its local cartoonist since May 24
. . .Mike Myer echoes the NRA: it’s not guns, its violent video games
Sunday’s Mike Myer column, “What’s Wrong With Us,” argued that it’s video games, not guns, that need restricting.
The beginning of the column attacks “Active Shooter,” a video game that will likely not be released. (It fits his thesis, however.) Myer then moves on to attack older video games like “Thrill Kill” and “Grand Theft Auto. . . .
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Senator Joe and the reboot of "Buckwild" ("West Virginia Wilder")
Everybody gets some free publicity
Here's the trailer for the proposed series "West Virginia Wilder":
From the Associated Press:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is asking a network not to cast his state in a negative light with a new reality show. Problem is, MTV owner Viacom says it's not involved in "West . . .
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A Freudian slip?
From this morning's editorial in the Wheeling Intelligencer about Roseanne Barr:
Then Barr switched to pointing out that those with liberal political views who make similar mistakes often are treated more harshly than conservatives like her. There is some truth to that.
The definition of "Freudian . . .