"History is written by the victors." (Winston Churchill)
Mike Myer begins the writing process
Today's Mike Myer column, "Take Him Seriously, Not Literally," argues that Trump supporters don't believe that he will actually carry out what he promised to do:
Meanwhile, a vast formerly inactive majority of Americans took Trump very seriously — but not literally.
He spoke for them, but in many cases, . . .
A possible explanation for why Donald Trump won the election
As local coal CEO Robert Murray explained to Bloomberg News:
In recent months, Murray joined the Evangelical church. He was dwelling on that change while he was watching the election results in the early morning Wednesday. He was sitting in his Ohio home, he said, reflecting on his family, his workers and Biblical figures.
“ . . .
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Can Trump bring back coal jobs to West Virginia?
Looking around the Web for answers
Yesterday's Bloomberg News essentially sums up what I found in researching that question:
He can roll back regulations, slash government jobs, pull out of global treaties and strip the tax benefits from renewable energy. But can Donald Trump make coal great again?
. . .
Probably not, say energy industry leaders and analysts.
Posted in: donald trumpnatural gaswar on coal
The shorter version of recent local editorials about Clinton and the Democrats
If you've read them, you can probably skip this post. Here are the shorter versions of three day's worth of anti-Clinton editorials.
Saturday
"Voting for Trump Is Not Enough"
The shorter version: you must vote for Bill Cole for governor because Jim Justice is a Democrat and he might support . . .
Posted in: anti-clinton biasbill coledonald trumphillary clintonintelligencer editorialjim justicemichael myernews-register editorialwv governor race
Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 17
The Intelligencer makes major changes to a balanced front-page AP report on the election
Once again The Intelligencer has decided to expand its anti-Clinton agenda from the opinion page to include the front page. (Don't worry that the opinion page is being neglected, today's features this editorial: "Clinton Wrong on Critical Concerns.") Using the front page of the paper for their anti-Clinton agenda is not . . .
Posted in: anti-clinton biasdonald trumphillary clinton
Does the Intelligencer support the Trump assertion that the election is rigged? (with 10/21 update)
Covering last night's debate
At 9:30 this morning I turned to Kiosko.net to see how American newspapers were handling last night's debate. (Kiosko prints the front page of major newspapers.) The website usually features some of America's most read newspapers at the top of the page and here are their headlines:
. . .
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Catching up
News
After reading a number of out-of-town newspapers for a week, I caught up on a week's worth of the Intelligencer earlier today.
The contrast was stark -- most notably on national news coverage. I've always been bothered by the lack of national news in our local papers and consequently I use the internet and . . .
