John L. Micek is a syndicated columnist
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Micek: Control of the House runs through Pennsylvania
It’s a Wednesday night in October, three weeks before Election Day, and Mike Kelly is onstage at the Erie Insurance Coliseum, home of the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters, where he finds himself playing a familiar role.
Micek: Trump goes full Trump in yet another Pennsylvania rally
ERIE, Pa. — With his second U.S. Supreme Court confirmation in the bag, President Donald Trump took a victory lap around this city by the lake on Wednesday night, skewering “radical” Capitol Hill Democrats and the “dishonest” media, even as he exhorted supporters to vote in next month’s midterm election.
Micek: Kavanaugh wasn’t on trial. He was interviewing to work for us
Remember that time you got due process in a job interview? Me neither.
Micek: Trump Jr. rallies the MAGA faithful in Pennsylvania
Donald Trump Jr. had a pretty simple message for the Republican faithful who filled a hotel ballroom here on the final night of summer 2018.
Micek: All talk, no action: A Republican metaphor
Congressional Republicans continue to abet and excuse Donald Trump’s relentless assaults on democratic norms and the rule of law. But if we were to focus on one particular guy who best embodies that spinelessness, someone who is a veritable metaphor for a party in moral eclipse, I strongly nominate Ben Sasse.
Micek: Having adults in White House is supposed to be normal
We have been informed, twice last week, that there are alleged “adults” in Donald Trump’s White House who are supposedly acting as a hedge against the 45th president’s worst impulses.
Micek: The congressional race that Donald Trump is sweating the most
Politics are on the menu here at The Coffee Tree Roasters. At a patio table early one sunny August morning in this leafy Pittsburgh suburb, a quartet of friends debated President Donald Trump’s latest headache — the guilty plea by his longtime lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen.
Micek: 5 recommendations for your Labor Day weekend
With Labor Day weekend closing in with more speed than I’d like to really acknowledge, I can’t turn around these days without someone reminding me of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous admonishment that “life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Micek: ‘Wrecked’: Abuse survivors on their connection to church
Years after he was abused by a Catholic priest, Shaun Dougherty uses just one word to describe the state of his faith these days.
Micek: Under Trump, it’s easy to like Ike
The golf clubs in the laundry room at the rear of Dwight Eisenhower’s farmhouse here are perched and ready, as if the 34th president of the United States might come and fetch them at any moment.
