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Republican Jason Monn, a restaurateur and former mayor of Corry, Pennsylvania, has set his sights on the 2022 Pa. Governor race. The owner of Fat Monn’s Grub restaurant identifies himself as a family and community-oriented “common guy,” who understands the “struggles of the everyday Pennsylvanian.” Monn was raised by a single mom and spent his childhood on welfare. Without a father figure to guide him, he grew up very fast and quickly learned how to take care of himself. Monn’s experience in government began as a city council member in 2012. He was elected mayor three years later. The impetus...

On April 9, Graham Corry was on his way to dinner with friends. He turned onto Patterson Avenue and stayed in the left lane. He passed two Collegiate school buses that were traveling in the right-hand lane of the road. When he reached Parham Road he moved into the turning Lane behind another car and waited at the red light. The two busses pulled in behind him and stopped. Like tens of thousands of other Virginians Corry carried a handgun legally for self defense. He intended to wear the gun at dinner which was with other gunowners who would be...

I am baffled by John Corry's claim that the neocons were "wrong" about Iraq. Virtually everything they said has come true, and continues to come true. 1) The Iraqis, on the whole, did indeed welcome us as liberators. The fact that you could get as many soldiers killed policing Watts as you could in Tikrit doesn't seem to me to equate "failure" of the slightest kind. It means that in any occupation, there are dangers. 2) We just passed a week in which there was not a single American death. That was followed by a couple, then by more days...