And the real 2016 winner was…

Sep 18, 2020 | US President candidates, CCDC Blog, History, PA other

There’s a real lesson here: Americans must not let this happen in 2020! This map, from Brilliant Maps, “shows what the 2016 US Presidential Election results would have been if votes not cast for Hillary, Trump or one of the third party candidates had gone...

Remembering 9/11 and…

Sep 11, 2020 | CCDC Blog, History

A day not only to think back 19 years to the horrors of foreign-initiated terrorism but also, in the present, to renew our resolve to find solutions to the country’s ongoing domestic crises: pandemics and health care, drugs, violence, jobs and economic justice,...

Fulfilling FDR’s Dream: His Second Bill of Rights

Dec 31, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

by Diane Ravitch, 12/31/19 I have engaged in a heated exchange off line with people who are upset about taxing billionaires. They feel sure that taxing the 1% or the .00025% is a slippery slope, and soon enough we will all pay taxes so high that we will have to give...

On this afternoon 156 years ago

Nov 19, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

President Lincoln, often considered the greatest of all presidents, pronounced the Gettysburg Address in 1863 about 100 miles to our west. It is hard to tire, especially today, of reading his memorable, humane, and unifying words: Four score and seven years ago our...