Ted Diadiun

1 day ago | cleveland.com | Ted Diadiun

Had I been living in Pennsylvania during the 2022 U.S. Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz, I would have cast my vote for Oz without a moment’s hesitation. His only qualification for the job was that he was a well-known television personality, but there was little doubt that he would be a reliable conservative vote in a Senate that needed all the help it could get. At the time, Fetterman was recovering from a severe stroke.

1 week ago | cleveland.com | Ted Diadiun

Since Donald Trump took office for his second term as president 131 days ago, he has drenched the country with what Laura Johnston, content director for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, wrote has been a “firehose of actions.”Specifically, as of Thursday he had issued well more than one executive order a day – 157 in total.

2 weeks ago | cleveland.com | Ted Diadiun

Three things happened over the last few days regarding former President Joe Biden that should give voters, and especially Democrats, pause when considering how they have based their votes, whom they can trust, and how they should approach decisions in the future: *The publication Tuesday of the book “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by Jake Tapper, CNN chief Washington correspondent, and Alex Thompson, a national correspondent for...

3 weeks ago | cleveland.com | Ted Diadiun

The hallowed litany of Baseball Hall of Famers – who gets in, who’s left out, and the angst those decisions generate – has a hold on a large portion of the public in ways that must seem confounding to those who do not revel in the numbers, traditions and history of the game. They should prepare themselves to be confounded anew. But we’ll get to that in a minute. Most sports – and a wide variety of other professions – have halls of fame, enjoying varying levels of, well, fame.

4 weeks ago | cleveland.com | Ted Diadiun

I am far from the first to observe that the cost, administration, policies and results of our colleges and universities have in general fallen far short of what they were originally designed to do, which was to educate and prepare young adults for a life of substance and fulfillment, at an affordable cost.