You鈥檇 have to be born British, I suppose, to understand all of it, to get it clear in your head; its many branches are, for those of us on the other side of the pond, indescribably confusing.And yet the apparent mayhem (at least to these eyes) of English football (soccer) may contain a ...
Perhaps you can help me out. I have a question for you. Whatever happened that caravan? It seems to have disappeared into thin air. That鈥檚 only fair, because our president conjured it up out of thin air, anyway.Since the night of the midterm election, not a peep out of the White House about ...
With the machinery of democracy creaking and straining under the weight of an unscrupulous president, I thought it might be useful to look back a few decades when it must have seemed to some that free and fair elections were on life-support.This story goes back to the fall of 1933 and a local ...
Pennsylvania politics got better last Tuesday. Not great, but better.And that鈥檚 not necessarily because Democrats had a good night: both Tom Wolf and Bob Casey coasted to easy victories and the state鈥檚 congressional delegation went from a 13-5 split in favor of Republicans to a 9-9 tie, ...
Please lock your windows and doors before you read another word,We鈥檙e about to be 鈥渋nvaded.鈥漀o need to worry too much, though, our President has taken matters into his own hands.At first, he said he鈥檇 send 5,000 troops to the southern border to protect us from that marauding band of ...
Among the duties we ask presidents to perform is to express grief over the many senseless tragedies in American life 鈥� such as the recent shooting deaths of eleven men and women at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.This secular-pastor function is not ...