Jeff Flake is in a bit of a pickle.Who’s Jeff Flake?He’s the junior Republican U.S. senator from Arizona, who’s making the rounds promoting his new book – “Conscience of a Conservative.”He opened his book tour with a searing online article posted on politico.com last Monday, titled ...
My dad used to tell his two sons the reason he wanted no part of the Navy in World War II was, well, the sea. The prospect of being dumped into briny depths was unappealing in the extreme to my old man.This was despite the fact that, having grown up in Connellsville on the Yough, he was an ...
Our Commander-in-chief apparently moonlights as a presidential historian.He knows “presidential” when he sees it. (Or doesn’t see it)I suppose that qualifies him to bestow upon himself the mantle of being only second to “Honest Abe” Lincoln as the most “presidential” president in ...
Jesus was not a humble guy.Not he who said, “I am the way, the truth and the light.” Not the guy who proclaimed that the only way to get past the pearly gates was through him.Certainly not the fella who turned water into wine to the delight of thousands of thirsty spectators.And yet ... ...
 We are gathered here today, to pay our respects to the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.”The “Better” has died a slow, but steady death at the hands of the 47, 48, 49 or 50 U.S. Senators who’ve seen no real value in keeping it alive.You may not know it by its formal name. So, ...
The Wikipedia entry for Arnold City goes like this: “Arnold City is an unincorporated community ... in far northwestern Fayette County. As of the 2010 census the population was 498.”Elsewhere on the internet you learn the median income in Arnold City (which, by the way, shouldn’t be ...