Republicans all over the country are trying to put a stop to welfare recipients spending taxpayer money on drugs.There鈥檚 one problem with that.Those states are spending more money giving people drug tests, than they are saving by keeping drug users off of their welfare rolls.Back in 2009, one ...
When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in June, mainstream Republicans treated it with curiosity, then ambivalence, then anxiety -- now dread. Panic is next.Trump鈥檚 possible nomination is a joy to behold for Democrats.For many Republicans, though, it could become a road map ...
June 16th, 2015, is a day that will live in infamy. That鈥檚 the day that Donald Trump formally announced he was staking his claim on the presidency. It鈥檚 been downhill ever since.The Donald鈥檚 announcement speech, alone, helped spring into action an army of fact-checkers -- never before ...
Did you know Uniontown once had a bank the feds considered too big fail?History is a matter of second- and even third-looks. Earlier this year we marked the centennial of the bankruptcy of J.V. Thompson, the coal land mogul and banker whose financial collapse in 1915 scuttled a number of ...
Twenty Americans were injured and six died because of gun violence last Tuesday.That night in Las Vegas, 13 Republican presidential candidates appeared in debates, reaffirming their claims that radical jihadists are hiding under our beds.There wasn鈥檛 a word devoted to the lives lost of 12,662 ...
Fifty-four years ago this month I bought my first books. Stop the presses!Seriously, they were among the best purchases I ever made.It鈥檚 a bummer the same opportunity no longer exists.I鈥檒l explain.I don鈥檛 remember the moment I plunked down my money at a school book fair for the books. I ...