I don鈥檛 have anything against Alabama.I鈥檝e never gone there.Chances are, if I鈥檓 allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn鈥檛.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...
A good if not a very prudent man forfeited his sterling reputation, hundreds of small investors lost their life savings, and the grand expectations of a whole generation were irretrievably lost.One-hundred years ago this winter the world of J.V. Thompson came crashing down, and Uniontown, to ...
Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.Let鈥檚 take measles.Back in 2000, America鈥檚 medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...
It is old enough for the history books. The Fayette County Prison long ago reached landmark status eligibility.The year it opened Grover Cleveland was president.Well, he was president until the forgettable Benjamin Harrison recited the oath of office on March 4, 1889.That same year of 1889 ...
Well, it looks like more than a dozen Republicans are already lining up to stake a claim on the 2016 presidential nomination.Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, ...
We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest country on earth.President Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2012Oh Rudy!鈥淎merica鈥檚 Mayor,鈥� Rudy Giuliani, thinks he knows President Obama better than Obama knows himself.Rudy鈥檚 wrong. Come to think of it, he鈥檚 really no longer 鈥淎merica鈥檚 ...