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Come home Bobby Jindal

On Jan. 10, a Fox News guest 鈥 Nolan Peterson 鈥 proclaimed that France is awash in so-called 鈥淣o-Go zones,鈥 where Muslims have taken over, and not even French Gendarmes can patrol the streets.Peterson claimed 鈥淚鈥檝e been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kashmir (in India) 鈥 and at times it ...

Groundbreaking trial set to begin next week in W.Va.

The first two months of the year an astounding 364 men died in coal mine mishaps across the country, nearly four deaths for each million tons of coal mined.On Feb. 2, 1922 鈥 we鈥檙e talking 1922 here 鈥 19 miners died at the Belle Ellen No. 2 Mine at Belle Ellen, Ala. The same number were ...

Fayette County politics in midst of major change

Democrats need to get out of the fog they are in regarding their party鈥檚 recent reversals. Both Washington and Westmoreland counties are lost, perhaps for a very long time, and Fayette County could follow.For the first time probably since the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, ...

Scalise shouldn’t be GOP leader

Now, I know this man. I work with him. I know what鈥檚 in his heart. He鈥檚 a decent honest person who made a mistake. We鈥檝e all made mistakes.Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking about Majority Whip Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise may have made a mistake 12 years ago, but Republicans are ...

My 2015 Year in Review

Anybody with a keyboard, it seems, published their 2014 鈥淵ears in Review.鈥滱nd if they didn鈥檛 review the year, they compiled 鈥淭op 10鈥 lists of: world news stories; local news stories; political news stories; financial news stories; movies; TV shows; sporting events, or technological ...

With All Due Respect, Rudy 鈥 Please Shut Up!

The murders of two New York City police officers last weekend is another grim reminder that there鈥檚 a painfully persistent racial divide in this country.Not the murders themselves -- their aftermath.To be clear, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were the victims of the acts of a raging ...