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Real torture is watching Chaney

I don鈥檛 have to tell you this, but there鈥檚 always lots of news.Last week, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion dollar budget deal; madmen attacked innocent people in Sydney, Australia and in Pakistan; there鈥檚 a thaw in the 60 year hostilities between Cuba and the United States, and ...

Report sheds new light on torture methods

Torture!Emphatically saying something doesn鈥檛 happen, is certainly no guarantee that it doesn鈥檛.Despite claims by the architects of the War on Terror, that they weren鈥檛 involved in practices that are abhorrent to people all over the planet, there鈥檚 some proof they weren鈥檛 being ...

Bandwagons runing wild across America

Debbie Flaherty is president of Day automobile dealers. I know this because I watch television, and Flaherty has made any number of TV commercials which have transformed new car advertising in western Pennsylvania.Since Flaherty began hawking her car lots on the air a series of copycat ads have ...

One turkey that won’t get pardoned

I鈥檓 a staunch liberal. I believe that anybody who isn鈥檛 one is always wrong.I take that back. I鈥檇 like to apologize for making that statement. I apologize if I offended anybody by it. That鈥檚 what you鈥檇 call a 鈥渘on-apology apology.鈥濃淣on-apology apologies鈥 are the current ...

Can Dems reconnect with roots?

Following the mid-term drubbing which saw two seats in the state legislature lost to Republicans, Fayette County Democrats 鈥 Rep. Tim Mahoney was one 鈥 were quoted as saying that the ship could be righted by local tweaks of policy and politics.Historically, that is not the way things work, ...

Obama following Reagan’s footsetps

Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a tyrant?On Jan. 1, 1863, with one swipe of his imperial pen, he issued an executive order that proclaimed that three to four million slaves would no longer be considered property.What a crazy idea.Smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, the President of the ...