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Democratic Party needs to go back to its roots

Out late at night with nothing special to do? Mosey over to Wal-Mart and look around, not at the merchandise but at the men and women stocking the shelves.Around midnight you鈥檒l notice pallets halfway blocking the aisles as an assortment of individuals cut open crates of goods, bend down, ...

A Journalistic Lynch Mob

Sometimes the news just makes itself.Breitbart.com, which has been known to spread fact-bereft, right-wing nonsense all over the Internet, just made news, while it thought it was reporting it.鈥淥bama鈥檚 attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch represented Clintons during Whitewater,鈥 said ...

When a shellacking doesn鈥檛 last

<em>鈥淲e hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people; change course; and to commit to making choices that they are demanding,鈥 said Speaker of the House John Boehner.</em>Boehner didn鈥檛 say that last week. That鈥檚 what he said on the night the ...

First direct elections of U.S. senators were heated

It鈥檚 kind of too bad that Pennsylvanians did not elect a United States senator in 2014. That way we could have properly commemorated 鈥 celebrated seems too strong a word 鈥 the 100th anniversary of the direct election of senators.From the first Senate late in the 18th century until the ...

Let鈥檚 quarantine politicians

I don鈥檛 have Ebola.I鈥檓 fairly certain you don鈥檛 either.But, because all of the 24-hour news channels have gone all out with their Ebola coverage, I鈥檓 afraid it鈥檒l jump right off my TV and right down my throat.Am I wrong?So far, there鈥檚 been a grand total of one Ebola death in the ...

Shuster running on rare bipartisan record

Bill Shuster is going for the sweep. In his bid for re-election, the Hollidaysburg congressman is courting the votes of Republicans, Democrats and independents.A late-in-the-campaign mailer hails Shuster鈥檚 bipartisan street creds, quoting a Politico story about Shuster鈥檚 successful launch ...