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Obamacare is a big failure!

Just kidding.Now that I have your attention, it鈥檚 worth noting that the only people who seem to be claiming Obamacare isn鈥檛 working are Republicans.They hate to be wrong.They are.Case in point 鈥 Donald Trump.鈥淥bamacare is not working and has missed all targets,鈥 says Trump, who has as ...

GOP uses reapportionment to expand power

Election Day takes place Nov. 4.The incumbent congressman, Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, running for re-election, will win. In a walk. He faces only nominal opposition.(Quick, name the Democrat who鈥檚 鈥渃hallenging鈥 him.)As best as I can make out, and barring a political upheaval on the ...

The fear of having no skin

My father never laid a hand on me.The stiffest punishment he ever gave me came in the form of a frequent threat: 鈥淎llen, I鈥檒l skin you alive,鈥 he鈥檇 say, after my youthful exuberance would overwhelm my ability to walk the straight and narrow.It worked.The mere thought that my father ...

Goodell’s comments hard to believe

Back in the 1990s, talk show host Phil Donahue went to court in an effort to broadcast the live execution of a convicted murdered in North Carolina.Donahue lost his case in the North Carolina Supreme Court. He merely wanted to televise how states methodically snuff-out the lives of death row ...

So, where’s my slide rule?

<em>"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."</em><strong>- Albert Einstein, May 12, ...

Fame comes and goes with time

Just off Scottdale鈥檚 main street sits a small monument which most people, I dare say, pass without notice. The monument pays tribute to a pioneer of early aviation, native son James DeWitt Hill.Old Orchard Beach, Maine, sparkled beneath a late summer sun. The Atlantic Ocean rolled in gentle ...