Self-doubt is not a quality normally associated with our very best politicians. Lincoln? No. The two Roosevelts? Hardly. Reagan? You鈥檝e got to be kidding.Self-doubters don鈥檛 get near the White House. Heck, they rarely get near any of the 50 state capitols. But if ever we needed men and ...
Republicans have painted themselves into a corner 鈥� again.Republican legislative leaders, who鈥檇 thought they were playing a legislative gambit that would make the president and Democratic members of Congress take the heat for cutting off funding to the Department of Homeland Security, are ...
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 ...