Our small group of do-gooders received a half-million dollars from the state, which of course raised eyebrows. One particular politician was especially excited by the prospect of nabbing frauds, unraveling a web of deceit and law-breaking. The media, too.It was the early nineties. The ...
These are dangerous times.There are fears that the deadly Ebola virus could spread worldwide. There’s ISIS, which, so far, has been contained to carrying out its brutality in most places of which we’ve never heard. Although, Lindsey Graham, that bombastic Republican Senator from South ...
Just kidding.Now that I have your attention, it’s worth noting that the only people who seem to be claiming Obamacare isn’t working are Republicans.They hate to be wrong.They are.Case in point – Donald Trump.“Obamacare is not working and has missed all targets,” says Trump, who has as ...
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’s “challenging” him.)As best as I can make out, and barring a political upheaval on the ...
My father never laid a hand on me.The stiffest punishment he ever gave me came in the form of a frequent threat: “Allen, I’ll skin you alive,” he’d say, after my youthful exuberance would overwhelm my ability to walk the straight and narrow.It worked.The mere thought that my father ...
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 ...