If this country gets more gun laws to prevent the wrong people from getting their hands on deadly weapons, a few bigwigs at the NRA might have to relinquish them.In recent days, they鈥檝e released a particularly vile Internet ad that calls into question their mental health. Calling President ...
While Prohibition ended in the United States in December of 1933, the final remnant of the ban on alcoholic beverages wasn鈥檛 fully realized in Fayette County for 24 years -- in January of 1957.鈥淟ast booze taken from dungeon of jail,'' said a headline on the front page of the Uniontown ...
The Republicans are at it again.The only thing Republicans seem good at these days is losing badly in presidential elections, failing miserably during 鈥渇iscal cliff鈥� debates and fighting among themselves. In fact, one day after the 113th Congress was sworn in, 67 Republicans put the country ...
A hundred years ago this month, when automobiles were still as much of a curiosity as they were a trusty means of transportation, the mere mention of having licenses and registrations in order to drive them, caused a public stir.There was a story on the front page of the Jan. 5, 1913 edition of ...
The New Year was barely two hours old and Barack Obama won another victory. He鈥檚 on a roll.Who is this guy who Republicans claim is incapable of a single deep thought but smart enough to send the country headlong into the trash heap of history -- and sometimes in the same sentence? He鈥檚 ...
I usually don鈥檛 like to announce my New Year鈥檚 resolutions. To me, they鈥檙e really only wishful, soon-to-be broken, commitments to myself. I鈥檝e read that according to one study, 88 percent of the New Year鈥檚 resolutions fail.In fact, in my 64 years, I鈥檝e only managed to keep one New ...