Beware of Obamacare!Those “death panels” are brutal.Remember them?They were hatched out of thin air by Republicans, with hopes of thwarting President Obama’s proposed health-care reform bill in 2009.It was the boogeyman the folks on the right used as shorthand for the predicted danger ...
On Veterans Day, Connellsville is the place to turn for the inspiration and the heartbreak of war. During the Big One – World War II – Connellsville modeled both.Of course, there was plenty of grousing during the war years, 1941-45, especially about conscription – the draft. But we’ll ...
I’m beside myself with ... Hey, wait!I can’t possibly be beside myself.That’s physiologically impossible.So is when you tell somebody to, “watch your mouth.”They’re a couple of terms Americans use in our thriving arsenal of idioms.Stuff that can’t be taken literally.Back in June, ...
The automobile accident that has sidelined state representative Matthew Dowling of Uniontown sounds awful: traveling alone, police say, Dowling’s vehicle plowed through a field before striking a tree 100 yards off a road in Upper Leacock Township in Lancaster County.It was 7 in the evening. ...
The death of Colin Powell meant the loss of another American hero.He was beloved and respected on all sides of America’s ever-widening political divide.Minutes after his death was announced, tributes filled the 24-hour news stations.Some of those tributes were tearful. All were sincere.I was ...
If you were in the stateside service in the early to mid-70s – as I was – you may have noticed a certain lack of discipline and esprit de corps among the troops.Even a lowly recruit serving in the Army Reserves sensed something was wrong. Toward the tail end of basic training at Fort ...
