鈥淎ll political lives, unless they are cut off at midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.鈥� So said the British politician Enoch Powell, whose own once-stellar career ended in spectacular failure.Lately, careers have been ...
Many Americans are unhappy about the prospect of the Internal Revenue Service hiring tens of thousands of additional agents to enable the agency to audit a greater number of tax returns and, in the process, presumably, encourage more honest tax compliance.Some unhappiness stems from the mere ...
I read with great interest Pennsylvania state Sen. Pat Stefano's recent column on the business climate in Pennsylvania.Stefano referred to the impact of inflation on families and claimed the problem is "free money," such as the student loan forgiveness implemented by President Biden. But ...
How we conduct elections has changed over the years.It is no longer a show of hands. It isn鈥檛 by the roar of the crowd. We don鈥檛 drop a pebble in a vessel like they did in ancient Greece 鈥� although the evolution of that process is where we get the word 鈥渂allot,鈥� from the Italian for ...
President Biden ran into some trouble a couple of weeks ago when he said in a 鈥�60 Minutes鈥� interview that COVID-19 is 鈥渙ver.鈥� The immediate reaction was that Biden had committed a gaffe and it could jeopardize efforts by his administration to round up further funding to combat the ...
Republican groups joined forces last week to sue Pennsylvania over a mail-in voting policy, in their latest offensive against the state鈥檚 election rules.The Republican National Committee, alongside several other GOP electoral fronts and the state Republican Party, sued the commonwealth for ...
