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Public should get answers to fatal police chases

Something is terribly wrong, or is it just a spate of tragic misfortune?Three fatal civilian crashes involving high-speed state police car chases in a month in Fayette County. Maybe state officials should launch an investigation.Here are some questions they may want to ask: What was so urgent ...

Win the Presidency. Lose Your Soul

The only thing that stemmed the media鈥檚 increasing scrutiny of Dr. Ben Carson鈥檚 biography, temporarily at least, was the fourth Republican presidential debate.Carson had been so incensed about every perceived crack in his life story, that he鈥檇 started to double down on his stories about ...

If you can鈥檛 stand the heat鈥

Have you noticed that every one of these candidates say, 'Obama's weak. Putin's kicking sand in his face. When I talk to Putin, he's going to straighten out.鈥 Then it turns out they can't handle a bunch of CNBC moderators at the debate.鈥漃resident Obama at a New York fundraiser last Monday ...

Fayette County should look at home-rule option

I paraphrase: county government is the worst form of government except for ...Oops, I鈥檓 at a loss. I have no zinger to add, like ... 鈥渆xcept for all the others鈥 or 鈥渆xcept for a dictatorship of the proletariat.鈥漀o, quite truthfully, Pennsylvania鈥檚 traditional and historical form of ...

Republicans complain about everything

Some people who know me, mistakenly believe that I that I feel it鈥檚 the end of the world, the moment the Pittsburgh Pirates get eliminated from the play-offs.Nope!My official day of mourning follows the final pitch of the World Series.So, long after Andrew McCutchen clears out his PNC Park ...

Presidential candidates must be real these days

One of John Kennedy鈥檚 great virtues as a politician was his refusal to say and do things that he deemed inauthentic. Once, while campaigning for president, he listened as some other candidates extolled their humble roots. The son of one of America鈥檚 richest men began his own remarks with a ...