Did you know Uniontown once had a bank the feds considered too big fail?History is a matter of second- and even third-looks. Earlier this year we marked the centennial of the bankruptcy of J.V. Thompson, the coal land mogul and banker whose financial collapse in 1915 scuttled a number of ...
Twenty Americans were injured and six died because of gun violence last Tuesday.That night in Las Vegas, 13 Republican presidential candidates appeared in debates, reaffirming their claims that radical jihadists are hiding under our beds.There wasn’t a word devoted to the lives lost of 12,662 ...
Fifty-four years ago this month I bought my first books. Stop the presses!Seriously, they were among the best purchases I ever made.It’s a bummer the same opportunity no longer exists.I’ll explain.I don’t remember the moment I plunked down my money at a school book fair for the books. I ...
Heil Trump!Beware of kittens!I have it on good information that kittens are trying to take over the world.If I run for president (I’m still not completely sure I won’t), invading kittens will be the foundation of my campaign.I’ve learned from Donald Trump that if he loudly repeats an ...
President Obama got the policy right, but the politics of last Sunday’s speech from the Oval Office was all wrong.Instead of rallying the nation to feelings of security, the president delivered a lecture on the importance of tolerance. Granted, tolerance is important but it doesn’t eclipse, ...
“All you have to do is go to an article on the internet, and go to the comments section – and you don’t get five comments down before people start calling each other names – and acting like idiots.”Dr. Ben Carson on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Nov. 29.Ben Carson ...