When Gen. George Patton slapped a battle-scared infantryman in the face, scolding him for cowardice in World War II, he engendered howls of protest from the home folks and a reprimand from his boss, Gen. Eisenhower.Following a second indiscretion, Gen. Patton’s future service in the war was ...
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… …except when I’m a Republican running for president”Inscription on the Statue of Liberty. (I added the second part)In 1883, when Emma Lazarus penned her stirring poem that’s on the pedestal of the Statue ...
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 ...
The only thing that stemmed the media’s increasing scrutiny of Dr. Ben Carson’s 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’d started to double down on his stories about ...
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.’ Then it turns out they can't handle a bunch of CNBC moderators at the debate.”President Obama at a New York fundraiser last Monday ...
I paraphrase: county government is the worst form of government except for ...Oops, I’m at a loss. I have no zinger to add, like ... “except for all the others” or “except for a dictatorship of the proletariat.”No, quite truthfully, Pennsylvania’s traditional and historical form of ...