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Let the Republican games being

Well, it looks like more than a dozen Republicans are already lining up to stake a claim on the 2016 presidential nomination.Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, ...

Giuliania plain wrong about Obama

We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest country on earth.President Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2012Oh Rudy!鈥淎merica鈥檚 Mayor,鈥 Rudy Giuliani, thinks he knows President Obama better than Obama knows himself.Rudy鈥檚 wrong. Come to think of it, he鈥檚 really no longer 鈥淎merica鈥檚 ...

Come home Bobby Jindal

On Jan. 10, a Fox News guest 鈥 Nolan Peterson 鈥 proclaimed that France is awash in so-called 鈥淣o-Go zones,鈥 where Muslims have taken over, and not even French Gendarmes can patrol the streets.Peterson claimed 鈥淚鈥檝e been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kashmir (in India) 鈥 and at times it ...

Groundbreaking trial set to begin next week in W.Va.

The first two months of the year an astounding 364 men died in coal mine mishaps across the country, nearly four deaths for each million tons of coal mined.On Feb. 2, 1922 鈥 we鈥檙e talking 1922 here 鈥 19 miners died at the Belle Ellen No. 2 Mine at Belle Ellen, Ala. The same number were ...

Fayette County politics in midst of major change

Democrats need to get out of the fog they are in regarding their party鈥檚 recent reversals. Both Washington and Westmoreland counties are lost, perhaps for a very long time, and Fayette County could follow.For the first time probably since the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, ...

Scalise shouldn’t be GOP leader

Now, I know this man. I work with him. I know what鈥檚 in his heart. He鈥檚 a decent honest person who made a mistake. We鈥檝e all made mistakes.Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking about Majority Whip Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise may have made a mistake 12 years ago, but Republicans are ...