Following the mid-term drubbing which saw two seats in the state legislature lost to Republicans, Fayette County Democrats 鈥� Rep. Tim Mahoney was one 鈥� were quoted as saying that the ship could be righted by local tweaks of policy and politics.Historically, that is not the way things work, ...
Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a tyrant?On Jan. 1, 1863, with one swipe of his imperial pen, he issued an executive order that proclaimed that three to four million slaves would no longer be considered property.What a crazy idea.Smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, the President of the ...
Out late at night with nothing special to do? Mosey over to Wal-Mart and look around, not at the merchandise but at the men and women stocking the shelves.Around midnight you鈥檒l notice pallets halfway blocking the aisles as an assortment of individuals cut open crates of goods, bend down, ...
Sometimes the news just makes itself.Breitbart.com, which has been known to spread fact-bereft, right-wing nonsense all over the Internet, just made news, while it thought it was reporting it.鈥淥bama鈥檚 attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch represented Clintons during Whitewater,鈥� said ...
<em>鈥淲e hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people; change course; and to commit to making choices that they are demanding,鈥� said Speaker of the House John Boehner.</em>Boehner didn鈥檛 say that last week. That鈥檚 what he said on the night the ...
It鈥檚 kind of too bad that Pennsylvanians did not elect a United States senator in 2014. That way we could have properly commemorated 鈥� celebrated seems too strong a word 鈥� the 100th anniversary of the direct election of senators.From the first Senate late in the 18th century until the ...