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Another day, another gate

The Watergate (Hotel) break-in, that sparked a national political scandal, and ultimately the resignation of a U.S. president, took place 15,192 days ago.Not long after that fateful day, just about every scandal, large or small, has had that four letter 鈥済ate鈥 word appended to it.The most ...

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Ever since there have been daring filmmakers willing to cast light upon shadow, there have been Fayette County entrepreneurs eager to distribute their wares -- and local audiences with an unfailing appetite to digest them.Back in July of 1976, when the Uniontown Morning Herald and Evening ...

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On Jan. 28, 1913, the Uniontown Morning Herald carried this startling headline: 鈥淩ow at wedding causes another fatal shooting.''There had been a 鈥渇oreign wedding鈥 in Revere. Two men engaged in a quarrel.A 25 year-old pulled a revolver on a 21 year-old, and fired two bullets into his ...

Let them eat 鈥淭alking Points鈥

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has the uncanny ability to find hole-filled arguments and recite them aloud. According to him, people who鈥檙e out of work become the victims of their unemployment checks after 26 weeks. It鈥檚 a foolish argument.The reason those people get unemployment benefits in the ...

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A hundred years ago this week, there was a startling report on the front page of the Uniontown Morning Herald about the previous year in Fayette County.鈥淰iolent deaths during the year 1913 total 301,'' read the headline for the annual Fayette County Coroner鈥檚 report that was published on ...

Congress: The real idle masses

<em>"I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway.</em><em>Whatever it is, I'm against it.''</em><strong>Groucho Marx, from the song, "I鈥檓 Against It"</strong>聽The 2013 U.S. Congress (the ...