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The Stupid Party admits it actually is stupid

I鈥檝e always resisted calling Republicans 鈥渟tupid.鈥滻 might disagree with their politics and call those Republicans who advanced them dim-witted, dunder-headed, simple-minded and other hyphenated stuff -- but never 鈥渟tupid.鈥 That鈥檚 about to change. One of the Republican Party鈥檚 more ...

Kicking the canard down the road

The day after they gave in on the fiscal cliff, Congressional Republicans vowed to hold the line on the debt limit.They鈥檝e already backed down. Just 22 days after some Republicans hinted they鈥檇 even go so far as to try to shut down the government rather than to pay the nation鈥檚 bills -- ...

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Back on Jan. 28, 1959 there were probably a lot of skeptical newspaper readers who opened their editions of the Uniontown Morning Herald and read the headline: 鈥淪cientists See Man on The Moon in 10 Years.鈥漇uch an optimistic prediction, especially when manned-space flight was still a few ...

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Long before he became known as 鈥淭he Father of our Country,鈥 long after he, as a young military officer, gave way to the French at that place he named the 鈥淔ort of Necessity,鈥 and just one year before the brother of Uniontown鈥檚 founder (Henry Beeson), Jacob Beeson, named the street ...

Don鈥檛 take away our gun fixations

If this country gets more gun laws to prevent the wrong people from getting their hands on deadly weapons, a few bigwigs at the NRA might have to relinquish them.In recent days, they鈥檝e released a particularly vile Internet ad that calls into question their mental health. Calling President ...

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While Prohibition ended in the United States in December of 1933, the final remnant of the ban on alcoholic beverages wasn鈥檛 fully realized in Fayette County for 24 years -- in January of 1957.鈥淟ast booze taken from dungeon of jail,'' said a headline on the front page of the Uniontown ...