Hardly anybody expected last Tuesday鈥檚 results.Democrats were ready to run for political cover. All of that talk about a 鈥淩ed Wave鈥� darkening their role in Congress appeared to be a foregone conclusion.Many Republicans were already chilling champagne for a joyous night of ...
In his after-action summation of last Tuesday鈥檚 election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...
It鈥檚 time to vote.It鈥檚 also time to claim there鈥檚 voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They鈥檒l see victory where it isn鈥檛 鈥� thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation鈥檚 552 Republican ...
In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...
Now that I have your attention 鈥� this isn鈥檛 really about Mike Tyson.It鈥檚 about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponent鈥檚 plan to beat him.Tyson responded, 鈥淓verybody has a plan until they get punched ...
John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...
