Thanks to Judy Keller, I can now put a face to a name. Years ago, I wrote about Bobby Burns. His story was told to me by Rita Smyth for a magazine article I was doing about the Connellsville Canteen of World War II.Bobby was just a kid when Rita knew him. Only a few months out of high school, ...
WASHINGTON - Voracious reading 鈥 鈥淚 am reminded of Andrew Gordon鈥檚 masterful book 鈥楾he Rules of the Game鈥 about the decline of the Royal Navy before the Battle of Jutland鈥 鈥 fuels the fluent writings of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). Their distilled essence is: People who are ...
As tensions about raising the nation鈥檚 $31.4 trillion debt ceiling build, the headline that should be flashing in front of every American is that our country is not working.Nothing is going to get fixed 鈥 really fixed 鈥 until we come clean about this basic, sad and distressing fact. How ...