COVID-19鈥檚 dominance over health and medical news for nearly three years has, understandably, relegated other ailments and diseases to the background, although TV commercials and other advertising geared toward certain products and medicines have rightly continued to attract people afflicted ...
The emphases in this country on the beginning of World War II generally center around Dec. 7, 1941, the day of the infamous Japanese aerial sneak attack on the American naval fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Actually, the war already was in progress for more than two years before that ...
<em>Editor's note: This is the second of two parts.</em>The Second Amendment reads: 鈥淎 well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.鈥� Traditionally, this was seen as ...
First things first.I have a correction to make.In my column about my love of high school basketball last week, I talked about how the Raider Dozen (Uniontown High School鈥檚 spirited pep band) would start playing 鈥淪weet Georgia Brown鈥� as the Red Raider basketball team came on to the court.I ...
Southern Living magazine once described 鈥測鈥檃ll鈥� as 鈥渢he quintessential Southern pronoun.鈥� It鈥檚 as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits.While 鈥測鈥檃ll鈥� is considered slang, it鈥檚 a useful word nonetheless. The English language doesn鈥檛 have a good second person plural ...
At first glance, they were an unlikely duo. One 鈥� Nancy Pelosi, the future House speaker 鈥� represented tony, well-heeled San Francisco. The other 鈥� John Murtha, the powerful military appropriations chairman 鈥� hailed from Johnstown, a decaying steelmaking hub in middle Appalachia.One ...
