It was September of 1974 when my 57-year-old father鈥檚 cough was diagnosed as lung cancer. He had stopped smoking 14 years earlier, and none of us were totally cognizant of the ramifications of his previous environmental exposures. All we knew was that a great person and father had been given ...
<em>Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond</em> <em>is on sabbatical. The following was published in 2021.</em>How many times have you seen these scenarios play out on TV crime dramas? The savvy detective tells a scared kid in the interrogation ...
I read recently in an article in Gentleman鈥檚 Journal that 鈥渢he greatest occupational hazard of politics is vanity,鈥� Edwina Currie explains. 鈥淚t makes you forget what life was like before, and leaves you bereft when things suddenly disappear. What gets people into politics is a desire to ...
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 ...
Early votes are rolling in to election offices, with Democratic voters making up a solid majority of mailed-in ballots.A court ruling, however, could leave some of those ballots uncounted.As of Thursday, nearly a million Pennsylvanians had already voted ahead of the Tuesday election 鈥� taking ...
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 ...
