People love to express their opinions. Whether we find those opinions offensive or they perfectly align with ours is irrelevant. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right to let others know what we think or how we feel. We鈥檙e closing in on one of the most powerful ...
Cheers: More than 300 islands make up the Pacific nation of Fiji, located just over the International Dateline, and it鈥檚 fairly isolated 鈥� more than 2,000 miles from Australia, 3,000 miles from Hawaii and more than 5,000 miles from the U.S. West Coast. It may not be a place that many ...
On February 26, 1983, as a newly minted 2nd lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, I raised my right hand and swore that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Donald Trump also swore a similar oath when he was inaugurated in ...
Tucking into a steak that鈥檚 been whipped up in a laboratory sounds like something out of one of those dystopian sci-fi films from the 1970s that would have once been relegated to late-night TV or the dustier corners of the video store. But the possibility that a steak could come from a ...
Cheers: Cheers to the area's three most-followed NCAA Division-I football programs. Penn State and Pitt both have started the season 5-0, and West Virginia is 3-2 with its only losses coming to the Nittany Lions and Panthers. This past Saturday, Penn State fought off UCLA, 27-11, at Beaver ...
When you see Ku Klux Klan literature from a century ago, with its exhortations that 鈥渢he purity of the white blood must be maintained鈥� and that 鈥渨e must keep this a white man鈥檚 country,鈥� it鈥檚 easy to feel a certain sense of moral superiority. We have, without question, traveled ...
