The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken. The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” has survived by a narrow 5-4 decision.The keystone of President Obama’s presidency has been deemed constitutional, since the Supremes have ruled that the health care “mandate” is really only a tax ...
I really don’t know if it’s some kind of record, but I’ve found what could be the longest headline that’s ever appeared in a Uniontown newspaper.“SMOCK BOY KILLED; MANY OTHERS INJURED; LIGHTENING, WIND WRECK BUILDINGS AS STORM HITS COUNTY” was the headline atop a story about a ...
If you follow any sport, you know that even the greatest of all athletes suffers when they’re caught flat-footed.And in the most high stakes sport of them all -– politics -– a flat-footed politician can easily be thrown completely off their “game.”Republicans, in general, and Mitt ...
Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I was keenly aware of the ominous threat of the Cold War. Most kids were.So we might have been truly dismayed by the events of May 1, 1960, when an American spy plane, the U-2, was shot down over Soviet airspace.The spy plane’s pilot, Francis Gary Powers, ...
These days it’s rare that a prominent political figure not only confirms their involvement in political hi jinks, but they brag about it.Bill Clinton, while under oath, unskillfully skirted the realities of “having sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky,” and Richard Nixon avoided having any ...
A hundred years ago this month, in June of 1912, there was a growing concern about a type of crime that is still being committed today.“Gang swipes pipe at Greenwood School,'' was a headline on the front page of a local paper on June 11 of that year.These days, the widespread thefts of copper ...
