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Republicans digging their own graves

Republicans have painted themselves into a corner – again.Republican legislative leaders, who’d thought they were playing a legislative gambit that would make the president and Democratic members of Congress take the heat for cutting off funding to the Department of Homeland Security, are ...

Sweet home Alabma?

I don’t have anything against Alabama.I’ve never gone there.Chances are, if I’m allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn’t.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...

Fall of legendary local banker resonates today

A good if not a very prudent man forfeited his sterling reputation, hundreds of small investors lost their life savings, and the grand expectations of a whole generation were irretrievably lost.One-hundred years ago this winter the world of J.V. Thompson came crashing down, and Uniontown, to ...

One measly political argument

Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.LetĢƵ take measles.Back in 2000, AmericaĢƵ medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...

Fayette County Prison has long lived out its usefulness

It is old enough for the history books. The Fayette County Prison long ago reached landmark status eligibility.The year it opened Grover Cleveland was president.Well, he was president until the forgettable Benjamin Harrison recited the oath of office on March 4, 1889.That same year of 1889 ...

Let the Republican games being

Well, it looks like more than a dozen Republicans are already lining up to stake a claim on the 2016 presidential nomination.Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, ...