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Giuliania plain wrong about Obama

We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest country on earth.President Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2012Oh Rudy!“AmericaĢƵ Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani, thinks he knows President Obama better than Obama knows himself.RudyĢƵ wrong. Come to think of it, heĢƵ really no longer “AmericaĢƵ ...

Come home Bobby Jindal

On Jan. 10, a Fox News guest – Nolan Peterson – proclaimed that France is awash in so-called “No-Go zones,” where Muslims have taken over, and not even French Gendarmes can patrol the streets.Peterson claimed “I’ve been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kashmir (in India) – and at times it ...

Groundbreaking trial set to begin next week in W.Va.

The first two months of the year an astounding 364 men died in coal mine mishaps across the country, nearly four deaths for each million tons of coal mined.On Feb. 2, 1922 — we’re talking 1922 here — 19 miners died at the Belle Ellen No. 2 Mine at Belle Ellen, Ala. The same number were ...

Fayette County politics in midst of major change

Democrats need to get out of the fog they are in regarding their partyĢƵ recent reversals. Both Washington and Westmoreland counties are lost, perhaps for a very long time, and Fayette County could follow.For the first time probably since the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, ...

Scalise shouldn’t be GOP leader

Now, I know this man. I work with him. I know whatĢƵ in his heart. HeĢƵ a decent honest person who made a mistake. We’ve all made mistakes.Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking about Majority Whip Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise may have made a mistake 12 years ago, but Republicans are ...

My 2015 Year in Review

Anybody with a keyboard, it seems, published their 2014 “Years in Review.”And if they didn’t review the year, they compiled “Top 10” lists of: world news stories; local news stories; political news stories; financial news stories; movies; TV shows; sporting events, or technological ...