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Obama following Reagan’s footsetps

Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a tyrant?On Jan. 1, 1863, with one swipe of his imperial pen, he issued an executive order that proclaimed that three to four million slaves would no longer be considered property.What a crazy idea.Smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, the President of the ...

Democratic Party needs to go back to its roots

Out late at night with nothing special to do? Mosey over to Wal-Mart and look around, not at the merchandise but at the men and women stocking the shelves.Around midnight you’ll notice pallets halfway blocking the aisles as an assortment of individuals cut open crates of goods, bend down, ...

A Journalistic Lynch Mob

Sometimes the news just makes itself.Breitbart.com, which has been known to spread fact-bereft, right-wing nonsense all over the Internet, just made news, while it thought it was reporting it.“ObamaĢƵ attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch represented Clintons during Whitewater,” said ...

When a shellacking doesn’t last

<em>“We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people; change course; and to commit to making choices that they are demanding,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner.</em>Boehner didn’t say that last week. ThatĢƵ what he said on the night the ...

First direct elections of U.S. senators were heated

ItĢƵ kind of too bad that Pennsylvanians did not elect a United States senator in 2014. That way we could have properly commemorated — celebrated seems too strong a word — the 100th anniversary of the direct election of senators.From the first Senate late in the 18th century until the ...

LetĢƵ quarantine politicians

I don’t have Ebola.I’m fairly certain you don’t either.But, because all of the 24-hour news channels have gone all out with their Ebola coverage, I’m afraid it’ll jump right off my TV and right down my throat.Am I wrong?So far, thereĢƵ been a grand total of one Ebola death in the ...