"Why did this happen? What was this for? We could have taken this vote three weeks ago. This was completely unnecessary.''Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif)鈥淰ictory,鈥� he says?Well, The Great Republican Hissy-fit of 2013 is in the books.Things are pretty much back to abnormal.Last Wednesday night, ...
<em>Sooner or later, the government will resume its functions. Sooner or later, we will raise the debt limit. So why don鈥檛 we do this sooner rather than later?</em><em>Sen. John McCain, on the floor of the U.S. Senate</em>Republicans are ...
What a difference 100 years makes.While the Pittsburgh Pirates may have challenged for baseball supremacy this season, in October of 1913, they were only battling local teams that were holding their own against them.The 1913 Pittsburgh Pirates had three future Hall of Famers (Honus Wagner, Max ...
This is about three men of accomplishment.Marco Rubio has quite a compelling personal story.The junior U.S. Senator from Florida is a son of Cuban immigrants, who has risen to become one of the most powerful men in Washington.Barack Obama, the son of a single mother, who was raised by his ...
Those of us no longer of a 鈥渢ender鈥� age, can remember when the simple act of dialing a telephone in Uniontown required the knowledge of the word 鈥淕eneva.鈥� Instead of remembering the numbers 鈥�43鈥� at the beginning of telephone numbers, you might pick up your telephone and ask a live ...
I mentioned last week that back in September of 1893, the New York Giants (these days the San Francisco Giants) baseball team visited Fayette County and played two games against a local baseball team.The locals held their own in front of "2,000 spectators who yelled themselves hoarse," and won ...