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Ted Cruz: Green Eggs and Ham-handedness

Ted Cruz likes to talk. In fact, nobody likes to hear Ted Cruz talk more than Ted Cruz. The loquacious Republican Senator from Texas, though, appears to have talked himself completely out of favor -- especially among members of his own party.In case you've just returned from vacation in ...

This clown not clowning around

There are far more important stories than the one I’m about to discuss.Oh, I know thereĢƵ bound to be a chest-thumping political debate that follows that senseless attack in Washington last week. It seems that hardly any news worthy of extended cable news coverage, these days, can exist ...

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“Fayette Man Featured on CollierĢƵ Front Cover,” was a headline on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard 70 years ago this week.CollierĢƵ, a competitor of The Saturday Evening Post, had chosen to feature two Fayette County natives in 1943.An illustration depicting Sgt. Edward ...

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It was reported on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Sept. 9, 1943 (70 years ago, today), that allied forces were in the midst of toppling the regime of ItalyĢƵ Benito Mussolini. The Italian government had announced its unconditional surrender. It was reported as American ...

California in state of confusion

I get a snicker every time I hear somebody talk about how “liberal” California is. ThatĢƵ the same state that gave us such notable “liberals” as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and that current White House irritant, Darrell Issa.ItĢƵ the state that became the first in the country to ...

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In September 1928, 50,000 people were expected to “invade Uniontown” for the Junior Order of United American Mechanics parade. The Sept. 12, 1928, edition of the Uniontown Daily News Standard reported that there would be as many as 10,000 marchers who would take part in the event, which ...