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Don’t take away our gun fixations

If this country gets more gun laws to prevent the wrong people from getting their hands on deadly weapons, a few bigwigs at the NRA might have to relinquish them.In recent days, they’ve released a particularly vile Internet ad that calls into question their mental health. Calling President ...

Did you know?

While Prohibition ended in the United States in December of 1933, the final remnant of the ban on alcoholic beverages wasn’t fully realized in Fayette County for 24 years -- in January of 1957.“Last booze taken from dungeon of jail,'' said a headline on the front page of the Uniontown ...

Republicans going after each other

The Republicans are at it again.The only thing Republicans seem good at these days is losing badly in presidential elections, failing miserably during “fiscal cliff” debates and fighting among themselves. In fact, one day after the 113th Congress was sworn in, 67 Republicans put the country ...

Did you know?

A hundred years ago this month, when automobiles were still as much of a curiosity as they were a trusty means of transportation, the mere mention of having licenses and registrations in order to drive them, caused a public stir.There was a story on the front page of the Jan. 5, 1913 edition of ...

Don’t mess with ‘BarackoMan’

The New Year was barely two hours old and Barack Obama won another victory. HeĢƵ on a roll.Who is this guy who Republicans claim is incapable of a single deep thought but smart enough to send the country headlong into the trash heap of history -- and sometimes in the same sentence? HeĢƵ ...

Some resolutions easier to keep than others

I usually don’t like to announce my New YearĢƵ resolutions. To me, they’re really only wishful, soon-to-be broken, commitments to myself. I’ve read that according to one study, 88 percent of the New YearĢƵ resolutions fail.In fact, in my 64 years, I’ve only managed to keep one New ...