I have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words "Equal Justice Under Law" are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand 鈥� one that all of us should be ...
Thankfully, after more than two months, Governor Wolf has begun to ease the restrictions he placed on Pennsylvanians during his statewide shutdown order. As we transition back to normalcy, my Senate Republican colleagues and I will continue our goal of passing laws that focus on rebuilding ...
I鈥檝e spent the past few days mourning the loss of important people in my life.It was a normal day until I decided to stop in for a visit and sat at the table for dinner. They both had smartphones in one hand and a fork in the other, never making eye contact with me the whole time. As they ...
On June 1, I watched as the Trump administration used flash grenades, chemical gas, pepper balls, batons, and brute force to clear peaceful protesters from a park near the White House.Trump then marched through the forcibly vacated 鈥渂attle space,鈥� as his secretary of defense called it, to ...
Is it true that crisis reveals character? President Trump has been handed two major national crises in the first half of 2020 and has fumbled them in as incompetent a manner as could be dreamt of. In both cases his inability to recognize an insidious threat to our nation, to empathize with ...
Most alarm clocks just sit there and buzz when it comes time for their intended victim to rise and face a new day, but not mine. Every morning at or about seven, whether or not I wish to end a pleasant dream and slide forth from the soothing embrace of warm covers, my alarm clock bounds across ...