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Wielding arguments that flog a horse dead and stuffed since Appomattox, some Pennsylvania legislators recently asserted the stateĢƵ right to nullify any new federal gun law.The bill would block any federal law that “attempts to register, restrict or ban the ownership or purchase of a ...

Postal service forced to deliver bad news

ItĢƵ about high time we take the United States Postal Service out back and shoot it, right?After all, with news last week that the federal agency wants to eliminate Saturday delivery piled on top of the fact that it lost $15.9 billion (with a “b”) last year, and itĢƵ hard not to see the ...

It’s time to finally end posturing on gun control

Enough.Enough with the hothouse rhetoric. Enough with the hysterical claims that the government is coming for your weapons.Enough.Because the debate on gun control in modern America comes down to a number:Twenty-seven.ThatĢƵ the number of people who lost their lives in last DecemberĢƵ ...

Outrageous!

We keep hearing how strapped state government is. With revenue tight and expenses rising, all kinds of needs are going unmet.Schools, libraries, roads, bridges, human services. You name it. They’re all begging for money.Yet thereĢƵ plenty of cash for some state officials. Two examples from ...

Time for action

The pension systems for PennsylvaniaĢƵ state employees finds itself woefully underfunded.The growing $41 billion shortfall was born of benefit-friendly adjustments made in Gov. Tom RidgeĢƵ tenure during sunnier economic times. It was then followed by the decade-long economic downturn. Now ...

It’s one sided, but it’s still a love affair

You can only shake your head.You know the friend; the one who is just hopelessly and frustratingly head over heels for someone who just doesn’t treat them right. You try to talk some sense into them, but they won’t hear it. So you just shake your head every time your pal gets drug through ...