As a kid, we were never allowed to say 鈥渟hut up.鈥� My Italian grandmother would, however, sometimes playfully say, 鈥淪tatazit,鈥� (pronounced sta-ta-zeet) to my grandfather. In Italian slang, that meant 鈥渟hut up.鈥� But if I ever said that in public, my Presbyterian-Quaker mother would ...
The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, though you have to wonder if the founders would have added some caveats if they could have foreseen a day when battlefield weapons that can mow down 50 people in just a minute or two would be readily available.There are ...
When voters are dissatisfied with the state of things, they punish the party in power, and Democrats seem poised for a thumping. This may be bad news for the health of democracy, but it is understandable as a matter of electoral politics because Democrats have forgotten what they grasped in ...
As of a couple of years ago at least, Pennsylvania was ranked No. 1 in the nation for beer barrels produced, pretzel consumption and mushroom production.More recently, and much more worryingly, Pennsylvania has been ranked No. 1 in the United States for hateful, white supremacist and racist ...
The temperature outside was in the low teens with snow blowing and drifting on the streets, sidewalks, and yards where I had many times been the creator of the only walking path to get to each of my newspaper customers鈥� doors to deliver their afternoon news.This challenge was not new to me. ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� The vortex of our vexed record on race came out with the cherry blossoms.These three things: the Senate vote on a historic Supreme Court nominee; an anti-lynching law passed at last; and marking the cruel April day Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis, Tenn.President ...
