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Republicans lose again to Obama

Republicans did the predictable thing again last week.After months of grousing about President ObamaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ immigration executive order, they folded. They capitulated. They threw in the towel.<em>“Maybe I should be more angry, but I'm not. I think anybody who follows Washington ...

More tolerance needed in politics today

Self-doubt is not a quality normally associated with our very best politicians. Lincoln? No. The two Roosevelts? Hardly. Reagan? You’ve got to be kidding.Self-doubters don’t get near the White House. Heck, they rarely get near any of the 50 state capitols. But if ever we needed men and ...

Republicans digging their own graves

Republicans have painted themselves into a corner – again.Republican legislative leaders, who’d thought they were playing a legislative gambit that would make the president and Democratic members of Congress take the heat for cutting off funding to the Department of Homeland Security, are ...

Sweet home Alabma?

I don’t have anything against Alabama.I’ve never gone there.Chances are, if I’m allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn’t.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...

Fall of legendary local banker resonates today

A good if not a very prudent man forfeited his sterling reputation, hundreds of small investors lost their life savings, and the grand expectations of a whole generation were irretrievably lost.One-hundred years ago this winter the world of J.V. Thompson came crashing down, and Uniontown, to ...

One measly political argument

Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.LetÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ take measles.Back in 2000, AmericaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...