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Scalise shouldn’t be GOP leader

Now, I know this man. I work with him. I know whatĢƵ in his heart. HeĢƵ a decent honest person who made a mistake. We’ve all made mistakes.Speaker of the House John Boehner, speaking about Majority Whip Steve ScaliseSteve Scalise may have made a mistake 12 years ago, but Republicans are ...

My 2015 Year in Review

Anybody with a keyboard, it seems, published their 2014 “Years in Review.”And if they didn’t review the year, they compiled “Top 10” lists of: world news stories; local news stories; political news stories; financial news stories; movies; TV shows; sporting events, or technological ...

With All Due Respect, Rudy – Please Shut Up!

The murders of two New York City police officers last weekend is another grim reminder that thereĢƵ a painfully persistent racial divide in this country.Not the murders themselves -- their aftermath.To be clear, Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were the victims of the acts of a raging ...

Real torture is watching Chaney

I don’t have to tell you this, but thereĢƵ always lots of news.Last week, President Obama signed a $1.1 trillion dollar budget deal; madmen attacked innocent people in Sydney, Australia and in Pakistan; thereĢƵ a thaw in the 60 year hostilities between Cuba and the United States, and ...

Report sheds new light on torture methods

Torture!Emphatically saying something doesn’t happen, is certainly no guarantee that it doesn’t.Despite claims by the architects of the War on Terror, that they weren’t involved in practices that are abhorrent to people all over the planet, thereĢƵ some proof they weren’t being ...

Bandwagons runing wild across America

Debbie Flaherty is president of Day automobile dealers. I know this because I watch television, and Flaherty has made any number of TV commercials which have transformed new car advertising in western Pennsylvania.Since Flaherty began hawking her car lots on the air a series of copycat ads have ...