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Kicking the canard down the road

The day after they gave in on the fiscal cliff, Congressional Republicans vowed to hold the line on the debt limit.They’ve already backed down. Just 22 days after some Republicans hinted they’d even go so far as to try to shut down the government rather than to pay the nationĢƵ bills -- ...

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Back on Jan. 28, 1959 there were probably a lot of skeptical newspaper readers who opened their editions of the Uniontown Morning Herald and read the headline: “Scientists See Man on The Moon in 10 Years.”Such an optimistic prediction, especially when manned-space flight was still a few ...

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Long before he became known as “The Father of our Country,” long after he, as a young military officer, gave way to the French at that place he named the “Fort of Necessity,” and just one year before the brother of UniontownĢƵ founder (Henry Beeson), Jacob Beeson, named the street ...

Don’t take away our gun fixations

If this country gets more gun laws to prevent the wrong people from getting their hands on deadly weapons, a few bigwigs at the NRA might have to relinquish them.In recent days, they’ve released a particularly vile Internet ad that calls into question their mental health. Calling President ...

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While Prohibition ended in the United States in December of 1933, the final remnant of the ban on alcoholic beverages wasn’t fully realized in Fayette County for 24 years -- in January of 1957.“Last booze taken from dungeon of jail,'' said a headline on the front page of the Uniontown ...

Republicans going after each other

The Republicans are at it again.The only thing Republicans seem good at these days is losing badly in presidential elections, failing miserably during “fiscal cliff” debates and fighting among themselves. In fact, one day after the 113th Congress was sworn in, 67 Republicans put the country ...