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LetĢƵ impeach everybody!

“Today, I am directing my House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” announced Republican House Speaker and whipping boy Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday.Despite the ominous sound of that proclamation, itĢƵ McCarthyĢƵ political career thatĢƵ in ...

OP-ED: Must we gorge on the 2024 horse race? Absolutely not.

The presidential horse race is off and running on TV news and on social media. History tells us that the poll numbers at this point reveal close to nothing about the future. The political pundits portray their analyses as thunderbolts carried down from Mount Olympus. But frankly, anyone could ...

Protecting the founding documents

The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...

Blue laws are obsolete — but had their virtues

Once upon a time, life was pretty quiet in Pennsylvania on Sundays.This was mostly the result of so-called “blue laws” that prohibited many different types of activity on Sunday so that people could rest and turn their attention to religious observance. The first of the commonwealthĢƵ ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> With school back in session and colder weather looming over the horizon, that means that the number of respiratory illnesses circulating is bound to increase – including COVID-19. While the pandemic has largely passed, people are still ...