Americans love guns. And Americans react fiercely when anyone dares to criticize their infatuation.
The first truth is rooted in America’s almost unique constitutional r...
It’s not going to be easy to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination and probably then losing to the trick-a-day, policy-confused Hillary Clinton or doi...
It’s an unexpected snap back to reality. Pennsylvania’s governor has cancer.
Gov. Tom Wolf disclosed Wednesday that he has a treatable form of prostate cancer.
Wolf, 67,...
In the locked-iPhone battle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Apple, the feds may have the judiciary on their side, but the tech giant has the better argum...
It makes for a nice turn-of-phrase to remind people that Pennsylvania, and in particular Western Pennsylvania, is a place that values deeds over looks.
We’ve said it bef...
Just imagine: A President of the United States who can’t get along with the Pope.
This odd conflict cropped up last week when Pope Francis, returning from his trip to Me...
The National Park Service turns 100 this year. As the agency celebrates its centennial, it finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired but incre...
In a modern world it’s hard to connect the dots when the dots keep moving. That’s why we’ll draw a line between two unrelated reports in Sunday’s Butler Eagle.
One of th...
WASHINGTON — Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama’s mischief was methodical.
Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson, asked about criti...
A key sign of the Republican Party’s dysfunction in recent years has been its unwillingness to produce serious policy proposals. Instead, its leading lights routinely pr...
