When someone throws a drowning man a life preserver, he can’t afford to question his rescuer’s intentions.
Thus, this week President Obama eagerly grabbed a lifeline thr...
Twelve years after misguided religious sycophants of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden murdered nearly 3,000 people, costly ripple effects still can be seen all o...
WASHINGTON — Rarely, if ever, has so much talk preceded a proposed military strike.
Most administrations contemplating military action worry about an exit strategy. The ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission was all praises in February 2009 when it appointed Anthony L. Maniscola the commission’s first Inspector General. The post was creat...
By FRED McKISSACK Jr.
Fifty years ago, a depraved and savage crime rocked the civil rights movement: the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Bu...
Some public agency boards in Pennsylvania routinely flout the spirit, if not the letter, of the state’s Sushine Act when they meet privately over matters that should be ...
The Obama administration — with the backing of key Republicans in Congress — is poised to embark on a strategy that entails punitive airstrikes on Syrian government posi...
As constituents of a congressman well known for his auto dealership, Butler Countians might have recognized a standard sales technique deployed Tuesday night during Pres...
In London exile in 1940, Charles de Gaulle decided “it was up to me to take responsibility for France” (“c’etait a Moi d’assumer la France”). No U.S. president should as...
There’s a civics lesson lying somewhere in the dried bed of the once-majestic Glade Run Lake in south central Butler County.
The state had good reason when it drained th...
