Despite his claims to the contrary, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is a perverted sociopath and deserves the 30- to 60-year prison sentence he...
For all the recent hoopla over voter ID laws, a bigger threat to the integrity of elections is being ignored — absentee ballots and mail-in voting.
In Pennsylvania, as i...
An 18-year-old who had just registered to vote seemed surprised by parts of the Republican convention as we watched in August. I’m not sure what he was expecting — lofty...
With a possible teachers strike looming without a new contract, the Mars School Board and Mars Area Education Association will return to the bargaining table on Wednesda...
During last week’s presidential debate, there was a question on the role, and by implication, the size, of the federal government. While neither candidate directly addre...
A single debate won’t win or lose an election, but it can place, at last, the proper frame over the argument. Instead of the seemingly endless loop of small-ball thrust ...
WASHINGTON — After 47 percent, the campaign’s most incendiary number is $5 trillion. That’s the tax cut planned by Mitt Romney with most benefits going to the wealthy, a...
Maybe President Obama forgot his debate with Mitt Romney was on TV. How else to explain his lack of dynamism before a television audience in the millions.
Were it an act...
Schools are a place for learning, not for fighting and temper tantrums.
But as an article in Tuesday's Butler Eagle reported, there is growing concern about student cond...
WASHINGTON — It was the biggest rout since Agincourt. If you insist, since the Carter-Reagan debate. With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt R...
