National political attention has focused on the races with the most short-term 2018 impact: the battles for some 60 House seats and a dozen Senate seats that will determ...
More than two years ago — on June 30, 2016, to be precise — we used this page to bemoan the length of time Butler County Common Pleas Court Judge Marilyn Horan was being...
We are mourning Sen. John McCain this week — most of us, at least — and well we should. But what exactly are we mourning? Why do we feel a sense of loss?
It’s not that M...
On both sides of the political spectrum, a new argument is gaining traction: The impeachment of Bill Clinton is a strong precedent for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
I...
Over the course of American history, a handful of U.S. senators have been so consequential that they are remembered better than some presidents. Among them are Daniel We...
It was exactly 10 years and two days ago that Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain stood at a microphone in Dayton, Ohio, and introduced what some analysts h...
Myth-creation is a distinctive attribute of Americans. One of my favorite movies is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” John Ford’s classic told the story of a man playe...
If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now: President Donald Trump is in an impeachment fight.
It hasn’t fully ripened yet. That won’t happen unless Democrats take th...
High drama is unfolding in the little borough of Chicora. It’s a tale of political intrigue that interweaves threads of justice and freedom and the love of fresh duck eg...
“We are profoundly saddened each time we hear about the harm caused as a result of abuse, at the hands of a clergyman of any rank.”
So begins the insipid statement of th...
