Mere days after the Butler Farm Show closed its gates, while the carnival lights, sounds and aromas still linger in our collective conscience, let’s consider a rhetorica...
Remember when we generally accepted the premise that there is something inherently unseemly about calling each other names?
But when it comes to name-calling, we’re in n...
President Donald Trump defines himself by the people who surround him, especially the top advisers he picks to run his administration — people he described in early 2016...
“I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., in a statement that could not possibly be ...
The pertinent and unanswerable question about Turkey is whether the country’s present economic turmoil is an isolated event, mostly confined to Turkey itself, or whether...
Cornell University historian George Lincoln Burr once observed that “the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered.”
It’s a good thing for all Ameri...
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If you’ve never come home to a flooded basement or — even worse — a flooded house in general, you can be forgiven for not grasping how important it is to address ...
Oh my God, I am heartily sorry, for having offended thee
And I detest, all my sins, because I dread
The loss of Heaven, and the Pains of Hell
I recited these words for t...
The worst disaster in the history of the United States Navy only began with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.
Three hundred men died in the initial catastrophe on Ju...
Given his braggadocio, his ignorance, his twisted tweets and more, President Donald Trump is his own worst enemy, except, of course, for Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Na...
