For most people, this community’s heroin/opioid problem is something they’ve read about in the newspaper or heard about from the friends and family members of those affe...
For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filib...
Congress is quietly becoming a European-style parliament — and the transformation isn’t for the good. The issue helps explain the brutal bitterness of today’s politics. ...
Thursday’s Butler Eagle reported on a 34-year-old Clearfield Township man arrested for DUI after measuring 3½ times the legal limit for alcohol. His identity isn’t impor...
Images of the human horror in Syria filled the world’s news screens this week: Infants, children, teens, adults, some strong, some weak, all helpless and hopeless. Mouth...
Gen. Abdel Fattah Sisi’s Egypt holds at least 40,000 political prisoners, secular democrats as well as Islamic extremists. His security forces have killed thousands — at...
If there is one operative rule in this city’s left-right paradigm, it is to shift the focus of any conversation that seems at risk of revealing something approximating t...
Judge Neil Gorsuch, a thoughtful conservative who is President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, likely wins Senate confirmation this week. The question is u...
In case you were worried that Harrisburg has been exhibiting unusual levels of competency lately, never fear. Our General Assembly clearly hasn’t forgotten how to follow...
Throughout its history, the United States Senate has experienced disgraceful filibusters (Strom Thurmond against the 1957 Civil Rights Act), entertaining filibusters (Hu...
