The “fake news” phenomenon was on vivid display in social media during the bitter 2016 presidential campaign. A typical example of the nonsense was a story, shared a mil...
Driving a car is one of the basic activities of everyday life that is unquestionably getting more and more unpleasant. There is no argument about it. There’s no blaming ...
Jim Eckstein claims the county owes him $144,788, the legal costs he incurred defending his honor in a defamation case.
Eckstein, who was a Butler County commissioner f...
Since election night almost five weeks ago, I’ve been giving some thought about the Electoral College — and not just because Donald Trump received the majority of electo...
The slaughter of civilians in Aleppo last week may have shocked the conscience of the world, but no one should have been surprised. Syria’s Assad regime has always treat...
There are things happening in this country that don’t deserve the attention we give them, from ethically challenged lawyers getting the benefit of a double-standard, to ...
There is no mystery about Barack Obama’s greatest presidential achievement: He stopped the Great Recession from becoming the second Great Depression. True, he had plenty...
Sometimes it seems the march toward progressive enlightment hits a dead-end of absurdity. High school wrestling in Johnstown, Pa., presents the latest prime example.
Bis...
Put his campaign rhetoric, tweets and appointments all together, and we’re getting a sense of American foreign policy under Donald Trump. The president-elect has consist...
Surely there were alarmists who thought 2016 might end in an undemocratic coup. But who predicted Democratic opinion leaders would be the ones agitating for it?
For fear...
