If there's anything consistent about Mitt Romney, it's his inconsistency.The last time he ran for president, he came out squarely (as squarely as he could ever be) against the involvement of the courts in campaign finance laws."It is the people who are sovereign in America: not a few folks in ...
The front page of the Jan. 27, 1942, edition of the Uniontown Evening Standard carried an item that, on its surface, might seem a bit curious today.But when you consider the circumstances, a talking groundhog, who happened to make an announcement that he wasn't going to make a weather ...
Mitt Romney sure likes to fire people. I'm not making that up. He said that himself.So what if I took his words out of context? He's said he has "broad shoulders," and, too, "politics isn't beanbag."Besides, context doesn't really mean much to Mitt Romney, unless it's his words that are getting ...
Today I'm looking back through mid-Januaries down through the years.On Jan. 17, 1923, I found a curious news story about a trial that had taken place in Uniontown. Well, not the trial itself, but the outcome. Well, maybe not the outcome, but the lack of an outcome."Local Jury with 4 Women Still ...
For most of us, with each new year there is always new hope for a brighter future.It's a time to think about freshness, renewal and, perhaps, resolutions that might be long forgotten by the summer.Fayette County, like any other place, has had its share of interesting developments that have been ...
Last week, three Pennsylvanians, Rick Santorum (Pittsburgh), Ron Paul (Greentree) and Newt Gingrich (Harrisburg), ganged up on a Michigan native (Mitt Romney) in Iowa.In short, it was hilarious.The Michigander, who lives (part time) in New Hampshire, but who once served as a Massachusetts ...