On the 21st anniversary of Sept. 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have heard for the past several years on the anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history: “We will never forget, we will never give up. Our commitment to preventing another attack on ...
“All political lives, unless they are cut off at midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” So said the British politician Enoch Powell, whose own once-stellar career ended in spectacular failure.Lately, careers have been ...
Many Americans are unhappy about the prospect of the Internal Revenue Service hiring tens of thousands of additional agents to enable the agency to audit a greater number of tax returns and, in the process, presumably, encourage more honest tax compliance.Some unhappiness stems from the mere ...
I read with great interest Pennsylvania state Sen. Pat Stefano's recent column on the business climate in Pennsylvania.Stefano referred to the impact of inflation on families and claimed the problem is "free money," such as the student loan forgiveness implemented by President Biden. But ...
How we conduct elections has changed over the years.It is no longer a show of hands. It isn’t by the roar of the crowd. We don’t drop a pebble in a vessel like they did in ancient Greece — although the evolution of that process is where we get the word “ballot,” from the Italian for ...
President Biden ran into some trouble a couple of weeks ago when he said in a “60 Minutes” interview that COVID-19 is “over.” The immediate reaction was that Biden had committed a gaffe and it could jeopardize efforts by his administration to round up further funding to combat the ...