Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...
Every American taxpayer has the right to support or oppose how every penny of their (forced) contributions to the federal and state government is spent. And yes, this includes American "aid" to countries that include Israel. But when it comes to Israel (and only Israel), there is a ...
How many "Dan Sullivans" does an election need? One would seem plenty, but Alaska is going to the polls with two "Dan Sullivans" on the ballot – one the sitting Republican U.S. senator in a nip-and-tuck battle to save his seat, and the other a random guy whose only discernible purpose in ...
In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey's Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The country was ...
In 1978, Ohio police arrested a man named Cledith Arthur for raping his stepdaughter, then 12. On the basis of the evidence of Arthur's guilt presented to it, a grand jury indicted him. Facing trial, Arthur fled the jurisdiction and spent the rest of his life as a fugitive, ducking arrest ...
If media interviews with voters are to be believed, some people– perhaps many – will cast their midterm votes based on the high price of gasoline. It's one thing to read about high California gas prices; it's another to fill up my 20-gallon rental car with regular gas costing more than $6 ...
