Today it’s tampons. Tomorrow, it’s the hammer and sickle. That’s the conclusion of state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican from Clinton County. In remarks that garnered national attention, Borowicz asserted in a debate on the House floor last month that making free feminine ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a brief, none-too-flattering moment in the national spotlight during his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Some of the descriptors used in reference to DeSantis were “arrogant,” “awkward,” “belligerent,” and ...
In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda vs. Arizona that criminal defendants were entitled to say nothing so as to not incriminate themselves, and they were also entitled to an attorney. Not too long after, television viewers became familiar with what came to be called the Miranda ...
What do Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Guilani, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Dole, John McCain, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Dave McCormick and Kari Lake all have in common? All prominent Republicans, sure. But all of them, at one point or another, ...
In a distant corner of Pittsburgh’s sprawling Allegheny Cemetery, you have to march up a steep hillside to find the grave of Josh Gibson. It’s a flat stone, set in the ground, and has Gibson’s game engraved on it, his dates of birth and death and the words “Legendary Baseball ...
The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...
