While having a drink with a friend in a neighborhood bar a few years ago, a distraught-looking woman approached us and started chatting. We engaged in typical barroom banter until she introduced herself as the mother of a guy I had met in the same bar almost two years before. […]
Richard F. Kosich: The American people have chosen
Patriotic Pragmatism vs. Patronizing Progressivism
By Richard F. Kosich
Guy Ciarrocchi: Why Americans are called to give thanks
Unity of purpose. Humility before God. Gratitude for what we have been given. Giving thanks. We are called to give thanks for our great, blessed, albeit imperfect nation. I join Washington, Lincoln, and others in giving my thanks to God. No, this isn’t a history lesson. Nor is my purpose […]
Christine Flowers: Born in the U.S.A.
There have been some interesting discussions about birthright citizenship, and Trump’s election a few weeks ago has just intensified the interest in the topic. A number of people who are angry at the chaos at the border have jumped right over the normal processes and procedures which would guarantee that […]
Andy Bloom: Digging into the post-election data – and the pollster who got it right
Election Day is the political Super Bowl. However, the post-game analysis is much better in politics than in sports. I began my career as a research geek. At heart, I still am. I love poring over election data and exit polls and examining how the pollsters did. Like this election […]
Elizabeth Stelle and Adam Kissel: The U.S. Department of Education against education
More than half of students take at least one course online, and many take more. Because of overregulation from the U.S. Department of Education, Pennsylvania students stand to lose federal aid for many of these courses. The Education Department wants to remove asynchronous learning — online courses that allow students […]
David Reel: Conventional wisdom meets reality in 2024
Even before he is sworn into office in January, Donald Trump has firmly secured a prominent place in American history books. He is only the second president in U.S. history elected to two nonconsecutive terms. The road to that outcome was a long and winding one. It was also a […]
Thom Nickels: First-world diets
While traveling with fellow journalists several years ago in the Middle East, one thing became apparent to me: most of the writers on the trip had food issues. One writer claimed she could only eat gluten-free food; another writer ate only kosher foods while a third was an orthodox vegan. […]
Paul Davis: Drug addicts are more to be pitied than censured
While recently speaking to a friend, a retired Philadelphia detective who supported President Trump in the election, he repeated something that struck a chord with me. The detective, a genuine tough guy who worked the streets of Kensington for a good part of his career, had taken me on a […]
Guy Ciarrocchi: Democrats’ election-denial in Pennsylvania is the opening salvo of the 2026 campaign
Tragically, Bob Casey’s career will be remembered as that of just another Democrat partisan politician so addicted to power and blindly loyal to his party that he destroyed his “moderate, bipartisan” veil. He’s been a candidate since 1994. He knows that he can not win. Yet, he continues to allow […]