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Editorials

Overly broad language can be stealthy ploy against rights

The Washington State Legislature is considering new gun control measures — and one in particular illustrates the sort of semantic “two-step” skeptics of our Second Amendment rights often engage in. The first step is a proposal that some may find, at first glance and especially if they ...

America lost two heavyweight fighters with Love, Foreman

America lost two giants who appeared on different stages, and did not always win, but were examples for all of us to emulate. They both represented America admirably. One was a Gold Medal recipient in the Olympic Games before becoming a professional champion. The other made a mark in the ...

Fight an unfortunate reminder of need for sportsmanship

With coverage from Sports Illustrated, NBC, Fox, CBS, TMZ and USA Today, two communities in Pennsylvania are famous. Oh, wait. Wrong word. They’re infamous. With minutes to go in a PIAA boys basketball playoff game and Uniontown battling to mount a comeback against Meadville Area High ...

If AOC is Democratic future, party worse off than we think

Even Will Rogers might be hard-pressed to come up with an appropriately harsh jibe about the current state of the Democrats. “I am not a member of any organized political party,” the 20th century humorist famously said. “I am a Democrat.” Now, the problem isn’t a lack of ...

Dems should stop rescuing Republicans

Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don’t want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA’s cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don’t recognize that bad timing loses ...

Ka-Ching! Money talks in the sports world

Good or bad, the name West Shore Home might not have rolled off so many tongues in Nittany Lion Nation as it did this past week or so. That’s because the Pennsylvania-based home remodeling company signed a landmark naming-rights partnership for Penn State’s Beaver Stadium valued at $50 ...