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It’s just Sarah being Sarah

Election Day 2012 is just 521 days away.Are you ready to vote?Republicans are fumbling around trying to find the perfect candidate to take on Barack Obama. The current list of declared, undeclared or frequently mentioned Republican presidential candidates are: Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Rick ...

Medicare could be GOP’s Waterloo

Dancing with the MedicareLast Tuesday was a good day.Not only did Hines Ward elevate Steeler Nation by taking home that "Dancing with the Stars'' Mirror Ball trophy, but thanks to the results of the special election in New York, congressional Republicans saw their political lives pass right ...

Did you know?

First, here's a clarification.I'd written on May 9 that the military publication Stars and Stripes (Pacific Edition) had first published a 1991 story about a seven-foot tall plastic Elby's Big Boy statue that had been "kidnapped" from the top of a Fayette County restaurant and hauled it away on ...

That fickle will of the people

Since they were sworn-in this past January, those Tea Party-backed Republicans haven't been able to point to a single legislative accomplishment.ÎÞëÊÓƵ˜Tisn't a pity. Such bold rhetoric. So many "brave" pledges. All wasted, thanks to that thing most people call reality.Those Tea-Publicans ...

‘Mutt’ Stephens finally gets recognition due him

There was this kid they called "Mutt."Put a baseball bat in "Mutt's" hands, and he'd hit a towering homer.Throw him a basketball, and he'd easily send it through a hoop.If "Mutt" got his hands on a football, run for cover. Then get ready for the extra point.Not only those athletic ...

GOP presidential debate boring

I was disappointed when I sat down to see that highly unwatched Republican presidential debate on May 7.What? You didn't know there was a Republican debate on May 7?You didn't care?You didn't want to sit through five Republicans beating their chests with only a microscopic chance they'd beat ...