FORT WORTH, Texas — Southlake is not the most unlikely place for a showdown over critical race theory.
When the coronavirus crisis closed classrooms a year ago, many anti-hunger advocates credited a swiftly approved waiver from the federal Agriculture Department for helping many low-income fami…
President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan contains a long list of potential investments aimed at revitalizing the country, but one proposal in particular is long overdue: paid family leave.
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania is poised to resume normal activities on Memorial Day, with one big exception — wearing masks.
Joe Biden, Superstar.
As the human race takes a beat to consider its relationship with Mother Earth, the next great environmental cleanup in Pennsylvania may be at hand.
More than 1,500 colleges nationwide no longer require prospective students to submit standardized test scores with their applications. Some are abandoning standardized testing altogether.
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Sunday is Mother’s Day. How do I know? When I was talking on the phone with my cousin the other day, he said, “If I don’t see you before Sunday, happy Mother’s Day.”
Perhaps blind to the irony, former President Donald Trump took to the newly created news feed on his website Wednesday to blast Facebook, Twitter and Google for muzzling him.
College tuition nationwide has become a proverbial runaway train, with some researchers estimating an average of an 8% increase in tuition costs each year. Bucking that trend is Pennsylvania’s…
When Harold Macmillan became Britain’s prime minister in 1957, a reporter asked him what could blow his government off course. “Events, dear boy,” Macmillan replied. “Events.”
The Biden administration is promoting its American Jobs Plan as an “infrastructure” proposal. In reality, it’s a gargantuan tax-and-spend package that would expand federal power and control in…
In the nine elections between 1980 and 2012, candidates with one of three names — Bush, Cheney and Romney — appeared on the GOP’s national ticket nine times. Yet today, those names are all rev…
For more than a year, the promise has been there.
It is past time for the feds to take the wheel on an investigation of so-called self-driving vehicles.
What could be more natural than going to Mars?
Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government?
Thanks to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was passed to immediately help Pennsylvanians weather the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic…
The medical profession has been built by hardship.
When I received my first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine last December, nobody paid me to roll up my sleeve. Yet, as vaccination efforts approach an expected tipping point, at which the amou…
If Joe Biden wanted to spend massively in response to a nearly unprecedented public health emergency, he was elected too late.
No one should be surprised by President Joe Biden’s announcement last week of the American Families Plan, which would fund vastly expanded government social programs by slapping high earners w…
In the days preceding President Joe Biden’s release of his $1 trillion American Families Plan, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and several of his Democratic colleagues lobbied for it to include a …
For the second time in two years, a federal judge has faulted the FBI for improperly searching for information about Americans amid the emails, texts and other communications collected by a fo…
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Last week’s announcement by federal health authorities that many people don’t have to wear masks outdoors anymore made a lot of sense.
The big story on Fox News recently was Joe Biden’s purported “war on meat” — a breathless disclosure that the president plans to limit every American to 4 pounds of steaks a year. Republican p…
Once upon a time, Joe Biden’s spending proposals would have launched mass demonstrations in opposition.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, the 14th-century saint, I was surrounded by Dominican friars, priests who have dedicated their lives to God. Remembering her, we sang: …
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, which stocks certain state waterways with millions of trout each year, is experimenting with stocking trout in a portion of Bald Eagle Creek in Centr…
For many families, it’s college time. High school seniors are getting acceptance letters. Juniors are making applications. Parents are filling out financial aid paperwork and taking the family…
Cable news programming suggestion: Instead of filling every broadcast with the latest presumptive police outrage, try covering the latest drive-by killings. Show us more of what’s really happe…
President Joe Biden’s address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn’t hear much about foreign affairs. That’s…
You are driving down the road. A flash of red and blue light catches your eye up ahead. A police car is stopped behind another vehicle. What do you do?
There are thousands of graves the world over for fallen Americans who died on the battlefield of war, graves that have no headstone denoting the identity of the remains therein.
