Breaking News
July 31, 2025
The U.S. National Weather Service announced this morning that thunderstorms with especially heavy rain are possible this afternoon and evening. The he...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 17, 2024
Faculty from two Pennsylvania universities participated in a survey on the state of free speech and self-censorship. The results reveal growing concer...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 26, 2024
Forget the “Never Trumpers” supporting Kamala Harris. Most are caught up in ego, appeasing their new-found progressive donors or so busy protecting a ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I spent the better part of a recent Saturday morning locked in an intense text-message debate with a dear friend. The topic ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 27, 2022
Conservatives are, by and large, thrilled by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. It has expanded its conception of gun rights that states have to re...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2022
William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What’s in a name? That which we call ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 01, 2017
WASHINGTON — In 1950, the year before William F. Buckley burst into the national conversation, the literary critic Lionel Trilling revealed why the na...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 22, 2017
WASHINGTON — Remember when conservatism meant deep thinkers and big ideas? Get over it. Today, conservatism means get your Miley (Cyrus) on and show u...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 20, 2016
WASHINGTON — It is one of fate's cruel jokes that conservatism should be at its modern nadir just as the Republican Party is at its zenith — if conser...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 08, 2016
WASHINGTON — So, this is the new conservatism's recipe for restored greatness: Political coercion shall supplant economic calculation in shaping decis...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 26, 2016
WASHINGTON — Though Republican prospects are not quite dead, the autopsy has already begun. Which is probably not a good idea, even in metaphor. But t...
News, World
Oct 17, 2015
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Beards without moustaches, the trademark of ultraconservative Islamists, were all the rage at this campaign rally, among both...
Nation, News
Sep 25, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress in turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner suddenly informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign at the end ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump has expressed increasi...
Lifestyles
July 31, 2025
August is a special month. The pressure is off and it’s time to enjoy the late-season garden. We still have to weed, trim, and water but we can also p...
July 31, 2025
Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department, along with Mount Jewett and Kane ambulances, were dispatched at 8:54 a.m. Thursday to a reported tractor...
Local News
Rotary garden blooms with unity
July 31, 2025
On Wednesday evening members of Bradford’s Rotary Club were honored to install a set of Peace Poles within their garden, located at the corner of Mech...
July 31, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — The left-leaning press is ringing the alarm bells: “Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy,” says ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
July 31, 2025
According to rankings released by U.S. News, Pennsylvania is the 41st “best state,” positioning itself at 39th in education and 38th in its overall ec...
