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WASHINGTON — Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. So Barack Obama will not temper ...

WASHINGTON — There’s nothing quite so helpful as a fatwa and threats of a Christian boycott to create buzz in advance of new movie. "Noah,” scheduled ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Marijuana was the issue that set John Hanger apart from the other Democratic candidates for governor, and proponents of legalizing t...

WASHINGTON — To read about the Duke University freshman turned adult film star is to feel nostalgic for the bygone age of dormitory parietals that bar...

WASHINGTON — Some of America’s closest friends in Africa have turned with a vengeance on gay people. In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan recently ...

With America as a friend, the Ukraine doesn’t need any enemies. If Obama lets the Russians take over the Ukraine we should replace our red, white and ...

It would be a nice addition to Bradford if someone who has connections to the chain of Whole Foods stores to try and bring one to Bradford. Give it a ...

Is the city really hurting that bad for money that they ticketed 10 people in the vicinity of St. Bernard’s church for parking violations during Ash W...

WASHINGTON — I must need to smoke pot. How else to explain why I wasn’t getting President Obama’s interview on “Between Two Ferns,” the Web show hoste...

The oil and gas industry, the nation’s chambers of commerce, and politicians who are dependent upon campaign contributions from the industry and the c...

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are doing their best to reassure customers that their ginormous $45.2 billion deal won’t harm consumers. In fact, it wil...

WASHINGTON — What’s been said of confession — that it is good for one’s soul but bad for one’s reputation — can also be true of testifying to Congress...

WASHINGTON — For Republicans to block one of President Obama’s nominees is dog-bites-man non-news. For members of the president’s party to defect is m...

WASHINGTON — When the going gets tough, well, why not just make the going easier? This seems to be the conclusion of the College Board, which administ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The simmering feud between establishment Republicans in Pennsylvania and the party’s wing of anti-establishment conservatives is exp...

WASHINGTON — With the facts on the ground now established in Crimea — several thousand facts in the form of Russian troops — the question now becomes:...

WASHINGTON — Kerry Kennedy was just acquitted, and rightly so, of “drugged driving” — she mistook a sleeping pill for her thyroid medication and conke...

Thursday marked five years since a commentator on one of the more liberal networks, MSNBC, launched the tea party movement. Since Rick Santelli’s rant...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In today’s unforgiving politics, both parties often think: “If at first you don’t succeed, don’t darken our door again.” Ken...

I would like to thank Rep. Marty Causer for his questions and comments at the recent Game Commission hearings concerning the commission’s plans for la...