The Sky’s the Limit for Skilled Trades

The Sky’s the Limit for Skilled Trades

Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. The demand for skilled laborers–electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians and others–continues to soar, and that’s a good thing for America. According to the Society for Human Resource...
Will the Men in the White Coats Drag Trump Away?

Will the Men in the White Coats Drag Trump Away?

Editor’s note:  Dick Polman is the National political columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia and a “Writer in Residence” at the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the 25th Constitutional Amendment. A Vice President, working with a...

Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2016

During this festive season rife with traditions, none is more hallowed than that magical moment when the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the year are unveiled. Truly this is the most wonderful time of the year. Please be advised that the Top Ten Comedic News Stories...

End Heroin’s Devastation in 2017

I didn’t know the young man well–I’d hired him to do some handyman work around my house–but it was awfully unpleasant to learn that he died at 24 with a needle in his arm. It was a bad batch of heroin. The statistics will tell you, he was one of the...

Governor Jindal’s Stand Against Religious Freedom

I’m a free speech extremist. I believe the Government has absolutely no business regulating or censoring speech. Of course, commercially popular speech doesn’t need protection. It’s only unpopular–racist, sexist and vulgar–speech that...