Before anyone else hails U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney as a champion of truth, decency and democracy, let's review the Wyoming Republican's record on all three.  Cheney deserves credit and thanks for standing against The Big Lie that now defines the "GQP," a once-serious party...

It's certainly welcome news that Gov. Tom Wolf plans to lift COVID crowd restrictions on May 31, but the low note sounding in the background is falling vaccination numbers that signal no decisive end to the virus anytime soon.  Wolf said ending the restrictions is...

Ubiquitous campaign billboards, yard signs and TV ads say the state's primary election is fast approaching, but I've yet to see any that remind voters what day we go to the polls. It's May 18. I checked. Twice. An interested observer pointed out that while most voters...

A jury of 12 brought justice for George Floyd, but a brave, quick-thinking 17-year-old girl with a cellphone made it possible. To grasp the power of Darnella Frazier's spontaneous documentation of a murder in progress, one need only read the initial description of the...

A note of thanks to all of you who responded to my Sunday column about Paulie's passing with love, grace and empathy. I was a little embarrassed by how hard I was taking his death and expected to be ridiculed for writing a eulogy for a cat. What I could not expect was...

Woke this morning to news of yet another mass shooting -- this time in Orange County, California. On Wednesday evening, some freak shot up an office building and killed four people, including a child. Two more victims are clinging to life, and the gunman was...

Spring has sprung and vaccine season is in full swing, but COVID isn't over.  Schools, bars, restaurants and other businesses are reopening with relaxed restrictions and vaccine doses are more widely available by the day, but COVID is quietly surging in the...

Robert Hopkins lied.  Who the bleep is Robert Hopkins? Robert Hopkins is the Erie letter carrier who claimed last November that he overheard U.S. Postal Service supervisors conspiring to backdate late mail-in ballots and allow them to be counted in the contest between...

For "sheeple" who don't always appreciate Objective Reality but accept it as such, today is just another dreary Thursday in the long slog to spring.  For enlightened "Anons" who live in the fantasy world of the "Q" conspiracy theory, today marks the start of "The...

My column today (read it here) asks why former Old Forge School Director and serial Republican candidate Frank Scavo hasn't been charged for taking part in the Jan. 6 domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. Photographic evidence places Frank in the mob that stormed...