As reported by The Commons Blog, Teresa Heinz is claiming some credit for cleaning Pittsburgh. She says Pittsburgh is one of the cleanest cities in America. Yet this EnvironmentalDefense report claims Pittsburgh is the nation's 18th dirtiest city. Teresa Heinz ... READ MORE
A justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rendered a dissent in the form of a song set to the tune of the jingle from the "Mr. Ed" TV show. Fittingly, the case was over whether one could be charged ... READ MORE
I didn't think a soldier stationed in Iraq who also is running a charity in this spare time would have additional time left over to write thank you letters to strangers, but I was wrong. Back in July, I read ... READ MORE
A note from Mom, a regular listener to the Jerry Bowyer Show on WPTT in Pittsburgh: On Tuesday, someone called the Jerry Bowyer show and told this story- In the 1960s I was in the Air National Guard at the ... READ MORE
It is because of things like this... To many, this suggests a global warming fingerprint: The accumulation of greenhouse gases -- principally carbon dioxide -- has driven world temperatures to new heights (2002 and 2003 tied for second place after ... READ MORE
Jim Phillips and Nile Gardner of the Heritage Foundation have torn apart Kofi Annan's jibe that the war in Iraq was "illegal." A small sample of a piece that I recommend be read in its entirety: Kofi Annan's ill-considered jibe ... READ MORE
I spent so much time watching the news coverage of what Ivan was doing to our southern states that I completely missed the harrowing tales of what the storm was doing elsewhere, including my own hometown. Visit here for a ... READ MORE
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