CORAOPOLIS, Pennsylvania — Ed Bigley, the business manager for the Pittsburgh Plumbers Union Local 27, says the organization has been serving the region since the dawn of the industrial revolution in the 1870s, when it came under the umbrella of the Knights of Labor. By July of 1890, it had formed its own stand-alone union, […]
Climate zealots do not want solutions to the problems they claim are going to kill us all. They just want control of your everyday life, from the car you drive to the food you eat. Harvard University is no longer continuing its solar geoengineering research experiment. The gist of solar geoengineering is that spraying particles […]
Conservative commentator and bestselling author Ben Shapiro drew the ire of both sides of the political aisle last week when he correctly pointed out that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that is careening toward insolvency. Pundits both on the Left and the Right who have made the decision to avoid the ultimate third rail of America’s […]
This article’s header photo shows the flag-raising ceremony after the 1944 recapture of Guam. It also shows a Marine, Pfc. Ernest Kernen, who was killed in the preceding battle. Guam played an important role in providing a staging base for naval, amphibious, and air operations against Japan. Eighty years later, as China ramps up its […]
The ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft announced last week that they are pulling up stakes in the Twin Cities because of a new ordinance designed to raise driver pay. The Minneapolis City Council voted 10–3 to override the veto of Mayor Jacob Frey, passing a policy that will raise the pay of drivers to the […]
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) is known for her partisan allegiances in Congress. Unfortunately, those allegiances tend to make the country less safe. Dean regularly claims she is working to help people but consistently votes for bills that endanger them. The latest example is Dean’s vote against the Laken Riley Act — a bill that, among […]
Many of us appalled by former President Donald Trump’s lifetime of dishonesty may take schadenfreude in the massive financial judgments now threatening his business empire — but the sizes of those judgments, and the bonds pertaining to them, are utterly unwarranted. Appeals courts should grant temporary injunctions to halt the bond collections and delay enforcement […]
Unfortunately for the culture war, leftist elites are not the only public figures that miss the ball on key cultural issues. Conservative media is finally waking up to a crisis in one of the world’s most influential fields: the video game industry. The disgusted response from players of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launched a massive investigation into and […]
BIDEN’S LAWFARE JOKE. Why do so many Democrats and their allies in the media desperately want former President Donald Trump to stand trial before Election Day? The answer is simple: because they think it will help President Joe Biden defeat Trump and win reelection. So far, the lawfare directed at Trump — two federal indictments from a […]